Scanning device with sensors and camera or tricorder

• US 20050012819A1
• Filed: 07/17/2003
• Published: 01/20/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 07/17/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Michael Francis Niemi
• Original Assignee: Michael Francis Niemi
• Inventors: Niemi, Michael Francis
• Application Number:
  US10/621,013
• Publication Number:
  US 20050012819A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/148
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19621 Portable camera
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19673 Addition of time stamp, i.e. time metadata, to video stream

Abstract

The use of a robotic controller board to manage the influx of data from one or more sensors, and to send that data, in RS232 or serial form, to a Palm OS Computing Device. In this case, a Handspring Prism with a Camera to sense radiation, heat, motion, direction and distance from objects from the Scanning device. The Prism also has an onboard Clock and Palm OS software that can be used, like Notepad, to take notes, etc. to store data about an incident(s) that the Scanner is or had recorded.

Claims

I. I:

I claim the device the device, properly powered and equipped, can be used as a portable data recorder and to provide data as an on screen alert, and/or to be saved for analysis after some kind of event or threat has been averted or detected.

II. II:

In relation to claim I, I claim the device can be used, with batteries and the proper sensors, as a personal documentation device in hazardous situations or other conditions, where a hidden radioactive source, smoke, or heat masked by smoke or other material may obscure the danger from the User, where the User would be ordinarily be unaware of the danger nearby.

III. III:

In relation to claim I, I claim that the device can be used to determine the location of the user of the device when properly outfitted with the electronic Compass and software maps, giving the user a bearing, the time, and if equipped with a camera, the means to photograph anything around the user, in case the user is guarding, or gets lost, disoriented, sightseeing, etc.

IV. IV:

In relation to claim I, I clam that the device, when properly outfitted with the PDA camera and IR Ranger, can take pictures at any interval, with time and date stamp to record movement via the IR Ranger of a certain object at any preprogrammed distance, as a security device in restricted or sensitive areas, such as an office, a screening room, etc.

IV-1. IV:

In relation to claim I, I clam that the device, when properly outfitted with the PDA camera and IR Ranger, and properly wired to a vehicles internal electrical system, can take pictures automatically of a vehicle too close;

or judged by PDA programming of distance vs. speed, to be a hazard of imminent collision with the front and back of the so-equipped vehicle.

VI. VI:

In relation to claim I, I clam that the device, when properly outfitted with the Heat Sensor and IR Ranger can visually warn an EMR (emergency first responder person) of danger of a fire or wall or other obstruction when obscured by smoke.