Image Display Apparatus Authentication for Sensitive Area Privacy
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing image display and capture technologies do not adequately address the issue of preventing unnecessary viewing of specific personal or sensitive areas in images, such as faces or genital parts, which can compromise patient privacy.
Innovation Solution
An image display apparatus and method that accepts authentication information from users, selects images, determines if the images contain specific personal or sensitive areas, and controls the display of such images based on the authentication information, ensuring that sensitive areas are only viewed by authorized individuals.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If image display is enabled without restriction, then ease of operation is improved, but privacy protection deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary detection of specific areas (faces, genital parts) in images before display. Authentication information is obtained in advance, and display permission is determined beforehand, so that when an image is to be displayed, the appropriate restrictions are already in place, preventing unnecessary viewing of sensitive areas while maintaining ease of operation for authorized users
Solution Approach 2:
The system introduces an intermediary authentication mechanism between the image and the display process. An authentication unit verifies user credentials and determines whether display permission should be granted based on the presence of specific areas in the image. This intermediary layer protects privacy without significantly complicating the operation for authorized users
2Object-affected harmful factors
If authentication control is added for sensitive areas, then privacy protection is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system extracts only the essential elements needed for privacy protection: detection of specific areas (faces, genital parts) and verification of authentication information. By focusing on these key elements rather than implementing comprehensive complex controls, the system achieves effective privacy protection while minimizing the increase in device complexity
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes the parameter of display permission from a fixed state to a dynamic state based on authentication results. When specific areas are detected, the display permission parameter is changed to require authentication. This parameter change approach allows flexible privacy control without requiring complex hardware modifications
Data Source
AI summary
There is provided an image display apparatus. An acceptance unit accepts authentication information from a user. A selection unit selects an image. A first determination unit determines whether the image includes a specific area of a person. A control unit, in a case where it has been determined that the image includes the specific area, controls display of the image in accordance with the authentication information.