According to the Georgia Institute of Technology, "Researchers ... 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 prototype could soon be used to stop movie piracy and other forms of unwanted digital-camera photography."
Basically it looks for the reflectivity and shape of the image-producing sensors used in digital cameras and neutralizes them.
Gregory Abowd, an associate professor leading the project said, "We're at a point right now where the prototype we have developed could lead to products for markets that have a small, critical area to protect, then we're also looking to do additional research that could increase the protected area for one of our more interesting clients, the motion picture industry."
Jay Summet, a research assistant who is also working on the prototype added, "current camera-neutralizing technology may never work against single-lens-reflex cameras, which use a folding-mirror viewing system that effectively masks its CCD except when a photo is actually being taken. Moreover, anti-digital techniques don't work on conventional film cameras because they have no image sensor."
It shouldn't take very long for Hollywood to offer additional funds for this technology, if they haven't already.
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