Dynamic Image Protection Policy Negotiation
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Solution Overview
Problem
In today's society, there is a challenge in protecting individuals' privacy when images are taken and shared without their consent, especially with the rise of smartphones and social media, as existing digital rights management systems are not effectively implemented in real-time to manage image distribution and protection policies across various devices.
Innovation Solution
A system that uses a camera device to determine the location of persons and nearby personal computing devices, maps them, and negotiates an image protection policy by broadcasting an announcement and receiving policies from devices within the field of view, implementing modifications such as blurring faces or restricting image distribution based on the negotiated policy.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If digital rights management systems are applied to existing digital files to dictate distribution and usage rights, then image protection policies can be enforced, but real-time implementation across various devices during image capture and sharing is not achieved
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by negotiating and establishing image protection policies with persons in the field of view before the image is actually captured. The system identifies persons, determines their consent status, and sets protection parameters (such as blurring or exclusion) in advance, so that when the image is captured and later distributed, the protection is already embedded and automatically enforced across all devices without requiring real-time negotiation at each sharing moment.
2Productivity
If images are captured and electronically distributed among various computing devices, then sharing and social media functionality is enabled, but unauthorized distribution and privacy violations occur
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements feedback by continuously monitoring image distribution events and automatically applying protection measures when unauthorized sharing is detected. The system tracks when images are shared across devices, checks whether the distribution complies with the negotiated protection policies, and if violations occur, automatically prevents the distribution or applies protective transformations (such as blurring) to the image data, thereby maintaining privacy while allowing legitimate sharing.
3Reliability
If protection measures such as blurring or excluding persons from images are applied, then privacy is protected, but the image quality and usability are reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by implementing protection measures selectively only on specific regions or elements within the image that require privacy protection, such as blurring only the faces or identifiable features of persons who have opted out, while leaving the rest of the image quality intact. This allows the image to maintain its overall usability and visual quality for permitted content while providing targeted privacy protection where needed, thus resolving the contradiction between protection and quality.
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AI summary
Technologies for dynamically implementing an image protection policy include a camera device with a camera to capture an image of at least one person. The camera device determines a location in the image of at least one person in the image, determines a location of at least one personal computing device, and maps the personal computing devices to the persons captured in the image based on the determined device and image locations. The camera device may broadcast an announcement of the creation of the image to the personal computing devices, negotiate an image protection policy with each of the personal computing devices, and implement the negotiated image protection policy.