US Patent Issued to HANWHA VISION on April 7 for "Method and apparatus for performing privacy masking by reflecting characteristic information of objects" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,183, issued on April 7, was assigned to HANWHA VISION Co. LTD. (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for performing privacy masking by reflecting characteristic information of objects" was invented by Jin Hyuk Choi (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Song Taek Jeong (Seongnam-si, South Korea) and Jae Cheon Song (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image masking method is provided. The method includes: extracting an object from an image; obtaining characteristic information about the extracted object by analyzing the extracted object; determining whether the extracted object is a masking target according to ...