US 2020/0050255 A1Published application

Scene-Based Sensor Networks

AssigneeScenera, Inc.

InventorsDavid D. Lee, Andrew Augustine Wajs, Seungoh Ryu, Chien Lim

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Abstract

An approach to sensor data is based on scenes. One aspect concerns a computer-implemented method for specifying and obtaining a variety of sensor data and processed sensor data related to a scene. The method incorporates a Scene-based API that uses SceneModes and SceneData. An application requesting sensor data communicates a SceneMode to a group of one or more sensor devices and/or sensor modules via the Scene-based API. The SceneMode determines the SceneData to be captured or provided by the sensor group, which typically includes different types of sensor data related to the Scene and also further processed or analyzed data. The application receives the SceneData from the sensor group via the Scene-based API, with the SceneData organized into SceneShots which are samples of the Scene.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A system for multiple applications to specify and obtain a higher level understanding of scenes based on sensor data captured by a group of one or more sensor devices, the system comprising:

a plurality of applications;
a sensor-side technology stack comprising a group of one or more sensor devices that capture sensor data and processor capability for artificial intelligence and/or machine learning;
and
an application programming interface (API) for communication between any of the applications and the sensor-side technology stack;
wherein the applications communicate SceneModes to the sensor-side technology stack via the API;
and for each application:
the SceneMode defines SceneData that is related to the scene of interest for that application and that is to be generated by the sensor-side technology stack;
the SceneData is produced by the sensor-side technology stack based on a workflow for a capture, processing and analysis of sensor data, the SceneData including image data and also including data produced by artificial intelligence and/or machine learning applied to the image data;
and
the SceneMode does not specify a particular workflow for producing the SceneData, including not specifying sensor-level settings for the capture of the sensor data used to produce the SceneData;
and
the sensor-side technology stack determines, based on the SceneMode, the workflow for producing the SceneData, the workflow including sensor-level settings for the sensor devices that capture the sensor data from the scene used to produce the SceneData;
and
the SceneData is returned to the application via the API, the returned SceneData organized into SceneShots that are samples of the scene.

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Facts

Application: 16/660,391Filed 22 Oct 2019
Priority: 19 May 2016
Published: 13 Feb 2020
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification9 codes

G06F 3/005
Specific input/output arrangements not covered by G06F3/01 - G06F3/16: input arrangements through a video camera
G06F 11/3089
Monitoring: monitoring arrangements determined by the means or processing involved in sensing the monitored data, e.g. interfaces, connectors,…
H04N 7/18
Television systems: closed-circuit television [CCTV] systems, i.e. systems in which the video signal is not broadcast
H04N 23/64
Control of cameras or camera modules: computer-aided capture of images, e.g. transfer from script file into camera, check of taken image quality,…

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Application62/338,948Us provisional application · filed 19 May 2016
Application62/382,733Us provisional application · filed 1 Sep 2016
Application15/469,380Continuation · filed 24 Mar 2017
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