Patent Document ID: 20130322706
Application ID: 13488022
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A method for an individual to disrupt recognition of facial characteristics of the individual by a facial recognition system designed to determine one or more characteristics of a face of the individual when viewed by a camera of the facial recognition system, said method comprising the steps of: providing an object which is adapted to be worn by the individual adjacent the face of the individual; fixing at least one infrared radiation emitter to the object, where the infrared radiation emitter emits mostly infrared radiation; wearing of the object by the individual with the at least one infrared radiation emitter adjacent the face of the individual; and directing the infrared radiation from the at least one radiation emitter at least one of a) onto at least a surface portion of the face of the individual or b) forward of the face of the user at all times, and hence causing the infrared radiation from the at least one radiation emitter to be received by the camera of the facial recognition system as the face of the individual is viewed by the camera of the facial recognition system, whereby an image of the face of the individual obtained by the camera of the facial recognition system is substantially different from an image which would have been obtained were the infrared radiation from the at least one radiation emitter not emitted at least one of onto at least the surface portion of the face or forward of the face of the user, so that determination of one or more facial characteristics of the individual by the facial recognition system is disrupted.