IP Library Granted Patent US 9,916,746
Granted Patent B2
US 9,916,746 · App. 15/410,845 · Granted Mar 13, 2018

Security system coupled to a door lock system

Inventors: Jason Johnson (San Francisco, CA); Herve Jacques Clement Letourneur (San Francisco, CA); Luca Baradel (San Francisco, CA); Christopher Dow (San Francisco, CA)
Assignee: August Home, Inc.
G08B13/19695E05B47/0012H04N7/186E05B2047/002E05B2047/0058E05B2047/0065E05B2047/0068E05B2047/0091
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 9,916,746
App. No.
15/410,845
Granted
Mar 13, 2018
Kind
B2
Abstract

A security system is coupled to a door lock system. A sensor is at a dwelling. The sensor is coupled to a drive shaft of a lock device to assist in locking and unlocking a lock of a lock device at a door. An engine, an energy source and a memory are coupled together. The engine is coupled to the sensor. The memory provides information relating to open or closed status of a door to a dwelling occupant or a third party designated by the dwelling occupant. At least one motion detection device is provided to detect a person at or near a door or window at the dwelling. A security system includes a video apparatus that captures video and coupled to the motion detection device to take a video of an image of the person or an outline of the person, wherein the video is configured to begin before motion detection begins.

Claims (22)

1. A security system coupled to a door lock system, comprising:

an existing door lock system at a dwelling, including:

an existing door lock system with a lock device with a lock, and a drive shaft; and

an intelligent door lock system retrofitted to the existing door lock system to create a retrofitted intelligent door lock system to lock and unlock for the door, the intelligent door lock system including:

a door status device configured to couple to the drive shaft of the lock device, the door status device determining lock or unlock status of the lock device;

an engine that provides power to lock and unlock the lock and coupled to the door status device, the engine coupled to at least one wireless communication device at the dwelling configured to communicate with a mobile device of a dwelling occupant for communication with the intelligent door lock system to lock or unlock the door;

a circuit coupled to the engine, an energy source coupled to the circuit and providing power to lock or unlock the door;

at least one motion detection device to detect a person at or near a door or window at the dwelling, the motion detection device coupled to the intelligent door lock system for purposes of detecting the person and assisting providing information that is used for locking and unlocking the door; and

a security system that includes a video apparatus that captures video and coupled to the motion detection device to take a video of an image of the person or an outline of the person, wherein the video is configured to begin before motion detection begins, the security system coupled to the intelligent door lock system for purposes of providing security to the intelligent door lock system that is used for locking and unlocking the door.

2. The system of claim 1 , further comprising:

a buffer to provide a buffering of an selected video.

3. The system of claim 2 , wherein the video apparatus is a camera.

4. The system of claim 3 , wherein the camera is a doorbell camera.

5. The system of claim 1 , wherein when motion is detected at a time T 0 a last buffer is marked for saving.

6. The system of claim 5 , wherein new-upcoming videos are recorded until there is a complete motion.

7. The system of claim 5 , wherein a video file is appended that includes the pre-T 0 buffer time of x seconds to create a video file which shows action starting at time T 0 - x.

8. The system of claim 7 , wherein a buffer size is selected and in response a determination is made when to start a recording of video.

9. The system of claim 8 wherein motion is triggered by a PIR sensor.

10. The system of claim 9 , wherein once motion is triggered the security system analyses an x-second video buffer to pixel changes.

11. The system of claim 10 , wherein the analyses provides that a beginning of the video is aligned with a first pixel change.

12. The system of claim 7 , wherein a motion speed is evaluated to provide that a slower an event, the longer the buffer time x is.

13. The system of claim 1 , wherein the security system includes at least one motion detection device.

Assignments (2)
MERGER Recorded Mar 26, 2025
From: AUGUST HOME, INC.
To: MASTER LOCK COMPANY LLC
Reel/Frame 070646/0243 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 8, 2017
From: JOHNSON, JASON; DOW, CHRISTOPHER; LETOURNEUR, HERVE JACQUES CLEMENT; BARADEL, LUCA
To: AUGUST HOME, INC.
Reel/Frame 043532/0532 →
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Provisional Application 61800937 · Mar 15, 2013
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