Image anonymization

• US 20080180539A1
• Filed: 03/26/2007
• Published: 07/31/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 01/31/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Searete LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Original Assignee: Searete LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Inventors: Mangione-Smith, William Henry, Lord, Robert W., Jung, Edward K.Y., Levien, Royce A., Malamud, Mark A., Rinaldo, John D.
• Application Number:
  US11/728,729
• Publication Number:
  US 20080180539A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/222.1
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/034 on discs G11B27/036, G11B27/038 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/611 where the recognised objects include parts of the human body
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/272 Means for inserting a foreground image in a background image, i.e. inlay, outlay

Abstract

Embodiments include a system, a device an apparatus a method, and a computer program product. An embodiment provides a system that includes an imaging device operable to acquire an image of a subject. The system also includes an anonymizer circuit operable to generate an anonymized image that includes a decreased fidelity of a property of a subject of the acquired image in response to an anonymization policy. The system further includes a display operable to provide a human-perceivable indication of the anonymization policy.

Claims

1-45. -45. (canceled)

46. A system comprising:

a sensor device operable to capture from a subject information corresponding to the subject;

an anonymizer circuit operable

to generate an anonymized image that includes a decreased fidelity of a property of a subject of the captured information in response to an anonymization policy, and

to inform a display device of the anonymization policy; and

the display device operable to broadcast an indication of the anonymization policy perceivable by a human at least nearby the subject.

47. The system of claim 46, wherein the sensor device operable to capture from a subject information corresponding to the subject further includes:

a sensor device operable to capture from the subject at least one of image, sound, x-ray, and/or ultrasound information corresponding to a subject.

48. The system of claim 46, wherein the sensor device operable to capture from a subject information corresponding to the subject further includes:

a sensor device operable to capture information corresponding to at least one of a human subject and/or object subject.

49. The system of claim 46, wherein the sensor device operable to capture from a subject information corresponding to the subject further includes:

a sensor device operable to capture from the subject information corresponding to a subject from a signal emitted by and/or reflected.

50. The system of claim 46, wherein the sensor device operable to capture from a subject information corresponding to the subject further includes:

a sensor device operable to capture information corresponding to a subject from at least one of a light, an electromagnetic, an/or an acoustical spectrum signal received from the subject.

51. The system of claim 46, further comprising:

a non-volatile computer storage media configurable by data corresponding to the anonymized image.

52. A method comprising:

capturing information corresponding to a subject from the subject;

generating an anonymized image that includes a decreased fidelity of a property of the subject of the captured information in response to an anonymization policy; and

broadcasting an indication of the anonymization policy perceivable by the subject.

53. The method of claim 52, wherein the broadcasting an indication of the anonymization policy perceivable by the subject further includes:

broadcasting an indication of the anonymization policy perceivable by a person proximate to the subject.

54. The method of claim 52, further comprising:

informing a display device of the anonymization policy.

55. A device comprising:

means for capturing information corresponding to a subject from the subject;

means for generating an anonymized image that includes a decreased fidelity of a property of the subject of the captured information in response to an anonymization policy; and

means for broadcasting an indication of the anonymization policy perceivable by a person proximate to the subject.

56. The device of claim 55, further comprising:

means for informing a display device of the anonymization policy.