US 11,908,143 B2Granted

Activity zones for camera video

AssigneeApple Inc.

InventorsSara Bolouki, Yah Yah Cason, Jonghoon Jin, Nils Ängquist, Hendrik Dahlkamp, Patrick L Coffman

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Abstract

Methods and systems are provided for establishing an activity zone within video captured by a camera. A user device may establish an activity zone or an exclusion zone within video representing a physical view captured by the camera. An automatic monitoring system may analyze the video of the camera with respect to the activity zone or exclusion zone and trigger notifications that are associated with a zone so as to limit notifications transmitted to the user device to those notifications that are relevant to the user. With activity or exclusion zones video from a camera may be automatically monitored to reduce a volume of notifications transmitted to the user device.

Claims18

Dependent claims

A method, comprising:

receiving, by a processor, a video stream from a camera that captures a physical view;
receiving, by the processor, information that identifies a zone within the video stream that comprises a subset of the physical view;
detecting, by the processor, a motion within the physical view;
detecting, by the processor, a first portion of an object of interest within the physical view;
determining, by the processor, that the motion within the physical view corresponds to the object of interest within the physical view;
determining, by the processor, that a second portion of the object of interest intersects with the zone;
in response to determining that the second portion of the object of interest intersects with the zone:
storing, by the processor, a subset of the video stream that corresponds to the object of interest;
and
transmitting, by the processor, a first notification to a user device that identifies the subset of the video stream;
detecting, by the processor, a first portion of a second object within the physical view;
determining that the second object is not an object of interest;
and
suppressing, in response to determining that the second object is not an object of interest, a second notification to the user device.

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A device, comprising:

a memory comprising computer-executable instructions;
and
one or more processors in communication with the memory and configured to access the memory and execute the computer-executable instructions to perform operations including:
receiving a video stream from a camera that captures a physical view;
receiving information that identifies a zone within the video stream that comprises a subset of the physical view;
detecting a motion within the physical view;
detecting a first portion of an object of interest within the physical view;
determining that the motion within the physical view corresponds to the object within the physical view;
determining that a second portion of the object of interest intersects with the zone;
in response to determining that the second portion of the object of interest intersects with the zone:
storing a subset of the video stream that corresponds to the object of interest;
and
transmitting a first notification to a user device that identifies the subset of the video stream;
detecting, by the processor, a first portion of a second object within the physical view;
determining that the second object is not an object of interest;
and
suppressing, in response to determining that the second object is not an object of interest, a second notification to the user device.

14 more elements

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising computer-executable instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations including:

receiving a video stream from a camera that captures a physical view;
receiving information that identifies a zone within the video stream that comprises a subset of the physical view;
detecting a motion within the physical view;
detecting a first portion of an object of interest within the physical view;
determining that the motion within the physical view corresponds to the object of interest within the physical view;
determining that a second portion of the object of interest intersects with the zone;
in response to determining that the second portion of the object of interest intersects with the zone:
storing a subset of the video stream that corresponds to the object of interest;
transmitting a first notification to a user device that identifies the subset of the video stream;
and
detecting, by the processor, a first portion of a second object within the physical view;
determining that the second object is not an object of interest;
and
suppressing, in response to determining that the second object is not an object of interest, a notification to the user device.

11 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 17/199,166Filed 11 Mar 2021 · us provisional application
Priority: 3 Jun 2020
Published: US 2021/0383554 A19 Dec 2021
Granted: 20 Feb 2024
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification18 codes

G06T 7/20
Image analysis: analysis of motion
H04N 7/186
For receiving images from a single remote source: video door telephones
G06N 3/045
Architecture, e.g. interconnection topology: combinations of networks
G06N 3/0464
Architecture, e.g. interconnection topology: convolutional networks [CNN, ConvNet]

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Application63/034,262Us provisional application · filed 3 Jun 2020
US 2021/0383554 A1Pre-grant publication · published 9 Dec 2021
US 11,908,143 B2This patent

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