Video stream augmenting

A computer program product for augmenting a video stream of an environment, the environment containing a private entity to be augmented, the computer program product comprising:

• a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions being executable by a processing unit to cause the processing unit to perform a method comprising:
• processing the video stream of the environment in accordance with an entity recognition process to identify the presence of at least part of an entity in the environment;
• generating identified entity information relating to at least one property of the identified entity;
• determining whether the identified entity is to be augmented based on the generated identified entity information and private entity information relating to the private entity;
• and
• based on determining that the identified entity is to be augmented, modifying the video stream to replace at least a portion of the identified entity with a graphical element adapted to obscure the portion of the identified entity in the video stream.

An augmentation system for augmenting a video stream of an environment, the environment containing a private entity to be augmented, the system comprising:

• a memory;
• and
• a processor communicatively coupled to the memory, the system performing a method comprising:
• processing the video stream in accordance with an entity recognition process to identify the presence of at least part of an entity in the environment;
• generating identified entity information relating to at least one property of the identified entity;
• determining whether the identified entity is to be augmented based on the generated identified entity information and private entity information relating to the private entity;
• and
• based on determining that the identified entity is to be augmented, modifying the video stream to replace at least a portion of the identified entity with a graphical element adapted to obscure the portion of the identified entity in the video stream.