Health Monitoring System Including Privacy-Ensuring Obfuscated Camera Images

The unobtrusive health-monitoring apparatus includes a camera, a controller, a data transmission port, and, optionally, a graphics processing unit ("GPU") which executes nonlinear transformation algorithms. The camera may be inconspicuously disposed within a fixture in the room. The camera collects graphic data which may include still images or video of the user, or both. The GPU may execute the nonlinear transformation algorithms which may transform the graphic data into formats which cannot be recognized by humans. However, these formats preserve features that can be parsed by machine learning methods and used for health tracking purposes. The formats cannot be parsed by humans or be converted back to the original image or video by mathematical inversion or available computational methods. User privacy is thus preserved. The graphic data may be transmitted to a remote processor. The remote processor may perform algorithms which create a health status analyses.