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Video streaming augmenting

  • US 10,306,315 B2
  • Filed: 03/29/2016
  • Issued: 05/28/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/29/2016
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computer-implemented method of providing a live video stream of a real environment, the method comprising:

  • predefining a private entity and storing private entity information relating to the private entity;

    processing in real-time the live video stream of the real environment for communication to a potentially un-trusted third-party remotely located from the real environment, the processing comprising;

    evaluating the video stream in accordance with an entity recognition process to identify presence of at least part of an entity in the environment;

    generating identified entity information relating to at least one property of the identified entity;

    determining whether the identified entity substantially matches the private entity based on the generated identified entity information and the private entity information relating to the private entity; and

    based on determining that the identified entity substantially matches the private entity, modifying the video stream to replace an imaged entity in, on, or under the identified entity within the live video stream with a graphical element adapted to obscure the imaged entity in the video stream, the modifying providing in real-time a modified live video stream of the real environment with the graphical element incorporated therein; and

    providing the modified live video stream for display to the potentially un-trusted third-party located remotely from the environment.

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