Video monitoring user interface for displaying motion events feed

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9940523-B2
Application number	US-201615203546-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 6, 2016
Priority date	Jul 7, 2014
Publication date	Apr 10, 2018
Grant date	Apr 10, 2018

Abstract

A computing device with processor(s) and memory has a video monitoring user interface for displaying a video feed on a display of a client system. When events are detected in the video feed, an events feed is displayed in the video monitoring user interface to present the detected events. For each detected event, the events feed includes a visual representation of the video feed that was recorded at the time of the respective event, an event characteristic indicator indicating a characteristic of the respective event, and a time indicator indicating the time at which the event occurred. Then, in response to detecting the user selection of one of the events included in the events feed, the computing device records the recorded video feed that was recorded during the selected event is recorded, and displays the requested recorded video feed on the video monitoring user interface.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for 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 displayed video monitoring user interface including a display of a live video feed and at least a portion of a recorded video feed from the video camera;
displaying, in the video monitoring user interface, the portion of the recorded video feed from the video camera together with a live video affordance arranged over the portion of the recorded video feed and an event history affordance arranged outside of the portion of the recorded video feed;
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 while 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 video monitoring user interface including the live video feed and the event history affordance, and
displaying on the display, in place of the video monitoring user interface, an events feed user interface, the events feed user interface including an events feed for a plurality of detected events, the events feed including, for each event:
a visual representation of the video feed that was recorded at the time of the event;
an event characteristic indicator indicating a characteristic of the event; and
a time indicator indicating the time at which the event occurred;

receiving a user selection of one of the events included in the events feed; and
in response to receiving the user selection of one of the events included in the events feed, requesting the recorded video feed that was recorded during the selected event and displaying the requested recorded video feed.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of events in the events feed is arranged in a single column in the event feed user interface, and the events feed user interface further includes a scroll bar disposed adjacent to the single column of the plurality of events and configured to be scrolled vertically.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the event characteristic indicator and the time indicator are displayed beside and to the right of the visual representation of the video feed.

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 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, the displayed video monitoring user interface including a display of a live video feed and at least a portion of a recorded video feed from the video camera;
displaying, in the video monitoring user interface, the portion of the recorded video feed from the video camera together with a live video affordance arranged over the portion of the recorded video feed and an event history affordance arranged outside of the portion of the recorded video feed;
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 while 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 video monitoring user interface including the live video feed and the event history affordance, and
displaying on the display, in place of the video monitoring user interface, an events feed user interface, the events feed user interface including an events feed for a plurality of detected events, the events feed including, for each event:
a visual representation of the video feed that was recorded at the time of the event;
an event characteristic indicator indicating a characteristic of the event; and
a time indicator indicating the time at which the event occurred;

receiving a user selection of one of the events included in the events feed; and
in response to receiving the user selection of one of the events included in the events feed, requesting the recorded video feed that was recorded during the selected event and displaying the requested recorded video feed.

10. The computing system of claim 9 , wherein the operations further include:
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.

11. The computing system of claim 10 , wherein the events feed is arranged in a single column in the events feed user interface, and vertically displacing the events feed includes vertically displacing, for each event in the displayed events feed, the visual representation of the video feed that was recorded at the time of the event, the event characteristic indicator indicating the characteristic of the event, and the time indicator indicating the time at which the event occurred.

12. 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.

13. 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.

14. The computing system of claim 13 , 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.

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

16. 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, the displayed video monitoring user interface including a display of a live video feed and at least a portion of a recorded video feed from the video camera;
displaying, in

Assignees

• Google Inc
• Google Llc

Inventors

• Laska Jason N
• Nelson Greg R
• Duffy Greg

Classifications

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