US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Feb. 10 for "Image storage system and image storage method that masks the face of a subject included in the captured image and generates a processed image that indicates the orientation of the face" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,369, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Image storage system and image storage method that masks the face of a subject included in the captured image and generates a processed image that indicates the orientation of the face" was invented by Yasutoshi Ota (Susono, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image storage system includes: an acquisition unit that acquires a captured image of a surrounding environment and three-dimensional information; a derivation unit that detects the face of a subject included in the captured image and derives the orientation of the detected face of the subject from...