Patent ID: 8350915

Claim:
A motion detector camera comprising: a housing having a front surface and a back surface; image recording electronics mounted within the housing; an IR emitter exposed on the front surface of the housing; a motion detector exposed on the front surface of the housing and configured to detect motion happening a distance away from the camera; a controller operatively coupled to the image recording electronics, the IR emitter, and the motion detector, wherein the controller is adapted to send an activation signal to the IR emitter and to the image recording electronics when the controller receives a triggering signal from the motion detector, wherein the controller includes a pause state and, when put into the pause state, the controller ignores any triggering event signals received from the motion detector until a pre-determined amount of time has elapsed; a memory connected to the controller to store information about a triggering activity when the controller receives triggering signals from the motion detector, the information being stored both when the controller is in the pause state and when the controller is not in the pause state; and an LCD information display to display information concerning the motion detector camera, the LCD information display coupled to the front surface of the housing and externally exposed on the front surface of the housing such that the LCD information display is viewable when the housing is mounted to a structure.