87 results about "Person present" patented technology

A card actuated automated banking machine (152, 198, 200) includes a plurality of transaction function devices. The transaction function devices include a card reader (170), a printer (174), a bill dispenser (176), a coin dispenser (178), a display (182), a check imaging device (186) and at least one processor (190). The automated banking machine is operative responsive to receiving a check and certification data to dispense cash in exchange for the check. The person presenting the check need not provide user identifying inputs through input devices in order to receive cash for the check. A check recipient prior to presenting the check for payment is also enabled to verify that the check will be paid through communication with at least one computer (204) through at least one consumer interface device (208).

A portable biometric device enables a designated person to unlock any one portal exclusive of other portals of a secure entity and or a secure service by choosing which of their personal biometric characteristics is presented to the portable biometric device. The portable biometric device includes a biometric sensor such that a biometric characteristic of a person for example a finger pattern is read dependent upon the person presenting the biometric characteristic to the biometric sensor. The reading is encoded in order for a processor to determine if the biometric characteristic has been predesignated for access via a predesignated one of the plurality of portals. If so, the processor selects an appropriate authorization code which is communicated by wireless transmission for unlocking the predesignated one of the portals, to the exclusion of any other of the portals. In an alternate example the processor is a central controller remote from the biometric device. The central controller is responsive to a wireless transmission of the encoded reading, from the portable biometric device, for determining which one if any of the predesignated portals is to be unlocked.

A method and apparatus for authenticating an identification of a person provides that biometric information is obtained from the person and a portion thereof is extracted and stored on a data carrier adapted for being carried by the person. A remaining portion of the biometric information is stored on an identification system. For authentication, the person presents the data carrier and new biometric information is obtained from the person. A comparison is made between the new biometric information from the person, the portion of the biometric information stored on the data carrier and the remaining portion of the biometric information stored in the identification system.

A posture recognition apparatus recognizes instructions signified by postures of persons present in the surroundings, from images obtained with an image capture device. The posture recognition apparatus includes an outline extraction device that extracts an outline of a body which is a candidate for a person from the images; a distance calculation device that calculates a distance to the body being the candidate, from distance information of each pixel within the outline in the image; a search device that searches for a candidate for a hand of a person based on the outline and the distance to the body represented by the outline; and a posture determination device that determines an instruction corresponding to the relative position of the candidate for a hand and the outline, and outputs this determination result as a posture determination result.

The disclosed sound-groove identification device to validate whether the actual person present comprises: a voice input device to receive the user voice, a sound-groove identification device to compare the input voice and the model and validate user ID, a field identification device to compare the input imitative voice and random prompt voice selected from the prepared voice set and determine the actual person pronounces in place, and a decision device to decide whether user presents according to said results. This invention rejects the personator effectively and improves the security of sound-groove identification.

A sensing history database for storing ID and position information of an article detected by an article detecting unit and ID and position information of a person detected by a person detecting unit, a dangerous article database in which an article having a possibility of posing danger in an environment to be watched over is defined for each individual, an accessible location database for storing accessible locations in the environment for each individual, an article-leaving-operation determining unit for determining that the person has left the article from the position information of the article and the position information of the person stored in the sensing history database, and a left-article danger degree determining unit for determining as dangerous when determined that combination of the ID of the person and the ID of the left article in the environment is dangerous from information defined in the dangerous article database and determined that the person present in the environment can access the position of the left article in the article-leaving-operation determining unit.

Herein described is a system and method for modifying facial video transmitted from a first videophone to a second videophone during a videophone conversation. A videophone comprises a videophone image processing system (VIPS) that stores one or more preferred images. The one or more preferred images may comprise an image of a person presented in an attractive appearance. The one or more preferred images may comprise one or more avatars. Additionally, the VIPS may be used to incorporate one or more facial features of the person into a preferred image or avatar. Furthermore, a replacement background may be incorporated into the preferred image or avatar. The VIPS transmits a preferred image of a first speaker of a first videophone to a second speaker of a second videophone by capturing an actual image of the first speaker and substituting at least a portion of said actual image with a stored image.

