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US 12,333,917 B2Granted
Smart device with switch to enable privacy feature
AssigneeHuawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
InventorJinshui Liu
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Abstract
The present technology discloses a security camera that includes a housing and a hardware switch coupled to the housing and an audio component of the security camera. The hardware switch has an ON position and an OFF position. When the hardware switch is in an ON position, the audio component of the camera is operational. When the hardware switch is in an OFF position, the audio component of the camera is non-operational.
Claims19
A security camera, comprising:
- a housing;
- a controller;
- and
- a hardware switch coupled to the housing and an audio component of the security camera, the hardware switch having an ON position and an OFF position, wherein
- when the hardware switch is in an ON position, the audio component of the security camera is operational,
- when the hardware switch is in an OFF position, the audio component of the security camera is non-operational, and
- the controller is configured to scramble a portion of an image received by the security camera when the hardware switch of the audio component is in the OFF position, and the controller is configured to determine whether a client device coupled to the security camera has an image scramble setting enabled when the audio component is in the ON position and if so, scramble the portion of the image.
4 more elements
A computer-implemented method of securing privacy in a security camera, comprising:
- determining, by a controller of the security camera, that a hardware switch is moved in a position configured to enable or disable an audio component of the security camera, wherein when the hardware switch is OFF, the audio component of the security camera is non-operational, and when the hardware switch is in an ON position, the audio component of the security camera is operational;
- and
- scrambling, by the controller of the security camera, a portion of an image or a sequence of images received by the security camera when the hardware switch of the audio component is in the OFF position, and scrambling the portion of the image or the sequence of images when a client device coupled to the security camera has an image scramble setting enabled and when the audio component is in the ON position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.