Google Inc.

Yu-An Lien

Michael D Dixon

Rengarajan Aravamudhan

Jason Evans Goulden

James Edward Stewart

Scott P Mullins

Brian Jonathan Conner

Jacobi Colton Grillo

Jeffrey Alan Boyd

Rajeev Conrad Nongpiur

Hae Rim Jeong

Seungho Yang

Minjung Kim

Christopher Charles Burns

Sahana Mysore

Sayed Yusef Shafi

Haerim Jeong

Etienne Bérubé

Rochus Emanuel Jacob

Rochus Emmanuel Jacob

This application is directed to a doorbell camera for illuminating and capturing scenes. The doorbell camera includes at least a subset of processors for operating a camera module, an image sensor having a field of view of a scene and configured to capture video of a portion of the scene, one or more infrared (IR) illuminators for providing illumination, a waterproof button assembly, and a microphone and a speaker for enabling a real-time conversation between a visitor located at the doorbell camera and a user of a remote client device. The waterproof button assembly is configured to receive a user press on a button top, block water from entering the electronic device, and display a visual pattern uniformly at a peripheral region of the button assembly using LEDs and light guide component that are disposed under the button top.

Doorbell camera

A method of detecting and responding to a visitor to a smart home environment via an electronic greeting system of the smart home environment, including determining that a visitor is approaching an entryway of the smart home environment; initiating a facial recognition operation while the visitor is approaching the entryway; initiating an observation window in response to the determination that a visitor is approaching the entryway; obtaining context information from one or more sensors of the smart home environment during the observation window; and at the end of the time window, initiating a response to the detected approach of the visitor based on the context information and/or an outcome of the facial recognition operation.

Systems and methods of detecting and responding to a visitor to a smart home environment

A method of presenting appropriate actions for responding to a visitor to a smart home environment via an electronic greeting system of the smart home environment, including detecting a visitor of the smart home environment; obtaining context information from the smart home environment regarding the visitor; based on the context information, identifying a plurality of appropriate actions available to a user of a client device for interacting with the visitor via the electronic greeting system; and causing the identified actions to be presented to the user of the client device.

Systems and methods of presenting appropriate actions for responding to a visitor to a smart home environment

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