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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 28, 2019
Filed:
Jun. 28, 2016
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Peter Van Tuyl Bentley, Seattle, WA (US);
Paul Berenberg, Los Altos, CA (US);
Emmanuel J M Laffon de Mazieres, Burlingame, CA (US);
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Abstract
This application describes techniques for controlling an apparatus that includes a camera both locally and remotely. The camera apparatuses described herein may include obfuscation components that function to selectively obfuscate a view of the camera at the request of a user. For instance, one particular camera apparatus may include a lens cap and an actuator to move the lens cap from a position in which the lens cap at least partially obfuscates the view of the camera to a position in which the lens cap does not (and vice versa). The camera apparatus may include a physical control to allow a user to locally request to open or close the lens cap, and may also include a network interface to communicate with a user device, thus allowing a user to remotely request to open or close the lens cap.