Event Clip Recording Profiles for Low-Bandwidth Security Monitoring

Solution Overview

Problem

Streaming devices face bandwidth and power consumption issues, particularly in homes with multiple devices continuously streaming high-definition video, leading to potential missed security events and limited device portability.

Innovation Solution

Implementing dynamic formulas that adjust device operation based on location, purpose, and power type, using parameters like padding, inactivity threshold, and maximum event length to optimize recording and streaming.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If continuous video streaming is implemented, then device functionality and security monitoring are improved, but bandwidth consumption and power usage increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvesecurity monitoringVSAvoidbandwidth consumption

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSLoss of energy

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments continuous video streams into discrete event-based clips. Instead of continuously streaming video, the system identifies specific events (motion detection, object recognition) and streams only those relevant segments, reducing bandwidth consumption while maintaining security monitoring effectiveness

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary local processing of video data to identify and filter events before transmission. By detecting and pre-processing events locally at the camera device, the system determines which clips need to be streamed, avoiding unnecessary bandwidth consumption while ensuring important security events are captured

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

2Reliability

If continuous video streaming is implemented, then device functionality and security monitoring are improved, but power consumption increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvesecurity monitoringVSAvoidpower consumption

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments continuous video streams into discrete event-based clips. Instead of continuously streaming video, the system identifies specific events (motion detection, object recognition) and streams only those relevant segments, reducing bandwidth consumption while maintaining security monitoring effectiveness

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system transitions from continuous streaming to periodic event-triggered streaming. The camera continuously monitors for events but only initiates transmission when specific conditions are met, significantly reducing power consumption while maintaining effective security monitoring

Inventive Principle:

Principle #19Periodic action

3Ease of operation

If device size is reduced for portability, then ease of operation is improved, but power budget for continuous streaming is compromised

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedevice portabilityVSAvoidpower budget

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments continuous video streams into discrete event-based clips. Instead of continuously streaming video, the system identifies specific events (motion detection, object recognition) and streams only those relevant segments, reducing bandwidth consumption while maintaining security monitoring effectiveness

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system dynamically adjusts streaming parameters based on event detection. When events are detected, the system changes from low-power continuous monitoring mode to high-bandwidth event transmission mode, enabling portable devices to maintain effective security monitoring without requiring continuous high power consumption

Inventive Principle:

Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentUS20260067419A1Event Based Recording

Publication Date: 2026.03.05 GOOGLE LLC

AI summary

An electronic device comprises an image sensor, one or more processors, and memory storing instructions for receiving an event recording profile based on configuration data of the electronic device, the configuration data including a location type or a power type; receiving a plurality of images of a scene captured by the image sensor; detecting a trigger event based on one or more of the plurality of images of the scene; in response to detecting the trigger event, identifying an object of interest in one or more of the plurality of images of the scene; creating an event clip from the stored images that include the object of interest, wherein creating the event clip includes configuring a clip length based on the event recording profile; and providing the event clip for display.