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US 11,636,745 B2Granted
Detection of animal intrusions and control of a repellent mechanism for detected animal intrusions
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorBrant Candelore
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Abstract
An electronic apparatus and a method are provided for detection of animal intrusions and control of a repellent mechanism to prevent such intrusions. The electronic apparatus controls an image-capture device to acquire an image of a house yard and selects a set of zones in the acquired image based on a user-specified setting. The electronic apparatus detects an animal in the acquired image and controls the repellent mechanism based on a determination that the detected animal is in a zone which is among the selected set of zones, to target the detected animal.
Claims21
An electronic apparatus, comprising:
- circuitry communicatively coupled to a repellent mechanism, wherein the circuitry is configured to:
- control an image-capture device to acquire an image of a house yard;
- select a set of zones in the acquired image based on a user-specified setting;
- detect, in the acquired image, an animal in a first zone of the set of zones;
- detect a presence of a child or a known person in the first zone where the animal is detected;
- and
- control the repellent mechanism to target the detected animal in a case where the detected animal moves to a second zone of the selected set of zones, wherein the first zone is different from the second zone.
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A method, comprising:
- in an electronic apparatus:
- controlling an image-capture device to acquire an image of a house yard;
- selecting a set of zones in the acquired image based on a user-specified setting;
- detecting, the acquired image, an animal in a first zone of the set of zones;
- detecting a presence of a child or a known person in the first zone where the animal is detected;
- and
- controlling a repellent mechanism to target the detected animal in a case where the detected animal moves to a second zone of the selected set of zones.
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An electronic apparatus, comprising:
- circuitry configured to:
- control an image-capture device to acquire a preview image of a Field-of-View (FoV) region of the image-capture device;
- determine a plurality of zones in a house yard in the acquired preview image;
- control a user device to display the acquired preview image;
- control the user device to display a plurality of user-selectable options onto the displayed preview image;
- receive, via the user device, a user input over the displayed plurality of user-selectable options;
- select, from the determined plurality of zones, a set of zones which is to be protected from an animal intrusion based on the user input;
- store the selection of the set of zones as a user-specified setting on the electronic apparatus;
- control the image-capture device to acquire an image of the house yard;
- detect, in the acquired image of the house yard, an animal in a first zone of the set of zones;
- detect a presence of a child or a known person in the first zone where the animal is detected;
- and
- control a repellent mechanism to target the detected animal in a case where the detected animal moves to a second zone of the set of zones.
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An electronic apparatus, comprising:
- circuitry communicatively coupled to a repellent mechanism, wherein the circuitry is configured to:
- control an image-capture device to acquire a preview image of a Field-of-View (FoV) region of the image-capture device;
- control a user device to display the acquired preview image;
- determine a plurality of zones in the acquired preview image;
- generate a heatmap of the determined plurality of zones in the acquired preview image, wherein the heatmap indicates a frequency of historical animal intrusions in each zone of the determined plurality of zones;
- control, based on the generated heatmap, the user device to display a user-selectable recommendation comprising a set of zones of the determined plurality of zones to be protected from an animal intrusion;
- receive a user input via the user device over the displayed user-selectable recommendation;
- select, from the determined plurality of zones, the set of zones which are to be protected from the animal intrusion based on the received user input;
- store the selection of the set of zones as a user-specified setting on the electronic apparatus;
- control the image-capture device to acquire an image of a house yard;
- select, based on the user-specified setting, the set of zones in the acquired image of the house yard;
- detect an animal in the acquired image of the house yard;
- and
- control the repellent mechanism based on a determination that the detected animal is in a zone which is among the selected set of zones, to target the detected animal.
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An electronic apparatus, comprising:
- circuitry communicatively coupled to a repellent mechanism, wherein the circuitry is configured to:
- control an image-capture device to acquire an image of a house yard;
- select a set of zones in the acquired image based on a user-specified setting;
- detect an animal in the acquired image;
- control the repellent mechanism based on a determination that the detected animal is in a zone which is among the selected set of zones, to target the detected animal, wherein the repellent mechanism is a barricade setup installed in a compacted configuration;
- set the barricade setup to an uncompacted configuration in the zone;
- and
- adjust a z-height of the set barricade setup based on a height of the detected animal.
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An electronic apparatus, comprising:
- circuitry communicatively coupled to a repellent mechanism, wherein the circuitry is configured to:
- control an image-capture device to acquire an image of a house yard;
- select a set of zones in the acquired image based on a user-specified setting;
- detect, in the acquired image, an animal in a first zone of the set of zones;
- detect a valuable object in the first zone where the animal is detected;
- and
- control the repellent mechanism to target the detected animal in a case where the detected animal moves to a second zone of the selected set of zones, wherein the first zone is different from the second zone.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.