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US 11,696,012 B2Granted
Privacy protected image and obscuration system
AssigneeThe Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Homeland Security
InventorArun Vemury
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Abstract
Systems and methods are disclosed and an example system includes a digital image receiver for receiving a digital image, and an automatic obscuration processor coupled to the image receiver and configured to determine whether the digital image includes a region that classifies as an image of a category of object and, upon a positive determination, to obscure the region and output a corresponding obscured-region digital image.
Claims28
A system for generating a privacy protected image comprising:
- an image capture device configured to receive an image;
- wherein the image is a still image, a sequence of images, or a moving picture image;
- a detection logic configured to execute a detection process configured to:
- detect one or more identity-correlated object categories;
- determine category instance information about said one or more identity-correlated object categories;
- an obscuring logic configured to execute an obscuring process configured to obscure data in a format;
- the detection logic and obscuring logic configured to include an automatic category-specific selecting between irreversible obscuring and reversible obscuring;
- a privacy protected image output logic configured to generate the privacy protected image using the object category, obscuration type, and the image;
- and
- a processor having access to an instruction memory configured to store, in a tangible medium, processor-executable instructions that causes the processor to perform functions in the detection logic, obscuring logic, and the privacy protected image output logic.
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A method for generating a privacy protected image comprising the steps of:
- receiving an image;
- wherein the image is a still image, a sequence of images, or a moving picture image;
- detecting one or more identity-correlated object categories with a detection process;
- determining category instance information about said one or more identity-correlated object categories with the detection process;
- obscuring data with an obscuring process;
- generating an object category and an obscuration type;
- the steps of detecting and obscuring including
- automatic category-specific selecting between irreversible obscuring and reversible obscuring;
- and
- generating the privacy protected image using the object category, obscuration type, and the image.
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A system for generating a privacy protected image comprising:
- an image capture device configured to receive an image;
- wherein the image is a still image, a sequence of images, or a moving picture image;
- a detection logic configured to execute a detection process configured to:
- detect one or more identity-correlated object categories;
- determine category instance information about said one or more identity-correlated object categories;
- an obscuring logic configured to execute an obscuring process configured to obscure data in a format:
- the detection logic and obscuring logic configured to:
- provide automatic selection of a type of obscuring to be used based on the detected category;
- wherein said automatic selection includes automatically selecting among a plurality of different, category specific types of reversible obscuring;
- or
- include an automatic category-specific selecting between irreversible obscuring and reversible obscuring;
- a privacy protected image output logic configured to generate the privacy protected image using the object category, obscuration type, and the image;
- and
- a processor having access to an instruction memory configured to store, in a tangible medium, processor-executable instructions that causes the processor to perform functions in the detection logic, obscuring logic, and the privacy protected image output logic;
- wherein the system is configured to reversibly obscure at least one of the identity-correlated object categories and irreversibly obscure at least one of the identity-correlated object categories.
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A method for generating a privacy protected image comprising the steps of:
- receiving an image;
- wherein the image is a still image, a sequence of images, or a moving picture image;
- detecting one or more identity-correlated object categories with a detection process;
- determining category instance information about said one or more identity-correlated object categories with the detection process;
- obscuring data with an obscuring process;
- generating an object category and an obscuration type;
- the steps of detecting and obscuring including:
- automatic selecting among a plurality of different, category-specific types of reversible obscuring;
- or
- automatic category-specific selecting between irreversible obscuring and reversible obscuring;
- and
- generating the privacy protected image using the object category, obscuration type, and the image;
- reversibly obscuring at least one of the identity-correlated object categories and irreversibly obscuring at least one of the identity-correlated object categories.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.