US Patent Issued to Comcast Cable Communications on Aug. 26 for "Preserving user privacy in captured content" (California, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,034, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Preserving user privacy in captured content" was invented by Sravani Dandu (Santa Clara, Calif.), Muneem Shahriar (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Arun Ravisankar (Secane, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for preserving user privacy in captured content are disclosed. A device may capture content in a location. A user located at or near the location may not want to be depicted in the content. The user may be associated with a user device comprising a privacy setting (e.g., an opted-out device). The opted-out device may receive conten...