Systems and methods for privacy management in an autonomous mobile robot
AssigneeiRobot Corporation
InventorsGregg Duthaler, Vincent Edward Colella
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Abstract
A method of operating a mobile cleaning robot can include receiving a privacy mode setting from a user interface, where the privacy mode setting is based on a user selection between at least two different privacy mode settings for determining whether to operate the mobile cleaning robot in an image-capture-restricted mode. An image stream of an image capture device of the mobile cleaning robot is permitted in an absence of a user-selection of a more restrictive one of the privacy settings. At least a portion of the image stream is restricted or disabled based at least in part on a user-selection of a more restrictive one of the privacy settings.
Claims20
A method of operating a mobile cleaning robot, the method comprising:
- receiving a privacy mode setting from a user interface, the privacy mode setting based on a user selection between at least two different privacy mode settings for determining, by a processor, whether to operate the mobile cleaning robot in an image-capture-restricted mode;
- permitting an image stream using an image capture device of the mobile cleaning robot in an absence of a user-selection of a more restrictive one of the privacy settings;
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- restricting or disabling at least a portion of the image stream based at least in part on a user-selection of a more restrictive one of the privacy settings.
A machine-readable medium including instructions for operating a mobile cleaning robot, which when executed by a processor, cause the processor to:
- receive a privacy mode setting from a user interface, the privacy mode setting based on a user selection between at least two different privacy mode settings to determine whether to operate the mobile cleaning robot in an image-capture-restricted mode;
- permit an image stream using an image capture device of the mobile cleaning robot in an absence of a user-selection of a more restrictive one of the privacy settings;
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- restrict or disable at least a portion of the image stream based at least in part on a user-selection of a more restrictive one of the privacy settings.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.