Apple’s reportedly developing a smart home camera that doesn’t record video
Apple’s reportedly developing a smart home camera that doesn’t record video
传苹果正在开发一款不录制视频的智能家居摄像头
With Apple rumored to launch a smart home hub next month, it could come with a privacy-protecting security camera too. 有传言称苹果将于下个月推出一款智能家居中枢，届时可能还会同步发布一款注重隐私保护的安防摄像头。
Apple’s rumored push into smart home tech could include a smart home security camera that only gives users text event descriptions instead of video footage. Mark Gurman said in the first episode of the Power On podcast that the camera will be part of “a new Apple smart home ecosystem,” alongside Apple’s rumored smart home hub: 苹果进军智能家居领域的传闻可能包括一款智能安防摄像头，它不会提供视频画面，而是仅向用户发送文字形式的事件描述。马克·古尔曼（Mark Gurman）在《Power On》播客的第一集中表示，这款摄像头将与传闻中的苹果智能家居中枢一起，成为“苹果全新智能家居生态系统”的一部分：
They’re also building home security products, both first-party and third-party home security products. And the biggest thing is a program called J450. And this is an offshoot and a companion product to the J490 smart home display. And these are little cameras that you can put around your house. They have very low frame rate. It looks like a cylinder. It looks like a metal giant, you know, chapstick. “他们还在开发第一方和第三方的家庭安防产品。其中最重大的项目代号为 J450，它是 J490 智能家居显示屏的衍生产品和配套设备。这些是可以放置在屋内的微型摄像头，帧率非常低。它的外观呈圆柱形，看起来就像一个巨大的金属唇膏。”
And what does that mean? No video recording. So it’s a sensor that cannot actually pull in real video footage. It’s analyzing your environment in your home and around your home simply using AI. “这意味着什么呢？意味着它不会录制视频。它本质上是一个无法获取真实视频画面的传感器，仅通过人工智能来分析你家中及周边的环境。”
Gurman also mentions that the camera uses “a very similar technology” to what Apple’s reportedly developing for a pair of AirPods with cameras that leaked earlier this year. 古尔曼还提到，这款摄像头所使用的技术与苹果据传正在开发的、今年早些时候泄露的带摄像头 AirPods 所使用的技术“非常相似”。
Instead of using something like mmWave for presence sensing, using an image sensor with AI embedded that processes everything on-device, like these Sony IMX500 sensors, could work without passing images that would need to be stored and secured. Apple Home currently has a “Detect Activity” setting for HomeKit Secure Video cameras that stops video streaming and recording, but continues tracking motion, similar to what Gurman describes. 与其使用毫米波（mmWave）进行存在感应，不如使用内置 AI 并能进行端侧处理的图像传感器（例如索尼 IMX500），这样无需传输需要存储和加密的图像即可实现功能。苹果家庭应用目前为 HomeKit 安全视频摄像头提供了一项“检测活动”（Detect Activity）设置，该功能会停止视频流传输和录制，但仍会继续追踪运动，这与古尔曼描述的情况类似。
He goes on to add that the smart home camera will have facial recognition for things like detecting when someone enters a room, but, “You’re not getting anything but text descriptions. There’s nothing you can do with it. There’s no video recording.” 他补充说，这款智能家居摄像头将具备人脸识别功能，例如检测是否有人进入房间，但“你除了文字描述外什么也得不到。你无法对它进行任何操作，因为它根本没有视频录制功能。”