Methods and systems for displaying live video and recorded video

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10108862-B2
Application number	US-201815926430-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 20, 2018
Priority date	Jul 7, 2014
Publication date	Oct 23, 2018
Grant date	Oct 23, 2018

Abstract

The various implementations described herein include methods, devices, and systems for displaying live and recorded video from a remote camera. In one aspect, a method includes: (1) displaying a portion of a recorded video feed from the video camera, a live video affordance, and an event history affordance; (2) in response to a selection of the live video affordance: (a) requesting and displaying a live video feed; (b) continuing to display the event history affordance; and (c) ceasing to display the live video affordance; (3) in response to receiving a user selection of the event history affordance: displaying a plurality of detected events, including for each event: (i) image(s) associated with the event; and (ii) a time indicator; and (4) in response to receiving a user selection of an event, requesting and displaying a recorded event video feed associated with the selected event.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method, comprising:
displaying a video monitoring user interface on a display of a client device located remotely from a video camera, including displaying: (i) a portion of a recorded video feed from the video camera, (ii) a live video affordance, and (iii) an event history affordance;
receiving a user selection of the live video affordance;
in response to receiving the user selection of the live video affordance:
requesting the live video feed;
displaying, in the video monitoring user interface, the requested live video feed;
continuing to display the event history affordance; and
ceasing to display the live video affordance;

in response to receiving a user selection of the event history affordance displayed on the video monitoring user interface:
ceasing to display the live video feed and the event history affordance; and
displaying an events feed user interface including, for each event of a plurality of detected events: (i) one or more images associated with the event, and (ii) a time indicator indicating the time at which the event occurred;

receiving a user selection of an event in the plurality of detected events; and
in response to receiving the user selection of the event, requesting a recorded event video feed associated with the selected event; and
displaying the requested recorded event video feed.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of events in the events feed user interface is arranged in a single column.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the events feed user interface further includes, for each event of the plurality of detected events, an event characteristic indicator indicating a characteristic of the event.

4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
displaying a filtering affordance in the events feed user interface; and
in response to receiving a user selection of the filtering affordance, displaying a filtering pane.

5. The method of claim 4 , wherein the filtering pane includes a list of event categories.

6. The method of claim 5 , further comprising:
receiving a user selection of at least one of the event categories from the list of event categories; and
filtering the events feed such that the events feed only includes events that satisfy the characteristics of the selected event categories.

7. The method of claim 6 , wherein the characteristics include audio and motion.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the events feed user interface includes an exit affordance configured, upon activation, to return to display of the video monitoring interface.

9. A computing system, comprising:
one or more processors;
a display; and
memory storing one or more instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the computing system to perform operations including:
displaying a video monitoring user interface on a display of a client device located remotely from a video camera, including displaying: (i) a portion of a recorded video feed from the video camera, (ii) a live video affordance, and (iii) an event history affordance;
receiving a user selection of the live video affordance;
in response to receiving the user selection of the live video affordance:
requesting the live video feed;
displaying, in the video monitoring user interface, the requested live video feed;
continuing to display the event history affordance; and
ceasing to display the live video affordance;

in response to receiving a user selection of the event history affordance displayed on the video monitoring user interface:
ceasing to display the live video feed and the event history affordance; and
displaying an events feed user interface including, for each event of a plurality of detected events: (i) one or more images associated with the event, and (ii) a time indicator indicating the time at which the event occurred;

receiving a user selection of an event in the plurality of detected events; and
in response to receiving the user selection of the event, requesting a recorded event video feed associated with the selected event; and
displaying the requested recorded event video feed.

10. The computing system of claim 9 , wherein the operations further include:
while displaying the events feed user interface, detecting an upward dragging gesture on the display; and
in response to detecting an upward dragging gesture on the display, vertically displacing the events feed user interface.

11. The computing system of claim 9 , wherein each of the plurality of events is assigned to an event type that is selected from the group consisting of: a motion event, an object based event, an audio event and a hazard event.

12. The computing system of claim 9 , wherein at least one of the events in the events feed corresponds to motion detected in a first zone of interest.

13. The computing system of claim 12 , wherein at least one of the events in the events feed corresponds to motion detected in a second zone of interest that is different than the first zone of interest.

14. The computing system of claim 9 , wherein the events feed user interface includes an exit affordance configured, upon activation, to return to display of the video monitoring interface.

15. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing one or more programs, the one or more programs comprising instructions which, when executed by a computing system with one or more processors, cause the computing system to perform operations comprising:
displaying a video monitoring user interface on a display of a client device located remotely from a video camera, including displaying: (i) a portion of a recorded video feed from the video camera, (ii) a live video affordance, and (iii) an event history affordance;
receiving a user selection of the live video affordance;
in response to receiving the user selection of the live video affordance:
requesting the live video feed;
displaying, in the video monitoring user interface, the requested live video feed;
continuing to display the event history affordance; and
ceasing to display the live video affordance;

in response to receiving a user selection of the event history affordance displayed on the video monitoring user interface:
ceasing to display the live video feed and the event history affordance; and
displaying an events feed user interface including, for each event of a plurality of detected events: (i) one or more images associated with the event, and (ii) a time indicator indicating the time at which the event occurred;

receiving a user selection of an event in the plurality of detected events; and
in response to receiving the user selection of the event, requesting a recorded event video feed associated with the selected event; and
displaying the requested recorded event video feed.

16. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 15 , wherein the operations further comprise:
receiving a user selection of a plurality of zones of interest; and
for events in the events feed having characteristics corresponding to detected motion, only displaying a subset of the plurality of detected motion events, each motion event of the subset of motion events involving at least one zone of interest in the plurality of zones of interest.

17. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 16 , further comprising displaying an event indicator for each event of the subset of motion events, wherein at least one display characteristic of each event indicator is based on respective zones of interest for the corresponding motion events.

Assignees

• Google Llc

Inventors

• Laska Jason N
• Nelson Greg R
• Duffy Greg

Classifications

• H04L63/0428 Primary

  wherein the data content is protected, e.g. by encrypting or encapsulating the payload · CPC title

• G08B13/19604

  involving reference image or background adaptation with time to compensate for changing conditions, e.g. reference image update on detection of light level change · CPC title

• H04N23/6811

  based on the image signal · CPC title

• H04N23/651

  for reducing power consumption by affecting camera operations, e.g. sleep mode, hibernation mode or power off of selective parts of the camera · CPC title

• H04N23/6815

  by distinguishing pan or tilt from motion · CPC title