Patents by Inventor Kirsten A. Medhurst
Kirsten A. Medhurst has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 10679671Abstract: A method of summarizing events in a video recording includes evaluating at least one video recording to identify event that violate at least one rule. The method further includes excerpting a fragment of the at least one video recording. The fragment contains a depiction of the event. The method also includes causing the fragment to be included in a summary video recording. The rules may relate to a threshold amount of motion in a physical space being recorded in the at least one received video recording, or a threshold duration of motion in a physical space being recorded in the at least one received video recording.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2014Date of Patent: June 9, 2020Assignee: Pelco, Inc.Inventors: Farzin Aghdasi, Kirsten A. Medhurst, Greg M. Millar, Stephen J. Mitchell
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Patent number: 10491936Abstract: A security system images a large amount of data through routine use which is difficult to transfer or share. In one embodiment, through the use of a cloud-based video service and an application program interface, the methods and systems disclosed herein comprise accepting a communication that identifies parameters associated with a video on a video server accessible via a network. The methods and systems further cause the video server to transfer the video via the network to a cloud-based video service location in response to the communication, and transmit a notification to a receiving party (or cause the cloud-based video service location to transmit the notification) in concert with the transfer of the video, which provides availability information of the video at the cloud-based service location. The methods and systems facilitate video sharing amongst parties.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2013Date of Patent: November 26, 2019Assignee: PELCO, INC.Inventors: Farzin Aghdasi, Kirsten A. Medhurst, Greg M. Millar, Stephen J. Mitchell
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Publication number: 20170034483Abstract: A cloud-based network service provides intelligent access to surveillance camera views across multiple locations and environments. A cloud computing server maintains a database of time periods of interest captured by the cameras connected to the network. The server also maintains defined motion data associated with recorded video content. Video segments are generated from the recorded video content according to both the motion data and the time periods of interest. The server causes the video segments to be transmitted to a user interface, where a user can remotely monitor an environment through the video segments.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2013Publication date: February 2, 2017Applicant: Pelco, Inc.Inventors: Farzin Aghdasi, Tony T. DiCroce, Scott M. Rippee, Barry Velasquez, Emil Andersen, III, Greg M. Millar, Kirsten A. Medhurst, Stephen J. Mitchell
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Publication number: 20170006327Abstract: A security system images a large amount of data through routine use which is difficult to transfer or share. In one embodiment, through the use of a cloud-based video service and an application program interface, the methods and systems disclosed herein comprise accepting a communication that identifies parameters associated with a video on a video server accessible via a network. The methods and systems further cause the video server to transfer the video via the network to a cloud-based video service location in response to the communication, and transmit a notification to a receiving party (or cause the cloud-based video service location to transmit the notification) in concert with the transfer of the video, which provides availability information of the video at the cloud-based service location. The methods and systems facilitate video sharing amongst parties.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2013Publication date: January 5, 2017Inventors: Farzin Aghdasi, Kirsten A. Medhurst, Greg M. Millar, Stephen J. Mitchell
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Publication number: 20160357762Abstract: A cloud-based network service provides intelligent access to surveillance camera views across multiple locations and environments. A cloud computing server maintains a database of the views captured by the cameras connected to the network. The database is indexed by one or more classes according to tags characterizing the views obtained by each camera. In response to a user search string, the string is robustly interpreted against the classes and other indicators to search the database and determine a selection of views. The server causes the selection of views to be transmitted to a user interface, where a user can remotely monitor an environment through the selected views.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2013Publication date: December 8, 2016Inventors: Farzin Aghdasi, Tony T. DiCroce, Scott M. Rippee, Barry Velasquez, Emil Andersen, III, Greg M. Millar, Kirsten A. Medhurst, Stephen J. Mitchell
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Publication number: 20150356996Abstract: A method of summarizing events in a video recording includes evaluating at least one video recording to identify event that violate at least one rule. The method further includes excerpting a fragment of the at least one video recording. The fragment contains a depiction of the event. The method also includes causing the fragment to be included in a summary video recording. The rules may relate to a threshold amount of motion in a physical space being recorded in the at least one received video recording, or a threshold duration of motion in a physical space being recorded in the at least one received video recording.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 9, 2014Publication date: December 10, 2015Inventors: Farzin Aghdasi, Kirsten A. Medhurst, Greg M. Millar, Stephen J. Mitchell
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Patent number: 9009616Abstract: A method of configuring a camera to view a sequence of positions comprising the steps of displaying a graphical user interface, displaying a plurality of thumbnails on the graphical user interface with the plurality of thumbnails having associated respective positions of the camera and the respective thumbnails in the plurality of thumbnails providing the field of view of the camera in the respective positions, providing a workspace on the graphical user interface, enabling a user to drag and drop thumbnails to the workspace, and creating a tour for the camera based on the thumbnails in the workspace.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2011Date of Patent: April 14, 2015Assignee: Pelco, Inc.Inventors: Kirsten A. Medhurst, Myles Daniel Bostwick
