Cloud Video Service for Bandwidth-Efficient Event Sharing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current security camera networks operate as closed systems, limiting the ability to efficiently share and manage video feeds across different locations, especially when bandwidth and access control are concerns, making it difficult to monitor and analyze video content across multiple geographic areas.
Innovation Solution
A cloud-based video service method that allows video servers to transfer selected video segments based on parameters such as time, content, and tags, enabling synchronized and logically-related video sharing across networks, with notifications for availability, reducing bandwidth usage and enhancing accessibility.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If video is transferred from video server to cloud-based service location, then accessibility and sharing capability are improved, but bandwidth consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts only the necessary video segments (portions of videos) based on event parameters rather than transferring entire videos. The system identifies and transfers only relevant time segments containing events of interest, significantly reducing bandwidth consumption while maintaining video sharing capability.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary analysis of video content to identify events and segments of interest before transfer. By pre-processing video data locally at the video server to detect events matching search criteria, the system prepares only the necessary segments for cloud transfer, optimizing bandwidth usage.
2Productivity
If multiple video segments are transferred for analysis, then monitoring capability is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a cloud-based service location as an intermediary between video servers and user terminals. This intermediary handles the complex tasks of video segment retrieval, synchronization, and coordination across multiple geographic locations, simplifying the overall system architecture while enabling efficient multi-video analysis.
Solution Approach 2:
The system segments video content into event-based portions and organizes them logically in the cloud service location. By dividing videos into manageable segments based on events and synchronizing them across multiple locations, the system improves analysis efficiency without proportionally increasing complexity.
3Loss of information
If video segments are selected based on event parameters, then relevance and usefulness are improved, but processing time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary event detection and video segment identification at the video server before cloud transfer. By analyzing video content locally and pre-identifying relevant segments based on event parameters, the system reduces both processing time and ensures high relevance of transferred content.
Solution Approach 2:
The system transfers only the necessary portion of videos (event-containing segments) rather than complete videos. This partial action approach maintains high content relevance while minimizing processing time and bandwidth usage by excluding irrelevant video portions.
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AI summary
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.