ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,532, issued on July 29, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo) and Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. (Culver City, Calif.).
"Visual enrollment of cameras" was invented by Eric Diehl (Culver City, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Visually enrolling a camera using an optical code and a picture file, including: receiving the picture file and the optical code from the camera, wherein the optical code includes a public key of the camera; generating a visual challenge using a nonce created by a random number generator; transmitting the visual challenge to a user of the camera to capture the visual challenge; receiving the captured vi...