An image forming apparatus includes: a projector configured to be capable of projecting light to thereby display an image on a rendering region formed on a display surface set around a guiding point to which a person should be guided and changing a position of the rendering region; a detecting unit that detects whether a person is present in a detection region set near the display surface and detects, when a person is present in the detection region, a moving state of the person; and a control unit that controls, on the basis of a detection result of the detecting unit, driving of the projector to guide the person present in the detection region to the guiding point.

Disclosed is a system and method for image processing and image subject matching. A circuit and system may be used for matching / correlating an object / subject or person present (i.e. visible within) within two or more images. An object or person present within a first image or a first series of images (e.g. a video sequence) may be characterized and the characterization information (i.e. one or a set of parameters) relating to the person or object may be stored in a database, random access memory or cache for subsequent comparison to characterization information derived from other images.

A security system for securing an entity or a service from indiscriminate access and a method for operating the same is disclosed. Each designated person of M designated persons is provided with a portable biometric device. Biometric data in dependence upon a biometric characteristic of each of the M designated persons is stored in memory of the respective portable biometric device. Biometric information representative of a biometric characteristic of each of a subset of 1<N<M persons is captured in response to each of the N persons presenting said information to the respective portable biometric device. The biometric information is encoded and biometric data in dependence thereupon is provided to the processor of each respective portable biometric device. Using the processor of each respective portable biometric device the captured biometric data is then compared with the stored biometric data to produce a comparison result. If the comparison result is indicative of a match an authorization signal is transmitted from each of the respective portable biometric devices to a receiving port of the security system. Upon receipt of the authorization signal a processor of the locking mechanism determines access privileges to the secure entity or service in dependence upon the authorization signals it received from the respective portable biometric devices of the subset of N persons. If an authorization signal of the subset of N persons is missing, the security system denies access to the secure entity or service.

There is elucidated a safety system for a marine vessel. The vessel includes two engines coupled to propellers for propelling the vessel through water. The vessel is provided with a digital anchor in communication with the two engines for maintaining the vessel substantially at a defined location when the anchor is activated. The safety system includes a sensor assembly coupled to a data processing assembly for sensing a region of said water at least partially surrounding the vessel for detecting one or more persons present in the region and for modifying operation of the digital anchor is response to the one or more persons being detected. The invention is of advantage in that the digital anchor is capable of responding to the one or more persons being present in the water and thereby reducing a risk of injury or loss of life when the digital anchor is employed.

Aimed is to extract persons present on a plurality of spots by designating a plurality of spots as the installation places of imaging apparatuses. A plurality of the imaging apparatuses 1 are installed so as to be fixed in different places. The imaging apparatus 1 generates featured data of persons included in picked-up image data. Then, a featured data unit including the featured data, camera ID and image picked-up date information is generated, and the data unit is transmitted to a data storage server 3. The data storage server 3 registers and stores the featured data unit transmitted from each imaging apparatus 1 in a database. A retrieval processor 4 lists the persons satisfying conditions from the database.

A method is described for managing a generally automated, multilevel process for verifying both an already identified document type and the identity of a person presenting the document. A plurality of levels of document and identity verification checking steps are performed in real time. Each level of verification checking consists of additional, predetermined, ever more rigorous document and / or bearer identity verification checking steps performed in real time that vary depending on what type of document is involved, the authority that issued the document, why and where the document is being presented and other information about known problems with the types of documents. The document and / or bearer identity verification checking steps performed at each of the plurality of ever more rigorous verification checking steps vary dynamically depending on the outcome of the previous levels of verification checking, may be modified on the fly, and may be modified manually depending on the results of previous verification checking steps.

