US Patent Issued to GoPro on July 21 for "Image capture device with face blurring" (French, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,559, issued on July 21, was assigned to GoPro Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Image capture device with face blurring" was invented by Marc Lebrun (Issy-les-Moulineaux, France), Moctar Mounirou Arouna LM (Montrouge, France), Jean-Marc Thiesse (Saint-Cyr-l'ecole, France), Maxime Bichon (San Mateo, Calif.) and Martin Raoul (Elancourt, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image capture device captures video frames using a capture rate. The image capture device performs face detection on the video frames using a face detection rate slower than the capture rate. Temporal filtering is applied to determine the positions and sizes of the face...