CAMERA GUARANTEEING AUTHENTICITY OF VIDEOS OR PHOTOS TAKEN AND OF WHEN TAKEN AND OPTIONALLY OF ALL ADDITIONAL MEASURABLE FACTS OF THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE TAKEN VIDEOS OR PHOTOS

摘要

The invention is a camera that reasonably guarantees that videos or photos taken by it and presented are authentic videos or photos of the real world and that they were taken at a particular date and time, and therefore guarantees that those videos or photos are not tampered renditions of other genuine videos or photos, and that they have not been artificially generated either, and that they were taken at a particular date and time. The relevance of the invention is in the fact that it is otherwise difficult and sometimes impossible to determine if a photo or a video presented is genuine or fake or if the photo or video was really taken at a claimed date and time. Optionally, the device can also be extended to guarantee the authenticity of all additional claimed measurable facts of the circumstances of a particular photo or video (e.g. it will accurately authenticate the claimed geographical location or the claimed conditions of altitude or temperature or pressure or loudness or light or virtually anything else that can be measured). The core technology is a combination of a virtually impossible to replicate uniquely sealed embedded 3D hardware fingerprinting 'mesh' internal to the core entireties of the camera, the use of 'collision' free 'secure-hash' encryption technology towards unique identity tag generation, a special form of distance detection, and specially authenticated mechanisms of input of time and of all other optionally measurable external circumstances specific to the video or photo, as the nucleic-, albeit not the only main, components. Any attempt to improperly access or tamper with the hardware internals or any stored video or photo data would result in a computed secure-hash identity tag totally different from that originally computed and was technically authenticated in the context of the hardware and/or specific video or photo data, immediately signaling tampering.