US Patent 11072966 Video analytic enhanced pet door

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for monitoring system with a video analytic enhanced pet door. The methods, systems, and apparatus include actions of obtaining video from a camera, determining from the video that an object is approaching the camera, in response to determining from the video that an object is approaching the camera, determining whether the object is an animal, in response to determining that the object is an animal, determining from the video whether the animal is authorized to enter a home, and in response to determining from the video that the animal is authorized to enter the home, opening a pet door.