Censored Manufacturing Video Distribution for Remote Procedure Verification
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing methods fail to effectively distribute censored videos of manufacturing procedures to remote viewers while ensuring operator privacy and data security, particularly in pharmaceutical manufacturing facilities.
Innovation Solution
A method involving a computer system that accesses and interprets video and audio feeds from manufacturing procedures, applies censorship specifications, and serves censored content to remote viewers, ensuring privacy and data security through fogging and muting of irrelevant objects and audio.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If video feeds from manufacturing procedures are distributed to remote viewers, then verification and quality control are enhanced, but operator privacy and data security are compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The video feed is segmented into multiple tracks, each containing information about specific objects or regions of interest. This allows selective distribution of different video segments to different remote viewers based on their authorization levels and relevance to the manufacturing procedure, enabling verification without exposing all visual information.
Solution Approach 2:
Different regions of the video feed are assigned different quality levels and censorship specifications. Critical areas requiring verification are made visible to authorized viewers, while sensitive areas containing operator identities or proprietary information are obscured or excluded, achieving localized privacy protection while maintaining overall verification capability.
2Measurement precision
If all objects in video feeds are visible to remote viewers, then complete verification is achieved, but data leaks and privacy violations occur
Solution Approach 1:
Specific objects and regions are extracted from the complete video feed and handled separately through a manifest file. This manifest explicitly defines which objects should be visible, censored, or excluded, allowing precise control over information disclosure while maintaining verification of critical manufacturing elements.
Solution Approach 2:
A computer system acts as an intermediary between the video capture devices and remote viewers. This intermediary processes the video feeds, applies censorship specifications, manages authorization, and distributes appropriate video segments, enabling verification while preventing direct access to raw, uncensored footage that could lead to data leaks.
3Adaptability or versatility
If multiple remote viewers access video feeds simultaneously, then stakeholder verification is improved, but system complexity and data protection difficulty increase
Solution Approach 1:
The video distribution system is designed to serve multiple types of remote viewers (manufacturers, regulators, third-party verifiers) through a unified platform. The same infrastructure handles different authorization levels, video segments, and censorship requirements for various stakeholder groups, reducing overall system complexity compared to separate systems for each viewer type.
Solution Approach 2:
Censorship specifications and object manifests are prepared in advance before video distribution begins. These pre-defined rules and configurations enable automatic, consistent processing of video feeds for multiple viewers without requiring real-time manual intervention, simplifying the management of complex multi-stakeholder access requirements.
Data Source
AI summary
One variation of the method for distributing censored videos of manufacturing procedures performed within a facility includes: accessing a video feed captured by a local device interfacing with a local operator during performance of a procedure within the facility; interpreting a set of objects depicted in the video feed based on features extracted from the video feed; accessing a minimum censorship specification for the procedure, the minimum censorship specification defining a set of object types corresponding to a first degree of censorship; identifying a subset of objects, in the set of objects, depicted in the video feed related to the procedure based on the set of object types defined in the minimum censorship specification; fogging the subset of objects in the video feed to generate a censored video feed; and serving the censored video feed to a remote viewer portal accessed by a remote viewer.