Apple Inc.

Andrew K McMahon

Jerome C Tu

Jae Hwang Lee

Justin J Schwab

Yoshikazu Shinohara

Anup K Sharma

Yohan Rajan

Nathanael D Parkhill

Nalaka Vidanagamachchi

Cam Harder

Andrew T Herrington

D K Kalinowski

Salvador A Valdes

Dk Kalinowski

Recording indicators for devices with cameras that provide protection from tampering so that the recording indicators cannot be easily disabled or masked. Recording indicators that are external to the camera lens and that emit visible light in an encrypted pattern are described. The device may process captured frames to detect the encrypted pattern; if the encrypted pattern cannot be detected, recording is disabled. In addition, modular accessories are described that the user has to attach to the device to enable recording; the presence of the modular attachment indicates to persons in the environment that they may be being recorded.

External recording indicators

Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods implemented by an electronic device with an imaging sensor that includes both an arrangement of first pixels and a plurality of second pixels at or near the perimeter (e.g., in a surrounding rectangle) of the arrangement. In some implementations, the second pixels, which may be larger in size than the arrangement of first pixels, can be intermittently positioned, for example, with intervening space in between groups of one or more second pixels along the side columns, top rows, or bottom rows of the arrangement. In some implementations, detected movement in a physical environment is determined to correspond to a person approaching the electronic device based on data of the second pixels. In some implementations, detecting the person approaching the electronic device initiates a user verification process at the electronic device.

Sensor-based user detection for electronic devices

Recording indicators for devices with cameras that provide protection from tampering so that the recording indicators cannot be easily disabled or masked. Recording indicators that are integrated in a device's camera and that emit visible light through the camera lens aperture are described. In addition, modular accessories are described that the user has to attach to the device to enable recording; the presence of the modular attachment indicates to persons in the environment that they may be being recorded.

Recording indicators

Generating an image stream may include obtaining image data from a camera, identifying a first subset of the image data including a region of interest, identifying a second subset of the image data different than the first subset of the image data, processing the first subset of image data by a first processing pipeline to obtain a first processed set of image data, processing the second subset of image data by a second processing pipeline to obtain a second processed set of image data, wherein the second processing pipeline processes at a lower quality than the first processing pipeline, and combining the first processed set of image data and the second processed set of image data to obtain a processed image frame.

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Andrew K McMahon