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US 12,615,432 B2Granted
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.
Claims17
A method of maintaining patient privacy in a video stream 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 a patient;
- capturing, via an image data source, a video stream of the portion of the medical facility that includes an unobfuscated at least one portion of the at least one privacy zone;
- transmitting the video stream of the portion of the medical facility that includes the unobfuscated at least one portion of the at least one privacy zone to a pre-authorized display within the portion of the medical facility;
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- transmitting the video stream of the portion of the medical facility that includes the unobfuscated at least one portion of the at least one privacy zone to a privacy assessment system outside the portion of the medical facility, wherein the privacy assessment system is configured to:
- detect a face of the patient in the video stream of the portion of the medical facility;
- modify the video stream to obfuscate the at least one portion of the at least one privacy zone, wherein the face of the patient provides a reference point to define the at least one portion of the at least one privacy zone that is obfuscated as a predefined shaped region of a predefined size centered around the reference point;
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- transmit the video stream in which the at least one portion of the at least one privacy zone is obfuscated to another display located outside the portion of the medical facility.
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A method of maintaining patient privacy in a video stream 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 a patient;
- generating a video stream of the portion of the medical facility that includes an unobfuscated at least one portion of the at least one privacy zone via an image data source from a first perspective, wherein a perspective of the image data source can be remotely controlled;
- transmitting the video stream of the portion of the medical facility that includes the unobfuscated at least one portion of the at least one privacy zone to a pre-authorized display within the portion of the medical facility;
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- transmitting the video stream of the portion of the medical facility that includes the unobfuscated at least one portion of the at least one privacy zone to a privacy assessment system outside the portion of the medical facility, wherein the privacy assessment system is configured to:
- detect a face of a patient in the video stream of the portion of the medical facility;
- receive a first user input corresponding to a remotely controlled change in the perspective of the image data source to a second perspective;
- limit 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 face of the patient provides a reference point to define the at least one privacy zone.
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A method of maintaining patient privacy in a video stream 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 a patient;
- capturing, via an image data source having a perspective, a video stream of the portion of the medical facility that includes an unobfuscated at least one portion of the at least one privacy zone;
- transmitting the video stream comprising the unobfuscated at least one portion of the at least one privacy zone to authorized users of a pre-authorized display within the portion of the medical facility;
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- transmitting the video stream of the portion of the medical facility that includes the unobfuscated at least one portion of the at least one privacy zone to a privacy assessment system outside the portion of the medical facility, wherein the privacy assessment system is configured to:
- detect a face of the patient in the video stream of the portion of the medical facility;
- modify the video stream to obfuscate the at least one portion of the at least one privacy zone, wherein the face of the patient provides a reference point to define the at least one portion of the at least one privacy zone that is obfuscated as a predefined shaped region of a predefined size centered around the reference point;
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- transmit the video stream in which the at least one portion of the at least one privacy zone is obfuscated to another display located outside the portion of the medical facility to unauthorized users.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.