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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 29, 2020
Filed:
Mar. 23, 2020
Google Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);
Jason Rukes, Mountain View, CA (US);
Tyler Wilson, San Francisco, CA (US);
Amber Volmering, Cupertino, CA (US);
William Dong, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Jeffrey Law, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jason Goulden, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Guangxun Liao, San Jose, CA (US);
Kevin Edward Booth, Mountain View, CA (US);
Dietrich Ho, Mountain View, CA (US);
Daniel Patrick Foran, San Francisco, CA (US);
Oliver Mueller, San Francisco, CA (US);
Mark Kraz, Santa Clara, CA (US);
GOOGLE LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
The various implementations described herein include a video camera assembly that includes: (1) a housing; (2) an image sensor encased in the housing and configured to capture activity of the smart home environment; (3) a wireless radio configured to transmit video frames captured by the image sensor to an electronic device via a remote server; (4) at least one infrared transmitter configured to selectively illuminate the smart home environment; (5) one or more circuit boards encased in the housing, the one or more circuit boards including at least one processor mounted thereon; and (6) a heating component coupled to the image sensor, the heating component configured to continuously maintain the image sensor at a temperature above a threshold temperature while the image sensor is capturing the activity of the smart home environment.