A dome for a surveillance camera comprises an at least partially transparent spherical portion, a front transition portion, a back transition portion, and lateral transition portions. All transition portions extend to a perimeter plane and a tangent to the spherical portion where it connects to the front transition portion has an angle α relative to a normal to the perimeter plane, as measured in a symmetry plane, and a tangent to the spherical portion where it connects to the back transition portion has an angle β relative to a normal to the perimeter plane, as measured in the same plane and the same direction as the angle α. The angle β is equal to or larger than the angle α.

Doorbells often include a button to enable visitors to ring a chime to summon building occupants. In some embodiments, doorbells include a camera to take pictures of visitors. In several embodiments, doorbells include covers that are light filters. These light filters can cover infrared light sources such as infrared light emitting diodes. The light filters can pass infrared light while blocking visible light. In several embodiments, a front portion of a camera assembly fits through a hole in a light filter. Light filters can help secure camera assemblies and can form a portion of a doorbell's outer housing.

A system, device, and method for camera placement based on access tier attributes is disclosed. The method includes correlating, by an at least one electronic processor, a geographical location and existing tiered camera deployments with electronically stored indications of crime rates across a geographic area associated with a security agency. The method also includes generating, by the at least one electronic processor, at least one new proposed security camera deployment at at least a first proposed location in the geographic area associated with the security agency having a proposed tier selected from one of a plurality of tiers determined as a function of the correlating.

Image recording device provided with a fixed part for at least partial inclusion in and/or on the body of a motor vehicle, and a movable part which comprises at least one optical element, the optical element comprising at least one optical sensor and/or a lens unit, and an adjustment device provided with a power source, for adjusting the movable part between a first position and a second position, wherein during use in the first position the movable part is wholly or partly included in the body, and in the second position the movable part extends at an angle with respect to the body, such that at least the optical element carried by the movable part extends at least partly outside the body, wherein the movable part pivots from the second position about a, preferably substantially vertical, axis to the first position and vice versa.

A video surveillance system includes a plurality of video surveillance cameras each for producing a corresponding video stream, a server configured to receive and store the video streams, and a first control room having a video wall. The video wall may be operatively coupled to the server and may be configured to concurrently display two or more of the video streams from two or more of the plurality of video surveillance cameras in a first arrangement. The video surveillance system may further include a remote virtual reality headset with a display and a virtual reality controller operatively coupled to the virtual reality headset and the server. The virtual reality controller may be configured to receive the same two or more video streams that are displayed on the video wall in the first control room and display them in the virtual reality headset.

An apparatus comprises a mount body by which the apparatus is secured to a structure. A camera assembly includes an image sensor adapted to capture images within its field of view. A lighting assembly houses one or more light sources including a directional light source. A control-board assembly, fixed to the mount body, houses control boards including one or more processors configured to acquire information about an object, to associate a location within the field of view of the image sensor with the object, to point light emitted by the directional light source at the location associated with the object by rotating the lighting assembly and turning the laser assembly, and, based on an image acquired from the camera assembly, to detect change within the field of view of the image sensor corresponding to placement or removal of the object.

A camera assembly includes a motor configured to generate a driving power; a motor shaft that extends from the motor, such as to define a first axis, and is configured to rotate by the driving power of the motor; a pulley configured to rotate on a second axis, that is spaced from the first axis, according to rotation of the motor shaft; a belt configured to couple the motor shaft and the pulley, and convert the rotation of the motor shaft to rotation of the pulley, and tension of the belt applies a force to the motor shaft in a direction towards the second axis; a camera module configured to be mounted on the pulley and rotate together with the pulley; and an elastic body configured to apply a biasing force to the motor shaft such as to bias the motor shaft in a direction away from the second axis.

A camera orientation control system for changing one or more camera orientations of one or more cameras towards a potential incident that is not currently in a field of view of the one or more cameras. The camera control system processes image frames for head orientation extraction, determines an amount of synchronous alignment in a proportion of head objects of the head objects to computationally assess that they are towards a new direction, and controls at least one camera to move the field of view of at least one camera of the one or more cameras towards the new direction. The system is useful for incident detection and extending or augmenting the capabilities of CCTV infrastructure.

A camera includes a base configured for mounting to a support structure. The base includes a first connecting structure. A camera unit is configured for releaseable attachment with the base. The camera unit comprising second connecting structure configured for releasable connection with the first connecting structure to releaseably secure the camera unit to the base.

The disclosure describes systems and methods for a stabilization mechanism. The stabilization mechanism may be used in conjunction with an imaging device. The method may be performed by a control system of the stabilization mechanism and includes obtaining a device setting from an imaging device. The method may also include obtaining a configuration of the stabilization mechanism. The method includes determining a soft stop based on the device setting, the configuration, or both. The soft stop may be a virtual hard stop that indicates to the stabilization mechanism to reduce speed as a field of view of the imaging device approaches the soft stop. The method may also include setting an image stabilization mechanism parameter based on the determined soft stop.