US Patent Issued to Walmart Apollo on July 14 for "System and method for detecting and redacting inappropriate images" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,461, issued on July 14, was assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC (Bentonville, Ark.).

"System and method for detecting and redacting inappropriate images" was invented by Gireesha Shenoy (Bengaluru, India), Prateek Hegde (Bengaluru, India), Sumit Jain (Bengaluru, India) and Dheeraj Kumar (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method can include capturing, via a camera, an image for upload. The method further can include determining a polygon mask layer having one or more polygon masks for a user body in the image, comprising: (a) determining, via a body pose landmarking algorithm, key joint points for the user body based on joi...