Securing information using entity detection

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9075974-B2
Application number	US-201213557854-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 25, 2012
Priority date	Jul 25, 2012
Publication date	Jul 7, 2015
Grant date	Jul 7, 2015

Abstract

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer-readable storage medium, and including a method are provided where the method includes receiving information from an image processing source that includes one or more images of a view area associated with a device, wherein the view area is an area located in front of a display screen associated with the device, wherein the view area enables one or more entities to view the display screen; determining one or more entities located within the view area based at least in part on the one or more images of the view area associated with the device; validating the one or more entities located within the view area; and when an entity within the view area is not validated, producing a security response.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method comprising:
receiving, at a device during a time when a user is engaged in a session with the device, a request to access content that is identified as privacy-sensitive content;
in response to receiving the request to access the privacy-sensitive content, receiving information from an image processing source that includes one or more images of a view area associated with the device, wherein the view area associated with the device is an area loca…

Assignees

• Barr John Mathias
• Park Geon Hyuk
• Gupta Somit
• Google Inc

Inventors

• Barr John Mathias
• Park Geon Hyuk
• Gupta Somit

Classifications

• G06K9/00295

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F21/32 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06V40/173

  Physics · mapped topic