Image Metadata Control Based on Privacy Rules
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1. A rules-based metadata privacy method, comprising:
- obtaining an image from an image sensor;
obtaining metadata for the image, the metadata describing one or more aspects of the image;
evaluating the metadata in accordance with a metadata processing rule to identify an action, wherein the act of evaluating occurs before the image is stored in a long-term storage medium;
preforming the action on the metadata to generate modified metadata, wherein the act of performing occurs before the image is stored in the long-term storage medium; and
storing the image and the modified metadata in the long-term storage medium.
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Abstract
Systems, methods, and computer readable media for managing image metadata based on the use of rules are described. In general, this disclosure describes how to control the recordation of image metadata through the use of rules. More particularly, rules may be specified that are “executed” against an image'"'"'s metadata at capture time. Depending upon whether the rule was satisfied and what the rule'"'"'s specified action is, image metadata may be retained, removed or modified as the image and its metadata is stored.
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1. A rules-based metadata privacy method, comprising:
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obtaining an image from an image sensor; obtaining metadata for the image, the metadata describing one or more aspects of the image; evaluating the metadata in accordance with a metadata processing rule to identify an action, wherein the act of evaluating occurs before the image is stored in a long-term storage medium; preforming the action on the metadata to generate modified metadata, wherein the act of performing occurs before the image is stored in the long-term storage medium; and storing the image and the modified metadata in the long-term storage medium. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. A non-transitory computer readable medium, comprising:
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computer code to obtain an image from an image sensor; computer code to obtain metadata for the image, the metadata describing one or more aspects of the image; computer code to evaluate the metadata in accordance with a metadata processing rule to identify an action, wherein the computer code to evaluate is executed before the image is stored in a long-term storage medium; computer code to preform the action on the metadata to generate modified metadata; and computer code to store the image and the modified metadata in the long-term storage medium.
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17. A digital image capture device, comprising:
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an image sensor; image sensor memory, operatively coupled to the image sensor; a location sensor operatively coupled to the image sensor memory; long-term storage operatively coupled to the image sensor memory; a memory having computer program code stored therein; and a processor operatively coupled to the image sensor memory, the memory and the long-term storage, the processor adapted to execute computer code to— determine the image sensor has placed an image in the image sensor memory, obtain a metadata processing rule, evaluate the metadata processing rule against metadata associated with the image to identify an action, perform the action on the metadata to generate modified metadata, and cause the image and the modified metadata to be transferred to the long-term storage.
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