Patent Document ID: 9990700
Application ID: 15201015
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A system, comprising: a picture and associated metadata captured by a content capture system, the associated metadata including a picture time when the picture was taken and a picture location where the picture was taken, the picture possibly including a captured representation of a target user; a recognizable characteristic datastore configured to store recognizable characteristics of a plurality of target users, the recognizable characteristics of each respective target user of the plurality of target users capable of assisting in identifying captured representations of the respective target user in pictures, each respective target user of the plurality of target users associated with a respective mobile device; a datastore configured to store user preferences of each respective target user of the plurality of target users, the user preferences defining when the respective target user of the plurality of target users wishes to distort or wishes not to distort captured representations of the respective target user of the plurality of target users in pictures; a location identification module configured to capture a target location of each respective mobile device associated with each respective target user of the plurality of target users at a plurality of target times in a day; a module configured to: identify from the associated metadata the picture time when the picture was taken and the picture location where the picture was taken, and evaluate the target locations of the plurality of mobile devices associated with the plurality of target users to identify any particular mobile devices that were at or near the picture location at or near the picture time to identify a set of one or more potential target users of the plurality of target users who might have been captured in the picture; a characteristic recognition module configured to: retrieve the recognizable characteristics of each potential target user of the set of one or more potential target users, evaluate the picture to try to identify any captured representation of any potential target user of the set of one or more potential target users who was captured in the picture, by searching the picture for the recognizable characteristics of each potential target user of the set of one or more potential target users, and define each potential target user of the set of one or more potential target users who was identified to have been captured in the picture as an actual target user; a distortion module configured to: retrieve the user preferences of any actual target user, determine whether the user preferences of any actual target user indicate a wish to distort at least a portion of the captured representation of the actual target user in the picture, and in response to the user preferences, initiate a process to distort the at least a portion of the captured representation of the actual target user to generate a distorted picture; and a communication module configured to communicate at least a portion of the distorted picture to a computer network.