ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,749, issued on July 15, was assigned to Hanwha Vision Co. Ltd. (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

"Image capturing system and network system to support privacy mode" was invented by Gwantae Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video capturing system includes: a storage medium to store a plurality of image information sets corresponding to a plurality of reference images, respectively; and a video processing device to selectively control video capture and at least one other operation associated with video capture according to a privacy level selected from a privacy mode, wherein the video processing device includes ...