Patent ID: 9077950
Filing Date: 2015-07-07
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An electronic device comprising: an imaging sensor for generating image data containing image content newly created by a user of the electronic device, a processor, a data storage medium, a communications interface, and an image content control layer; the image content control layer being interposed between the imaging sensor and both the data storage medium and the communications interface, to receive said image data from the imaging sensor; the image content control layer comprising an object and scene analysis module storing instructions, executable by the processor, for analyzing and filtering said image data containing newly created content received from the imaging sensor, said instructions comprising image content criteria defining objects and scenes comprising sexually inappropriate content, said image content criteria being universally applicable for filtering any image data received from the imaging sensor; the image content control layer being configured for analyzing and filtering all image data received from the imaging sensor based on said image content criteria before storing and before passing said image data for further processing, by intercepting image data before rendering of the newly created content as viewable, displayable, transmittable and otherwise accessible by the user or others; wherein analyzing comprises performing object recognition and scene analysis, and detecting, based on said stored image content criteria, whether or not objects or scenes of the image data contain sexually inappropriate content; and wherein filtering comprises blocking storage, transmission and further processing of the entire image data when it contains sexually inappropriate content, and otherwise passing the entire image data to the data storage medium or communications interface for any one of storing, transmitting, and further processing of the image data by the electronic device.