ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,394,197, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Contextual usage control of cameras" was invented by Deepti Patil (Bangalore, India), Anil Kumar (Bangalore, India), Tamoghna Ghosh (Bangalore, India), Barnan Das (Newark, Calif.) and Sean J. Lawrence (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus, systems, methods, and articles of manufacture are disclosed for contextual usage control of cameras. An example apparatus includes processor circuitry to execute the instructions to: access one or more images from a camera; detect an object in the one or more images; detect a human activity in the one o...