ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,755,547, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to OP Solutions LLC (Amherst, Mass.).
"Systems and methods for privacy protection in video communication systems" was invented by Hari Kalva (Boca Raton, Fla.), Borivoje Furht (Boca Raton, Fla.) and Velibor Adzic (Canton, Ga.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image transmission system with privacy protection includes a privacy request processor which receives a request to secure at least one object type in an image prior to transmission of the image to a receiving system. An object detector receives the image data from a camera and processes the image data to identify at least one predetermined obje...