Vehicle-Mounted Signal Collection for Obscured Target Tracking

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing surveillance systems struggle to identify individuals or vehicles obscured, masked, or attempting to hide their identity, and there is a need for systems that can correlate electronic devices with images and locations to track objects and persons in a selected area.

Innovation Solution

A surveillance system utilizing mobile collection devices on vehicles to gather electronic signals, integrate with existing systems, and analyze signal patterns to identify targets, track packages, and detect anomalies, with intelligence systems for correlation and pattern analysis.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If cameras are used to capture images and video in public and private spaces, then visual identification of persons is improved, but the system cannot identify people who are obscured, masked, or otherwise attempt to hide their identity

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvevisual identification accuracyVSAvoididentification capability under obscuration

Core Design Contradiction:

Measurement precisionVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces electronic device signals as an intermediary to identify persons who cannot be visually identified. Instead of directly capturing visual information, the system uses electronic devices carried by individuals as mediators to track and identify obscured or masked persons through their electronic signal signatures.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent replaces the mechanical/optical camera-based identification system with an electronic signal-based identification system. Instead of relying on visual capture mechanisms, the system uses electronic signal detection, correlation, and pattern recognition to identify individuals, thereby substituting one detection mechanism for another more effective under obscuration conditions.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

2Productivity

If electronic signals are collected and correlated across wide areas to track unidentified persons and vehicles, then surveillance capability is improved, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvesurveillance coverage areaVSAvoidsignal correlation system complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the surveillance system into multiple collection devices distributed across different locations and vehicles. Each device independently collects electronic signals, and the central system correlates these segmented data streams to achieve wide-area surveillance capability while distributing system complexity across multiple simpler components.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent creates a universal signal correlation system that can identify multiple types of targets (unidentified persons, vehicles, packages) using the same electronic signal collection and correlation methodology. This multi-functional approach allows the system to handle diverse surveillance needs through a single unified platform, managing complexity through standardization.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

3Area of stationary object

If collection devices are placed on mobile vehicles to collect electronic signals while moving through selected areas, then surveillance coverage and mobility are improved, but measurement precision and signal quality may deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvesurveillance coverage areaVSAvoidsignal detection accuracy

Core Design Contradiction:

Area of stationary objectVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent ensures continuous electronic signal collection as vehicles move through selected areas. The system maintains uninterrupted signal detection and correlation processes despite vehicle motion, ensuring that the useful action of surveillance continues without interruption, thereby maintaining measurement precision through continuous data streams rather than intermittent snapshots.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #20Continuity of useful action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent implements feedback mechanisms where collected electronic signals are continuously correlated with known patterns and databases. The system uses feedback from signal correlation results to adjust and refine identification processes, maintaining measurement precision even as vehicles move through different environments with varying signal conditions.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS12456377B2Systems and methods for electronic surveillance

Publication Date: 2025.10.28 LEONARDO US CYBER & SECURITY SOLUTIONS LLC

AI summary

A system and method for monitoring, via collection systems mounted on vehicles, for one or more electronic signals associated with one or more selected locations. In an embodiment, the system may include a plurality of collection systems. Each collection system of the plurality of collection systems may be positioned on a respective vehicle of a plurality of vehicles. Each of the collection systems may include at least one sensor configured to collect electronic signals from proximal electronic devices and a communication circuitry to transmit collected electronic signals. The system may include an intelligence device receiving the transmitted collected electronic signals. The intelligence device may include a database and correlation circuitry to determine a correlation between one or more different electronic signals of the collected electronic signals.