Patent ID: 11968440
Assignee: THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF HOMELAND SECURITY
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 11:
12. 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 selecting of a type of obscuring to be used based on the identity-correlated object category; wherein said automatic selection includes automatically selecting among a plurality of different, category specific types of reversible obscuring;
generating the privacy protected image using the object category, obscuration type, and the image; and
reversibly obscuring at least one of the identity-correlated object categories and irreversibly obscuring at least one of the identity-correlated object categories.