Drone Camera Overexposure Tracking for Privacy Protection
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Solution Overview
Problem
Autonomous robots, such as drones and robotic devices, often capture images and videos of private residences and individuals without consent, raising concerns about privacy and the need for an efficient means to prevent unauthorized image capture.
Innovation Solution
A method and apparatus that includes a camera disabling system with a high power light source and processor to detect and overexpose images captured by camera-carrying devices, ensuring privacy by rendering captured images unusable.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a high power light source is activated to overexpose images, then privacy protection is improved, but energy consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies preliminary anti-action by detecting the camera carrying device first and then activating the high power light source to overexpose images before they can be captured. This preemptive measure ensures privacy protection by rendering the captured images unusable through overexposure, while the energy consumption is managed by only activating the light source when a camera carrying device is detected in the environment.
2Reliability
If a high power light source is used to overexpose images, then privacy protection is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The camera disabling apparatus is designed with multi-functionality, serving both as a detection system (using the camera to detect camera carrying devices) and as a privacy protection system (using the high power light source to overexpose images). This universal design integrates multiple functions into a single device, reducing overall system complexity while maintaining effective privacy protection.
3Reliability
If the high power light source is continuously active, then privacy protection is improved, but loss of energy increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements periodic action by continuously monitoring the environment for camera carrying devices and only activating the high power light source when detection occurs. This periodic operation mode ensures that the light source is active only when necessary for privacy protection, minimizing energy loss while maintaining reliable privacy protection throughout operation.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
Effectively prevents unauthorized image capture by overexposing images, thereby protecting privacy in environments where autonomous robots operate.
Implementation Method 1
activating, with the processor, a light beam of the high power light source when the camera carrying device is detected in the captured image
Data Source
AI summary
Provided is a method for overexposing images captured by a camera of a camera carrying device, including: providing a camera disabling apparatus within an environment, including: a housing; a camera disposed within the housing; a movable high power light source; a motor coupled to the high power light source; and a processor for detecting the camera carrying device in captured images of the environment; capturing, with the camera, an image of the environment; detecting, with the processor, the camera carrying device in the captured image; activating, with the processor, a light beam of the high power light source when the camera carrying device is detected in the captured image; and actuating, with the processor, the motor to direct the light beam of the high power light source towards the camera carrying device such that images captured by the camera of the camera carrying device are overexposed.