Anti-theft security device and perimeter detection system

• US 10,152,862 B2
• Filed: 08/24/2017
• Issued: 12/11/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 07/27/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Centrak Incorporated (Halma PLC)
• Original Assignee: Centrak Incorporated (Halma PLC)
• Inventors: Lax, Michael R., Libohova, Agjah I., van Koot, Frederik
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Tai T
• Application Number:
  US15/685,388
• Publication Number:
  US 20170372577A1
• Time in Patent Office: 474 Days
• Field of Search: 3405721-5728, 34053913, 34053922, 34082549
• CPC Class Codes: E05B 73/0017 Anti-theft devices, e.g. tags or monitors, fixed to articles, e.g. clothes, and to be removed at the check-out of shops
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19645 Multiple cameras, each having view on one of a plurality of scenes, e.g. multiple cameras for multi-room surveillance or for tracking an object by view hand-over
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19652 Systems using zones in a single scene defined for different treatment, e.g. outer zone gives pre-alarm, inner zone gives alarm
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19658 Telephone systems used to communicate with a camera, e.g. PSTN, GSM, POTS
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19669 Event triggers storage or change of storage policy
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19697 Arrangements wherein non-video detectors generate an alarm themselves
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/2402 Electronic Article Surveillance [EAS], i.e. systems using tags for detecting removal of a tagged item from a secure area, e.g. tags for detecting shoplifting mechanical aspects of the tags, e.g. related to locking E05B73/0017; RFID readers G06K7/00; RFID tags G06K19/00; access control systems G07C9/00; anti-theft control in point of sale systems G07G3/003; security seals G09F3/03
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/2434 Tag housing and attachment details
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/2448 Tag with at least dual detection means, e.g. combined inductive and ferromagnetic tags, dual frequencies within a single technology, tampering detection or signalling means on the tag
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/248 EAS system combined with another detection technology, e.g. dual EAS and video or other presence detection system
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/2482 EAS methods, e.g. description of flow chart of the detection procedure

Abstract

A security system in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention includes a security tag operable for connection to an object, a monitoring device operable to monitor whether a party removes or attempts to remove the security tag from the object; an alarm operable to emit a tamper signal when the monitoring device indicates that a party has removed or attempted to remove the security tag from the object in an unauthorized removal condition, and a remote collector system adapted to communicate with the security tag to set the security tag in the unauthorized removal condition and an authorized removal condition, wherein upon receipt of the tamper signal, the remote collector system generates a security message.

Claims

1. A security tag system comprising:

a security tag configured to be connected to an object, wherein the security tag includes a wireless transceiver;

a remote collector system being configured to

communicate with the security tag via the wireless transceiver,

generate a security message when a location of the security tag corresponds to a predetermined unauthorized location, and

transmit the security message including the location of the security tag corresponding to the predetermined unauthorized location;

at least one camera configured to be turned to the location corresponding to the predetermined unauthorized location; and

at least one mobile device configured to

generate an interactive map of a commercial location and display the location of the security tag relative to the interactive map of the commercial location, and

receive and display a camera image of the at least one camera, the camera image corresponding to the location of the security tag corresponding to the predetermined unauthorized location.

2. The security tag system according to claim 1, wherein the mobile device further comprises:

a display; and

an interactive map application that generates the interactive map of the commercial location.

3. The security tag system according to claim 1, wherein the camera image is automatically accessed by and displayed on the at least one mobile device based upon the security message.

4. The security tag system according to claim 1, wherein the camera image further comprises a live video feed from the at least one camera that is automatically accessed by and displayed on the at least one mobile device based upon the security message.

5. The security tag system according to claim 2, wherein the interactive map application further being configured to

generate a graphical identifier based upon the location of the security tag corresponding to the predetermined unauthorized location, and

insert the graphical identifier within the interactive map application.