Method and system for detecting and presenting a new event in a video feed

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9609380-B2
Application number	US-201615202503-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 5, 2016
Priority date	Jul 7, 2014
Publication date	Mar 28, 2017
Grant date	Mar 28, 2017

Abstract

The application is directed to a video monitoring user interface that includes a first region for displaying a live or recorded video feed from a video camera and a second region for displaying an event timeline. The event timeline includes equally spaced time indicators each indicating a specific time, and a moveable current video feed indicator indicating the temporal position of the video feed displayed in the first region. The temporal position includes a past time corresponding to the previously recorded video feed and a current time corresponding to the live video feed. The event timeline is displayed with event indicators corresponding to different types of events previously detected during a period of time associated with the event timeline. When a new event is detected, a new event indicator is displayed on the event timeline with the graphic display characteristic corresponding to the event type of the new event.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for categorizing and providing user feedback regarding a detected event, the method comprising:
displaying a video monitoring user interface on a display of a client device located remotely from a 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 an event timeline, wherein:
the event timeline includes 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 includes a past time corresponding to the recorded video feed from the video camera and a current time corresponding to the live video feed from the video camera; and
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 on the event timeline a plurality of event indicators corresponding to one or more different types of events previously detected from the live video feed during a period of time associated with the event timeline, wherein:
each event is represented by an event indicator having a graphic display characteristic associated with the event type; and
the graphic display characteristic is selected from the group consisting of: a visually unique color, a visually unique pattern, and a visually unique icon, for each type of event; and

in response to a detection of a new event, displaying a new event indicator for the detected new event on the event timeline, the new event indicator being displayed with the graphic display characteristic associated with the event type of the new event.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein each event of the one or more different types of events is assigned to a category of a plurality of categories for recognized event categories or created zones of interest.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the video monitoring user interface further includes a third region for displaying the list of categories for recognized event categories or created zones of interest, and the list of categories includes the one or more different types of events previously detected from the live video feed during the period of time associated with the event timeline.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the new event is detection of motion in a first zone of interest from a plurality of zones of interest, and the graphic display characteristic corresponds to the first zone of interest.

5. The method of claim 4 , wherein the new event is detection of motion in a second zone of interest from the plurality of zones of interest that is different than the first zone of interest, and the graphic display characteristic corresponds to the second zone of interest and is different than the graphic display characteristic that corresponds to the first zone of interest.

6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
in response to a user selection of the event timeline at a past time temporal position corresponding to one of the plurality of event indicators that corresponds to a first event of the one or more different types of events, requesting a first video segment corresponding to the first event and displaying the first video segment in the first region of the video monitoring user interface.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the video camera prioritizes uploading of video segments corresponding to the one or more different types of motion events ahead of video segments of the video stream that do not contain any event, and when a past time temporal position corresponding to a video segment that does not contain any event is selected, that video segment is not available for display in the first region of the video monitoring user interface.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein a first video segment corresponding to the one or more different types of events is configured to be displayed in the first region of the video monitoring user interface at a higher quality than a second video segment that does not corresponding to any of the one or more different types of events.

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 the display, the video monitoring user interface including a first region for displaying a live video feed and/or a recorded video feed from a video camera and a second region for displaying an event timeline, wherein:
the event timeline includes 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 includes a past time corresponding to the recorded video feed from the video camera and a current time corresponding to the live video feed from the video camera; and
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 on the event timeline a plurality of event indicators corresponding to one or more different types of events previously detected from the live video feed during a period of time associated with the event timeline, wherein:
each event is represented by an event indicator having a graphic display characteristic associated with the event type; and
the graphic display characteristic is selected from the group consisting of: a visually unique color, a visually unique pattern, and a visually unique icon, for each type of event; and

in response to a detection of a new event, displaying a new event indicator for the detected new event on the event timeline, the new event indicator being displayed with the graphic display characteristic associated with the event type of the new event.

10. The computing system of claim 9 , wherein the operations further include:
displaying, proximate to one of the plurality of event indicators, a thumbnail image from the corresponding event.

11. The computing system of claim 9 , wherein the operations further include:
in accordance with a determination that one or more characteristics of the new event satisfy one or more criteria, notifying a user of the computing system of the new event and the type of new event.

12. The computing system of claim 9 , further comprising a speaker, wherein the operations further include:
while displaying a video feed from the video camera, simultaneously outputting audio from the speaker that is captured by the video camera.

13. The computing system of claim 12 , further comprising a microphone, wherein the operations further include:
in response to receiving from a user of the computing system, via the video monitoring user interface, a microphone affordance, enabling an audio channel between the microphone of the computing system and a speaker of the video camera.

14. The computing system of claim 9 , wherein each of the one or more different types of events is selected from a group consisting of: a motion event, an object based event, an audio event and a hazard alert.

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 p

Assignees

• Google Inc

Inventors

• Laska Jason N
• Nelson Greg R
• Duffy Greg

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