Abstract: An electronic monitoring system has one or more imaging devices that can detect at least one triggering event comprising sound and motion and a controller that executes a program to categorize the triggering event as being located in a user-defined activity zone within the field of view and/or as being a taxonomic-based triggering event. Upon categorizing the triggering event, the system generates an output comprising a video component and an audio component. At least a portion of the audio component is modified if the triggering event is a categorized triggering event. Modification of the audio may include muting all or a portion of the audio component of the output.

Abstract: An electronic monitoring system has one or more imaging devices that can detect at least one triggering event comprising sound and motion and a controller that executes a program to categorize the triggering event as being located in a user-defined activity zone within the field of view and/or as being a taxonomic-based triggering event. Upon categorizing the triggering event, the system generates an output comprising a video component and an audio component. At least a portion of the audio component is modified if the triggering event is a categorized triggering event. Modification of the audio may include muting all or a portion of the audio component of the output.

Abstract: An electronic monitoring system has one or more imaging devices that can detect a triggering event based on motion and/or sound and that concurrently provide a push notification to a user device with a custom audio alert indicative of the one or more triggering events for quickly identifying the triggering without requiring the remote device to execute a dedicated application program. The custom audio alert portion of the push notification may provide various details of the triggering event, categorized as either a genus level triggering event and/or a species level triggering event, i.e., a subset of the genus level triggering event. The push notification can operate as a custom audio alert and a pop-up message which can be pushed to the device and broadcast or displayed via an operating system of the device.

Abstract: An electronic doorbell system can be configured to allow simultaneous video and audio communication to a user on a computing device in which the video is provided by a camera that is selected from among multiple available cameras provided at different locations, while the audio is provided by a microphone of the doorbell system such as a microphone associated with the doorbell or a selected camera. User input can allow selection of one or more cameras. When multiple cameras are selected, the system can take an audio/video feed from the cameras in predetermined sequence or random sequence based on events observed by the system The camera could be selected by default, based on user input, and/or automatically using artificial intelligence. Selection by artificial intelligence could comprise, for example, selecting a camera based on a detected motion and/or sound, a captured image matching a predetermined image and/or a captured sound matching a predetermined sound.

Abstract: An electronic doorbell system can be configured to enable remote audio communications between a visitor at the doorbell and a user of a mobile computing device by exchanging speech-to-text and/or text-to-speech messages in real time. Audio captured by the visitor can be transcribed into text messages and sent to the user of the mobile device using a speech-to-text service. The user of the mobile device can send text messages to the doorbell for playback to the visitor by using a text-to-speech service. The system can also use artificial intelligence to detect the language spoken by the visitor for translating between a predetermined language of the user and the language of the visitor. The system can also include a camera for capturing video of the visitor for display to the mobile device simultaneous with exchanging text messages between the visitor and the user, such as during a live Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) communication.

Abstract: A system and method are disclosed for communicating video/images from a first electronic device to a second electronic device via a network. The first electronic device can include a digital video camera and the second electronic device can include a mobile electronic device, such as a smart phone. The method can include, with the first electronic device, acquiring a first image (as part of a video) having a first resolution, transmitting the first image with a second resolution to the second electronic device, receiving a cropping parameter from the second electronic device, acquiring a second image (as part of a video), cropping the second image based on the crop parameter resulting in a third image having a third resolution, and transmitting the third image with the third resolution.

Abstract: A system for electronic monitoring includes a doorbell configured to immediately call a user following the occurrence of a trigger event, such as a doorbell button push or detection of motion or sound. The system reduces latency by omitting push notifications to the user, which require the user to open an application program on a device, and instead proceeds to immediately call the user's device following the trigger event. The call can be a telephone call enabled by a wirelessly connected base station or hub making a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) call to the user's mobile device. In one aspect, a video stream captured by a camera positioned separately from the doorbell (for providing an optimum viewing angle of a visitor) can be synchronized by the base station with an audio stream captured by a microphone of the doorbell for communicating a synchronized media stream near instantaneously to the user while the user returns an audio stream to the doorbell during a phone call.

Abstract: A system and method are disclosed for communicating video/images from a first electronic device to a second electronic device via a network. The first electronic device can include a digital video camera and the second electronic device can include a mobile electronic device, such as a smart phone. The method can include, with the first electronic device, acquiring a first image (as part of a video) having a first resolution, transmitting the first image with a second resolution to the second electronic device, receiving a cropping parameter from the second electronic device, acquiring a second image (as part of a video), cropping the second image based on the crop parameter resulting in a third image having a third resolution, and transmitting the third image with the third resolution.

