US Patent Issued to AY Innovative on Oct. 6 for "Image forgery prevention device and method thereof using hash function" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,756,572, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to AY Innovative Co. Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Image forgery prevention device and method thereof using hash function" was invented by No Gan Im (Incheon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image forgery prevention device and a method thereof using a hash function are proposed, and the device includes a privacy area detection processor configured to detect a privacy area image from an original image, a hash value generation processor configured to use the hash function to generate a hash value of the privacy area image, an obfuscation processor configured to obfuscate the privacy area i...