Biometric notification system

• US 10,303,934 B2
• Filed: 04/28/2018
• Issued: 05/28/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 07/21/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: FaceFirst, LLC
• Original Assignee: FaceFirst, LLC
• Inventors: Rosenkrantz, Joseph Ethan, Hesketh, Gifford
• Primary Examiner(s): Thomas, Mia M
• Application Number:
  US15/965,886
• Publication Number:
  US 20180253592A1
• Time in Patent Office: 395 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/51 Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/583 using metadata automatically derived from the content
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/739 in form of a video summary, e.g. the video summary being a video sequence, a composite still image or having synthesized frames
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/784 the detected or recognised objects being people
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 10/95 structured as a network, e.g. client-server architectures
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/41 Higher-level, semantic clustering, classification or understanding of video scenes, e.g. detection, labelling or Markovian modelling of sport events or news items segmenting video sequences G06V20/49
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/52 Surveillance or monitoring of activities, e.g. for recognising suspicious objects recognising microscopic objects G06V20/69
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/10 Human or animal bodies, e.g. vehicle occupants or pedestrians; Body parts, e.g. hands
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/166 using acquisition arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/168 Feature extraction; Face representation
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/172 Classification, e.g. identification
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/18 Status alarms G08B21/02 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/031 Electronic editing of digitised analogue information signals, e.g. audio or video signals
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/3081 used signal is a video-frame or a video-field (P.I.P)
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/77 between a recording apparatus and a television camera
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/181 for receiving images from a plurality of remote sources

Abstract

The present invention provides a biometric notification system for selectively sending messages to interested recipients. In various embodiments, message trigger criteria, interested recipients, and message content may vary depending upon, among other things, the service being provided.

Claims

1. A site biometric notification system (“

BNS”

) with facial recognition and related services, the system comprising;

plural digital video cameras (C₁ . . . C_n) that monitor respective zones (Z₁ . . . Z_n) at a first site;

a processing system including a processing facility and a database facility and interconnections therebetween;

a network interconnecting the video cameras and the data processing facility;

a video frame acquired from a video camera C_x in zone Z_x includes a first content and a first facial feature set of a first person derived from the first content;

a database of the database facility includes plural cases, each case identifies a person by linking a name with a second facial feature set and a case group;

a matched case discovered when the processing facility finds the first feature set matches a second feature set;

devices for receiving messages;

first and second messages sent to one or more of the devices for receiving messages when a matched case includes a case group that identifies the person as a person of interest;

the first message content includes identification of the person and a recipient of the first message is a site staff member; and

,

the second message content includes an instruction for manipulating a device.

2. The BNS of claim 1 wherein the person is identified by name.

3. The BNS of claim 1 wherein the person is identified by image.

4. The BNS of claim 3 wherein the site staff member is a security staff member.

5. The BNS of claim 1 wherein the person is identified by name and image.

6. The BNS of claim 5 wherein the instruction for manipulating a device is a controller instruction.

7. The BNS of claim 1 further comprising:

a first geofencing service for recognizing a person excluded from a zone; and

,

wherein discovery of a matched case results in a message being sent to a site staff member.

8. The BNS of claim 7 further comprising:

the message sent to a site security staff member with advice that there may be a security breach.

9. The BNS of claim 8 wherein only a subset of the cases in the database is available for comparison with the first feature set, the subset of cases consisting of persons excluded from zone Z_x.

10. The BNS of claim 1 further comprising:

a second geofencing service for recognizing a person not excluded from a zone; and

,

wherein failure to discover a matched case results in a message being sent to a site staff member.

11. The BNS of claim 10 further comprising:

the message sent to a site security staff member with advice there may be a security breach.

12. The BNS of claim 11 wherein only a subset of cases in the database is available for comparison with a first feature set, the subset of cases consisting of persons not excluded from zone Z_x.

13. A biometric notification method with facial recognition and related services, the method comprising the steps of:

providing plural digital video cameras (C₁ . . . C_n) for monitoring respective zones (Z₁ . . . Z_n) at a first site, a processing system including a processing facility and a database facility, and a network interconnecting the video cameras and the data processing facility;

acquiring a video frame from a video camera C_x in zone Z_x including a first content and a first facial feature set of a first person derived from the first content;

in a database of a database facility including plural cases, identifying each case with a name of a person that is linked to a second facial feature set and a case group;

discovering a matched case if the processing facility finds the first feature set matches a second feature set;

providing devices for receiving messages; and

,

sending first and second messages to one or more of the devices for receiving messages when a matched case includes a case group that identifies the person as a person of interest;

wherein the first message content includes identification of the person, a recipient of the first message is a site staff member, and the second message includes an instruction for manipulating a device.

14. The biometric notification method of claim 13 wherein the person is identified by name.

15. The biometric notification method of claim 13 wherein the person is identified by image.

17. The biometric notification method of claim 13 wherein the person is identified by name and image.

18. The biometric notification method of claim 17 wherein the instruction for manipulating a device is a controller instruction.

19. The biometric notification method of claim 13 further comprising the steps of:

recognizing a person excluded from a zone via a first geofencing service; and

,

wherein discovery of a matched case results in a message being sent to a site staff member.

20. The biometric notification method of claim 19 further comprising the steps of:

sending the message to a site security staff member; and

,

advising a security breach.

21. The biometric notification method of claim 20 wherein only a subset of the cases in the database is available for comparison with the first feature set, the subset of cases consisting of persons excluded from zone Z_x.

22. The biometric notification method of claim 13 further comprising the steps of:

recognizing a person that is not excluded from a zone via a second geofencing service; and

,

wherein failure to discover a matched case results in a message being sent to a site staff member.

23. The biometric notification method of claim 22 further comprising the steps of:

sending the message a site security staff member; and

,

advising a security breach.

24. The biometric notification method of claim 23 wherein only a subset of cases in the database is available for comparison with a first feature set, the subset of cases consisting of persons not excluded from zone Z_x.

16. The biometric notification method 15 wherein the site staff member is a security staff member.