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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 13, 2026
Filed:
Jan. 25, 2023
Objectvideo Labs, Llc, Tysons, VA (US);
Ethan Shayne, Clifton Park, NY (US);
Donald Gerard Madden, Columbia, MD (US);
ObjectVideo Labs, LLC, Tysons, VA (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for selectively obfuscating audio. One of the methods includes detecting, by a security system for a premises, that a person who was within a threshold area for the premises was likely uttering a sound; determining, using data from one or more sensors, a likelihood that the person was communicating with the security system at the premises; determining whether the likelihood satisfies a threshold likelihood and that the person's voice should not be obfuscated; and in response to determining whether the likelihood satisfies the threshold likelihood and that the person's voice should not be obfuscated, selectively obfuscating the person's voice or maintaining, in memory, an audio signal i) that encodes the person's voice and ii) was captured by a microphone that was physically located at the premises.