Virtual enhancement of security monitoring

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10504348-B2
Application number	US-201715718050-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 28, 2017
Priority date	Mar 12, 2015
Publication date	Dec 10, 2019
Grant date	Dec 10, 2019

Abstract

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on storage devices, for monitoring, security, and surveillance of a property. In one aspect, a system includes a virtual reality headset, a plurality of cameras, a plurality of sensors that includes a first sensor, a control unit, wherein the control unit includes a network interface, a processor, a storage device that includes instructions to perform operations that comprise receiving data from the first sensor that is indicative of an alarm event, determining a location of the first sensor, identifying a set of one or more cameras from the plurality of cameras that are associated with the first sensor, selecting a particular camera from the identified set of one or more cameras; and transmitting one or more instructions to the particular camera that command the particular camera to stream a live video feed to a user interface of the virtual reality headset.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A property monitoring system, comprising:
a virtual reality headset comprising:
a display;
one or more first sensors;
a network interface;
one or more processors; and
one or more storage devices storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations, the operations comprising:
generating, by the one or more first sensors, positional data related to the position of a head of a user wearing the headset;
receiving data that identifies a location of the property that is monitored by the property monitoring system;
communicating, by the network interface, a request for a video feed of the location of the property, wherein the request includes data representing (i) a request to stream the video feed and (ii) a request to sync the headset with a first camera that is positioned to generate the video feed; and
synchronizing the headset with the first camera of the property monitoring system, wherein synchronizing the headset with the first camera comprises providing positional data generated by the one or more first sensors of the headset to a device of the property monitoring system that is configured to initiate movement of the first camera based on the positional data generated by the one or more first sensors.

2. The property monitoring system of claim 1 , the property monitoring system further comprising a plurality of monitoring system devices, wherein the plurality of monitoring system devices includes at least one or more of (i) a second sensor that is installed at a particular location of the property, (ii) a camera that is installed at a particular location of the property, (iii) a monitoring system control unit, or (iv) a monitoring application server.

3. The property monitoring system of claim 2 , wherein the camera that is installed at the particular location of the property includes the first camera.

4. The property monitoring system of claim 3 , wherein the device of the property monitoring system includes the first camera, the monitoring system control unit, or the monitoring application server.

5. The property monitoring system of claim 1 , wherein the one or more first sensors include a gyroscope, an accelerometer, a magnetometer, a global positioning system, an altimeter, a sonar sensor, a laser sensor, or a motion sensor.

6. The property monitoring system of claim 1 , whether the virtual reality headset further comprises a second camera that is configured to capture one or more images of eyes of the user wearing the virtual reality headset.

7. The property monitoring system of claim 6 , the operations further comprising:
adjusting a zoom-level of the first camera based on the one or more images of the eyes of the user wearing the virtual reality headset that were captured by the second camera.

8. The property monitoring system of claim 1 , the operations further comprising:
adjusting a zoom-level of the first camera based on additional positional data generated by the one or more first sensors that is indicative of a leaning movement of the user wearing the headset.

9. The property monitoring system of claim 6 , wherein synchronizing the headset with the first camera comprises:
determining, based on the one or more images of the eyes of the user wearing the virtual reality headset that are captured by the second camera, that the user is gazing at an object in the video feed; and
in response to determining, that the user is gazing at an object in the video, providing data to the device that initiates movement of the camera that initiates the first camera to lock-onto the object in the video.

10. The property monitoring system of claim 9 , wherein locking-onto the object includes the first camera continuously tracking the object.

11. The property monitoring system of claim 1 , the operations further comprising:
determining, based on the positional data generated by the one or more first sensors, data representing a current positioning in a three-dimensional space of the head of the user wearing the headset,
wherein synchronizing the headset with the first camera comprises providing the data representing the current positioning in a three-dimensional space of the head of the user wearing the headset to the device that is configured to initiate movement of the first camera based on the current positioning of the head of the user wearing the headset.

12. The property monitoring system of claim 11 , the operations further comprising:
synchronizing movement of the head of the user wearing the headset with the first camera with reference to movements of the user's head measured in the three-dimensional space with reference to each respective axis in the three-dimensional space using Denavit-Hartenberg parameters.

13. The property monitoring system of claim 12 , wherein each respective axis of the three-dimensional space includes an x-axis, a y-axis, and a z-axis.

14. The property monitoring system of claim 1 , wherein receiving data that identifies a location of the property that is monitored by the property monitoring system comprises:
receiving sensor data generated by one or more sensors installed at the property, wherein the sensor data indicates the occurrence of an event in a particular portion of the property.

15. The property monitoring system of claim 1 , wherein receiving data that identifies a location of the property that is monitored by the property monitoring system comprises:
receiving a notification from the device, wherein the notification indicates that an event was detected in a particular portion of the property.

16. The property monitoring system of claim 15 , wherein the device includes a monitoring system control unit or a monitoring application server.

17. A method comprising:
generating, by one or more first sensors of a virtual reality headset, positional data related to the position of a head of a user wearing the headset;
receiving, by the headset, data that identifies a location of a property that is monitored by a property monitoring system;
communicating, by a network interface of the headset, a request for a video feed of the location of the property, wherein the request includes data representing (i) a request to stream the video feed and (ii) a request to sync the headset with a first camera that is positioned to generate the video feed; and
synchronizing the headset with the first camera of the property monitoring system, wherein synchronizing the headset with the first camera comprises providing positional data generated by the one or more first sensors of the headset to a device of the property monitoring system that is configured to initiate movement of the first camera based on the positional data generated by the one or more first sensors.

18. The method of claim 17 , wherein the device of the property monitoring system includes the first camera, the monitoring system control unit, or the monitoring application server.

19. The method of claim 17 , the method further comprising:
determining, based on the positional data generated by the one or more first sensors, data representing a current positioning in a three-dimensional space of the head of the user wearing the headset,
wherein synchronizing the headset with the first camera comprises providing the data representing the current positioning in a three-dimensional space of the head of the user wearing the headset to the device that is configured to initiate movement of the first camera based on the current positi

Assignees

• Alarm Com Inc

Inventors

• Kerzner Daniel

Classifications

• G08B13/19684

  Portable terminal, e.g. mobile phone, used for viewing video remotely · CPC title

• G08B13/19697

  Arrangements wherein non-video detectors generate an alarm themselves · CPC title

• G08B13/19693

  using multiple video sources viewed on a single or compound screen · CPC title

• H04N23/62

  Control of parameters via user interfaces · CPC title

• G06F3/04817

  using icons (graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34) · CPC title