System and method for fine-grained control of privacy from image and video recording devices
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsRobert G. Farrell, James R. Kozloski, Clifford A. Pickover
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Abstract
Systems and methods for providing privacy control for digital capture of a recording include identifying a person within a digital capture that is a recording of a person within an environment based on received information regarding the person. A disposition tag is associated with an identified person in the recording. The disposition tag references a privacy control action to take according to privacy constraints for the person. Coordinates in the recording where the privacy control action is to be applied are determined.
Claims18
A method for providing privacy control for digital capture of a recording, said method comprising:
- identifying a person within a digital capture that comprises a recording of a person based on received information regarding the person by performing a comparison between the received information and the recording of the person to predict an appearance of the person in the recording, said comparison generating a confidence level of the identification of the person;
- associating a disposition tag with an identified person in the recording, wherein said disposition tag references a privacy control action to take according to privacy constraints for the person;
- determining coordinates in the recording where the privacy control action is to be applied;
- determining a degree to which the privacy control action is to be performed according to the confidence level;
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- performing the privacy control action at the determined coordinates to the determined degree.
An information processing system for providing privacy control for digital capture of a recording, comprising:
- a processor device;
- and
- a memory operably coupled with the processor device, said memory comprising computer-executable instructions causing a computer to perform:
- identifying a person with a digital capture that comprises a recording of a person within an environment based on received information regarding the person by performing a comparison between the received information and the recording of the person to predict an appearance of the person in the recording, said comparison generating a confidence level of the identification of the person;
- associating a disposition tag with an identified person in the recording, wherein said disposition tag references a privacy control action to take according to privacy constraints for the person;
- determining coordinates in the recording where the privacy control action is to be applied;
- determining a degree to which the privacy control action is to be performed according to the confidence level;
- and
- performing the privacy control action at the determined coordinates to the determined degree.
A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium with computer-executable instructions for providing privacy control for digital capture of a recording stored thereon, said computer-executable instructions comprising:
- identifying a person within a digital capture that comprises a recording of a person based on received information regarding the person by performing a comparison between the received information and the recording of the person to predict an appearance of the person in the recording, said comparison generating a confidence level of the identification of the person;
- associating a disposition tag with an identified person in the recording, wherein said disposition tag references a privacy control action to take according to privacy constraints for the person;
- determining coordinates in the recording where the privacy control action is to be applied;
- determining a degree to which the privacy control action is to be performed according to the confidence level;
- and
- performing the privacy control action at the determined coordinates to the determined degree.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.