Method and system for categorizing detected motion events

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9420331-B2
Application number	US-201414510042-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 8, 2014
Priority date	Jul 7, 2014
Publication date	Aug 16, 2016
Grant date	Aug 16, 2016

Abstract

A computing system device with processor(s) and memory displays a video monitoring user interface on the display, the video monitoring user interface including a video feed from a camera located remotely from the client device in a first region of the video monitoring user interface and an event timeline in a second region of the video monitoring user interface, and the event timeline includes indicators corresponding to motion events previously detected by the camera. The computing system obtains an indication of a detected motion event and associates the detected motion event with a respective category. The computing system displays an indicator for the detected motion event on the event timeline with a display characteristic corresponding to the respective category.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method of categorizing and providing user feedback regarding a detected event, the method comprising:
receiving a selection of a plurality of event zones within a field of view of a single video camera;
displaying a video monitoring user interface on a display of a client device located remotely from the video camera, the video monitoring user interface including a first region for displaying a live video feed and/or a recorded video feed from the video camera and a second region for displaying a single event timeline, the single event timeline including a plurality of equally spaced time indicators each indicating a specific time and a current video feed indicator indicating the temporal position of the video feed displayed in the first region, the temporal position including a past time corresponding to the previously recorded video feed from the video camera and a current time corresponding to the live video feed from the video camera, wherein the current video feed indicator is movable relative to the equally spaced time indicators to facilitate a change in the temporal position of the video feed displayed in the first region;
displaying the single event timeline on the second region of the video monitoring user interface according to a user-selected scale;
displaying on the single event timeline a plurality of event indicators corresponding to one or more events previously detected from the live video feed during a period of time associated with the user-selected scale of the single event timeline, wherein:
each of the one or more events is assigned to at least one of the plurality of event zones;
each event is represented by a respective event indicator having a graphic display characteristic associated with a corresponding event zone to which the event is assigned; and
the graphic display characteristic is a visually unique color fill for each event zone; and

displaying, for at least one of the plurality of event indicators, a corresponding static image from the live video feed, the static image being representative of the event associated with the event indicator; and
in response to a detection of a new event in one of the event zones for the live video feed, displaying a new event indicator for the detected new event on the single event timeline, the new event indicator being displayed with the graphic display characteristic corresponding to the event zone in which the new motion event was detected.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
in accordance with a determination that one or more characteristics for the new event satisfy one or more criteria for the event zone, displaying a notification indicating that the detected new event has been detected in the event zone.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the notification pops-up from the new event indicator for the detected new event.

4. The method of claim 2 , wherein the notification is overlaid on the video in the first region of the video monitoring user interface.

5. The method of claim 2 , wherein the notification is a banner notification displayed in a location corresponding to the top of the video monitoring user interface.

6. The method of claim 2 , wherein the notification includes one or more affordances for providing feedback as to whether the detected new event is properly detected in the event zone.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the event zone corresponds to a recognized event zone.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the event zone corresponds to a previously created event.

9. The method of claim 8 , further comprising:
training a categorization model based on a training data set containing motion vectors corresponding to the event category, wherein common characteristics of the event category are extracted through the training to set forth the one or more categorization criteria and distinguish events associated with the event category from events associated with other event categories.

10. The method of claim 1 , wherein the one or more events previously detected by the camera include a subset of events, further comprising:
identifying a first event category associated with the subset of events; and
retroactively modifying on the video monitoring user interface a display characteristic of a subset of event indicators corresponding to the subset of the events.

11. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
detecting selection of a first event indicator of the one or more event indicators, the first event indicator corresponding to a first event of the one or more events; and
displaying a dialog box for the first event corresponding to the first event indicator, wherein the dialog box includes at least one of a time the first event was detected and a preview of the first event.

12. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
displaying one or more affordances in response to detection of a contact on the video monitoring user interface; and
in accordance with an activation of the one or more affordances, enabling control of the camera including at least one of a zoom command and a microphone enabling/disabling command.

13. A computing system, comprising:
one or more processors; and
memory storing one or more programs to be executed by the one or more processors, the one or more programs comprising instructions for:
receiving a selection of a plurality of event zones within a field of view of a single video camera;
displaying a video monitoring user interface on a display of a client device located remotely from the video camera, the video monitoring user interface including a first region for displaying a live video feed and/or a recorded video feed from the video camera and a second region for displaying a single event timeline, the single event timeline including a plurality of equally spaced time indicators each indicating a specific time and a current video feed indicator indicating the temporal position of the video feed displayed in the first region, the temporal position including a past time corresponding to the previously recorded video feed from the video camera and a current time corresponding to the live video feed from the video camera, wherein the current video feed indicator is movable relative to the equally spaced time indicators to facilitate a change in the temporal position of the video feed displayed in the first region;
displaying the single event timeline on the second region of the video monitoring user interface according to a user-selected scale;
displaying on the single event timeline a plurality of event indicators corresponding to one or more events previously detected from the live video feed during a period of time associated with the user-selected scale of the single event timeline, wherein:
each of the one or more events is assigned to at least one of the plurality of event zones;
each event is represented by a respective event indicator having a graphic display characteristic associated with a corresponding event zone to which the event is assigned; and
the graphic display characteristic is a visually unique color fill for each event zone; and

displaying, for at least one of the plurality of event indicators, a corresponding static image from the live video feed, the static image being representative of the event associated with the event indicator; and
in response to a detection of a new event in one of the event zones for the live video feed, displaying a new event indicator for the detected new event on the single event timeline, the new event indicator being displayed with the graphic display characteristic corresponding to the event zone in which the new motion event was detecte

Assignees

• Google Inc

Inventors

• Laska Jason N
• Nelson Greg R
• Duffy Greg

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