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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 06, 2020
Filed:
Aug. 22, 2018
Alarm.com Incorporated, Tysons, VA (US);
David James Hutz, Herndon, VA (US);
Allison Beach, Leesburg, VA (US);
Narayanan Ramanathan, Chantilly, VA (US);
Benjamin Asher Berg, Washington, DC (US);
Christopher Silverman, Alexandria, VA (US);
Donald Madden, State College, PA (US);
Alarm.com Incorporated, Tysons, VA (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for preserving privacy in surveillance. The methods, systems, and apparatus include actions of obtaining images of a scene captured by a camera, identifying an object in the images through object recognition, determining that the object that is identified in the images is of a particular type that has a privacy restriction, and in response to determining that the object in the images is of the particular type that has the privacy restriction, obfuscating an appearance of the object in the images.