Privacy controls for cameras in healthcare environments
AssigneeStryker Corporation
InventorsSean Victor Hastings, Lida Anne Robinson, Robert Lee York
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Abstract
Disclosed are methods and systems that can maintain patient privacy in a video stream of a medical facility by obfuscating all patient identity information such that the patient's identity and medical information is protected. In addition, the system and methods disclosed herein can limit the change in the perspective of the camera based on a defined privacy zone in the medical facility such that the privacy zone is not in the field of view of the camera.
Claims23
A method of maintaining patient privacy in video of a portion of a medical facility, the method comprising:
- defining at least one privacy zone for the portion of the medical facility, wherein the at least one privacy zone comprises an object with text comprising patient identity information;
- capturing, via an image data source, a video stream of the portion of the medical facility that includes at least one portion of the at least one privacy zone;
- detecting one or more edges of the object with text comprising patient identity information in the video stream of the portion of the medical facility;
- modifying the video stream to obfuscate the at least one portion of the at least one privacy zone, wherein the one or more edges of the object with text comprising patient identity information provide a reference point to define the at least one portion of the at least one privacy zone that is obfuscated;
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- transmitting the video stream in which the at least one portion of the at least one privacy zone is obfuscated.
A method of maintaining patient privacy in video of a portion of a medical facility, the method comprising:
- defining at least one privacy zone for the portion of the medical facility, wherein the at least one privacy zone comprises an object with text comprising patient identity information;
- generating a video stream of the portion of the medical facility via an image data source from a first perspective, wherein a perspective of the image data source can be remotely controlled;
- detecting one or more edges of the object with text comprising patient identity information in the video stream of the portion of the medical facility;
- receiving a first user input corresponding to a remotely controlled change in the perspective of the image data source to a second perspective;
- limiting the change in the perspective of the image data source based on the defined at least one privacy zone so that the at least one privacy zone is not in a field of view of the image data source, wherein the one or more edges of the object with text comprising patient identity information provide a reference point to define the at least one privacy zone.
A method of maintaining patient privacy in a video of a portion of a medical facility, the method comprising:
- defining at least one privacy zone for the portion of the medical facility, wherein the at least one privacy zone comprises an object with text comprising patient identity information;
- capturing, via an image data source having a perspective, a video stream of the portion of the medical facility that includes at least one portion of the at least one privacy zone;
- detecting one or more edges of the object with text comprising patient identity information in the video stream of the portion of the medical facility;
- transmitting the video stream comprising the at least one portion of the at least one privacy zone to authorized users;
- modifying the video stream to obfuscate the at least one portion of the at least one privacy zone, wherein the one or more edges of the object with text comprising patient identity information provide a reference point to define the at least one portion of the at least one privacy zone that is obfuscated;
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- transmitting the video stream in which the at least one portion of the at least one privacy zone is obfuscated to unauthorized users.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.