Method and apparatus for removing privacy sensitive objects in an augmented reality system
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsWinston Chen, Laszlo Gombos
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Abstract
A method includes receiving, at an intermediary layer, from a camera of a head mounted display (HMD), image data of a real-world operating environment of the HMD at a first time. The method further includes identifying, at the intermediary layer, one or more objects in the image data, determining, at the intermediary layer, coordinates of a region comprising the one or more identified objects, determining a display permission for the one or more identified objects, modifying the image data in the region comprising the one or more identified objects according to the display permission and outputting the modified image data to an application executing outside of the intermediary layer.
Claims20
A method, comprising:
- receiving, at an intermediary layer from a camera of a head mounted display (HMD), image data of a real-world operating environment of the HMD at a first time;
- identifying, at the intermediary layer, one or more real-world objects in the image data of the real-world operating environment;
- determining, at the intermediary layer, coordinates of a region of the image data comprising the one or more identified real-world objects;
- determining a display permission for the one or more identified real-world objects;
- modifying the image data in the region of the image data comprising the one or more identified real-world objects according to the display permission;
- and
- outputting the modified image data to an application executing outside of the intermediary layer to be displayed according to the display permission.
An apparatus comprising:
- at least one processor;
- and
- at least one memory containing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to:
- receive, at an intermediary layer from a camera of a head mounted display (HMD), image data of a real-world operating environment of the HMD at a first time,
- identify, at the intermediary layer, one or more real-world objects in the image data of the real-world operating environment,
- determine, at the intermediary layer, coordinates of a region of the image data comprising the one or more identified real-world objects,
- determine a display permission for the one or more identified real-world objects,
- modify the image data in the region of the image data comprising the one or more identified real-world objects according to the display permission, and
- output the modified image data to an application executing outside of the intermediary layer to be displayed according to the display permission.
A non-transitory, computer-readable medium containing instructions that, when executed by at least one processor, cause an apparatus to:
- receive, at an intermediary layer from a camera of a head mounted display (HMD), image data of a real-world operating environment of the HMD at a first time,
- identify, at the intermediary layer, one or more real-world objects in the image data of the real-world operating environment,
- determine, at the intermediary layer, coordinates of a region of the image data comprising the one or more identified real-world objects,
- determine a display permission for the one or more identified real-world objects,
- modify the image data in the region of the image data comprising the one or more identified real-world objects according to the display permission, and
- output the modified image data to an application executing outside of the intermediary layer to be displayed according to the display permission.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.