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Will Dixon

Owen W Paulus

Malini Jagannadhan

A camera sets an access-protection status of a first digital image indicating that the first digital image is an access-allowed digital image based on a criterion having a first parameter while the first digital image is captured by the camera. The camera sets an access-protection status of a second digital image indicating that the second digital image is an access-protected digital image based on the criterion having a second parameter while the second digital image is captured by the camera. An image display interface displays the first digital image without requiring an access credential to be authenticated. On the other hand, an access-protected image display interface displays the second digital image only after authenticating an access credential.

Capturing and viewing access-protected photos and videos

In one example, a camera includes an imaging sensor to translate light into a digital image, a storage device to save the digital image in a digital format, and a privacy module. The privacy module is configured to set a privacy setting of the newly-captured digital image to indicate that the newly-captured digital image is a private digital image based at least on the privacy module being set to a privacy mode and to set the privacy setting to indicate that the newly-captured digital image is a non-private digital image based at least on the privacy module not being set to the privacy mode. The newly-captured digital image is saved in the digital format regardless if the newly-captured digital image is a private digital image or a non-private digital image. The camera includes an image display interface to display, without authenticating private image credentials, only non-private digital images.

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