METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND DEVICES FOR HANDLING IMAGE CAPTURE DEVICES AND CAPTURED IMAGES

• US 20150106950A1
• Filed: 03/19/2014
• Published: 04/16/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 10/10/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Elwha LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Original Assignee: Elwha LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Inventors: Holman, Pablos, Hyde, Roderick A., Levien, Royce A., Lord, Richard T., Lord, Robert W., Malamud, Mark A.
• Application Number:
  US14/219,444
• Publication Number:
  US 20150106950A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 726/26
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6245 Protecting personal data, e.g. for financial or medical purposes

Abstract

Computationally implemented methods and systems include acquiring an encrypted image that is a captured image that has been encrypted through use of a particular device code associated with an image capture device that captured the captured image, wherein the captured image includes a representation of a feature of an entity, decrypting the acquired encrypted image that was encrypted through use of the particular device code, and performing a validation detection operation to detect a privacy beacon associated with the entity in the decrypted captured image. In addition to the foregoing, other aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text.

Claims

1. A computationally-implemented method, comprising:

acquiring an encrypted image that is a captured image that has been encrypted through use of a particular device code associated with an image capture device that captured the captured image, wherein the captured image includes a representation of a feature of an entity;

decrypting the acquired encrypted image that was encrypted through use of the particular device code;

performing a validation detection operation to detect a privacy beacon associated with the entity in the decrypted captured image; and

storing outcome data that includes at least a result of the performed validation detection operation to detect the privacy beacon in the captured image.

2. The computationally-implemented method of claim 1, wherein said acquiring an encrypted image that is a captured image that has been encrypted through use of a particular device code associated with an image capture device that captured the captured image, wherein the captured image includes a representation of a feature of an entity comprises:

acquiring the encrypted image that has been encrypted through use of the particular device code that is unique to the image capture device that captured the image, wherein the captured image includes the representation of the feature of the entity.

5. The computationally-implemented method of claim 1, wherein said acquiring an encrypted image that is a captured image that has been encrypted through use of a particular device code associated with an image capture device that captured the captured image, wherein the captured image includes a representation of a feature of an entity comprises:

acquiring the encrypted image that is a captured image that has been encrypted after detection of a privacy beacon in the image by the image capture device that captured the captured image.

6. The computationally-implemented method of claim 1, wherein said acquiring an encrypted image that is a captured image that has been encrypted through use of a particular device code associated with an image capture device that captured the captured image, wherein the captured image includes a representation of a feature of an entity comprises:

receiving the encrypted image that is the captured image that has been encrypted from the image capture device that captured the captured image.

7. The computationally-implemented method of claim 6, wherein said receiving the encrypted image that is the captured image that has been encrypted from the image capture device that captured the captured image comprises:

receiving the encrypted image that is the captured image that has been encrypted from the image capture device that received the captured image, in response to detection of a privacy beacon by the image capture device.

8. The computationally-implemented method of claim 1, wherein said acquiring an encrypted image that is a captured image that has been encrypted through use of a particular device code associated with an image capture device that captured the captured image, wherein the captured image includes a representation of a feature of an entity comprises:

acquiring an encrypted image that is an image of a celebrity person that has been encrypted through use of a particular device code assigned to a wearable computer that captured the image of the celebrity person, wherein the image of the celebrity person includes a pixel representation of a face of the celebrity person.

9. The computationally-implemented method of claim 1, wherein said decrypting the acquired encrypted image that was encrypted through use of the particular device code comprises:

decrypting the acquired image that was encrypted through use of the particular device code, through use of a decryption code.

10. The computationally-implemented method of claim 9, wherein said decrypting the acquired image that was encrypted through use of the particular device code, through use of a decryption code comprises:

acquiring the decryption code; and

decrypting the acquired image through use of the acquired decryption code.

11. The computationally-implemented method of claim 10, wherein said acquiring the decryption code comprises:

receiving the decryption code from the image capture device.

12. The computationally-implemented method of claim 1, wherein said decrypting the acquired encrypted image that was encrypted through use of the particular device code comprises:

decrypting the acquired image that was encrypted through use of the particular device code, wherein the acquired image is stored in a limited-access memory.

