Patents by Inventor Mark Troughton

Mark Troughton 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).

  • Patent number: 11399157
    Abstract: Systems and methods for augmenting and sharing data from audio/video (A/V) recording and communication devices are provided. In one embodiment, a method may include receiving, from an A/V recording and communication device, image data representing an image, analyzing the image data to determine one or more objects depicted by the image data, based on the analyzing the image data, determining at least one comment associated with the one or more objects; transmitting, to a first client device associated with the A/V recording and communication device, the image data representing the image and the at least one comment, receiving, from the first client device, consent for sharing the image data with a geographic area network, the consent indicating a selection of a comment from the at least one comment, and transmitting, to a second client device, the image data representing the image and the comment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: James Siminoff, Mark Troughton, Aviv Gilboa, Elliott Lemberger, Darrell Sommerlatt, Alex Jacobson
  • Patent number: 11393108
    Abstract: The present embodiments relate to improvements to audio/video (A/V) recording and communication devices, including improved approaches to using a neighborhood alert mode for triggering multi-device recording, to a multi-camera motion tracking process, and to a multi-camera event stitching process to create a series of “storyboard” images for activity taking place across the fields of view of multiple cameras, within a predetermined time period, for the A/V recording and communication devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: John Modestine, Mark Troughton, Elliott Lemberger
  • Patent number: 11335097
    Abstract: Video footage captured by A/V recording and communication devices may be readily uploaded to the cloud and shared with a requesting party, such as a law enforcement agency. When a request is received from a requesting party for video footage, videos meeting the criteria specified by the requesting party may be determined. Consent requests may then be sent to users associated with each of the A/V recording and communication devices that recorded the videos meeting the criteria specified by the requesting party. When user consents to share the videos, the videos may be provided to the requesting party.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Elliott Lemberger, Aaron Harpole, Mark Troughton
  • Patent number: 11243959
    Abstract: The present application is directed to techniques and processes for using various types of data to generate criminal statistics associated with a geographic area. For instance, a system may store first criminal statistics for a first geographical area. The system may further store image data generated by an electronic device and information describing the image data. Next, the system may determine a second geographic area for generating second criminal statistics, where at least a portion of the first geographic area is located within the second geographic area. The system may then determine that at least a portion of the first criminal statistics occurred in the second geographic area and the electronic device is located in the second geographic area. Based on the determinations, the system may generate the second criminal statistics, where the second criminal statistics includes at least a portion of the first criminal statistics and the information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Aviv Gilboa, Mark Troughton, Eric S. Kuhn, Darrell Sommerlatt, Alex Jacobson
  • Patent number: 11069210
    Abstract: Some embodiments provide for obtaining image data representative of a field of view of a camera as captured by the camera of an A/V recording and communication device. The image data may be analyzed and, based at least in part on the analysis, it may be determined that the image data is representative of a first facial image of a person and a second facial image of the person. From the facial images, it may be determined that the first facial image is of higher quality than the second facial image and, based on this determination, a frame may be selected that is represented by the image data and corresponds to the first facial image. A notification may be generated that includes a portion of the image data that represents the frame, and the notification may be transmitted to a client device associated with the A/V recording and communication device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Mark Troughton
  • Patent number: 10979636
    Abstract: Systems and methods for communicating in a network using share signals in accordance with various embodiments of the present disclosure are provided. In one embodiment, a method for communicating in a network may include receiving, from a first client device, a share signal including first image data captured by a camera of a first audio/video (A/V) recording and communication device and a command to share the first image data with a network of users; processing the share signal by comparing the first image data to second image data captured by a camera of a second A/V recording and communication device; and generating and transmitting an alert to a second client device associated with the second A/V recording and communication device when comparison of the first image data with the second image data indicates a person of interest is depicted in both the first image data and the second image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: James Siminoff, Mark Troughton, Jeff Zavala
  • Publication number: 20200380854
    Abstract: Systems and methods for augmenting and sharing data from audio/video (A/V) recording and communication devices are provided. In one embodiment, a method may include receiving, from an A/V recording and communication device, image data representing an image, analyzing the image data to determine one or more objects depicted by the image data, based on the analyzing the image data, determining at least one comment associated with the one or more objects; transmitting, to a first client device associated with the A/V recording and communication device, the image data representing the image and the at least one comment, receiving, from the first client device, consent for sharing the image data with a geographic area network, the consent indicating a selection of a comment from the at least one comment, and transmitting, to a second client device, the image data representing the image and the comment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2020
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Inventors: James Siminoff, Mark Troughton, Aviv Gilboa, Elliott Lemberger, Darrell Sommerlatt, Alex Jacobson
  • Patent number: 10841542
    Abstract: Systems and methods for communicating in a network using share signals in accordance with various embodiments of the present disclosure are provided. In one embodiment, a method for sharing video footage captured by audio/video (A/V) recording and communication devices is provided, the method comprising: receiving from a first client device a share signal including first image data including a person of interest; receiving from a second A/V recording and communication device second image data; transmitting to a second client device, the first image data and a request to check the second image data; receiving from the second client device a locate person command signal; searching the second image data for a match of the person of interest; and when a match of the person of interest is found, generating and transmitting an alert signal that includes a notification that the person of interest was matched in the second image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: A9.Com, Inc.
