Patent 11557142 was granted and assigned to Alarm.com on January, 2023 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Method and system for wild animal deterrence, the method includes obtaining video data by a monitor camera of a home wildlife deterrence system; classifying, based on the obtained video data, an object in the video data as a particular type of a wild animal; selecting an action to perform based on the particular type of the wild animal that the object is classified as; and triggering the action to be performed. The method also includes determining that the particular type of the wild animal matches a label of a candidate action in a set of candidate actions, wherein each candidate action in the set of candidate actions indicates at least one type of wild animal; and in response to determining that the particular type of the wild animal matches a label of the candidate action in the set of candidate actions, selecting the candidate action as the action to perform.