SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LOCATION OBFUSCATION

• Main Authors: DEIXLER, PETER, YU, JIN
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 27.03.2025
• Subjects: ANALOGOUS ARRANGEMENTS USING OTHER WAVES; CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; DETERMINING DISTANCE OR VELOCITY BY USE OF RADIO WAVES; ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRICITY; IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL; LOCATING OR PRESENCE-DETECTING BY USE OF THE REFLECTION ORRERADIATION OF RADIO WAVES; MEASURING; PHYSICS; RADIO DIRECTION-FINDING; RADIO NAVIGATION; TESTING; TRANSMISSION

A system (100) for obfuscation of a position of at least one subject (110) in an indoor space (120), comprising a plurality of light sources (130) configured to emit modulated illumination, a mobile device (150) arranged to be portable by the at least one subject, configured to capture image(s) (156) comprising the modulated illumination, a server (160) configured to receive first image(s) (152) and determine a location of the mobile device(s), receive information related to zone(s) of the indoor space, predetermined privacy level(s) and privacy threshold level(s), and to perform a processing of the image(s) and a determination of an accuracy of the location of the mobile device(s), train a machine learning, ML, model by inputting the determined accuracy, wherein the mobile device is further configured to perform a processing of a captured second image(s) (154) by the trained ML model.