Screen Recording Content Control Module for Privacy Protection
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Solution Overview
Problem
During screen recording sessions on devices, personal and sensitive information such as contact details, photos, and financial transactions are inadvertently captured and shared publicly, posing a risk of privacy disclosure.
Innovation Solution
A content control module is implemented in devices to differentiate and obscure personally identifiable information (PII) during screen recordings, allowing users to review unfiltered recordings privately and share filtered recordings that exclude PII, preventing visual and audio exposure of sensitive content.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If screen recording captures all display content including notifications, then complete recording of device operations is achieved, but personal information disclosure risk increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts and separates personal information from the screen recording content. The system identifies PII elements (notifications, messages, emails) and extracts them from the recording stream, allowing users to review complete recordings privately while sharing only filtered versions that exclude sensitive information.
Solution Approach 2:
The recording is segmented into different versions: a complete unfiltered version for private user review and a filtered version for public sharing. The segmentation separates content containing PII from content that can be safely shared, enabling differentiated access control.
2Ease of operation
If notifications are displayed during screen recording, then user awareness is maintained, but personal content is publicly exposed
Solution Approach 1:
The system introduces an intermediary filtering mechanism that processes notifications before they are captured in the recording. The intermediary identifies sensitive notification content and modifies or removes it from the shared recording while preserving the complete notification experience for the user during the recording process.
3Object-affected harmful factors
If content control filters personal information, then privacy protection is improved, but recording complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The content control system operates autonomously to identify and filter personal information without requiring manual user intervention. The system self-regulates by automatically detecting PII patterns, making decisions about what to filter, and generating appropriate filtered versions of the recording.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary identification and classification of potential PII content during the recording process itself, rather than filtering after the fact. This preliminary action allows for real-time differentiation between content that should be shared and content that should be protected.
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AI summary
In aspects of personal content managed during extended display screen recording, a screen recording system includes a wireless device that provides digital image content for display on an extended display device, and a screen recording session on the wireless device captures the digital image content and audio data. The wireless device implements a content control module that can determine the screen recording session would capture personal content associated with a user of the wireless device. The content control module can initiate a private screen review mode in which the personal content is displayable on a display screen of the wireless device and is prevented from visual display on the extended display device. The content control module can also generate a shareable screen recording that includes the audio data and the digital image content displayed on the extended display device, without including the personal content.