Facebook applies for new patents to protect user privacy

After years of gathering and tagging user information, Facebook's social empire is now deeply rooted in the data vortex, but it has also caused a variety of issues such as privacy leaks. And now, to be thankful, Facebook's new patent filing may help it solve the problem and allow users to take pictures and capture the best photos at any time while the camera is open, and at the same time, the patent can also rely on patterns, faces and sounds to identify scenes or characters, Then automatically label the photos.

Based on the social components and identification, this patent is mainly used for automatic image capture function application. Facebook applied for the patent in October 2011, and its creators were Andrew "Boz" Bosworth, David Garcia and Soleio Cuervo, who are now working. But interestingly, some of the technology that the patent involves is very similar to some of the directions that color once featured; Maybe it wasn't a coincidence, because Color was hoping to use all the sensors available on the phone to help people identify faces. However, after the Color was defeated, Facebook began to create a "hidden social map" (implicit Social Graph) by exerting a common-access technology. The "implicit social graph" can tell you the details of the time you spend, which may redefine the way we share information.

Take a picture and record a video

The core of the patent is to include the view in the video, while allowing users to play with other photo-oriented applications:

Although the mobile phone camera is set by default to camera mode, it can continue to shoot video. Replaces the traditional form of the user controlling the entity or Virtual button personally to complete the photo, which automatically captures the image associated with the captured live video. Versa。

Basically, Facebook will probably not only allow you to shoot videos in the future, but will automatically record, store, and share them to its platform. There is reason to believe that Facebook will certainly adjust the quality of the photos as camera lenses, storage capacity and wireless connectivity improve.

You see, Facebook has it all.

After taking and sharing photos, Facebook starts to categorize the media files.

The patent describes Facebook's ability to scan and archive important information with technology such as facial recognition, branding and trademark matching. For example, the patent can be matched against an object recognition algorithm and marked by the Golden Gate Bridge (location), Starbucks (merchant) and Coca-Cola (brand or product).

In fact, even if you don't want to label the information yourself, Facebook can find out where you are in the video or photo.

Facebook will have a special understanding of your daily social circle in the future.

The patent even knows the people you're with right now.

In the future, Facebook will not only automatically circle friends, it can also automatically invoke sensors to identify other people's information. For example, Facebook will automatically enable users who have just uploaded media files within a 1000-metre radius, count users who have attended the same concerts, or have signed in the same location, and then make a decision on a user who may have been on the same site, using interactive records such as Bluetooth or NFC.