ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,062, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Anonymizing personally identifiable information in image data" was invented by David Michael Herman (West Bloomfield, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer includes a processor and a memory. The memory stores instructions executable by the processor. The computer identifies personally identifiable information (PII) in an initial image frame. The computer encodes a region containing the PII of the initial image frame to a latent vector with a lower dimensionality than the region. The computer anonymizes the region from the initial image fr...