Physiological cue processing
First Claim
1. One or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media storing computer-executable instructions for causing a computing device to perform a method of masking physiological cues, the method comprising:
- receiving source video of at least one person, the source video comprising one or more physiological cues;
determining a physiological measure of the person from the source video;
determining whether the physiological measure satisfies a predefined threshold indicative of one or more of the physiological cues;
generating, in response to a determination that the physiological measure determined from the source video satisfies the predefined threshold, modified video in which at least one of the one or more physiological cues is masked; and
sending the modified video to a second computing device.
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Abstract
Physiological cues, such as elevated heart or respiratory rates can be masked from video of a person before the video is sent to another party. The masking of human-perceptible and non-human-perceptible physiological cues removes information from the video that another party could use to determine the person'"'"'s emotional state. For example, variations in a person'"'"'s skin color that are typically imperceptible to the human eye and from which a person'"'"'s heart rate can be detected, can be removed or altered so that another party viewing the video cannot determine the person'"'"'s actual heart rate in an attempt to determine the person'"'"'s emotional state, even if they are performing computer analysis on the video. The presence of some physiological cues can be determined by detecting that a physiological measure is above a specified physiological measure threshold. Modified video can have the characteristic that physiological cues are substantially absent in the modified video or that physiological measures extracted from the modified video have a value below an associated physiological measure threshold.
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1. One or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media storing computer-executable instructions for causing a computing device to perform a method of masking physiological cues, the method comprising:
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receiving source video of at least one person, the source video comprising one or more physiological cues; determining a physiological measure of the person from the source video; determining whether the physiological measure satisfies a predefined threshold indicative of one or more of the physiological cues; generating, in response to a determination that the physiological measure determined from the source video satisfies the predefined threshold, modified video in which at least one of the one or more physiological cues is masked; and sending the modified video to a second computing device. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A method of masking physiological cues, the method comprising:
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receiving source video of at least one person, the source video comprising one or more physiological cues; determining a physiological measure of the person from the source video; determining whether the physiological measure satisfies a predefined threshold indicative of one or more of the physiological cues; generating, in response to a determination that the physiological measure satisfies the predefined threshold determined from the source video, modified video in which at least one of the one or more physiological cues is masked; and sending the modified video to a second computing device.
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18. A method comprising:
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sending computer-executable instructions to one or more computing devices to cause the one or more computing devices to perform a method, the method comprising; receiving source video of at least one person, the source video comprising one or more physiological cues; determining a physiological measure of the person from the source video; determining whether the physiological measure satisfies a predefined threshold indicative of one or more of the physiological cues; generating, in response to a determination that the physiological measure determined from the source video satisfies the predefined threshold, modified video in which at least one of the one or more physiological cues is masked; sending the modified video to a second computing device; and storing the computer-executable instructions at the one or more computing devices.
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19. One or more computing devices programmed to perform a method, the method comprising:
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receiving source video of at least one person, the source video comprising one or more physiological cues; determining a physiological measure of the person from the source video; determining whether the physiological measure satisfies a predefined threshold indicative of one or more of the physiological cues; generating, in response to a determination that the physiological measure determined from the source video satisfies the predefined threshold, modified video in which at least one of the one or more physiological cues is masked; and sending the modified video to a second computing device. - View Dependent Claims (20, 21, 22, 23, 24)
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