Processing of Facial Data Through Bi-Optic Pipeline
AssigneeZebra Technologies Corporation
InventorsChristopher W. Brock, Yuri Astvatsaturov
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Abstract
Systems and methods for anonymizing image data are disclosed herein. An example implementation includes: capturing, with an indicia reader, an image data of a field of view (FOV) associated with an imager within the indicia reader; determining, with the indicia reader, a facial area within the image data; producing, with the indicia reader, an anonymized image data by altering pixel data of the facial area of the image data; and (i) storing the anonymized image data in a nonvolatile memory of the indicia reader, or (ii) transmitting the anonymized image data from the indicia reader to one or more host processors.
Claims36
A method, comprising:
- capturing, with an indicia reader, an image data of a field of view (FOV) associated with an imager within the indicia reader;
- determining, with the indicia reader, a facial area within the image data;
- producing, with the indicia reader, an anonymized image data by altering pixel data of the facial area of the image data;
- and
- (i) storing the anonymized image data in a nonvolatile memory of the indicia reader, or (ii) transmitting the anonymized image data from the indicia reader to one or more host processors.
An imaging engine, the imaging engine comprising one or more processors configured to:
- capture an image data of the FOV;
- determine a facial area within the image data;
- produce an anonymized image data by altering pixel data of the facial area of the image data;
- and
- (i) store the anonymized image data in a nonvolatile memory of the indicia reader, or (ii) transmit the anonymized image data from the indicia reader to one or more host processors.
An indicia reader, comprising:
- an imaging assembly configured to capture image data of an environment appearing in a field of view (FOV);
- a housing including a tower, a platter, and the imaging assembly;
- and
- a non-transitory computer-readable media storing machine-readable instructions that, when executed, cause the indicia reader to:
- capture an image data of the FOV;
- determine a facial area within the image data;
- produce an anonymized image data by altering pixel data of the facial area of the image data;
- and
- (i) store the anonymized image data in a nonvolatile memory of the indicia reader, or (ii) transmit the anonymized image data from the indicia reader to one or more host processors.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.