US Patent Issued on June 17 for "Redacting videos and images to reduce PTSD and other negative effects on reviewers" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,111, issued on June 17.

"Redacting videos and images to reduce PTSD and other negative effects on reviewers" was invented by Yariv Peer (Giva't Shmu'el, Israel) and Elyasaf Korenwaitz (Elon More, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aspect of the current invention relates to a method to reduce the emotional impact on a viewer while allowing evaluation of graphic pornographic, pedophilic and/or violent content. In some embodiments the system has various functions that reduce the emotional impact and/or stress inducing factors of a media (e.g., an image and/or a video). For example, the functions may include changing and/or blurrin...