US 11,895,394 B2
Privacy controls for cameras in healthcare environments
Sean Victor Hastings, Flower Mound, TX (US); Lida Anne Robinson, Forth Worth, TX (US); and Robert Lee York, Lantana, TX (US)
Assigned to Stryker Corporation, Kalamazoo, MI (US)
Filed by Stryker Corporation, Kalamazoo, MI (US)
Filed on Sep. 29, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/489,742.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/085,939, filed on Sep. 30, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0103760 A1, Mar. 31, 2022
Int. Cl. H04N 23/63 (2023.01); G06F 21/83 (2013.01); H04N 5/262 (2006.01); H04N 5/272 (2006.01); H04N 23/661 (2023.01); G06F 21/62 (2013.01)
CPC H04N 23/635 (2023.01) [G06F 21/6263 (2013.01); G06F 21/83 (2013.01); H04N 5/2628 (2013.01); H04N 5/272 (2013.01); H04N 23/661 (2023.01)] 23 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of maintaining patient privacy in video of a portion of a medical facility, the method comprising:
defining at least one privacy zone for the portion of the medical facility, wherein the at least one privacy zone comprises an object with text comprising patient identity information;
capturing, via an image data source, a video stream of the portion of the medical facility that includes at least one portion of the at least one privacy zone;
detecting one or more edges of the object with text comprising patient identity information in the video stream of the portion of the medical facility;
modifying the video stream to obfuscate the at least one portion of the at least one privacy zone, wherein the one or more edges of the object with text comprising patient identity information provide a reference point to define the at least one portion of the at least one privacy zone that is obfuscated; and
transmitting the video stream in which the at least one portion of the at least one privacy zone is obfuscated.