    Inventors: James Siminoff, Mark Troughton, Aviv Gilboa, Darrell Sommerlatt, Alex Jacobson
  • Patent number: 10762646
    Abstract: The present embodiments relate to improvements to audio/video (A/V) recording and communication devices, including improved approaches to using a neighborhood alert mode for triggering multi-device recording, to a multi-camera motion tracking process, and to a multi-camera event stitching process to create a series of “storyboard” images for activity taking place across the fields of view of multiple cameras, within a predetermined time period, for the A/V recording and communication devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: A9.Com, Inc.
    Inventors: John Modestine, Mark Troughton, Elliott Lemberger
  • Patent number: 10748414
    Abstract: Systems and methods for augmenting and sharing data from audio/video (A/V) recording and communication devices are provided. In one embodiment, a method may include receiving, from an A/V recording and communication device, image data representing an image, analyzing the image data to determine one or more objects depicted by the image data, based on the analyzing the image data, determining at least one comment associated with the one or more objects; transmitting, to a first client device associated with the A/V recording and communication device, the image data representing the image and the at least one comment, receiving, from the first client device, consent for sharing the image data with a geographic area network, the consent indicating a selection of a comment from the at least one comment, and transmitting, to a second client device, the image data representing the image and the comment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: A9.Com, Inc.
    Inventors: James Siminoff, Mark Troughton, Aviv Gilboa, Elliott Lemberger, Darrell Sommerlatt, Alex Jacobson
  • Patent number: 10733456
    Abstract: Video footage captured by A/V recording and communication devices may be readily uploaded to the cloud and shared with a requesting party, such as a law enforcement agency. When a request is received from a requesting party for video footage, videos meeting the criteria specified by the requesting party may be determined. Consent requests may then be sent to users associated with each of the A/V recording and communication devices that recorded the videos meeting the criteria specified by the requesting party. When user consents to share the videos, the videos may be provided to the requesting party.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: A9.Com, Inc.
    Inventors: Elliott Lemberger, Aaron Harpole, Mark Troughton
  • Patent number: 10650247
    Abstract: Video footage captured by A/V recording and communication devices may be readily uploaded to the cloud and shared with a requesting party, such as a law enforcement agency. When a request is received from a requesting party for video footage, videos meeting the criteria specified by the requesting party may be determined. Consent requests may then be sent to users associated with each of the A/V recording and communication devices that recorded the videos meeting the criteria specified by the requesting party. When user consents to share the videos, the videos may be provided to the requesting party.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: A9.Com, Inc.
