Patent Document ID: 9251403
Application ID: 13792840
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for automatically finding and digitally evaluating illegal image material, wherein a data memory is searched for image material, the method comprising: classifying, by a computer, found image material from the data memory that depicts image content that is potentially illegal image material; performing, by the computer, an age determination of the depicted persons in the image material classified as potentially illegal image material, and determining whether at least one person depicted in the image material classified as potentially illegal image material falls below a predetermined age; after performing the age determination, detecting, by the computer, biometric features of the persons shown in the potentially illegal image material and comparing the detected biometric features with at least one database containing previously detected biometric features; and detecting, by the computer, at least one contained additional feature in the potentially illegal image material and comparing the at least one contained additional feature with at least one relevant database, wherein a personal visual inspection of the image material is not performed.