Methods and systems for presenting alert event indicators

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2021357112-A1
Application number	US-202117359115-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Jun 25, 2021
Priority date	Jun 14, 2015
Publication date	Nov 18, 2021
Grant date	—

Abstract

A method is performed at a client device with a display screen, processor(s), and memory storing program(s) for execution by the processor(s). The method comprises obtaining alert events from smart devices at a physical location. The smart devices include a camera located at or in proximity to the physical location. The method further comprises displaying in a scrollable list a chronological sequence of camera event items. Each of the camera event items includes a thumbnail image, a time of the alert event, and one or more activity alert indicators corresponding to predefined activity alert types. The method further comprises receiving a user selection of a first thumbnail image corresponding to a first one of the camera event items, and responsive to the user selection, enabling playback of a video of a first alert event in a video player interface while maintaining display of the scrollable list.

First claim

1 . (canceled)

2 . A method comprising:
obtaining, by a computing device, alert events from one or more smart devices at a physical location, the one or more smart devices including a camera located at or in proximity to the physical location, wherein each obtained alert event is associated with at least one of a plurality of predefined activity alert types; outputting, for display at a display screen of the computing device, a camera history user interface that includes a scrollable list of a plurality of camera event items from the camera that are arranged in a chronological sequence and a filter graphical element, wherein each of the camera event items in the scrollable list is displayed across a full width of the scrollable list and including an image, a time of an alert event associated with the respective camera event item, and one or more activity alert indicators corresponding to one or more of the predefined activity alert types; detecting, by the computing device, a user input at a location of the display at which the filter graphical element is displayed; responsive to detecting the user input, outputting, by the computing device and for display, a filtering menu that includes one or more filtering criteria; receiving, by the computing device, a selection of a filtering criteria from the one or more filtering criteria; determining, by the computing device and based on the filtering criteria, a subset of camera event items from the plurality of camera event items; and outputting, for display, an updated camera history user interface that includes a scrollable list of the subset of camera event items.

3 . The method of claim 2 , wherein the filtering criteria include one or more of a zone of interest, a sound alert event type, a vibration alert event type, a hazard alert event type, or a motion alert event type.

4 . The method of claim 2 , wherein outputting the filtering menu further comprises:
obscuring the camera history user interface; and outputting the filtering menu for display over a portion of the obscured camera history user interface.

5 . The method of claim 2 , wherein the selection of the filtering criteria is a selection of a first filtering criteria, and wherein the one or more filtering criteria include at least two filtering criteria, the method further comprising:
receiving, by the computing device, a selection of a second filtering criteria from the at least two filtering criteria, wherein determining the subset of camera event items is based on the first filtering criteria and the second filtering criteria.

6 . The method of claim 2 , wherein the predefined activity alert types are associated with one or more of a hazard alert event, an audio alert event, a motion alert event in a zone of interest in a field of view of the camera, or a motion event outside of the zone of interest in the field of view of the camera; and the zone of interest comprises a defined spatial zone in the field of view.

7 . The method of claim 6 , wherein the spatial zone is defined by a user.

8 . The method of claim 2 , wherein each of the one or more activity alert indicators has a visually distinctive display characteristic based on color or shape.

9 . The method of claim 2 , wherein the full width of the scrollable list is a full width of the display screen.

10 . A computing device comprising:
a display screen; one or more processors; and a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors cause the one or more processors to:
obtain alert events from one or more smart devices at a physical location, the one or more smart devices including a camera located at or in proximity to the physical location, wherein each obtained alert event is associated with at least one of a plurality of predefined activity alert types;
output, for display at the display screen, a camera history user interface that includes a scrollable list of a plurality of camera event items from the camera that are arranged in a chronological sequence and a filter graphical element, wherein each of the camera event items in the scrollable list is displayed across a full width of the scrollable list and including an image, a time of an alert event associated with the respective camera event item, and one or more activity alert indicators corresponding to one or more of the predefined activity alert types;
detect a user input at a location of the display screen at which the filter graphical element is displayed;
responsive to detecting the user input, output, for display, a filtering menu that includes one or more filtering criteria;
receive a selection of a filtering criteria from the one or more filtering criteria;
determine, based on the filtering criteria, a subset of camera event items from the plurality of camera event items; and
output, for display, an updated camera history user interface that includes a scrollable list of the subset of camera event items.

11 . The computing device of claim 10 , wherein the filtering criteria include one or more of a zone of interest, a sound alert event type, a vibration alert event type, a hazard alert event type, or a motion alert event type.

12 . The computing device of claim 10 , wherein the instructions further cause the one or more processors to:
obscure the camera history user interface; and output the filtering menu for display over a portion of the obscured camera history user interface.

13 . The computing device of claim 10 , wherein the selection of the filtering criteria is a selection of a first filtering criteria, wherein the one or more filtering criteria include at least two filtering criteria, and wherein the instructions further cause the one or more processors to:
receive a selection of a second filtering criteria from the at least two filtering criteria; and determine the subset of camera event items based on the first filtering criteria and the second filtering criteria.

14 . The computing device of claim 10 , wherein the predefined activity alert types are associated with one or more of a hazard alert event, an audio alert event, a motion alert event in a zone of interest in a field of view of the camera, or a motion event outside of the zone of interest in the field of view of the camera; and the zone of interest comprises a defined spatial zone in the field of view.

15 . The computing device of claim 14 , wherein the spatial zone is defined by a user.

16 . The computing device of claim 10 , wherein each of the one or more activity alert indicators has a visually distinctive display characteristic based on color or shape.

17 . The computing device of claim 10 , wherein the full width of the scrollable list is a full width of the display screen.

18 . A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium encoded with instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a computing device, cause the one or more processors to:
obtain alert events from one or more smart devices at a physical location, the one or more smart devices including a camera located at or in proximity to the physical location, wherein each obtained alert event is associated with at least one of a plurality of predefined activity alert types; output, for display at a display screen of the computing device, a camera history user interface that includes a scrollable list of a plurality of camera event items from the camera that are arranged in a chronological sequence and a filter graphical element, wherein each of the camera event items in the scrollable list is displayed acr

Assignees

• Google Llc

Inventors

• Mclean Melissa
• Mizono Michael
• Von Dehsen Lauren
• Venters Joe Delone
• Kuwatani Tracy
• Kennedy Zachery

Classifications

• G06V10/235

  based on user input or interaction · CPC title

• G06V20/41

  Higher-level, semantic clustering, classification or understanding of video scenes, e.g. detection, labelling or Markovian modelling of sport events or news items (segmenting video sequences G06V20/49) · CPC title

• G06V20/44

  Event detection · CPC title

• G06V20/52

  Surveillance or monitoring of activities, e.g. for recognising suspicious objects (recognising microscopic objects G06V20/69) · CPC title

• G06F3/04817

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