Remote baggage screening system, software and method

• US 20020176532A1
• Filed: 04/03/2002
• Published: 11/28/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 04/03/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Leidos Security Detection & Automation Incorporated (Leidos Holdings, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: L-3 Communications Security and Detection Systems Incorporated
• Inventors: Huang, Ying, Whitson, Andrea L., Dawson, Craig, McClelland, Keith M.
• Granted Patent: US 6,721,391 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 378/57
• CPC Class Codes: B64F 1/368 Arrangements or installations for routing, distributing or loading baggage
• CPC Class Codes: G01V 5/271 using a network, e.g. a remote expert, accessing remote data or the like
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/02 Reservations, e.g. for tickets, services or events
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols

Abstract

A computer readable medium encoded with a plurality of instructions for execution on at least one processor, the plurality of instructions performing a method of remote screening of items of baggage. The method includes steps of storing information about an item under inspection, linking a unique item identifier with the information to uniquely associate the information with the item under inspection and retrieving the information about the item under inspection in response to a request. The method also includes analyzing the information to determine a screening result for the item under inspection, and storing the screening result with the information about the item.

Claims

1. A computer readable medium encoded with a plurality of instructions for execution on at least one processor, the plurality of instructions performing a method of remote screening of items of baggage, the method comprising steps of:

storing information about an item under inspection;

linking a unique item identifier with the information to uniquely associate the information with the item under inspection;

retrieving the information about the item under inspection in response to a request;

analyzing the information to determine a screening result for the item under inspection; and

storing the screening result with the information about the item.

2. The computer readable medium as claimed in claim 1, wherein the information about the item under inspection includes an image file that includes data corresponding to an X-ray image of the item under inspection.

3. The computer readable medium as claimed in claim 2, wherein the step of analyzing the information includes analyzing the image file to identify a region of interest in the X-ray image of the item under inspection.

4. The computer readable medium as claimed in claim 3, wherein the method further comprises a step of processing a portion of the image file corresponding to the region if interest in the X-ray image to determine information regarding the region of interest.

5. The computer readable medium as claimed in claim 1, wherein the method further comprises a step of displaying the screening result on an operator interface.

6. The computer readable medium as claimed in claim 1, wherein the step of analyzing the information includes analyzing the information according to a selected detection algorithm.