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 0:
1. 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;
an obscuring logic configured to execute an obscuring process configured to:
obscure data in a format;
determine category instance information about said one or more identity-correlated object categories;

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;
the detection logic and obscuring logic further configured to:
provide automatic selection 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;
detect and obscure data on every rth frame; wherein the detection logic and obscuring logic is configured to detect identity-correlated regions and obscure those regions on every rth frame;
detect and generate new data for an identity-correlated region in an I-frame;
generate a P-frame or B-frame version of the new data; and
output a privacy protected image using the I-frame new data and the P-frame or B-frame version of the new data.