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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 06, 2025
Filed:
Mar. 06, 2023
Meta Platforms Technologies, Llc, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Shaomin Xiong, Newark, CA (US);
Lidu Huang, Danville, CA (US);
Michael Andrew Brookmire, Half Moon Bay, CA (US);
Dongmin Yang, San Jose, CA (US);
Fei Liu, Los Altos, CA (US);
Yizhi Xiong, Foster City, CA (US);
Zhaochun Yu, Wilmette, IL (US);
Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for intelligently accessing one or more different hardware-based mechanisms for cropping out, blurring or blocking private content in a live preview image generated for the camera and in media recorded by the camera. The technique incudes receiving input regarding a plurality of objects to be concealed in media captured by an imaging device and identifying at least one of the plurality of objects in a field of view of the imaging device. Further, the technique includes modifying the at least one of the plurality of objects in a live preview image or media captured by the imaging device using one or more hardware-based actuators, where the modifying the at least one of the plurality of objects causes the one of the plurality of objects to be concealed.