Image Data Processing System User Consent Management
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current video recording systems in public spaces often lack user consent for image processing, leading to privacy concerns and regulatory compliance issues, as they cannot differentiate between users' preferences for various levels of image data processing.
Innovation Solution
A system that allows users to provide consent for specific modalities of image data processing using a Personal Privacy Beacon or visual identifiers, which communicates user preferences to the image data processing system, determining allowed processing modalities based on user input and legal frameworks.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If image data processing is performed without user consent in public spaces, then system productivity and monitoring coverage are improved, but privacy compliance and user trust deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments image processing into multiple modalities (detection, recognition, identification, tracking) and allows users to selectively consent to specific modalities. This segmentation enables the system to maintain monitoring coverage for basic functions while respecting user privacy preferences for more invasive processing, thus resolving the contradiction between productivity and privacy compliance.
Solution Approach 2:
The system dynamically adjusts processing modalities applied to each detected user based on real-time consent information received from personal devices. The processing level is not static but adapts to individual user preferences, allowing the system to maximize monitoring effectiveness for consenting users while protecting privacy for those who opt out, thereby maintaining both productivity and compliance.
2Device complexity
If uniform image processing is applied to all users, then system complexity is reduced, but adaptability to different user privacy preferences deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements local quality by applying different processing modalities to different users based on their individual consent preferences. Instead of uniform processing, each user receives the appropriate level of processing (detection only, recognition, identification, or tracking) according to their personal settings, enabling the system to accommodate diverse privacy needs without requiring completely separate processing pipelines.
Solution Approach 2:
The system maintains a universal architecture that can handle multiple processing modalities through a single integrated framework. The image processing system is designed to perform detection, recognition, identification, and tracking functions, selectively applying the appropriate combination based on user consent, thus achieving adaptability without proportionally increasing system complexity.
3Reliability
If detailed user consent collection is implemented, then privacy compliance is improved, but ease of operation and user burden increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables users to self-manage their privacy preferences through personal devices. Users can independently configure which processing modalities they consent to without requiring manual intervention from system operators or complex interaction with the monitoring system itself. This self-service approach ensures accurate consent collection while minimizing operational burden on users.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces personal devices as intermediaries between users and the image processing system. These devices serve as mediators that collect, store, and transmit user consent preferences to the processing system, simplifying the interaction by handling the complexity of consent management in the user's personal device rather than requiring direct complex interactions with the monitoring infrastructure.
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AI summary
Examples relate to an apparatus, device, method, and computer program for an image data processing system, to an image date processing system and image data processing method, and to corresponding computer systems and computer programs. An apparatus for an image data processing system is to obtain information on a user selection from a user, the user selection relating to at least one modality of computer-based processing of a depiction of the user the user is comfortable or uncomfortable with, determine a presence of a depiction of the user in image data of a camera, and determine one or more modalities of computer-based processing to be applied to the depiction of the user in the image data based on the user selection, provide control information regarding the one or more modalities of computer-based processing to be applied to the depiction of the user in the image data for the image data processing system.