Patent Document ID: 8965047
Application ID: 13495724
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A computer-implemented method for performing selective viewing of a scene, the method comprising: acquiring an image of a real scene using a camera; identifying, in the acquired image, a first object in the real scene located on a first side of a virtual plane defined for the real scene and a second object located on a second side of the virtual plane; modifying the acquired image by removing image content corresponding to the identified first object, wherein image content corresponding to the identified second object is not removed based on the second object being located on the second side; and displaying the modified acquired image to a person performing surveillance of the real scene, wherein the virtual plane is defined at a specific location in a passageway in the real scene such that any object passing through the virtual plane in the passageway is only visible in the modified acquired image while on one of the first and second sides.