METHOD, APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR CONTROLLING ACCESS TO AT LEAST ONE OR MULTIPLE IMAGES CAPTURED CONCURRENTLY

• US 20180189510A1
• Filed: 06/22/2016
• Published: 07/05/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 06/23/2015
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy (Nokia Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy (Nokia Corporation)
• Application Number:
  US15/736,417
• Publication Number:
  US 20180189510A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/54 Browsing; Visualisation therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/604 Tools and structures for managing or administering access control systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6218 to a system of files or objects, e.g. local or distributed file system or database
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/173 face re-identification, e.g. recognising unknown faces across different face tracks
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41407 embedded in a portable device, e.g. video client on a mobile phone, PDA, laptop constructional details of equipment or arrangements specially adapted for portable computer application G06F1/1626; arrangements specially adapted for mobile receivers in broadcast systems H04H20/57
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4223 Cameras H04N23/00 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4542 Blocking scenes or portions of the received content, e.g. censoring scenes
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/45455 applied to a region of the image
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/485 End-user interface for client configuration
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8153 comprising still images, e.g. texture, background image
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/835 Generation of protective data, e.g. certificates protecting software against unauthorised usage in a vending or licensing environment G06F21/10
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/45 for generating image signals from two or more image sensors being of different type or operating in different modes, e.g. with a CMOS sensor for moving images in combination with a charge-coupled device [CCD] for still images
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/62 Control of parameters via user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/2624 for obtaining an image which is composed of whole input images, e.g. splitscreen
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/06 Authentication

Abstract

A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided to facilitate the concurrent capture of first and second images by a mobile terminal and the subsequent viewing or sharing of the images. In the context of a method, an indication is received that first and second images have been captured concurrently by the mobile terminal. The first image is captured of a scene in a first direction from the mobile terminal. The second image is captured of a scene in a second direction from the mobile terminal, different from the first direction. The method also includes associating a security level with at least one of the first and second images to control access thereto. A corresponding apparatus and computer program product are also provided.

Claims

1-24. -24. (canceled)

25. A method comprising:

receiving an indication that first and second images have been captured concurrently by a mobile terminal, wherein the first image is captured of a scene in a first direction from the mobile terminal and the second image is captured of a scene in a second direction from the mobile terminal, different from the first direction; and

associating a security level, of a plurality of security levels, with at least one of the first or second images, wherein the plurality of security levels define different degrees of obfuscation of the at least one of the first or second images when the at least one of the first or second images is accessed without proper authentication.

26. A method according to claim 25 wherein associating the security level comprises associating the security level with the second image restricting access to the second image without correspondingly restricting access to the first image.

27. A method according to claim 25 wherein the security level is associated with the first image and wherein the method further comprising associating a different security level, of the plurality of security levels, with the second image so as to differently control access to the first and second images.

28. A method according to claim 25 wherein the plurality of security levels include a lowest security level that provides no obfuscation of the respective image, a highest security level that provides complete obfuscation of the respective image and one or more intermediate security levels that provide different degrees of partial obfuscation of the respective image.

29. A method according to claim 25 wherein receiving the indication comprises receiving the first and second images from front and rear image capturing devices of the mobile device, respectively, and wherein the method further comprises providing for storage of the first and second images with the security level associated with the at least one of the first and second images.

30. A method according to claim 25 wherein the degree of obfuscation provides for obfuscation of at least a face within the respective image.

31. A method according to claim 30 wherein the face is selected by a user or identified using facial recognition technique.

32. A method according to claim 25 wherein at least one of the first and second images comprises a frame in a video having a plurality of sequential frames.

33. An apparatus comprising:

means for receiving an indication that first and second images have been captured concurrently by a mobile terminal, wherein the first image is captured of a scene in a first direction from the mobile terminal and the second image is captured of a scene in a second direction from the mobile terminal, different from the first direction; and

means for associating a security level, of a plurality of security levels, with at least one of the first or second images, wherein the plurality of security levels define different degrees of obfuscation of the at least one of the first or second images when the at least one of the first or second images is accessed without proper authentication.

34. An apparatus according to claim 33 wherein the means for associating the security level comprise means for associating the security level with the second image restricting access to the second image without correspondingly restricting access to the first image.

35. An apparatus according to claim 33 wherein the means for associating the security level comprise means for associating different security levels with the first and second images so as to differently control access thereto.

36. An apparatus according to claim 33 wherein the plurality of security levels include a lowest security level that provides no obfuscation of the respective image, a highest security level that provides complete obfuscation of the respective image and one or more intermediate security levels that provide degrees of partial obfuscation of the respective image.

37. An apparatus according to claim 33 wherein at least one of the first and second images comprises a frame in a video having a plurality of sequential frames.

38. An apparatus according to claim 33 wherein the means for receiving the indication comprise means for receiving the first and second images from front and rear image capturing devices of the mobile device, respectively, and wherein the apparatus further comprises means for providing for storage of the first and second images with the security level associated with the at least one of the first and second images.

39. An apparatus according to claim 33 wherein the degree of obfuscation provides for no obfuscation of the respective image.

40. An apparatus according to claim 33 wherein the degree of obfuscation provides for complete obfuscation of the respective image.

41. An apparatus according to claim 33 wherein the degree of obfuscation provides for obfuscation of at least a face within the respective image.

42. An apparatus according to claim 41 wherein the face is selected by a user.

43. An apparatus according to claim 41 wherein the face is identified using facial recognition technique.

44. A non-transitory computer readable medium having program code portions stored thereon, wherein the program code portions are configured, upon execution, to perform:

receiving an indication that first and second images have been captured concurrently by a mobile terminal, wherein the first image is captured of a scene in a first direction from the mobile terminal and the second image is captured of a scene in a second direction from the mobile terminal, different from the first direction; and

associating a security level, of a plurality of security levels, with at least one of the first or second images, wherein the plurality of security levels define different degrees of obfuscation of the at least one of the first or second images when the at least one of the first or second images is accessed without proper authentication.