US 12,363,274 B1
Camera monitoring systems and methods
Daniel Reichman, Las Vegas, NV (US)
Assigned to Security Camera Maintenance Company, Las Vegas, NV (US)
Filed by Security Camera Maintenance Company, Las Vegas, NV (US)
Filed on Feb. 11, 2025, as Appl. No. 19/051,043.
Application 19/051,043 is a continuation of application No. 18/980,331, filed on Dec. 13, 2024.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/682,150, filed on Aug. 12, 2024.
Int. Cl. H04N 17/00 (2006.01); G08B 13/196 (2006.01); H04N 7/18 (2006.01)
CPC H04N 17/002 (2013.01) [G08B 13/19656 (2013.01); G08B 13/19682 (2013.01); G08B 13/19691 (2013.01); H04N 7/181 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A camera system, comprising:
a camera monitoring database comprising:
one or more user rated images; and
a camera monitoring system controller configured to perform the following operations:
conduct a camera liveness assessment, comprising:
for each of one or more cameras:
determining whether the camera has a direct network connection;
in response to determining that the camera has a direct network connection, querying the camera for a network status of the camera;
in response to determining that the camera has an indirect network connection, querying a network access device for the network status of the camera;
determining, based on the querying of the camera or the network access device for the network status of the camera, the network status of the camera;
in response to determining that the network status of the camera is offline, conducting a reset of the camera; and
in response to determining that the network status of the camera is online:
 querying for an image captured by the camera;
 in response to receiving the image responsive to the querying for the image captured by the camera, determining an online/image status for the camera; and
 in response to not receiving the image responsive to the querying for the image captured by the camera:
 determining an online/image-error status for the camera; and
 conducting a reset of the camera; and
conduct, in response to receiving the image responsive to the querying for the image captured by the camera, an image quality assessment, the image quality assessment, comprising:
identifying a set of rated images comprising one or more images captured by the camera and associated with an image rating;
comparing the image received to the set of rated images to determine whether the image received is similar to one or more rated images of the set of rated images;
in response to determining that the image received is similar to a rated image of the set of rated images, determining a quality rating of the image received that corresponds the quality rating of the rated image; and
in response to determining that the image received is not similar to any of the rated images of the set of rated images, conducting a quality scoring of the received image to determine a quality rating of the image received.