US 11,935,114 B2
Rental property monitoring and protection system and method
Metiu Metev, Philadelphia, PA (US); and Stanislav Georgiev, Slatina (BG)
Filed by Metiu Metev, Philadelphia, PA (US); and Stanislav Georgiev, Slatina (BG)
Filed on Dec. 28, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/134,701.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/954,084, filed on Dec. 27, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0201391 A1, Jul. 1, 2021
Int. Cl. G06Q 30/0645 (2023.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01); G06V 20/40 (2022.01); G06V 20/52 (2022.01); G06V 40/10 (2022.01); G06V 40/20 (2022.01); G08B 21/18 (2006.01); G10L 25/51 (2013.01)
CPC G06Q 30/0645 (2013.01) [G06N 20/00 (2019.01); G06Q 50/163 (2013.01); G06V 20/40 (2022.01); G06V 20/52 (2022.01); G06V 40/10 (2022.01); G06V 40/20 (2022.01); G08B 21/182 (2013.01); G10L 25/51 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computer-implemented method for monitoring and protecting a rental property, comprising:
acquiring video data of an entrance for the rental property from a digital camera;
establishing a boundary within a field of view of the digital camera, wherein the boundary is associated with the entrance;
using a machine learning system to identify an object of interest that is being brought by a person traversing the boundary, wherein identifying the object of interest comprises:
establishing a bounding box around the object of interest based on motion analysis; and
computing a confidence level for the object of interest based on image data within the bounding box;
in response to the confidence level exceeding a predetermined threshold, obtaining object information for the object, wherein the object information includes an object type and a category for the object of interest;
comparing the object information for the identified object to a list of prohibited objects for the rental property;
sending a prohibited object message to a remote computing device in response to the object information being in the list of prohibited objects;
in response to identifying the object of interest traversing the boundary, updating an occupancy count for the rental property; and
sending an occupancy message to the remote computing device, wherein the occupancy message includes the updated occupancy count.