Dynamic video exclusion zones for privacy
AssigneeAlarm.com Incorporated
InventorsStephen Scott Trundle, Daniel Todd Kerzner, Donald Gerard Madden, Benjamin Asher Berg
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Abstract
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for preserving privacy in surveillance. The methods, systems, and apparatus include actions of determining a state of a monitoring system, determining an exclusion zone that is shown in a video, determining whether to obfuscate at least a portion of the video based on the exclusion zone and the state of the monitoring system, and obfuscating at least the portion of the video.
Claims20
A computer-implemented method comprising:
- determining, from a plurality of states at least some of which are associated with corresponding obfuscation criteria, a state of a monitoring system of a property;
- determining, using one or more obfuscation criteria for the state of the monitoring system, whether to obfuscate at least a portion of an exclusion zone represented by one or more portions of sensor data captured by a sensor at the property;
- in response to determining to obfuscate at least the portion of the exclusion zone represented by the one or more portions of the sensor data, obfuscating, using at least some of the one or more obfuscation criteria for the state, at least the portion of the exclusion zone represented by the one or more portions of the sensor data;
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- storing data for at least the obfuscated portion of the exclusion zone represented by the one or more portions of the sensor data.
A system comprising:
- one or more computers and one or more storage devices storing instructions that are operable, when executed by the one or more computers, to cause the one or more computers to perform operations comprising:
- determining, from a plurality of states at least some of which are associated with corresponding obfuscation criteria, a state of a monitoring system of a property;
- determining, using one or more obfuscation criteria for the state of the monitoring system, whether to obfuscate at least a portion of an exclusion zone represented by one or more portions of sensor data captured by a sensor at the property;
- in response to determining to obfuscate at least the portion of the exclusion zone represented by the one or more portions of the sensor data, obfuscating, using at least some of the one or more obfuscation criteria for the state, at least the portion of the exclusion zone represented by the one or more portions of the sensor data;
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- storing data for at least the obfuscated portion of the exclusion zone represented by the one or more portions of the sensor data.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing software comprising instructions executable by one or more computers which, upon such execution, cause the one or more computers to perform operations comprising:
- determining, from a plurality of states at least some of which are associated with corresponding obfuscation criteria, a state of a monitoring system of a property;
- determining, using one or more obfuscation criteria for the state of the monitoring system, whether to obfuscate at least a portion of an exclusion zone represented by one or more portions of sensor data captured by a sensor at the property;
- in response to determining to obfuscate at least the portion of the exclusion zone represented by the one or more portions of the sensor data, obfuscating, using at least some of the one or more obfuscation criteria for the state, at least the portion of the exclusion zone represented by the one or more portions of the sensor data;
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- storing data for at least the obfuscated portion of the exclusion zone represented by the one or more portions of the sensor data.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.