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Samsung patents video camera that tracks authorized faces for security

Samsung describes a video conferencing device that uses a camera to count people and identify specific faces in a room. If an unrecognized face appears, the system checks a database to find where the authorized person was last seen in previous video frames.

Why it mattersThis could improve security in remote work setups by automatically flagging when an unauthorized person enters a video call or meeting room.

In the filing’s own words

The present disclosure provides methods and apparatuses for analyzing an image detected by a camera that includes sampling, by an image converter, a current frame from a video frame, detecting, by an image analyzer, at least one face and an object in the current frame, determining, by the image analyzer based on the detecting of the at least one face and the object, a number of people, a number of faces, and whether a facial feature in the current frame corresponds to an authorized person, and selecting, by the image analyzer, a security mode based on the number of people, the number of faces, and whether the facial feature corresponds to the authorized person. The selecting of the security mode includes accessing, based on the at least one face not being recognized, position information about the authorized person in at least one previous frame stored in a database.

What exactly they claim (claim 1)

1. A method of analyzing an image detected by a camera, comprising: sampling, by an image converter, a current frame from a video frame; detecting, by an image analyzer, at least one face and an object in the current frame; determining, by the image analyzer, based on the detecting of the at least one face and the object, a number of people, a number of faces, and whether a facial feature in the current frame corresponds to an authorized person; and selecting, by the image analyzer, a security mode based on the number of people, the number of faces, whether the facial feature corresponds to the authorized person, and another security mode corresponding to a previous frame of the video frame, wherein the selecting of the security mode comprises accessing, based on the at least one face not being recognized, position information about the authorized person in at least one previous frame stored in a database.

Facts

Company
Samsung (SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.)
Official title
Video conferencing device and image analysis method thereof
Patent number
US12726591B2
Application number
18421554
Filed
Jan 24, 2024
Granted
Sep 1, 2026
Inventors
5
Claims
20

Classified under

H04N 7/155 Electricity & electronicsG06V 20/46 Physics & computingH04L 65/403 Electricity & electronicsH04M 3/42059 Electricity & electronicsH04N 7/147 Electricity & electronicsH04N 21/4753 Electricity & electronics
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