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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 02, 2020
Filed:
Oct. 03, 2017
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Reno, NV (US);
Michael Douglas McQueen, San Francisco, CA (US);
Meng Li, San Francisco, CA (US);
Eric Alan Breitbard, Oakland, CA (US);
Robert Steven Murdock, Fairfax, CA (US);
Julien George Beguin, San Francisco, CA (US);
Gregory Michael Hart, Mercer Island, WA (US);
David A. Limp, Medina, WA (US);
Scott Ian Blanksteen, Issaquah, WA (US);
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Abstract
A video display hub is mounted in a common household area such as a kitchen or family room. During times that have been designated as being available for communications, devices in first and second households exchange and display blurred video, allowing users in each household to see vague shapes and movements of the other household. Upon noticing activity, a user in the first household may initiate a video conversation, causing the video from the first household to be unblurred and causing unobscured voice to be transmitted to the second household. A user in the second household may respond by allowing the video conversation to be fully enabled, allowing the video from the second household to be unblurred and unobscured voice to be transmitted back to the first household.