Abstract: A system for electronic monitoring includes a doorbell configured to immediately call a user following the occurrence of a trigger event, such as a doorbell button push or detection of motion or sound. The system reduces latency by omitting push notifications to the user, which require the user to open an application program on a device, and instead proceeds to immediately call the user's device following the trigger event. The call can be a telephone call enabled by a wirelessly connected base station or hub making a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) call to the user's mobile device. In one aspect, a video stream captured by a camera positioned separately from the doorbell (for providing an optimum viewing angle of a visitor) can be synchronized by the base station with an audio stream captured by a microphone of the doorbell for communicating a synchronized media stream near instantaneously to the user while the user returns an audio stream to the doorbell during a phone call.

Abstract: An electronic doorbell system can be configured to allow simultaneous video and audio communication to a user on a computing device in which the video is provided by a camera that is selected from among multiple available cameras provided at different locations, while the audio is provided by a microphone of the doorbell system such as a microphone associated with the doorbell or a selected camera. User input can allow selection of one or more cameras. When multiple cameras are selected, the system can take an audio/video feed from the cameras in predetermined sequence or random sequence based on events observed by the system The camera could be selected by default, based on user input, and/or automatically using artificial intelligence. Selection by artificial intelligence could comprise, for example, selecting a camera based on a detected motion and/or sound, a captured image matching a predetermined image and/or a captured sound matching a predetermined sound.

Abstract: An electronic doorbell system can be configured to enable remote audio communications between a visitor at the doorbell and a user of a mobile computing device by exchanging speech-to-text and/or text-to-speech messages in real time. Audio captured by the visitor can be transcribed into text messages and sent to the user of the mobile device using a speech-to-text service. The user of the mobile device can send text messages to the doorbell for playback to the visitor by using a text-to-speech service. The system can also use artificial intelligence to detect the language spoken by the visitor for translating between a predetermined language of the user and the language of the visitor. The system can also include a camera for capturing video of the visitor for display to the mobile device simultaneous with exchanging text messages between the visitor and the user, such as during a live Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) communication.

Abstract: In an electronic video monitoring system for security and surveillance, a recording device can adaptively change a bit rate at which a video stream is transmitted so that image quality is prioritized, including above maintaining a continuous real-time transmission. In this way, image quality suitable for security and surveillance can be guaranteed close to real-time, despite changes in video transmission requirements and/or network demands. In one aspect, a frame rate can be lowered to no less than a minimum frame rate, a resolution can be lowered to no less than a minimum resolution, and the frame rate and resolution can be lowered to the minimum frame rate and the minimum resolution, respectively, before allowing an increase of compression of the video stream in view of the change in video transmission requirements and/or network demands. This allows sustaining image quality suitable for security and surveillance.

Abstract: An approximate physical geographic location (geolocation) of a video monitoring system for security and/or surveillance can be determined with high confidence by co-locating the monitoring system and a mobile device on a common local network and associating a sensed geolocation of the mobile device with the monitoring system. The monitoring system and mobile device may be wireless Local Area Network (LAN) devices connected to a single router for accessing an application server through a Wide Area Network (WAN). The mobile device may connect to a Global Positioning System (GPS) for sensing the geolocation. This process can be used to determine where the monitoring system is physically installed by a user for providing support. An alarm initiated by the monitoring system can comprise dispatch of emergency services to the geolocation.

Abstract: In an electronic video monitoring system for security and surveillance, a recording device can adaptively change a bit rate at which a video stream is transmitted so that image quality is prioritized, including above maintaining a continuous real-time transmission. In this way, image quality suitable for security and surveillance can be guaranteed close to real-time, despite changes in video transmission requirements and/or network demands. In one aspect, a frame rate can be lowered to no less than a minimum frame rate, a resolution can be lowered to no less than a minimum resolution, and the frame rate and resolution can be lowered to the minimum frame rate and the minimum resolution, respectively, before allowing an increase of compression of the video stream in view of the change in video transmission requirements and/or network demands. This allows sustaining image quality suitable for security and surveillance.

Abstract: An electronic monitoring system having one or more recording devices can be configured to detect a triggering event based on motion and/or sound and concurrently provide a rich push notification to a remote device for quickly viewing and/or monitoring the event via the push notification without requiring the remote device to execute a dedicated application program. The push notification can operate as a pop up message which can be pushed to the device and displayed via an operating system of the device. By providing event details in the push notification, such as a recorded image from the triggering event, and by providing dynamic updates with respect to the same push notification, which can include live and/or recorded event viewing, the monitoring system can be greatly improved.

Abstract: An electronic monitoring system having one or more recording devices can be configured to detect a triggering event based on motion and/or sound and concurrently provide a rich push notification to a remote device for quickly viewing and/or monitoring the event via the push notification without requiring the remote device to execute a dedicated application program. The push notification can operate as a pop up message which can be pushed to the device and displayed via an operating system of the device. By providing event details in the push notification, such as a recorded image from the triggering event, and by providing dynamic updates with respect to the same push notification, which can include live and/or recorded event viewing, the monitoring system can be greatly improved.