US Patent Issued to Nokia Technologies on March 3 for "Apparatus, method, and system for a privacy mask for video streams" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,180, issued on March 3, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Apparatus, method, and system for a privacy mask for video streams" was invented by Gurudutt Hosangadi (Hackettstown, N.J.) and Ming Lu (Hillsborough, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An approach for providing a privacy mask for video streams. The approach involves, for example, processing one or more images of a video stream to detect at least one object. The approach also determines one or more feature vectors from a plurality of pixels of the one or more images that correspond to the at least one detected object. The approach further involves encod...