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Window blanking for pan/tilt/zoom camera

  • US 9,319,635 B2
  • Filed: 11/30/2012
  • Issued: 04/19/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/30/2012
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of window-blanking for a pan/tilt/zoom camera, the method comprising:

  • obtaining a panoramic image from the camera;

    enabling a user to interact with the panoramic image as an interface for defining a privacy zone through a defined input mode;

    providing a selection of layers including a panoramic image layer, map layer, hybrid panoramic image map layer, and annotations layer with the panoramic image interface;

    computing a pan/tilt angle relative to world ground coordinates for each vertex of the privacy zone within a field-of-view of the camera;

    determining coordinates for each vertex based on an updated or predicted camera field-of-view; and

    blocking-out the privacy zone using the coordinates for each vertex.

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