14. The computationally-implemented method of claim 1, wherein said performing a validation detection operation to detect a privacy beacon associated with the entity in the decrypted captured image comprises:

performing the validation detection operation to detect the privacy beacon associated with the entity in the decrypted captured image, wherein the validation detection operation is similar to a device detection operation to detect the privacy beacon that was previously performed on the captured image.

16. The computationally-implemented method of claim 1, wherein said performing a validation detection operation to detect a privacy beacon associated with the entity in the decrypted captured image comprises:

receiving a result of a device detection operation to detect the privacy beacon that was previously performed on the captured image;

performing the validation detection operation to detect the privacy beacon associated with the entity in the decrypted captured image; and

comparing the received result of the device detection operation with a performed result of the validation detection operation.

17. The computationally-implemented method of claim 16, wherein said receiving a result of a device detection operation to detect the privacy beacon that was previously performed on the captured image comprises:

receiving the result of the device detection operation to detect the privacy beacon that was previously performed on the captured image by an image capture device that captured the captured image.

18. The computationally-implemented method of claim 17, wherein said receiving the result of the device detection operation to detect the privacy beacon that was previously performed on the captured image by an image capture device that captured the captured image comprises:

receiving the result of the device detection operation to detect the privacy beacon that was previously performed on the captured image at a time of image capture, by the image capture device that captured the captured image.

20. The computationally-implemented method of claim 16, wherein said receiving a result of a device detection operation to detect the privacy beacon that was previously performed on the captured image comprises:

receiving the result of the device detection operation to detect the privacy beacon that was previously performed on the captured image, wherein the device detection operation is an optical detection of the privacy beacon performed on the captured image.

22. The computationally-implemented method of claim 16, wherein said performing the validation detection operation to detect the privacy beacon associated with the entity in the decrypted captured image comprises:

selecting a particular validation detection operation that is different than the device detection operation; and

performing the particular validation detection operation to detect the privacy beacon associated with the entity in the decrypted captured image.

23. The computationally-implemented method of claim 1, wherein said performing a validation detection operation to detect a privacy beacon associated with the entity in the decrypted captured image comprises:

performing the validation detection operation to detect the privacy beacon associated with the entity in the decrypted captured image, wherein the privacy beacon is configured to be used to facilitate retrieval of a terms of service governing use of the captured image.

26. The computationally-implemented method of claim 1, wherein said storing outcome data that includes at least a result of the performed validation detection operation to detect the privacy beacon in the captured image comprises:

storing outcome data that includes the result of the performed validation detection operation to detect the privacy beacon in the captured image, wherein said outcome data includes privacy beacon data of the privacy beacon detected in the validation detection operation.

27. The computationally-implemented method of claim 1, wherein said storing outcome data that includes at least a result of the performed validation detection operation to detect the privacy beacon in the captured image comprises:

storing outcome data that includes a result of the performed operation to detect the privacy beacon in the captured image, when the result of the performed validation detection operation does not match a result of a previously performed device detection operation on the captured image to detect the privacy beacon.

28. The computationally-implemented method of claim 27, wherein said storing outcome data that includes a result of the performed operation to detect the privacy beacon in the captured image, when the result of the performed validation detection operation does not match a result of a previously performed device detection operation on the captured image to detect the privacy beacon comprises:

storing outcome data that includes the result of the performed operation to detect the privacy beacon in the captured image, when the result of the performed validation detection operation detected a different privacy beacon than the result of the previously performed device detection operation on the captured image to detect the privacy beacon.

29. The computationally-implemented method of claim 27, wherein said storing outcome data that includes a result of the performed operation to detect the privacy beacon in the captured image, when the result of the performed validation detection operation does not match a result of a previously performed device detection operation on the captured image to detect the privacy beacon comprises:

storing outcome data that includes the result of the performed operation to detect the privacy beacon in the captured image, when the performed validation detection operation detected the privacy beacon and the device detection operation determined that the privacy beacon was absent from the captured image.

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88. A computationally-implemented system, comprising:

circuitry for emitting a capture beacon from a device configured to capture a particular image;

circuitry for receiving, in response to the emitted capture beacon, permission data from at least one device, wherein said permission data includes one or more permissions for capture of the particular image;

circuitry for capturing the particular image through use of an image capture component; and

circuitry for performing, on the captured particular image, one or more operations related to the received permission data.

