# US 2021/0344996 A1 · Methods, Systems, and Devices for Processing Private Media Content Captured by Sensors Operating in Privacy Modes of Operation > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 2021/0344996 A1 - Document ID: US20210344996A1 - Status: Published application - Kind: A1 - Application number: 16/861,944 - Filed: 2020-04-29 - Published: 2021-11-04 - Earliest claimed: 2020-04-29 - Assignees: Motorola Mobility LLC - Applicants: Motorola Mobility LLC - Inventors: Rachid Alameh; Jarrett Simerson; Alvin Von Ruff - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20210344996A1 ## CPC - H04N 21/44218: {Detecting physical presence or behaviour of the user, e.g. using sensors to detect if the user is leaving the room or changes his face expression during a TV programme (methods or arrangements for recognising human body or animal bodies or body parts G06V40/10; methods or arrangements for acquiring or recognising human faces, facial parts, facial sketches, facial expressions G06V40/16; methods or arrangements for recognising movements or behaviour G06V40/20; arrangements for identifying users in broadcast systems H04H60/45)} - G06F 21/6245: {Protecting personal data, e.g. for financial or medical purposes} - H04L 63/08: {for authentication of entities (cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication H04L9/32)} - H04L 63/102: {Entity profiles} - H04N 5/77: between a recording apparatus and a television camera - H04N 5/772: {the recording apparatus and the television camera being placed in the same enclosure} - H04N 9/3194: {including sensor feedback} - H04N 21/41407: {embedded in a portable device, e.g. video client on a mobile phone, PDA, laptop (constructional details of equipment or arrangements specially adapted for portable computer application G06F1/1626; arrangements specially adapted for mobile receivers in broadcast systems H04H20/57)} - H04N 21/4542: {Blocking scenes or portions of the received content, e.g. censoring scenes} - H04W 4/029: Location-based management or tracking services - H04W 12/06: Authentication - H04W 12/08: Access security - H04N: PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION - G06F: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N) - H04L: TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION (arrangements common to telegraphic and telephonic communication H04M) - H04W: WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS (broadcast communication H04H; communication systems using wireless links for non-selective communication, e.g. wireless extensions H04M1/72) ## Abstract An electronic device includes one or more sensors capturing media content from an environment of the electronic device. One or more processors, operable with the one or more sensors, determine whether the media content is private media content. The electronic device includes a private data store and a public data store. When the one or more processors determine the media content is the private media content, the one or more processors store the private media content in the private data store and preclude transmission of the private media content from the private data store to another electronic device. When the one or more processors determine the media content is other than the private media content, the one or more processors store the media content in the public data store and permit transmission of the media content to the another electronic device. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A method in an electronic device, the method comprising: capturing, with one or more sensors, media content from an environment of the electronic device; determining, with one or more processors of the electronic device, whether the media content is private media content; and when the media content is the private media content: storing, by the one or more processors, the private media content in a private data store situated in the electronic device; and precluding, by the one or more processors, transmission of the private media content from the private data store to another electronic device. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, further comprising, when the media content is other than the private media content: storing, by the one or more processors, the media content in a public data store; and permitting, by the one or more processors, transmission of the media content to the another electronic device. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) The method of claim 2, further comprising receiving, at a user interface of the electronic device prior to the capturing the media content, user input designating the media content as the private media content. ### Claim 4 (depends on 3) The method of claim 3, further comprising: enabling, by the one or more processors, at least one sensor of the electronic device operable to capture the media content, thereby allowing the at least one sensor of the electronic device to capture the media content; and disabling, by the one or more processors, at least one other sensor of the electronic device operable to capture the media content, thereby precluding the at least one other sensor from capturing the media content. ### Claim 5 (depends on 4) The method of claim 4, further comprising: receiving, at a user interface of the electronic device after the storing the media content in the public data store, user input designating the media content as the private media content; storing, by the one or more processors, the private media content in the private data store situated in the electronic device; and causing, by the one or more processors, deletion of the media content from the public data store. ### Claim 6 (depends on 2) The method of claim 2, further comprising receiving, at a user interface, other user input requesting transmission of the private media content to the another electronic device and presenting, in response to the other user input at the user interface, a prompt indicating that the private media content is precluded from transmission to the another electronic device. ### Claim 7 (depends on 6) The method of claim 6, the prompt requesting additional authorization to transmit the media content to the another electronic device, the method further comprising: receiving, at the user interface, the additional authorization to transmit the private media content to the another electronic device in response to the prompt; ceasing, by the one or more processors in response to the receiving the additional authorization to transmit the private media content to the another electronic device, the precluding the transmission of the media content to the another electronic device; and