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Patent number: 8879886Abstract: A method of configuring a storage device for recording video data from a plurality of video sources comprising the steps of providing a list of parameters that control settings of the plurality of video sources that affect the amount of video data that will be provided by a video source from the plurality of video sources, allowing a user to select a parameter from the list, allowing the user to change the selected parameter, determining the effect of changing the selected parameter on the amount of video storage available; and providing the user with feedback concerning the effect of changing the selected parameter.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2008Date of Patent: November 4, 2014Assignee: Pelco, Inc.Inventors: Adrianus A. de Klerk, Kirsten Medhurst
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Patent number: 8705932Abstract: A method of displaying a timeline of recorded video comprising the steps of dividing the recorded video into timespans, providing a thumbnail and a timestamp for each timespan that has recorded video, providing a gap and a timestamp between thumbnails for each timespan in which there is no recorded video, displaying a first timeline containing the provided thumbnails and timestamps and the provided gaps and timestamps having an uncompressed format, receiving user input requesting that the first timeline be compressed, removing the gaps and their respective timestamps from the first timeline and moving the thumbnails and their timestamps located on either side of the gaps so that the thumbnails on either side of the gaps are adjacent to provide a compressed timeline, and displaying the compressed timeline.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2011Date of Patent: April 22, 2014Assignee: Pelco, Inc.Inventors: Kirsten A. Medhurst, Adrianus A. de Klerk
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Publication number: 20130163956Abstract: A method of displaying a timeline of recorded video comprising the steps of dividing the recorded video into timespans, providing a thumbnail and a timestamp for each timespan that has recorded video, providing a gap and a timestamp between thumbnails for each timespan in which there is no recorded video, displaying a first timeline containing the provided thumbnails and timestamps and the provided gaps and timestamps having an uncompressed format, receiving user input requesting that the first timeline be compressed, removing the gaps and their respective timestamps from the first timeline and moving the thumbnails and their timestamps located on either side of the gaps so that the thumbnails on either side of the gaps are adjacent to provide a compressed timeline, and displaying the compressed timeline.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2011Publication date: June 27, 2013Applicant: PELCO, INC.Inventors: Kirsten A. Medhurst, Adrianus A. de Klerk
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Publication number: 20120079406Abstract: A method of configuring a camera to view a sequence of positions comprising the steps of displaying a graphical user interface, displaying a plurality of thumbnails on the graphical user interface with the plurality of thumbnails having associated respective positions of the camera and the respective thumbnails in the plurality of thumbnails providing the field of view of the camera in the respective positions, providing a workspace on the graphical user interface, enabling a user to drag and drop thumbnails to the workspace, and creating a tour for the camera based on the thumbnails in the workspace.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2011Publication date: March 29, 2012Applicant: Pelco, Inc.Inventors: Kirsten A. Medhurst, Myles Daniel Bostwick
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Publication number: 20090080861Abstract: A method of configuring a storage device for recording video data from a plurality of video sources comprising the steps of providing a list of parameters that control settings of the plurality of video sources that affect the amount of video data that will be provided by a video source from the plurality of video sources, allowing a user to select a parameter from the list, allowing the user to change the selected parameter, determining the effect of changing the selected parameter on the amount of video storage available; and providing the user with feedback concerning the effect of changing the selected parameter.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2008Publication date: March 26, 2009Applicant: PELCO, INC.Inventors: Adrianus A. de Klerk, Kirsten Medhurst
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Publication number: 20080309760Abstract: A method of controlling a video surveillance camera comprising the steps of creating a first camera control to cause the camera to perform one of the control functions from a group of control functions comprising pan, tilt, zoom, and focus, storing the first camera control in memory, providing a video analysis module for analyzing the video images generated by the camera, and associating the first camera control with the video analysis module so that the video analysis module analyzes the video images generated by the camera when the first camera control is implemented.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2008Publication date: December 18, 2008Applicant: PELCO, INC.Inventors: Jennifer Joyner, Robert R. Fahrni, Endro Kusumo, Kirsten Medhurst
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Patent number: D561191Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2006Date of Patent: February 5, 2008Assignee: PelcoInventors: Ryan Haning, Brent Yokota, Erik Kochackis, Kirsten Medhurst, Susan Kare
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Patent number: D561192Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2006Date of Patent: February 5, 2008Assignee: PelcoInventors: Erik Kochackis, Robert Fahrni, Kirsten Medhurst, Susan Kare
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Patent number: D575302Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2006Date of Patent: August 19, 2008Assignee: Pello, Inc.Inventors: Greg Max Millar, Kirsten Medhurst, Erik Kochackis, Susan Kare