ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,459, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to DE-IDENTIFICATION LTD. (Tel Aviv, Israel).
"System and method for image de-identification to humans while remaining recognizable by machines" was invented by Eliran Kuta (Tel Aviv, Israel), Sella Blondheim (Tel Aviv, Israel), Gil Perry (Tel Aviv, Israel), Or Gorodissky (Tel Aviv, Israel), Matan Ben Yosef (Korazim, Israel) and Yoav Hacohen (Jerusalem).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for de-identification of an image may include receiving an input image of a human face; iteratively modifying the input image to produce an output image of the human face until: (a) a threshold indi...