Patent Document ID: 20130182006
Application ID: 13351141
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A computer program product, comprising: a computer readable storage device to store a computer readable program, wherein the computer readable program, when executed by a processor within a computer, causes the computer to perform operations for de-identification of visual media data, the operations comprising: merging a sequence of images from a set of visual media data into an averaged image; bounding portions of the averaged image that are determined to be relatively fixed, wherein each bounded portion corresponds to identification information located at a relatively fixed position in a plurality of images in the sequence of images, wherein each bounded portion is identified by a corresponding position in the averaged image; generating a template for de-identifying the sequence of images, wherein the template comprises the bounded portions and the corresponding position for each bounded portion in the averaged image; and de-identifying the sequence of images by obfuscating content in the bounded portions.