Communication assembly

A communication system for audio-visual communication including a communication assembly, the communication assembly comprising:

• a first capturing unit configured to capture video data of a first peer in real-time, wherein the first peer corresponds to a first human being, wherein the video data captured by the first capturing unit includes video facial data of the first peer, and wherein the video facial data of the first peer comprises an identification feature to identify the first peer and a mimic expression feature for a non-verbal communication originating from the first peer;
• a second capturing unit configured to capture video data of a second peer in real-time, wherein the second peer corresponds to a second human being;
• a first anonymization unit configured to modify the video data captured by the first capturing unit in real-time by replacing a characteristic of the identification feature in the video facial data of the first peer with a characteristic of a corresponding identification feature of a first quantized peer to complicate or prevent a correctly identifying of the first peer from the identification feature while substantially maintaining a characteristic of the mimic expression feature in the video data of the first peer;
• a first display unit of the first peer, the first display unit configured to receive and to display video data in real-time;
• a second display unit of the second peer, the second display unit configured to receive and to display video data in real-time;
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• a data transfer unit configured to:
• perform a transfer of the video data modified by the first anonymization unit to the second display unit;
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• perform a transfer of the video data captured by the second capturing unit to the first display unit.

A Communication method, wherein the communication method comprises:

• capturing, by a first capturing unit, video data of a first peer in real-time;
• capturing, by a second capturing unit, video data of a second peer in real-time;
• modifying the video data captured by the first capturing unit by replacing a characteristic of an identification feature in the video data of the first peer with a characteristic of a corresponding identification feature of a first quantized peer to complicate or prevent a correctly identifying of the first peer from the identification feature while substantially maintaining a characteristic of a mimic expression feature of the first peer;
• performing a transfer of modified video data captured by the first capturing unit to a second display unit;
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• performing a transfer of video data captured by the second capturing unit to a first display unit.