89. The computationally-implemented system of claim 88, wherein said circuitry for emitting a capture beacon from a device configured to capture a particular image comprises:

circuitry for emitting the capture beacon from an image capture device configured to capture the particular image.

90. The computationally-implemented system of claim 89, wherein said circuitry for emitting the capture beacon from an image capture device configured to capture the particular image comprises:

circuitry for emitting the capture beacon from the image capture device configured to capture the particular image, in response to the capturing the particular image method operation.

91. The computationally-implemented system of claim 88, wherein said circuitry for emitting a capture beacon from a device configured to capture a particular image comprises:

circuitry for emitting the capture beacon configured to inform one or more monitor devices of an image capture capability of the device configured to capture the particular image.

92. The computationally-implemented system of claim 88, wherein said circuitry for emitting a capture beacon from a device configured to capture a particular image comprises:

circuitry for emitting the capture beacon configured to inform one or more monitor devices of a location of the device configured to capture the particular image.

94. The computationally-implemented system of claim 88, wherein said circuitry for emitting a capture beacon from a device configured to capture a particular image comprises:

circuitry for emitting the capture beacon configured to request permission to capture the particular image, from the device configured to capture the particular image.

95. The computationally-implemented system of claim 88, wherein said circuitry for emitting a capture beacon from a device configured to capture a particular image comprises:

circuitry for emitting the capture beacon configured to inform one or more devices that the particular image was captured.

96. The computationally-implemented system of claim 88, wherein said circuitry for receiving, in response to the emitted capture beacon, permission data from at least one device, wherein said permission data includes one or more permissions for capture of the particular image comprises:

circuitry for receiving permission data that indicates permission to capture images.

97. The computationally-implemented system of claim 96, wherein said circuitry for emitting the capture beacon configured to inform one or more devices that the particular image was captured comprises:

circuitry for receiving permission data that indicates permission to capture images, said permission configured to expire after a particular time period.

98. The computationally-implemented system of claim 88, wherein said circuitry for receiving, in response to the emitted capture beacon, permission data from at least one device, wherein said permission data includes one or more permissions for capture of the particular image comprises:

circuitry for receiving permission data that indicates a prohibition of capture of images.

99. The computationally-implemented system of claim 98, wherein said circuitry for receiving permission data that indicates a prohibition of capture of images comprises:

circuitry for receiving permission data that indicates a prohibition of capture of images, said prohibition configured to expire after a particular condition is met.

103. The computationally-implemented system of claim 88, wherein said circuitry for receiving, in response to the emitted capture beacon, permission data from at least one device, wherein said permission data includes one or more permissions for capture of the particular image comprises:

circuitry for receiving permission data that includes a request to delete the captured image.

104. The computationally-implemented system of claim 88, wherein said circuitry for receiving, in response to the emitted capture beacon, permission data from at least one device, wherein said permission data includes one or more permissions for capture of the particular image comprises:

circuitry for receiving permission data that includes a request to encrypt the captured image.

105. The computationally-implemented system of claim 88, wherein said circuitry for receiving, in response to the emitted capture beacon, permission data from at least one device, wherein said permission data includes one or more permissions for capture of the particular image comprises:

circuitry for receiving permission data that includes a request to transmit the captured image to a central server for analysis.

106. The computationally-implemented system of claim 88, wherein said circuitry for capturing the particular image through use of an image capture component comprises:

circuitry for capturing the particular image through use of the image capture component, after receipt of permission data indicating clearance to capture the particular image.

107. The computationally-implemented system of claim 88, wherein said circuitry for performing, on the captured particular image, one or more operations related to the received permission data comprises:

circuitry for performing an encryption operation on the captured particular image.

108. The computationally-implemented system of claim 107, wherein said circuitry for performing an encryption operation on the captured particular image comprises:

circuitry for performing the encryption operation on the captured particular image prior to one or more other operations on the captured particular image.

109. The computationally-implemented system of claim 107, wherein said circuitry for performing an encryption operation on the captured particular image comprises:

circuitry for performing the encryption operation on the captured particular image; and

circuitry for transmitting the encrypted captured particular image to a limited-access memory of an image capture device.

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