US Patent Issued to Canon on Aug. 25 for "Computer implemented method, apparatus and computer program for privacy masking video surveillance data" (Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,674, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Computer implemented method, apparatus and computer program for privacy masking video surveillance data" was invented by Robert Fekete (Brondby, Denmark), Milo Zlatkovic (Brondby, Denmark), Constantin Teodor Gherghescu (Brondby, Denmark), Jesper Hojbjerg Jakobsen (Brondby, Denmark), Mustafa Temiz (Brondby, Denmark) and Agnes Ruphavathani Jensen (Brondby, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented method of privacy masking video surveillance data is provided, wherein the video surveillance data includes metadata associated with video data, the metadata des...