Cloud-Based Video Footage Sharing for Community Surveillance
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing audio/video (A/V) recording and communication devices, such as doorbells, limit video footage accessibility to only the device owner, hindering crime prevention and community awareness, as users cannot easily share recorded footage with neighbors or access footage from other neighborhoods.
Innovation Solution
Enhancing A/V recording and communication devices to enable easy sharing of video footage with chosen individuals, including neighbors and friends, and allowing access to shared footage from multiple neighborhoods through a cloud-based system, where users can upload and share video recordings, and receive notifications based on geographical proximity.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If video footage is restricted to device owner only, then device security and privacy are improved, but community crime prevention capability deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments video footage access rights into multiple levels: owner-only access, shared access with selected users, and community-wide access. This segmentation allows the system to provide different degrees of accessibility while maintaining security controls, resolving the contradiction between restricted access and community prevention capability
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a cloud-based platform as an intermediary that facilitates controlled sharing of video footage between device owners and community members. This intermediary enables community crime prevention by allowing footage to be shared and accessed by multiple users while maintaining the device owner's control over who can access their footage
2Adaptability or versatility
If video footage sharing is enabled with multiple users, then community awareness and crime detection are improved, but system complexity and management overhead increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements self-service mechanisms where device owners can independently manage their own footage sharing preferences, select which users can access their footage, and control sharing parameters without requiring system administrator intervention. This reduces management overhead while enabling community awareness
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a universal cloud-based platform that handles multiple functions: storage, sharing, access control, and community notification. This multi-functional system reduces overall complexity by consolidating what would otherwise be separate management systems into a single unified platform
3Ease of operation
If cloud-based sharing system is implemented, then accessibility to shared footage across neighborhoods is improved, but data storage requirements and network infrastructure needs increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple device owners' video footage into a single cloud-based repository, allowing all users to access shared footage from multiple neighborhoods through one centralized system. This consolidation improves accessibility while efficiently utilizing storage resources compared to maintaining separate local storage systems at each device
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AI summary
Systems and methods are provided for searching shared video footage from a plurality of neighborhoods in accordance with various embodiments of the present disclosure. In one embodiment, a method for searching video footage captured by audio/video (A/V) recording and communication devices located in a plurality of neighborhoods may include receiving, from a first client device, a share signal including first image data captured by a camera of a first A/V recording and communication device, the share signal including a command to share the first image data with a network of users; associating the first image data with at least one searchable identifier; receiving, from a second client device, at least one search input; matching the at least one search input with the at least one searchable identifier; and transmitting, to the second client device, the first image data associated with the at least one searchable identifier matched with the at least one search input.