US 12,235,993 B2
Adaptive PII obscuring based on PII notification visibility range
Katharina Ines Mitschker, Cologne (DE); and David Michael Herman, West Bloomfield, MI (US)
Assigned to Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US)
Filed by FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US)
Filed on Mar. 22, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/188,143.
Prior Publication US 2024/0320364 A1, Sep. 26, 2024
Int. Cl. G06F 21/62 (2013.01)
CPC G06F 21/6245 (2013.01) 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicle for handling personally identifiable information (PII) in data streams, comprising:
a sensor configured to capture sensor data over time of an environment surrounding the vehicle, the sensor data including captured PII and non-PII;
a notice device configured to provide notice to pedestrians that the sensor data is being captured; and
a processor, in communication with the sensor and the notice device, programmed to
identify the captured PII in the sensor data,
identify a notice zone surrounding the vehicle in which the notice device provides the notice,
obscure any instances of the captured PII in the sensor data captured from the pedestrians that, over the time of the capture, did not enter the notice zone and receive the notice, and
send the sensor data, as processed, to a cloud server for storage.