Granted Patent B2

US 12,386,634 · App. 18/440,850 · Granted Aug 12, 2025

Inventors: Daniel J. Wagner (Scottsdale, AZ); Mark A. Hanchett (Mesa, AZ); Aaron J. Kloc (Scottsdale, AZ); Tyler J. Conant (Seattle, WA)

Assignee: Axon Enterprise, Inc.

G06F9/44505G06F13/102H04N21/422H04N21/43615H04N21/43637H04W4/80Y02D10/00

Abstract

Claims (56)

1. A system for changing configuration settings on controllable devices in response to automatically detected events, the system comprising:

a peripheral device comprising at least one sensor, a first processor, and a first short-range wireless interface, the first processor configured to perform first operations comprising:

detecting, via the at least one sensor, a change in a first status of the peripheral device via the at least one sensor;

automatically generating a first notification in response to detecting the change in the first status of the peripheral device, the first notification including information indicating that the first status of the peripheral device has changed; and

transmitting the first notification via the first short-range wireless interface;

a first controllable camera device comprising a first video sensor, a second processor, and a second short-range wireless interface, the second processor configured to perform second operations comprising:

collecting first video data via the first video sensor;

receiving the first notification from the peripheral device via the second short-range wireless interface;

making a first determination whether a first configuration setting of the first controllable camera device should be changed in response to the information indicating that the first status of the peripheral device has changed;

in accordance with the first determination indicating that the first configuration setting of the first controllable camera device should be changed, changing the first configuration setting of the first controllable camera device; and

based on the first notification, transmitting, via the second short-range wireless interface, a second notification, wherein the second notification includes the information indicating that the first status of the peripheral device has changed; and

a second controllable device comprising a third short-range wireless interface and a third processor, the third processor configured to perform third operations comprising:

receiving the second notification from the first controllable camera device via the third short-range wireless interface;

making a second determination whether a second configuration setting of the second controllable device should be changed in response to the information indicating that the first status of the peripheral device has changed; and

in accordance with the second determination indicating that the second configuration setting of the second controllable device should be changed, changing the second configuration setting of the second controllable device.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the second controllable device comprises a second controllable camera device comprising a second video sensor.

3. The system of claim 2 , wherein changing the second configuration setting of the second controllable device comprises changing a recording state of the second video sensor.

4. The system of claim 1 , wherein the second operations further comprise generating a new notification based on the first notification, and wherein transmitting the second notification comprises transmitting the new notification.

5. The system of claim 1 , wherein transmitting the second notification comprises retransmitting the first notification.

6. The system of claim 1 , wherein the first controllable camera device comprises a video data store; and

changing the first configuration setting of the first controllable camera device comprises causing the first video data to be saved in the video data store.

7. The system of claim 1 , wherein the first controllable camera device comprises a first long-range wireless interface; and

changing the first configuration setting of the first controllable camera device comprises:

starting transmission of a first live video stream from the first controllable camera device via the first long-range wireless interface; or

transmitting first data based on the information indicating that the first status of the peripheral device has changed from the first long-range wireless interface to a remote device.

8. The system of claim 1 , wherein the second operations further comprise:

receiving a third notification via the second short-range wireless interface;

detecting the third notification is a duplicate of the first notification; and

in accordance with detecting the third notification is the duplicate of the first notification, ignoring the third notification.

9. The system of claim 1 , wherein changing the first configuration setting comprises recording the first video data.

10. The system of claim 1 , wherein the peripheral device is one of a weapon peripheral device, a weapon holster peripheral device, a vehicle monitor peripheral device, and a personal monitor peripheral device.

11. The system of claim 1 , wherein each of the first notification and the second notification are unaddressed.

12. The system of claim 1 , wherein the first notification further comprises information identifying a type of the peripheral device;

making the first determination comprises making the first determination based on the information indicating that the first status of the peripheral device has changed and the information identifying the type of the peripheral device; and

making the second determination comprises making the second determination based on the information indicating that the first status of the peripheral device has changed and the information identifying the type of the peripheral device.

13. The system of claim 1 , wherein the peripheral device comprises a vehicle monitor peripheral device and the at least one sensor comprises an analog voltage sensor.

14. The system of claim 1 , wherein transmitting the first notification comprises repeatedly transmitting the first notification for a predetermined amount of time.

15. The system of claim 14 , wherein the first operations comprise generating a session identifier, the first notification includes the session identifier, and repeatedly transmitting the first notification includes repeatedly transmitting the session identifier in the first notification.

16. The system of claim 1 , wherein transmitting the first notification comprises:

repeatedly transmitting the first notification until a change in a second status is detected, wherein the change in the second status supersedes the change in the first status; and

ending a session during which the first notification is repeatedly transmitted, wherein ending the session comprises stopping transmitting of the first notification.

17. A method of distributed control performed by a peripheral device, a first controllable camera device, and a second controllable camera device, the method comprising:

detecting, by the peripheral device, a change in status of the peripheral device based on first data generated by one or more sensors of the peripheral device;

automatically generating, by the peripheral device, a first notification in response to detecting the change in the status of the peripheral device, wherein the first notification includes information indicating that the status of the peripheral device has changed;

transmitting, by the peripheral device, the first notification via a first short-range wireless interface of the peripheral device;

receiving, by the first controllable camera device, the first notification from the peripheral device via a second short-range wireless interface of the first controllable camera device;

determining, by a processor of the first controllable camera device, that a configuration setting of the first controllable camera device should be changed based on the information indicating that the status of the peripheral device has changed;

changing, by the processor of the first controllable camera device, the configuration setting of the first controllable camera device in response to determining by the processor of the first controllable camera device that the configuration setting of the first controllable camera device should be changed;

transmitting, by the first controllable camera device, a second notification via the second short-range wireless interface of the first controllable camera device;

receiving, by the second controllable camera device, the second notification from the first controllable camera device via a third short-range wireless interface of the second controllable camera device;

determining, by a processor of the second controllable camera device, that a configuration setting of the second controllable camera device should be changed based on the information indicating that the status of the peripheral device has changed; and

changing, by the processor of the second controllable camera device, the configuration setting of the second controllable camera device in response to determining by the processor of the second controllable camera device that the configuration setting of the second controllable camera device should be changed, wherein the peripheral device is one of a weapon peripheral device, a weapon holster peripheral device, and a vehicle monitor peripheral device.

18. The method of claim 17 , wherein transmitting the second notification comprises retransmitting the first notification.

19. The method of claim 17 , wherein changing of the configuration setting of the first controllable camera device comprises at least one of saving video data collected by a video sensor of the first controllable camera device in a data store of the first controllable camera device, starting transmission of a live video stream from the first controllable camera device via a first long-range wireless interface of the first controllable camera device, or transmitting first data based on the information indicating that the status of the peripheral device has changed from the first long-range wireless interface of the first controllable camera device to a remote device; and

changing of the configuration setting of the second controllable camera device comprises at least one of saving video data collected by a video sensor of the second controllable camera device in a data store of the second controllable camera device, starting transmission of a live video stream from the second controllable camera device via a second long-range wireless interface of the second controllable camera device, or transmitting second data based on the information indicating that the status of the peripheral device has changed from the second long-range wireless interface of the second controllable camera device to the remote device.

20. The method of claim 19 , wherein the first notification includes a session identifier generated by the peripheral device and transmitting the first notification includes repeatedly transmitting the first notification comprising the session identifier for a predetermined amount of time.

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