    Inventors: Elliott Lemberger, Aaron Harpole, Mark Troughton
  • Publication number: 20190080461
    Abstract: The present embodiments relate to improvements to audio/video (A/V) recording and communication devices, including improved approaches to using a neighborhood alert mode for triggering multi-device recording, to a multi-camera motion tracking process, and to a multi-camera event stitching process to create a series of “storyboard” images for activity taking place across the fields of view of multiple cameras, within a predetermined time period, for the A/V recording and communication devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2018
    Publication date: March 14, 2019
    Inventors: John Modestine, Mark Troughton, Elliott Lemberger
  • Publication number: 20190005790
    Abstract: Some embodiments provide for obtaining image data representative of a field of view of a camera as captured by the camera of an A/V recording and communication device. The image data may be analyzed and, based at least in part on the analysis, it may be determined that the image data is representative of a first facial image of a person and a second facial image of the person. From the facial images, it may be determined that the first facial image is of higher quality than the second facial image and, based on this determination, a frame may be selected that is represented by the image data and corresponds to the first facial image. A notification may be generated that includes a portion of the image data that represents the frame, and the notification may be transmitted to a client device associated with the A/V recording and communication device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2018
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Inventor: Mark Troughton
  • Publication number: 20180232895
    Abstract: The present embodiments relate to improvements to audio/video (A/V) recording and communication devices, including improved approaches to using a neighborhood alert mode for triggering multi-device recording, to a multi-camera motion tracking process, and to a multi-camera event stitching process to create a series of “storyboard” images for activity taking place across the fields of view of multiple cameras, within a predetermined time period, for the A/V recording and communication devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2018
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Inventors: John Modestine, Mark Troughton, Elliott Lemberger
  • Publication number: 20180220108
    Abstract: Systems and methods for augmenting and sharing data from audio/video (A/V) recording and communication devices are provided. In one embodiment, a method may include receiving, from an A/V recording and communication device, image data representing an image, analyzing the image data to determine one or more objects depicted by the image data, based on the analyzing the image data, determining at least one comment associated with the one or more objects; transmitting, to a first client device associated with the A/V recording and communication device, the image data representing the image and the at least one comment, receiving, from the first client device, consent for sharing the image data with a geographic area network, the consent indicating a selection of a comment from the at least one comment, and transmitting, to a second client device, the image data representing the image and the comment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Publication date: August 2, 2018
    Inventors: James Siminoff, Mark Troughton, Aviv Gilboa, Elliott Lemberger, Darrell Sommerlatt, Alex Jacobson
  • Publication number: 20180146169
    Abstract: Systems and methods for communicating in a network using share signals in accordance with various embodiments of the present disclosure are provided. In one embodiment, a method for sharing video footage captured by audio/video (A/V) recording and communication devices is provided, the method comprising: receiving from a first client device a share signal including first image data including a person of interest; receiving from a second A/V recording and communication device second image data; transmitting to a second client device, the first image data and a request to check the second image data; receiving from the second client device a locate person command signal; searching the second image data for a match of the person of interest; and when a match of the person of interest is found, generating and transmitting an alert signal that includes a notification that the person of interest was matched in the second image data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2017
    Publication date: May 24, 2018
    Inventors: James Siminoff, Mark Troughton, Aviv Gilboa
  • Publication number: 20180101735
    Abstract: Video footage captured by A/V recording and communication devices may be readily uploaded to the cloud and shared with a requesting party, such as a law enforcement agency. When a request is received from a requesting party for video footage, videos meeting the criteria specified by the requesting party may be determined. Consent requests may then be sent to users associated with each of the A/V recording and communication devices that recorded the videos meeting the criteria specified by the requesting party. When user consents to share the videos, the videos may be provided to the requesting party.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2017
    Publication date: April 12, 2018
    Inventors: Elliott Lemberger, Aaron Harpole, Mark Troughton
  • Publication number: 20180101734
    Abstract: Video footage captured by A/V recording and communication devices may be readily uploaded to the cloud and shared with a requesting party, such as a law enforcement agency. When a request is received from a requesting party for video footage, videos meeting the criteria specified by the requesting party may be determined. Consent requests may then be sent to users associated with each of the A/V recording and communication devices that recorded the videos meeting the criteria specified by the requesting party. When user consents to share the videos, the videos may be provided to the requesting party.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2017
    Publication date: April 12, 2018
    Inventors: Elliott Lemberger, Aaron Harpole, Mark Troughton
  • Publication number: 20180027102
    Abstract: Systems and methods for verification and membership to neighborhoods for sharing of video footage from audio/video (A/V) recording and communication devices in accordance with various embodiments of the present disclosure are provided. In one embodiment, a method for verifying a user for access to shared video footage is provided, the method comprising: receiving user input data from a user of a client device; determining whether the client device has enabled location services; upon a determination that the client device has not enabled location services, transmitting the user input data to a third-party verification service and determining that the user is verified upon receiving a confirmation from the third-party verification service that the user input data is accurate; and upon a determination that the client device has enabled location services, identifying a client device location and determining that the user is verified using the user input data and the client device location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Inventors: James Siminoff, Aviv Gilboa, Mark Troughton, John Modestine, Alex Jacobson, Amanda M. Duda, Kevin Park, John Grimes