Telemedicine booking station for mass casualty intake facility, relocation center, or the like, arising from bioterror hostage standoff, civil disobedience, or the like

• US 20030184649A1
• Filed: 04/01/2002
• Published: 10/02/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 04/01/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: W. Stephen G. Mann
• Original Assignee: W. Stephen G. Mann
• Inventors: Mann, W. Stephen G.
• Application Number:
  US10/113,966
• Publication Number:
  US 20030184649A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/161
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/18 Closed-circuit television [CCTV] systems, i.e. systems in which the video signal is not broadcast

Abstract

Terrorist attacks, threats, or hoaxes, in which there is the possibility of nuclear, biological, and chemical (NBC) attacks, disease, terrorism, civil unrest, disobedience, hostage standoffs, or the like, may require large numbers of victims and suspected cases to be processed through mass decontamination lines prior to mass casualty care. Perpetrators may also attempt to lose themselves in large crowds and hide among the victims, or among bystanders, when the crime scene is cordoned off by the authorities. Accordingly, an evidence collection station is disclosed, along with a method of collecting evidence as victims and suspected cases process through decontamination lines. The evidence collection system preferably includes the collection of videometric and biometric data, along with the tracking of physical evidence recovered from victims and suspected cases. In some embodiments, the facility is automated or remotely controlled, remotely managed, or the like, such as by way of telemedicine, so that at least some ambulatory victims can self-process through the decontamination lines. Various steps are also disclosed for preventing suspected cases from spreading potential contamination by fleeing from the scene. Further processing, especially treatment and possible cure of persons suspected of being afflicted with obedience deficit disorder, are disclosed.

Claims

1. A self-booking station comprising:

at least one security camera;

at least one visual data capture device;

at least one personal effects receptacle,

at least a first image captured when a suspect initially enters said station, at least a second image captured when said suspect places a first personal effect in said receptacle, and at least a third image captured when said suspect places a last personal effect in said receptacle.

2. The self-booking station of claim 1, where said personal effects receptacle is equipped with a personal effects sensor, said visual data capture device responsive to an output of said personal effects sensor.

3. The self-booking station of claim 1, where said self first image is captured from said camera prior to the removal of said suspect'"'"'s clothing, said camera being a first camera, said station including a second camera, said station equipped with a visual display for being visible to said suspect, said visual display for providing instructions for directing said suspect to:

reveal the contents of said suspect'"'"'s pockets to a first scanning receptacle, said second image being an image from said second camera;

remove clothing to a second scanning receptacle, said third image then captured by said first camera.

4. The self-booking station of claim 1, where said personal effects receptacle is equipped with a personal effects scanner, said visual data capture device responsive to an output of said personal effects scanner, said scanner for capturing a scan of each article of clothing removed by said suspect, said scans stored and indexed together with a corresponding image of said suspect wearing said article of clothing.

5. The self-booking station of claim 1, where said personal effects are clothing, and said first personal effect is a first article of clothing, and said last personal effect is a last article of clothing.

6. The self-booking station of claim 1, further including at least one fingerprint scanner.

7. The self-booking station of claim 1, further including an electronic personal effects claim check issuer, said claim check issuer responsive to input from at least one biometric identifier.

8. The self-booking station of claim 7, where said biometric identifier is an eye scanner, said eye scanner also providing a health assessment of said suspect.

9. A method of allowing suspects to self-book, said method comprising the steps of:

allowing suspects to present themselves for being photographed in a multimedia booking kiosk;

providing suspects with computer-generated instructions for scanning of personal effects;

allowing suspects to remove some personal effects for scanning;

capturing at least one image of said personal effects;

capturing at least one additional image of said suspect.

10. The method of claim 9 further including the step of:

supplying at least one of said suspects with an obedience deficit disorder prosthetic;

providing said suspect with instructions for installation of said obedience deficit disorder prosthetic.

11. A self-booking system comprising:

at least one security camera;

at least one visual data capture device;

at least one conditional holding facility for prevention of escape of persons or their personal effects,

at least a first image captured when a suspect initially enters said system, said system having a fire sensor, a processor, and exit control device, said system having at least two levels of fire egress availabilty, a lesser level of fire egress availabilty, and a greater level of fire egress availabilty, said system also including a chemical agent monitor, said exit control device causing at least one exit to become less operable when said chemical agent monitor detects a chemical agent, said system selecting said lesser level of fire egress availabilty in response to an output from said chemical agent monitor.

12. The self-booking system of claim 11 where said system is within a building.

13. The self-booking system of claim 11 where said fire sensor comprises at least one fire pull station and at least one heat sensor.

14. The self-booking system of claim 11 where said system is within a building, said building equipped with decontamination dispenser activated by said chemical agent monitor.