Patents Assigned to Avigilon Corporation
  • Articulating arm
    Patent number: 9920875
    Abstract: A swivel joint for an articulating arm comprising a section having a bore with an annular groove where the bore is sized for a stud, with another annular groove, of a plate to slide into the bore. A retaining ring seats in the annular grooves to swivelly couple the section with the plate. The arm may be advantageously used in a camera assembly, such as a bullet camera, to point the camera once mounted on a wall or ceiling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: Avigilon Corporation
    Inventor: Ross Allen Mitchell
  • ADAPTOR FOR INSTALLING A CAMERA OR LIGHTING FIXTURE
    Publication number: 20180051463
    Abstract: An adaptor for installing a camera or lighting fixture includes a housing. The housing includes a wall that define a slot that extends vertically between top and bottom ends of the slot. A spring steel strip is adapted to be received in the slot. The spring steel strip includes first and second sections separated by a sharp bend. A distal end of the first section is adapted to be brought into a first position in the slot. A distal end of the second section has a catch clip thereon adapted to be brought into a second position in the slot which is higher than the first position. The catch clip includes at least two resilient fingers adapted to permit the catch clip to be fitted into the slot when the two resilient fingers are laterally compressed towards each other, and then keep the distal end of the second section connected to the housing once the fingers are released.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2017
    Publication date: February 22, 2018
    Applicant: Avigilon Corporation
    Inventors: Eric Little, Nigel Geoffrey Taylor
  • VIDEO SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM WITH AERIAL CAMERA DEVICE
    Publication number: 20180041733
    Abstract: A video surveillance system having a plurality of aerial camera devices such as cameras on drones operable from a plurality of docking stations. Each station having a dock for receiving, charging, and controlling the aerial camera devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2016
    Publication date: February 8, 2018
    Applicant: Avigilon Corporation
    Inventor: Mahesh Saptharishi
  • DOME CAMERA MECHANISM
    Publication number: 20180031175
    Abstract: A dome camera mechanism for an improved gimbal pan assembly which stops further rotation of an optical module of the dome camera in a pan direction using a cam latch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2017
    Publication date: February 1, 2018
    Applicant: Avigilon Corporation
    Inventors: Andrew Joseph Stark, Christopher James Cullington Okrainetz, Nigel Geoffrey Taylor
  • DOME CAMERA MECHANISM
    Publication number: 20180033270
    Abstract: A dome camera mechanism for an improved gimbal pan assembly which allows rotation of an optical module of the dome camera over 360 degrees in a pan direction using a track and a guide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2017
    Publication date: February 1, 2018
    Applicant: Avigilon Corporation
    Inventors: Andrew Joseph Stark, Christopher James Cullington Okrainetz
  • Wireless communication of information from access control device to mobile communications device
    Patent number: 9877199
    Abstract: Wireless communication of information from an access control device to a mobile communications device is disclosed. The mobile communications device is capable of communicating with at least two transmitters. The at least two transmitters include i) a first transmitter located at a first access controlled door that transmits first BLE beacons; and a ii) second transmitter located at a second access controlled door that transmits second BLE beacons. The mobile communications device includes a Bluetooth communication module that is configured to receive a plurality of BLE beacons, including the first BLE beacons and the second BLE beacons, from the at least two transmitters at different locations on a same floor within a premises.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: Avigilon Corporation
    Inventor: Jonathan Hu
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM WITH GESTURE AND/OR AUDIO COMMANDS
    Publication number: 20170357481
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method controls aspects of a surveillance system using gestures and/or voice commands, and comprises: receiving one or both of an operator's skeleton input data and voice input data from a gesture detection camera and a microphone; using a processor, matching one or both of the received skeleton input data with a gesture stored in a database and the received voice input data with a text string stored in the database; matching one or both of the gesture and text string to a corresponding video management program command stored on the database; and transmitting the one or more video management program commands to a video management program of the surveillance system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2017
    Publication date: December 14, 2017
    Applicant: Avigilon Corporation
    Inventors: Uriel Lapidot, Elliot Rushton, Matthew Adam
  • METHOD, SYSTEM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR INTERACTIVELY IDENTIFYING SAME INDIVIDUALS OR OBJECTS PRESENT IN VIDEO RECORDINGS