causing, by the one or more processors in response to the ceasing, a communication device to transmit the media content to the another electronic device. ### Claim 8 (depends on 2) The method of claim 2, further comprising: presenting, by the one or more processors at a user interface of the electronic device after the one or more sensors capture the media content and before the one or more processors determine whether the media content is the private media content, a prompt requesting user input designating the media content as the private media content if the media content is the private media content; and receiving the user input designating the media content as the private media content; wherein the determining whether the media content is the private media content occurs as a function of the user input. ### Claim 9 (depends on 2) The method of claim 2, further comprising: determining, by a location detector operable with the one or more processors, a location of the electronic device when the one or more sensors capture the media content; wherein the determining whether the media content is the private media content occurs as a function of the location of the electronic device when the one or more sensors capture the media content. ### Claim 10 (depends on 2) The method of claim 2, further comprising: receiving, by the one or more sensors, contextual data input from the environment of the electronic device; wherein the determining whether the media content is the private media content occurs as a function of the contextual data input. ### Claim 11 An electronic device, comprising: one or more sensors capturing media content from an environment of the electronic device; one or more processors, operable with the one or more sensors and determining whether the media content is private media content; a private data store, situated in the electronic device and operable with the one or more processors; and a public data store operable with the one or more processors; wherein: when the one or more processors determine the media content is the private media content, the one or more processors: store the private media content in the private data store; and preclude transmission of the private media content from the private data store to another electronic device; or when the one or more processors determine the media content is other than the private media content, the one or more processors: store the media content in the public data store; and permit transmission of the media content to the another electronic device. ### Claim 12 (depends on 11) The electronic device of claim 11, wherein the public data store is situated at a cloud server in electronic communication with the electronic device across a network. ### Claim 13 (depends on 12) The electronic device of claim 12, further comprising a user interface receiving user input designating the media content as the private media content after the one or more processors store the media content in the public data store, the one or more processors further, in response to the user input: storing private media content in the private data store; deleting storage of the media content in the public data store; and precluding transmission of the private media content to the another electronic device. ### Claim 14 (depends on 11) The electronic device of claim 11, further comprising a user interface receiving user input designating the media content as the private media content prior to the one or more sensors capturing the media content. ### Claim 15 (depends on 14) The electronic device of claim 14, wherein one or more sensors comprise at least a first sensor operable to capture the media content when the user input designates the media content as the private media content and at least a second sensor operable to capture the media content when the user input fails to designate the media content as the private media content, the one or more processors enabling the at least a first sensor and disabling the at least a second sensor in response to the user input. ### Claim 16 (depends on 11) The electronic device of claim 11, further comprising a context engine receiving contextual data from the environment of the electronic device while the one or more sensors capture the media content, wherein the one or more processors determine whether the media content is the private media content from the contextual data. ### Claim 17 (depends on 11) The electronic device of claim 11, further comprising a user interface, the one or more processors further: presenting at the user interface of the electronic device after the one or more sensors capture the media content and before the one or more processors determine whether the media content is the private media content, a prompt requesting user input designating the media content as the private media content; and designating the media content as the other than the private media content upon failing to receive the user input designating the media content as the private media content. ### Claim 18 A method in an electronic device, the method comprising: determining, by one or more processors of the electronic device, whether media content captured by one or more sensors of the electronic device is private media content or public media content; and when the media content is the private media content: storing the private media content in a private data store carried by the electronic device; and precluding transmission of the private media content from the private data store to another electronic device; or when the media content is the public media content: storing the public media content in a public data store; and permitting transmission of the media content from the public data store to the another electronic device. ### Claim 19 (depends on 18) The method of claim 18, wherein the determining whether the media content captured by the one or more sensors is the private media content or the public media content comprises designating the media content as the public media content in an absence of user input designating the media content as the private media content. ### Claim 20 (depends on 18) The method of claim 18, further comprising: receiving, at a user interface of the electronic device prior to the one or more sensors capture the media content, user input designating the media content as the private media content; causing, by the one or more processors, at least a first microphone or a first imager to capture the media content in response to the user input; and precluding, by the one or more processors, at least a second microphone or a second imager from capturing the media content in response to the user input.