US 12,108,243 B2
Selective privacy filtering for online conferences
William Sterling Alexander, Durham, NC (US); Joshua Austin Knestaut, Durham, NC (US); Jerome Henry, Pittsboro, NC (US); Maik Guenter Seewald, Steigerwaldstrasse (DE); and Robert Edgar Barton, Richmond (CA)
Assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed by Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed on Apr. 29, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/244,114.
Prior Publication US 2022/0350925 A1, Nov. 3, 2022
Int. Cl. H04W 12/02 (2009.01); G06T 5/70 (2024.01); G06T 11/20 (2006.01); G06V 40/16 (2022.01)
CPC H04W 12/02 (2013.01) [G06T 5/70 (2024.01); G06T 11/20 (2013.01); G06V 40/166 (2022.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
connecting, by a user device, a participant to a collaboration session in which the participant communicates with at least one other participant using video which is distributed in a media stream to the at least one other participant via a respective user device;
detecting, by the user device, an object within a space that is included in the video;
determining whether the object is a person that is included in participant list information; and
selectively filtering the media stream to exclude the object based on the participant list information by removing or blurring the person determined to be an inadvertent participant that is not included in the participant list information.