# US 2019/0378284 A1 · Sharing Video Footage from Audio/Video Recording and Communication Devices > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 2019/0378284 A1 - Document ID: US20190378284A1 - Status: Published application - Kind: A1 - Application number: 16/551,469 - Filed: 2019-08-26 - Published: 2019-12-12 - Earliest claimed: 2016-02-26 - Assignees: Amazon Technologies, Inc. - Applicants: Amazon Technologies, Inc. - Inventors: James Siminoff; August Cziment; Aaron Harpole; Elliott Lemberger; John Modestine; Darrell Sommerlatt - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20190378284A1 ## CPC - G06T 7/292: Multi-camera tracking - G06F 3/0482: Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus - G06F 3/04842: Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements (G06F3/0482 takes precedence) - G06F 3/0488: using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures - G06T 7/70: Determining position or orientation of objects or cameras (camera calibration G06T7/80) - G06V 10/141: Control of illumination - G06V 10/143: Sensing or illuminating at different wavelengths - G06V 10/95: {structured as a network, e.g. client-server architectures} - G06V 20/52: Surveillance or monitoring of activities, e.g. for recognising suspicious objects (recognising microscopic objects G06V20/69) - G06V 40/16: Human faces, e.g. facial parts, sketches or expressions - G06V 40/172: {Classification, e.g. identification} - G08B 3/10: using electric transmission; using electromagnetic transmission - G08B 13/19608: {Tracking movement of a target, e.g. by detecting an object predefined as a target, using target direction and or velocity to predict its new position} - G08B 13/19636: {pertaining to the camera} - G08B 13/19645: {Multiple cameras, each having view on one of a plurality of scenes, e.g. multiple cameras for multi-room surveillance or for tracking an object by view hand-over} - G08B 13/19656: {Network used to communicate with a camera, e.g. WAN, LAN, Internet} - G08B 13/19671: {Addition of non-video data, i.e. metadata, to video stream} - G08B 13/19682: {Graphic User Interface [GUI] presenting system data to the user, e.g. information on a screen helping a user interacting with an alarm system} - G08B 13/19684: {Portable terminal, e.g. mobile phone, used for viewing video remotely} - G08B 13/19695: {Arrangements wherein non-video detectors start video recording or forwarding but do not generate an alarm themselves} - G08B 15/001: {Concealed systems, e.g. disguised alarm systems to make covert systems} - G08B 15/004: {using portable personal devices (hand-held or body-worn self-defence devices using repellent gases or chemicals F41H9/10)} - G08B 25/08: using communication transmission lines {(G08B13/19658, G08B21/0286, G08B25/016 take precedence)} - G08B 27/001: {Signalling to an emergency team, e.g. firemen} - G08B 27/003: {Signalling to neighbouring houses} - G08B 27/005: {with transmission via computer network} - G10L 17/00: Speaker identification or verification techniques - H04L 65/1069: Session establishment or de-establishment - H04L 65/611: for multicast or broadcast (systems for broadcast or conference H04L12/18; arrangements for broadcast or distribution combined with broadcast H04H20/00; arrangements for broadcast applications with a direct linkage to broadcast information or to broadcast space-time H04H60/00; selective distribution of broadcast services, e.g. multimedia broadcast multicast service [MBMS], H04W4/06) - H04L 65/612: for unicast - H04L 67/12: specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks - H04N 5/77: between a recording apparatus and a television camera - H04N 5/91: Television signal processing therefor - H04N 7/147: {Communication arrangements, e.g. identifying the communication as a video-communication, intermediate storage of the signals (selecting H04Q)} - H04N 7/186: {Video door telephones} - H04N 23/20: for generating image signals from infrared radiation only - H04N 23/51: Housings - H04N 23/65: Control of camera operation in relation to power supply - H04N 23/651: {for reducing power consumption by affecting camera operations, e.g. sleep mode, hibernation mode or power off of selective parts of the camera} - H04N 23/661: Transmitting camera control signals through networks, e.g. control via the Internet - G06F 40/40: Processing or translation of natural language (natural language analysis G06F40/20; semantic analysis G06F40/30) - G06T 2207/10004: Still image; Photographic image - G06T 2207/10016: Video; Image sequence - G06T 2207/10024: Color image - G06T 2207/30232: Surveillance - G06V 20/44: {Event detection} - G06V 20/64: Three-dimensional [3D] objects - G10L 25/57: for processing of video signals - H04L 67/10: in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network (software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46) - H04W 4/021: Services related to particular areas, e.g. point of interest [POI] services, venue services or geofences - H04W 4/08: User group management - G06T: IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL - G06F: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N) - G06V: IMAGE OR VIDEO RECOGNITION OR UNDERSTANDING - G08B: SIGNALLING SYSTEMS, e.g. PERSONAL CALLING SYSTEMS; ORDER TELEGRAPHS; ALARM SYSTEMS - G10L: SPEECH ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES OR SPEECH SYNTHESIS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; SPEECH OR VOICE PROCESSING TECHNIQUES; SPEECH OR AUDIO CODING OR DECODING - H04L: TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION (arrangements common to telegraphic and telephonic communication H04M) - H04N: PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION - H04W: WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS (broadcast communication H04H; communication systems using wireless links for non-selective communication, e.g. wireless extensions H04M1/72) ## Abstract Sharing video footage recorded by audio/video (A/V) recording and communication devices, such as video doorbells and security cameras. When an A/V recording and communication device records video footage of suspicious activity, or even criminal activity, a user viewing the footage may alert his or her neighbors by sharing the video. In various embodiments, the user may share the video with anyone of the user's choosing, including neighbors, friends, and family. