Patent ID: 7940302

Claim:
A security system which is nonintrusive of personal privacy of a person in a space comprising: a first localization sensor subsystem, if any, corresponding to the person; a video surveillance subsystem arranged and configured to collect visual data related to the person in the space; a computer subsystem coupled to the first localization sensor subsystem and the video surveillance subsystem to associate a predetermined one of a plurality of privacy levels with the first localization sensor subsystem, and to provide an access control privilege with the first localization sensor subsystem, the computer subsystem determining when and where to obfuscate the visual data if the predetermined privacy level associated with the person is within spatial and temporal bounds of the space; and a second localization sensor subsystem corresponding to an object and where the computer subsystem determines how to obfuscate the visual data according to association within a space of a identified person with the object.