Patent ID: 8848057

Claim:
A security and surveillance system, comprising a control unit configured to: determine a special event occurrence observed, including detecting a face using a function F d according to: Θ ^ = arg Θ ⁢ min ⁡ ( ∑ j = 1 N n ⁢ F d ⁡ ( Θ , n j ) - ∑ i = 1 N f ⁢ F d ⁡ ( Θ , f i ) ) wherein n j is a non-face of N n non-face samples, f i is a face of N f face samples, and with a parameter Θ having minimized detection error, and with a first camera of one or more digital video cameras based on video signals from the first camera; and feed a combination of a television display content and a video stream from the first camera to a television display located in a home when the special event occurrence is determined.