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US 10,691,953 B2Granted
Door lock system with one or more virtual fences
AssigneeAugust Home, Inc.
InventorsJason Johnson, Herve Jacques Clement Letourneur, Christopher Kim, Christopher Dow
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Abstract
An intelligent door lock system is coupled to a door at a dwelling. A sensor is at the dwelling. The sensor is coupled to a drive shaft of a lock device to assist in locking and unlocking a lock of a lock device at the door. The lock device is coupled to the sensor and includes a bolt. An engine, an energy source and a memory are coupled together. A camera is coupled to or part of the intelligent door lock system. The camera is configured to define a safe zone in the dwelling in which an occupant, and a non dwelling occupant third person is allowed into the dwelling.
Claims24
An intelligent door lock system coupled to a door at a building and for determining whether a non-building occupant granted limited access to the building has exceeded the limited access, comprising:
- a sensor at the building, the sensor being coupled to a drive shaft of a lock device to assist in locking and unlocking a lock of the lock device at the door, the lock device coupled to the sensor and including a bolt;
- at least one camera to capture one or more images relating to a zone within the building, the zone including a first virtual fence and a second virtual fence to delimit the zone within the building;
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- at least one processor configured to:
- detect motion within or outside the zone;
- in response to detecting motion within or outside the zone, analyze a first set of the one or more captured images to determine a presence of a person;
- determine whether the person is a building occupant or a non-building occupant based on whether the person is registered or not registered with the intelligent door lock system;
- in response to determining that the person is the non-building occupant, analyze a second set of the one or more captured images to determine whether the non-building occupant has crossed the first virtual fence;
- in response to determining that the non-building occupant has crossed the first virtual fence, analyze the crossing of the first virtual fence to determine whether the non-building occupant with the limited access has breached the first virtual fence and exceeded the limited access of the non-building occupant;
- in response to determining that the non-building occupant has breached the first virtual fence and exceeded the limited access of the non-building occupant, trigger an alert;
- at a time subsequent to the non-building occupant crossing the first virtual fence, analyze a third set of the one or more captured images to determine whether the non-building occupant has crossed the second virtual fence;
- in response to determining that the non-building occupant has crossed the second virtual fence, analyze the crossing of the second virtual fence to determine whether the non-building occupant with the limited access has breached the second virtual fence and exceeded the limited access of the non-building occupant, wherein the second virtual fence is further from the door than the first virtual fence;
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- in response to determining that the non-building occupant has breached the second virtual fence and exceeded the limited access of the non-building occupant, trigger the alert.
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An intelligent door lock system coupled to a door at a building and for determining whether a non-building occupant granted limited access to the building has exceeded the limited access, comprising:
- a sensor at the building, the sensor being coupled to a drive shaft of a lock device to assist in locking and unlocking a lock of the lock device at the door, the lock device coupled to the sensor and including a bolt;
- at least one camera to:
- capture one or more images relating to a zone within the building, the zone including a first virtual fence and a second virtual fence to delimit the zone within the building;
- detect motion within or outside the zone;
- in response to detecting motion within or outside the zone, analyze at least some of the one or more captured images to determine a presence of a person;
- determine whether the person is a building occupant or a non-building occupant based on whether the person is registered or not registered with the intelligent door lock system;
- in response to determining that the person is the non-building occupant, analyze at least some of the one or more captured images to determine whether the non-building occupant has crossed the first virtual fence;
- in response to determining that the non-building occupant has crossed the first virtual fence, analyze the crossing of the first virtual fence to determine whether the non-building occupant with the limited access has breached the first virtual fence and exceeded the limited access of the non-building occupant;
- in response to determining that the non-building occupant has breached the first virtual fence and exceeded the limited access of the non-building occupant, trigger an alert;
- at a time subsequent to the non-building occupant crossing the first virtual fence, analyze at least some of the one or more captured images to determine whether the non-building occupant has crossed the second virtual fence;
- in response to determining that the non-building occupant has crossed the second virtual fence, analyze the crossing of the second virtual fence to determine whether the non-building occupant with the limited access has breached the second virtual fence and exceeded the limited access of the non-building occupant, wherein the second virtual fence is further from the door than the first virtual fence;
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- in response to determining that the non-building occupant has breached the second virtual fence and exceeded the limited access of the non-building occupant, trigger the alert.
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