US Patent Issued to Roku on July 1 for "Use of obfuscation marker to obfuscate a face image and enable computerized face identification" (California, Texas, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,480, issued on July 1, was assigned to Roku Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Use of obfuscation marker to obfuscate a face image and enable computerized face identification" was invented by Soren Riise (San Jose, Calif.), Sunil Ramesh (Cupertino, Calif.), Michael Cutter (Golden, Colo.) and Karina Levitian (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for use of obfuscation coding. An example method includes a computing system receiving an image that depicts a human face. The method then includes the computing system generating a modified image based on the received image, with the generating of the modified image involvin...