Antiphotography System for Photography Prohibited Areas

The no-photography policy is a worldwide phenomenon. Photography is banned at places such as museums, courtrooms, shopping malls, industries, defense areas, etc. Eliminating the use of cameras in such places improves the visitor experience. Banning photography is believes to boost security by preventing thieves or terrorists from visually capturing and pinpointing weakness in alarm systems and surveillance. Also, taking photographs after violates copyright protection. Film industry also suffers 1/3 loss due to movie piracy. Hence, there arises a need to prevent this undesired photography, to avoid this heavy loss. Our project provides a solution for this undesired photography to prevent the security and privacy of the site. Our solution is based on detecting the cameräs that are capturing pictures of the site. After detection of the cameräs a strong light is focused onto the detected camera, which degrades the quality of the captured image, Thus rendering the captured photograph useless.