US 10,474,904 B1Granted

System and method for parking a vehicle in a camera's field of view

AssigneeAlarm.com Incorporated

InventorMatthew Daniel Correnti

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Abstract

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a storage device, for parking a vehicle in a camera's field of view. The method may include actions of determining that a vehicle is parked within a predetermined distance of a property, obtaining data from a monitoring system component, determining, based on the obtained data, that the vehicle is not parked within a field of view of a camera, determining that (i) the vehicle should be parked within a field of view of the camera and (ii) that an image captured by the camera should include a representation of the vehicle, and performing an operation to instigate movement of the vehicle to a different location that is (i) within a field of view of a camera and (ii) where an image captured by the camera includes a representation of the vehicle.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A monitoring system for monitoring a property, the monitoring system comprising:

one or more processors;
and
one or more storage devices, the one or more storage devices storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:
determining, by the monitoring system, whether a vehicle is parked within a predetermined distance of a property;
based on determining, by the monitoring system, that the vehicle is parked within a predetermined distance of the property:
obtaining, by the monitoring system, data from one or more monitoring system components;
determining, by the monitoring system and based on the obtained data, whether the vehicle is parked within a field of view of one or more cameras;
and
based on determining, by the monitoring system and based on the obtained data, that the vehicle is not parked within a field of view of the one or more cameras:
determining, by the monitoring system, whether (i) the vehicle should be parked within a field of view of the one or more cameras and (ii) an image captured by the one or more cameras should include a representation of the vehicle;
and
based on determining, by the monitoring system, that (i) the vehicle should be parked within a field of view of the one or more cameras and (ii) an image captured by the one or more cameras should include a representation of the vehicle, performing, by the monitoring system, one or more operations to instigate movement of the vehicle to a different location that is (i) within a field of view of the one or more cameras and (ii) where an image captured by the one or more cameras includes a representation of the vehicle.

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A method for monitoring a property, the method comprising:

determining, by the monitoring system, whether a vehicle is parked within a predetermined distance of a property;
based on determining, by the monitoring system, that the vehicle is parked within a predetermined distance of the property:
obtaining, by the monitoring system, data from one or more monitoring system components;
determining, by the monitoring system and based on the obtained data, whether the vehicle is parked within a field of view of one or more cameras;
and
based on determining, by the monitoring system and based on the obtained data, that the vehicle is not parked within a field of view of the one or more cameras:
determining, by the monitoring system, whether (i) the vehicle should be parked within a field of view of the one or more cameras and (ii) an image captured by the one or more cameras should include a representation of the vehicle;
and
based on determining, by the monitoring system, that (i) the vehicle should be parked within a field of view of the one or more cameras and (ii) an image captured by the one or more cameras should include a representation of the vehicle, performing, by the monitoring system, one or more operations to instigate movement of the vehicle to a different location that is (i) within a field of view of the one or more cameras and (ii) where an image captured by the one or more cameras includes a representation of the vehicle.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 16/149,096Filed 1 Oct 2018 · us provisional application
Priority: 30 Sep 2017
Granted: 12 Nov 2019
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification17 codes

G06V 20/52
Context or environment of the image: surveillance or monitoring of activities, e.g. for recognising suspicious objects
B60Q 9/002
Arrangement or adaptation of signal devices not provided for in one of main groups B60Q1/00 - B60Q7/00 , e.g. haptic signalling: for parking…
G05D 1/00
Control of position, course, altitude or attitude of land, water, air or
G06T 7/70
Image analysis: determining position or orientation of objects or cameras