DISPLAY PRIVACY SYSTEM

• US 20100124363A1
• Filed: 11/20/2008
• Published: 05/20/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 11/20/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications USA Incorporated (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications USA Incorporated (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: LARSSON, Bo, EK, Martin
• Application Number:
  US12/274,785
• Publication Number:
  US 20100124363A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 382/118
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/316 by observing the pattern of computer usage, e.g. typical user behaviour
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/32 using biometric data, e.g. fingerprints, iris scans or voiceprints
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6245 Protecting personal data, e.g. for financial or medical purposes
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/84 output devices, e.g. displays or monitors
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2101 Auditing as a secondary aspect
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2139 Recurrent verification
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2141 Access rights, e.g. capability lists, access control lists, access tables, access matrices
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2149 Restricted operating environment

Abstract

A system for controlling a display privacy filter on a display of an electronic device may include an image capturing unit to capture an image of an object situated in front of the display, detecting the number of human faces on the captured image, and activating the privacy filter on the display if more than one face is detected on the captured image.

Claims

2-1. The method of claim 1, where when not more than one human face appears in the captured image, the method further comprising:

deactivating the filter on the display.

8. A device comprising:

a display;

image capturing unit to capture an image of an object in a viewing are of the display;

a detection unit to determine a number of human faces appearing in the image; and

an activation unit to activate a privacy filter on the display based on a result of the determination.

9. The device of claim 8, where the electronic device is a mobile cellular radiotelephone.

10. A computer program product comprising computer-readable program code embodied on a computer-readable storage medium, the computer readable program code being configured to execute asset of instructions comprising:

instructions to capture an image;

determine whether more than one human face is present in the captured image; and

activate or deactivate the filter on the display based on a result of the determination.