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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 13, 2021
Filed:
Jun. 18, 2020
Applicant:
Alarm.com Incorporated, Tysons, VA (US);
Inventors:
Stephen Scott Trundle, Falls Church, VA (US);
Daniel Todd Kerzner, McLean, VA (US);
Donald Gerard Madden, Columbia, MD (US);
Benjamin Asher Berg, Washington, DC (US);
Assignee:
Alarm.com Incorporated, Tysons, VA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/18 (2006.01); H04N 5/232 (2006.01); G06T 7/00 (2017.01); G06F 21/84 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/185 (2013.01); G06F 21/84 (2013.01); G06T 7/0002 (2013.01); H04N 5/23206 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10016 (2013.01);
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 determining a state of a monitoring system, determining an exclusion zone that is shown in a video, determining whether to obfuscate at least a portion of the video based on the exclusion zone and the state of the monitoring system, and obfuscating at least the portion of the video.