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No Pictures Please: Researchers Develop System to Thwart Unwanted

Monty Solomon (monty@roscom.com)
Tue, 20 Jun 2006 09:01:03 -0400

No Pictures Please: Researchers Develop System to Thwart Unwanted
Video and Still Photography

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology 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.

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.

http://www.gtresearchnews.gatech.edu/newsrelease/anti-camera.htm

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