Patent attributes
Systems (100) and methods (300) for selectively controlling privacy masking of image and/or video content. The methods involve: performing privacy masking operations by a privacy masking component to encode at least one first captured image or first captured video with first privacy masking features obscuring privacy sensitive areas of the first captured image or first captured video; detecting an arming of an intrusion detection system or an alarm condition; and communicating a message to the privacy masking component for overriding the privacy masking operations such that at least one second captured image or second captured video is not encoded with second privacy masking features during a certain period of time, in response to the arming of an intrusion detection system or the detection of the alarm condition.