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A method for sharing recorded video footage from an audio/video recording and communication device (A/V device), the method comprising: receiving, by a client device, video footage recorded by a camera of the A/V device; displaying, on a display of the client device, at least a portion of the recorded video footage; displaying, on the display of the client device, a neighborhood share button that allows a user associated with the client device to share the recorded video footage with one or more other users; determining that the neighborhood share button has been selected; and in response to the neighborhood share button being selected, transmitting a share signal to a network, wherein the share signal enables the network to identify the one or more other users who will be notified of the shared recorded video footage. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1 further comprising, displaying, on the display of the client device, share information that indicates that the recorded video footage will be shared with the one or more other users. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) The method of claim 2, wherein the share information includes a still image from the recorded video footage. ### Claim 4 (depends on 2) The method of claim 2, wherein the share information includes a notice that the recorded video footage will be shared along with a location where the recorded video footage was recorded. ### Claim 5 (depends on 2) The method of claim 2, wherein the share information includes a text entry box. ### Claim 6 (depends on 5) The method of claim 5 further comprising receiving text data that describes the recorded video footage. ### Claim 7 (depends on 6) The method of claim 6, wherein the share signal includes the text data that describes the content of the recorded video footage. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1 further comprising displaying, on the display of the client device, a confirmation that the recorded video footage has been shared. ### Claim 9 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1 further comprising, displaying, on the display of the client device, after determining that the neighborhood share button has been selected, a message providing an option to unshare the recorded video footage. ### Claim 10 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein the network identifies the one or more other users who will be notified of the shared recorded video footage by determining that the A/V device is within a predefined distance set by the one or more other users. ### Claim 11 A computer program application for sharing recorded video footage from an audio/video recording and communication device (A/V device) associated with a first user, the computer program application being embodied in code executable by a processor of a client device, which when executed causes the client device to: receive video footage recorded by a camera of the A/V device; display, on a display of the client device, at least a portion of the recorded video footage; display, on the display of the client device, a neighborhood share button that allows the first user to share the recorded video footage with at least one social network; determine that the neighborhood share button has been selected; and in response to the neighborhood share button being selected, transmit a share signal to the at least one social network, the share signal including information to enable the at least one social network to provide the shared recorded video footage to one or more users of the at least one social network. ### Claim 12 (depends on 11) The computer program application of claim 11, wherein the computer program application is embodied in further code that, when executed by the processor, further causes the client device to display, on the display of the client device, share information that indicates that the recorded video footage will be shared with the at least one social network. ### Claim 13 (depends on 12) The computer program application of claim 12, wherein the share information includes a still image from the recorded video footage. ### Claim 14 (depends on 12) The computer program application of claim 12, wherein the share information includes a notice that the recorded video footage will be shared along with a location where the recorded video footage was recorded. ### Claim 15 (depends on 12) The computer program application of claim 12, wherein the share information includes a text entry box. ### Claim 16 (depends on 15) The computer program application of claim 15, wherein the computer program application is embodied in further code that, when executed by the processor, further causes the client device to receive text data that describes the recorded video footage. ### Claim 17 (depends on 16) The computer program application of claim 16, wherein the share signal includes the text data that describes the content of the recorded video footage. ### Claim 18 (depends on 11) The computer program application of claim 11, wherein the computer program application is embodied in further code that, when executed by the processor, further causes the client device to display, on the display of the client device, a confirmation that the recorded video footage has been shared. ### Claim 19 (depends on 11) The computer program application of claim 11, wherein the computer program application is embodied in further code that, when executed by the processor, further causes the client device to display, on the display of the client device, after determining that the neighborhood share button has been selected, an option to unshare the recorded video footage. ### Claim 20 (depends on 11) The computer program application of claim 11, wherein the one or more users of the at least one social network are located in a same neighborhood as the first user.