US Patent Issued to Sony Group on March 17 for "Methods and apparatuses for providing a proof of authenticity of image data" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,773, issued on March 17, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo).

"Methods and apparatuses for providing a proof of authenticity of image data" was invented by Dimitri Torfs (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to an image sensor device (100). The image sensor device (100) has a data communication interface (110) configured to receive a hash value (112), a cryptographically secure storage (120) storing a cryptographic key (122) of the image sensor device, and a processor (140) configured to sign captured image data (132) or a processed version thereof and the received hash value (112) us...