ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,795, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Privacy control circuit for camera system" was invented by Jaejin Lee (Redmond, Wash.), Donghwi Kim (Kirkland, Wash.) and Han Li (Sammamish, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A camera system includes a camera, a privacy indicator configured to indicate an activation status of the camera, and an optical camera blocker disposed between the camera and an external environment. The optical camera blocker is configured to, when activated, obscure images captured by the camera. A privacy control circuit is configured to compare a state of a first ...