    Publication number: 20170352380
    Abstract: A method, system and computer program product for interactively identifying same individuals or objects present in video recordings is disclosed. When a thumbnail in a set of thumbnails is selected, new information is obtained. The new information may be that an individual or object is present in the portion of the video recording associated with the thumbnail. A search can be carried out for the individual or object based on the new information. The search generates new match likelihoods for each of displayed thumbnails within a user interface page. The displayed thumbnails are re-ordered based on the new match likelihoods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2016
    Publication date: December 7, 2017
    Applicant: Avigilon Corporation
    Inventors: Moussa Doumbouya, Mahesh Saptharishi, Eric Sjue, Hannah Valbonesi
  • METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TRACKING AND PICTORIALLY DISPLAYING LOCATIONS OF TRACKED INDIVIDUALS
    Publication number: 20170270722
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and techniques for tracking and pictorially displaying locations of tracked individuals involve retrieving a location of the tracked individual and pictorially representing the location of the tracked individual on a display. The location can be acquired using a credentials acquisition device to read credentials issued to the tracked individuals. Pictorially representing the location on a display may involve showing one or both of the location and number of the tracked individuals on a map.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2015
    Publication date: September 21, 2017
    Applicant: Avigilon Corporation
    Inventors: King L. Tse, Elaine Quek, Bill Yang, Steven D. Lewis, Theodore W. Lepich, JR.
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRAINING OBJECT CLASSIFIER BY MACHINE LEARNING
    Publication number: 20170270674
    Abstract: A system and method for training a computer-implemented object classifier includes detecting a foreground visual object within a sub-region of a scene, determining a background model of the sub-region of the scene, the background model representing the sub-region when any foreground visual object is absent from that sub-region, and training the object classifier by computer-implemented machine learning using the background model of the sub-region as a negative training example.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2017
    Publication date: September 21, 2017
    Applicant: Avigilon Corporation
    Inventor: Ashish Shrivastava
  • Method and apparatus for controlling surveillance system with gesture and/or audio commands
    Patent number: 9766855
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method controls aspects of a surveillance system using gestures and/or voice commands, and comprises: receiving one or both of an operator's skeleton input data and voice input data from a gesture detection camera and a microphone; using a processor, matching one or both of the received skeleton input data with a gesture stored in a database and the received voice input data with a text string stored in the database; matching one or both of the gesture and text string to a corresponding video management program command stored on the database; and transmitting the one or more video management program commands to a video management program of the surveillance system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: Avigilon Corporation
    Inventors: Uriel Lapidot, Elliot Rushton, Matthew Adam
  • Bullet camera with shroud
    Patent number: D795942
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: Avigilon Corporation
    Inventor: Ross Mitchell
  • Bullet camera with shroud
    Patent number: D795943
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: Avigilon Corporation
    Inventor: Ross Mitchell
  • Enclosure for a camera
    Patent number: D796566
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: Avigilon Corporation
    Inventors: Luke William Bingleman, Sudeep Mohan, Sergio Parise
  • Enclosure for a camera
    Patent number: D796567
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: Avigilon Corporation
    Inventors: Luke William Bingleman, Sudeep Mohan, Sergio Parise
  • Enclosure for a camera
    Patent number: D796568
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: Avigilon Corporation
    Inventors: Luke William Bingleman, Sudeep Mohan, Sergio Parise
  • Wall-mounted pendant enclosure for a spherical camera
    Patent number: D798358
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: Avigilon Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas Holbrook, Sudeep Mohan, Nigel Geoffrey Taylor, Robin W. Chu, Gregg Davis, Mark A. Edwards, Adam M. Ruggles
  • Wall-mounted pendant enclosure for a spherical camera
    Patent number: D798362
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: Avigilon Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas Holbrook, Sudeep Mohan, Nigel Geoffrey Taylor, Robin W. Chu, Gregg Davis, Mark A. Edwards, Adam M. Ruggles
  • Dome camera
    Patent number: D798933
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: Avigilon Corporation
    Inventor: Eric Little
  • Dome camera
    Patent number: D798934
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: Avigilon Corporation
    Inventor: Andrew Wu