| CPC G06V 40/16 (2022.01) [G06F 18/22 (2023.01); G06V 40/161 (2022.01); H04N 5/77 (2013.01); H04N 23/611 (2023.01); H04N 23/62 (2023.01); H04N 23/66 (2023.01); H04N 23/661 (2023.01); H04N 23/667 (2023.01); H04N 23/90 (2023.01)] | 14 Claims |
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1. A camera comprising:
a storage medium to store a plurality of image information sets each one of which is acquired from each one of a plurality of corresponding reference images in the camera, respectively;
a lens (205);
a communicator to provide communication with an external device; and
a video processing device to selectively control video capture and operations associated with video capture according to a selected privacy level in a privacy mode,
wherein the video processing device includes a face detector to sense a face image from the captured video from the lens (205),
wherein the image information set produced by the face image from the captured video matches one of the plurality of information sets, and a privacy level controller selects one of a plurality of privacy levels according to the image information set matched with the face image,
wherein the video processing device captures the video from the lens (205), and as a first privacy level of the plurality of privacy levels is selected by the privacy level controller, changes the capturing the video from the lens (205) to stop capturing the video from the lens (205),
wherein the video processing device transmits the captured video from the lens (205) to the external device through the communicator, and as a second privacy level is selected, changes the transmitting the captured video from the lens (205) to stop transmitting the captured video from the lens (205) to the external device while continuously performing the capturing of the video from the lens (205),
wherein the face detector is operable to acquire face images, to generate the plurality of image information sets in association with the acquired face images, and to generate signals to store the plurality of image information sets in the storage medium, and
wherein the video processing device is operable to set privacy levels corresponding to the plurality of image information sets by determining a privacy level corresponding to each of the image information sets according to the number of face images associated with the corresponding image information set from among the acquired face images, and to generate signals to store the set privacy levels in the storage medium.
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