Apparatus, method, and program product for enhancing privacy via facial feature obfuscation
AssigneeLenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
InventorsJohn W. Nicholson, Daryl C. Cromer, Howard Locker, Mengnan Wang
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Abstract
There is disclosed an information handling system, including a camera, which may include an input lens, and an image signal processor, which may include circuitry that converts an analog image received at the input lens to a digital image data structure; a device interface may include circuitry that provides the image data structure to an information handling device, and a modifier circuit that modifies human features of the digital image data structure before the digital image data structure is provided to the device interface.
Claims20
An apparatus comprising:
- a camera comprising an input lens, and an image signal processor comprising circuitry that converts all of an analog image received at the input lens to a digital image data structure;
- a device interface comprising circuitry that provides the digital image data structure to an information handling device;
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- a modifier circuit that modifies features of the digital image data structure before the digital image data structure is provided to the device interface, wherein a single on/off switch implemented as a hardware switch or via a graphical user interface comprises a first switch selection and a second switch selection, the first switch selection activates the modifier circuit so that facial features of all faces in the digital image data structure are modified, and the second switch selection deactivates the modifier circuit so that the facial features of the faces in the digital image data structure are not modified.
A program product comprising a computer-readable storage medium that stores code executable by at least one processor, the executable code comprising code to perform:
- receiving an image at a camera;
- receiving a first switch selection, wherein a single on/off switch implemented as a hardware switch or via a graphical user interface comprises the first switch selection and a second switch selection, the first switch selection activates obfuscation of facial features of all faces in all of the image, and the second switch selection deactivates the obfuscation of the facial features of the faces;
- in response to receiving the first switch selection, obfuscating features from the image to produce a modified digital image data structure;
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- providing the modified digital image data structure to a processor connected to the camera.
A method comprising:
- receiving an image at a camera;
- receiving a first switch selection, wherein a single on/off switch implemented as a hardware switch or via a graphical user interface comprises the first switch selection and a second switch selection, the first switch selection activates obfuscation of facial features of all faces in all of the image, and the second switch selection deactivates the obfuscation of the facial features of the faces;
- in response to receiving the first switch selection, obfuscating facial features from the image to produce a modified digital image data structure;
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- providing the modified digital image data structure to a processor connected to the camera.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.