Patent ID: 8737688

Claim:
A method comprising: affixing a first tag to a first known individual and affixing a second tag to a second known individual, the first tag comprising a uniquely identifiable first feature and the second tag comprising a uniquely identifiable second feature, and each one of the first tag and the second tag having associated therewith a predetermined image-forwarding rule; subsequent to affixing the first tag to the first known individual and affixing the second tag to the second known individual, capturing image data within a known field of view of an image capture system; using image analysis, identifying within the captured image data the first tag and the second tag, based on the uniquely identifiable first feature and the uniquely identifiable second feature, respectively; and processing the captured image data in accordance with the image-forwarding rule associated with the first tag and the image-forwarding rule associated with the second tag, wherein processing the captured image data comprises: cropping a first portion of the captured image data containing the first known individual when the image-forwarding rule associated with the first tag comprises a forwarding denial instruction; and forwarding to a destination a second portion of the captured image data containing the second known individual, when the image-forwarding rule associated with the second tag comprises an indication of the destination and an authorization for forwarding the captured image data to the destination.