Smart TV Video Footage Sharing via Cloud Intermediary
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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 community awareness and crime prevention by restricting the sharing of recorded suspicious or criminal activity with neighbors and friends.
Innovation Solution
Enhancing A/V recording and communication devices to enable easy sharing of video footage with neighbors, friends, and family by uploading it to the cloud and allowing access through smart TV devices, facilitating neighborhood networks for safety information sharing.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If video footage is uploaded to the cloud and made accessible through smart TV devices, then community awareness and crime prevention are enhanced, but device complexity and network infrastructure requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a cloud server as an intermediary between A/V recording devices and smart TV devices. The server receives video footage from A/V devices, processes it, and makes it accessible to authorized users through smart TVs. This intermediary approach enables broad accessibility without requiring direct peer-to-peer connections between devices, thereby managing system complexity while enhancing versatility.
Solution Approach 2:
The system enables multiple types of devices (A/V doorbells, security cameras, smart TVs, mobile devices) to interact through a common cloud-based platform. The server provides universal access points that can handle various device types and communication protocols, allowing the system to serve multiple functions including video storage, playback, sharing, and notification across different device ecosystems.
2Reliability
If video footage sharing is enabled with neighbors and friends, then community safety is improved, but information security and privacy control become more challenging
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements location-based sharing where video footage is automatically shared with neighbors and users within a defined geographic radius of the A/V device. The system determines sharing eligibility based on the viewer's proximity to the recording device, creating localized access zones. This approach enhances community safety by enabling relevant local users to access footage while maintaining privacy control through geographic boundaries.
Solution Approach 2:
The system provides dynamic privacy controls that allow users to adjust sharing parameters in real-time. Users can modify the geographic radius for automatic sharing, select specific individuals to share with or exclude, and control access to individual video clips. These dynamic controls enable flexible privacy management that adapts to changing user needs while maintaining community safety benefits.
Data Source
AI summary
Systems and methods for sharing of video footage from audio/video (A/V) recording and communication devices to smart television (TV) devices in accordance with various embodiments of the present disclosure are provided. In one embodiment, a method for playing back video footage captured by A/V recording and communication devices located in a plurality of neighborhoods, using a smart TV, is provided, the method comprising: connecting the smart TV to a neighborhood subscriber channel; subscribing to a first channel of the neighborhood subscriber channel, wherein the first channel is associated with a first neighborhood of the plurality of neighborhoods; receiving a list of available content shared with the first neighborhood, wherein the available content shared with the first neighborhood includes first image data captured using a camera of a first A/V recording and communication device; and selecting and playing back, on the smart TV, the first image data.