US Patent Issued to ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY on Sept. 23 for "Camera with privacy protection function and privacy protection method" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,472, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY (Zhejiang, China).

"Camera with privacy protection function and privacy protection method" was invented by Xiaoyu Ji (Zhejiang, China), Wenjun Zhu (Zhejiang, China), Wenyuan Xu (Zhejiang, China) and Yushi Cheng (Zhejiang, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A camera with a privacy protection function and a camera privacy protection method therefor are provided, which relates to the field of image privacy protection. The camera includes an image acquisition module, a parameter storage module, an access control module, and an image post-processing module. An objective of th...