Technologies for presenting public and private images

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10380375-B2
Application number	US-201414551911-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 24, 2014
Priority date	Nov 24, 2014
Publication date	Aug 13, 2019
Grant date	Aug 13, 2019

Abstract

Technologies for displaying public and private images includes a display device and one or more user viewing devices. The display device is configured to display or generate a personalized image or video that is viewable by an authorized user viewing device and not viewable by unauthorized viewing devices. To facilitate the display of the personalized images, the display device and the user viewing device(s) may negotiate a display protocol to be used by the display device to display the personalized image in a private manner. In some embodiment, the display device may also display a public image or video that is viewable by unauthorized viewing devices and/or individuals without viewing devices.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A display device for displaying personalized images, the display device comprising:
a viewer detection module to determine whether a user viewing device is in a proximity to the display device;
a display personalization module to (i) authorize the user viewing device to view a personalized image in response to a determination that the user viewing device is in the proximity and (ii) establish a display protocol with the user viewing device in response to authorization of the user viewing device, wherein the display protocol is useable by the display device to display the personalized image; and
a display control module to control a display of the display device to (i) display on the display the personalized image to a user of the user viewing device based on the display protocol, wherein the personalized image is viewable by the user viewing device and is not viewable by unauthorized viewing devices, and (ii) display a public image on the display, wherein the public image is viewable by unauthorized viewing devices.

2. The display device of claim 1 , wherein to control the display of the display device comprises to display the personalized image in an encrypted or obfuscated format on the display.

3. The display device of claim 1 , wherein the display protocol is (i) usable by the display device to obscure the personalized image on the display device and (ii) usable by the user viewing device to unobscure the personalized image on the user viewing device.

4. The display device of claim 1 , wherein to authorize the user viewing device comprises to determine the personalized image based a viewer policy associated with the user of the user viewing device.

5. The display device of claim 1 , wherein:
the display personalization module is further to track a position of the user viewing device relative to the display device, and
the display control module is to control the display to display the personalized image to the user of the user viewing device based on the display protocol and the position of the user viewing device relative to the display device.

6. The display device of claim 1 , wherein the display personalization module is further to:
track a position of the user viewing device relative to the display device; and
update the display protocol based on the position of the user viewing device relative to the display device.

7. A method for displaying personalized images on a display device, the method comprising:
determining, by the display device, whether a user viewing device in a proximity to the display device;
authorizing, by the display device, the user viewing device to view a personalized image in response to a determination that the user viewing device is in the proximity;
establishing, by the display device and with the user viewing device, a display protocol useable to display the personalized image in response to authorizing the user viewing device; and
controlling a display of the display device to (i) display on the display the personalized image to a user of the user viewing device based on the display protocol such that the personalized image is viewable by the user viewing device and is not viewable by unauthorized viewing devices and (ii) display a public image on the display, wherein the public image is viewable by unauthorized viewing device.

8. The method of claim 7 , wherein controlling the display of the display device comprises displaying the personalized image in an encrypted or obfuscated format on the display.

9. The method of claim 7 , wherein establishing the display protocol comprises establishing a display protocol (i) usable by the display device to obscure the personalized image on the display device and (ii) usable by the user viewing device to unobscured the personalized image on the user viewing device.

10. The method of claim 7 , wherein authorizing the user viewing device comprises determining the personalized image based a viewer policy associated with the user of the user viewing device.

11. One or more non-transitory machine readable storage media comprising a plurality of instructions stored thereon that, in response to execution, cause a display device to:
determine whether a user viewing device in a proximity to the display device;
authorize the user viewing device to view a personalized image in response to a determination that the user viewing device is in the proximity;
establish, with the user viewing device, a display protocol useable to display the personalized image in response to authorizing the user viewing device; and
control a display of the display device to (i) display on the display the personalized image to a user of the user viewing device based on the display protocol such that the personalized image is viewable by the user viewing device and is not viewable by unauthorized viewing devices and (ii) display a public image on the display, wherein the public image is viewable by unauthorized viewing devices, wherein to display the personalized image and the public image comprises to display the personalized image and the public image concurrently with each other on the display device.

12. The one or more non-transitory machine readable storage media of claim 11 , wherein to control the display of the display device comprises to display the personalized image in an encrypted or obfuscated format on the display.

13. The one or more non-transitory machine readable storage media of claim 11 , wherein to establish the display protocol comprises to establish a display protocol (i) usable by the display device to obscure the personalized image on the display device and (ii) usable by the user viewing device to unobscured the personalized image on the user viewing device.

14. The one or more non-transitory machine readable storage media of claim 11 , wherein to authorize the user viewing device comprises to determine the personalized image based a viewer policy associated with the user of the user viewing device.

15. The display device of claim 4 , further including a sensor to generate sensor data indicative of a characteristic of at least one of the user viewing device or the user of the user viewing device, wherein the display personalization module is to infer the viewer policy based on the sensor data.

16. The display device of claim 1 , wherein to determine whether the user viewing device is in the proximity comprises to monitor a network connection to which the display device is connected for network communication from the user viewing device.

17. The display device of claim 1 , wherein to determine whether the user viewing device is in the proximity comprises to receive a query communication from the user viewing device.

18. The display device of claim 1 , wherein the user viewing device is a pair of smart glasses.

Assignees

• Intel Corp

Inventors

• Weast John C
• Boelter Joshua

Classifications

• G09G2354/00

  Aspects of interface with display user · CPC title

• G06F3/14 Primary

  Digital output to display device {; Cooperation and interconnection of the display device with other functional units} · CPC title

• G06F21/84

  output devices, e.g. displays or monitors · CPC title

• G09G2358/00

  Arrangements for display data security · CPC title

• G06F21/35

  communicating wirelessly · CPC title