Apple patents secure video streaming that encrypts frames before sending
Apple describes a method for securely handling video clips sent from a camera to a server. The system detects specific events in the video, encrypts the frames and their data, and sends them to a server that stores them in a protected container.
In the filing’s own words
The present disclosure can provide devices, methods, and computer-readable medium for secure frame management. The techniques disclosed herein provide detection of triggering items in one or more frames of streaming video. The camera transmits one or more frames of the video over a network to a computing device. The computing device can begin a streaming session with a server and stream the one or more frames of video and accompanying metadata to the server. The frames, metadata, and associated keys can all be encrypted prior to streaming to the server. For each subsequent segment of video frames that includes the triggering item, the server can append the frames of that segment to the video clip in an encrypted container.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. (canceled)
Facts
- Company
- Apple (Apple Inc.)
- Official title
- TECHNIQUES FOR SECURE VIDEO FRAME MANAGEMENT
- Publication number
- US20260332838A1
- Application number
- 19550180
- Filed
- Feb 25, 2026
- Published
- Oct 22, 2026
- Inventors
- 5
- Claims
- 16
Classified under
H04N 21/2347 Electricity & electronicsG06V 10/44 Physics & computingG06V 10/764 Physics & computingG06V 10/82 Physics & computingG06V 20/46 Physics & computingG06V 20/52 Physics & computingMore from Apple in Security & privacy
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