A gaze tracking device and method, and a recording medium for performing the same are disclosed. The gaze tracking device, which is a device for tracking the gaze of a person present in an area in which the gaze tracking device is located, sets a photographing unit of the gaze tracking device to a wide-angle mode, photographs an area within a wide-angle view of the photographing unit, detects the person from a photographed image, and converts the wide-angle mode of the photographing unit into a narrow-angle mode so as to track the gaze of the person when the person is detected from the photographed image, wherein when tracking the gaze of the person by converting the wide-angle mode of the photographing unit into the narrow-angle mode, if the person is out of the shooting range of the narrow-angle mode while tracking the gaze of the person in the narrow-angle mode of the photographing unit, the photographing unit is converted from the narrow-angle mode into the wide-angle mode so as to track the gaze of the person by re-searching for the person.

The embodiment of the invention discloses a mobile terminal shooting method and a mobile terminal. The method can comprise the following steps: receiving a shooting command triggered by a user; acquiring the face brightness value and background brightness value of a shot person presented in a shooting preview picture according to the shooting command; judging whether or not the exposure of the shot person needs to be adjusted according to the face brightness value and / or the background brightness value; if a judgment result indicates that the exposure of the shot person needs to be adjusted, adjusting the face brightness value / or the background brightness value of the shot person in order to adjust the exposure of the shot person; and shooting the shot person according to the adjusted exposure of the shot person. Through adoption of the mobile terminal shooting method and the mobile terminal, the face brightness value and the background brightness value of the shot person can be adjusted automatically in order to adjust the exposure of the shot person, so that a high-quality image can be shot.

A method of making a selected-image collection including providing a set of relationships between an individual and a plurality of different persons, each relationship in the relationship set having a pre-determined relationship weight value; providing a collection of images, the image collection including images having at least two persons of the plurality of different persons present in the images; using a processor to select from the relationship set a relationship weight value corresponding to each person present in each image in the image collection; assigning an image weight value to each image in the image collection, the image weight value corresponding to a combination of the selected relationship weight value(s); and selecting images from the image collection based on the image weight values to make the selected-image collection.

The invention relates to a method and a system for improving lighting control In said method, lighting information relating to the light emitted by a lighting device (3) and bodily data of a person present in the lighting area or in a predefined area of the lighting device (3) are detected using a means (1) for detecting bodily data, the bodily data and lighting information that have been detected at a specific, simultaneous point in time are assigned to one another and transmitted to a data collection system (2). The invention also relates to a method and a system for controlling a lighting device (3), in which method bodily data of a person present in the lighting area or in a predefined area of the lighting device (3) are detected using a means (1) for detecting bodily data, the lighting device (3) being controlled in accordance with the detected bodily data.

An indoor unit includes: a casing formed with a suction port and a blow-out port; a plurality of fans provided in parallel in the casing; a heat exchanger provided on the downstream side of the fans and on the upstream side of the blow-out port; a horizontal wind direction control vane provided at the blow-out port to control the horizontal direction of an airflow blown out from the blow-out port; a vertical wind direction control vane provided at the blow-out port to control the vertical direction of the airflow blown out from the blow-out port; and an infrared ray human detection sensor configured to detect the position of a person present in a room, and air volumes, the orientation of the horizontal wind direction control vane, and the orientation of the vertical wind direction control vane of the fans are each controlled according to results of detection by the infrared ray sensor.

A method for automatically collecting viewer statistics from one or more persons in a movie theater, the method including the steps of capturing an image of the one or more persons in the movie theater with an infrared camera; using a face recognition algorithm to determine persons present in the movie theater; and determining one or more categories from characteristics from persons present to compute the viewer statistics.

A system and method for fire suppression proactively identifies persons present, during a fire, in a fire suppressant release area. The persons are identified using an electronic monitoring system. An fire suppression system using a suppressant that is effective but unsafe for humans is put into service only if no person is detected. In situations where a person is present, an alternate fire suppressant is released that is safe for humans.

