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Apparatus and method for preventing a picture from being taken by flash photography

  • US 20040227634A1
  • Filed: 05/14/2003
  • Published: 11/18/2004
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/14/2003
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An apparatus for obscuring a photographic image comprising, in combination:

  • a triggering mechanism which will generate a signal when detecting a light signal from a camera flash; and

    a flash unit coupled to the triggering mechanism for generating a counteracting flash after receiving the signal generated by the triggering mechanism for saturating an image field of the camera with light to obscure the photographic image.

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