Patent Document ID: 9858699
Application ID: 15417971
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method, in a data processing system, for image anonymization, the method comprising: identifying a plurality of items in an image; performing image analysis to identify properties of the plurality of items; storing the properties of the plurality of items into one or more data structures; querying an analytics tool to determine, for each combination of two or more properties of the plurality of items, a probability that the combination of two or more properties of the plurality of items identifies a person in the image; determining that a given combination of two or more properties of the plurality of items identifies a person in the image by comparing its corresponding probability to a threshold; responsive to determining the given combination of two or more properties of the plurality of items identifies a person in the image, modifying the plurality of items in the image to form an anonymized image; and outputting the anonymized image.