Automated obscurity for digital imaging
Obfuscating a human or other subject in digital media preserves privacy. A user of a smartphone, for example, may enable a flag for obscuring her face in digital photos or movies. When any device captures digital media, the user's smartphone transmits the flag for receipt. The device capturing the digital media is thus informed of the user's desire to obscure her face or even entire image. The device capturing the digital media may thus perform an obscuration in response to the flag.
1. A method, comprising:
capturing, by a mobile device, a digital image representing a subject;
receiving, by the mobile device, a mobile-to-mobile wireless transmission sent via a peer network from a different mobile device, the mobile-to-mobile wireless transmission specifying a vector and instructing the mobile device to obfuscate facial features in the digital image; and
obfuscating, by a processor operating in the mobile device capturing the digital image, the facial features in the digital image in response to the vector specified by the mobile-to-mobile wireless transmission sent via the peer network from the different mobile device.
2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising receiving a do not capture flag sent via the peer network from the different mobile device.
3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising determining the mobile-to-mobile wireless transmission sent via the peer network from the different mobile device specifies a do not capture flag for the obfuscating of the facial features.
4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising determining an enablement of a do not capture flag for the obfuscating of the facial features.
5. The method of claim 1 , further comprising determining a portion of the digital image of corresponds to the facial features specified by the mobile-to-mobile wireless transmission.
6. The method of claim 5 , further comprising blurring the portion of the digital image that corresponds to the facial features.
7. The method of claim 1 , further comprising associating the different mobile device to the subject represented in the digital image.
8. A system, comprising:
a hardware processor; and
a memory device, the memory device storing instructions, the instructions when executed causing the hardware processor to perform operations, the operations comprising:
capturing a digital image by a mobile device, the digital image representing a subject;
receiving a mobile-to-mobile wireless transmission by the mobile device capturing the digital image, the mobile-to-mobile wireless transmission broadcast via a peer network from a different mobile device, the mobile-to-mobile wireless transmission specifying a vector and an instruction to obfuscate facial features in the digital image; and
obfuscating, by the hardware processor operating in the mobile device capturing the digital image, the facial features in the digital image according to the vector specified by the mobile-to-mobile wireless transmission.
9. The system of claim 8 , wherein the operations further comprise receiving a do not capture flag sent via the peer network from the different mobile device.
10. The system of claim 8 , wherein the operations further comprise determining the mobile-to-mobile wireless transmission specifies a do not capture flag for the obfuscating of the facial features.
11. The system of claim 8 , wherein the operations further comprise determining an enablement of a do not capture flag for the obfuscating of the facial features.
12. The system of claim 8 , wherein the operations further comprise determining a portion of the digital image that corresponds to the facial features.
13. The system of claim 12 , wherein the operations further comprise blurring the portion of the digital image that corresponds to the facial features.
14. The system of claim 8 , wherein the operations further comprise associating the different mobile device to the facial features specified by the mobile-to-mobile wireless transmission.
15. A memory device storing instructions that when executed cause a hardware processor to perform operations, the operations comprising:
capturing a digital image by a mobile device, the digital image representing a subject;
receiving a mobile-to-mobile wireless transmission by the mobile device capturing the digital image, the mobile-to-mobile wireless transmission broadcast via a peer network from a different mobile device, the mobile-to-mobile wireless transmission specifying a vector from the different mobile device and an instruction to obfuscate facial features represented by the digital image; and
obfuscating, by the hardware processor operating in the mobile device capturing the digital image, the facial features represented by the digital image according to the vector specified by the mobile-to-mobile wireless transmission.
16. The memory device of claim 15 , wherein the operations further comprise receiving a do not capture flag sent from the different mobile device.
17. The memory device of claim 15 , wherein the operations further comprise determining the mobile-to-mobile wireless transmission specifies a do not capture flag for the obfuscating of the facial features.
18. The memory device of claim 15 , wherein the operations further comprise determining an enablement of a do not capture flag for the obfuscating of the facial features.
19. The memory device of claim 15 , wherein the operations further comprise determining a portion of the digital image that corresponds to the vector from the different mobile device.
20. The memory device of claim 19 , wherein the operations further comprise blurring the portion of the digital image that corresponds to the vector from the different mobile device.