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System blocks unwanted video and still photography: camera neutralizing technology could halt movie piracy and clandestine photography.

Publication: Digital Imaging Digest
Publication Date: 01-AUG-06
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Ga., have completed a prototype device that can block digital camera function in a given area. Commercial versions of the technology could be used to stymie unwanted use of video or still cameras.

A Georgia Tech camera-neutralizing...

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...prototype could stop movie piracy and other unwanted digital camera photography. The prototype device, produced by a team in the Interactive and Intelligent Computing division of the Georgia Tech College of Computing (COC), uses off-the-shelf equipment--camera-mounted sensors, lighting equipment, a projector, and a computer--to scan for, find and neutralize digital cameras. The system works by looking for the reflectivity and shape of the image-producing sensors used in digital cameras.

Gregory Abowd, an associate professor leading the project, says the new camera-neutralizing technology shows commercial...

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