System for reading a document provided with machine-readable holder details and establishing whether a person presented the document has a predetermined right, which document at least contains a chip containing biometric data on a holder as well as data with a predetermined relationship to the holder details, and wherein the system comprises: a reader for reading the chip and the machine-readable holder details; a memory containing details with regard to the right of the holder; a biometric feature scanner; a processing unit connected to reader, memory and scanner and equipped to: establish the authenticity of chip and data using public key encryption technology; receive the biometric data on the holder from the chip; receive the biometric data on the person presenting the document from the scanner and to compare these with the data on the holder to determine whether the person presenting the document is the holder; receive the holder details via the reader, check the relationship between the holder details and the data and read the right of the holder from the memory; provide a signal to indicate the right for the person presenting the document if the chip and the data arc authentic, the relationship has been established and the person presenting the document is the same as the holder.

One or more embodiments of the systems and / or methods described herein may address locations that may be incapable of utilizing one or more systems and / or methods in related fields. According to one embodiment, a method and / or system may deliver audio and / or visual information to an audience represented by a collective of persons present in a selection of retail locations at any given moment. In another embodiment, advertisements may be customized to a specific venue and / or a group of venues. In one embodiment, a venue may use a computer system to distribute media such as audio and / or video information. In an alternative embodiment, one or more venues may comprise a portion of a private radio network system which may distribute media such as audio and / or visual media in accordance with one or more methods.

Presented is a system and method for monitoring activities of daily living, ADLs, of a person within an environment. The system comprises an ADL inference unit adapted to receive a sensor output signal representative of a detected value of a property of at least one of: the person; and the environment, and to generate an inferred ADL output signal representative of the inferred ADL of the person. A monitor unit is adapted to generate a monitor signal dependent on at least one of: the received sensor output signal; and the inferred ADL output signal.

A terminal device obtains an electronic floor plan of a predetermined space. The terminal device also obtains area information indicating a plurality of seating target areas based on the floor plan. The terminal device obtains position information indicating a current position of the autonomous cleaner in the predetermined space, and obtains person-presence information indicating whether or not a person is present in one of the plurality of seating target areas. The terminal device identifies a surrounding area of the autonomous cleaner based on the current position of the autonomous cleaner, the surrounding area indicating a predetermined range around the autonomous cleaner. Further, the terminal device determines seating target areas not overlapping with the surrounding area as being guest-ready candidate areas, and guest-ready candidate areas where there is no person present as being guest-ready areas. The terminal device displays the determined guest-ready areas.

System for reading a document provided with machine-readable holder details and establishing whether a person presented the document has a predetermined right, which document at least contains a chip containing biometric data on a holder as well as data with a predetermined relationship to the holder details, and wherein the system comprises: a reader for reading the chip and the machine-readable holder details; a memory containing details with regard to the right of the holder; a biometric feature scanner; a processing unit connected to reader, memory and scanner and equipped to: establish the authenticity of chip and data using public key encryption technology; receive the biometric data on the holder from the chip; receive the biometric data on the person presenting the document from the scanner and to compare these with the data on the holder to determine whether the person presenting the document is the holder; receive the holder details via the reader, check the relationship between the holder details and the data and read the right of the holder from the memory; provide a signal to indicate the right for the person presenting the document if the chip and the data arc authentic, the relationship has been established and the person presenting the document is the same as the holder.

Herein described is a system and method for modifying facial video transmitted from a first videophone to a second videophone during a videophone conversation. A videophone comprises a videophone image processing system (VIPS) that stores one or more preferred images. The one or more preferred images may comprise an image of a person presented in an attractive appearance. The one or more preferred images may comprise one or more avatars. Additionally, the VIPS may be used to incorporate one or more facial features of the person into a preferred image or avatar. Furthermore, a replacement background may be incorporated into the preferred image or avatar. The VIPS transmits a preferred image of a first speaker of a first videophone to a second speaker of a second videophone by capturing an actual image of the first speaker and substituting at least a portion of said actual image with a stored image.

Presented are concepts for monitoring activities of daily living, ADLs, of a person within an environment. Once such concept provides a graphical interface for an ADL monitoring system, wherein the graphical interface is adapted to display a graphical element representative of an ADL detected by the ADL monitoring system, and wherein the shape, size, position, orientation, pulsating and / or colour of at least a portion of the graphical element is based on one or more attributes of the detected ADL.