Method and device for securing devices against unauthorized access, particularly for identifying in a casino

• US 20060038655A1
• Filed: 07/04/2003
• Published: 02/23/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 07/04/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: TBS Holding
• Original Assignee: TBS Holding
• Inventors: Hauke, Rudolf
• Application Number:
  US10/535,109
• Publication Number:
  US 20060038655A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/5.520
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/257 electronically G07C9/26 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/27 with central registration
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/37 using biometric data, e.g. fingerprints, iris scans or voice recognition
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/32 for games, toys, sports, or amusements
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3206 Player sensing means, e.g. presence detection, biometrics
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3239 Tracking of individual players

Abstract

A method for securing facilities against access of unauthorized persons, in particular for verifying the access authorization of gamblers to gambling machines in a casino, wherein biometric data of the persons are analyzed, characterized in that every person possesses a document in which biometric data of its owner are applied on a carrier material, the carrier material containing at least one identifiable body whose data are touchlessly acquired by an acquisition unit within a certain operating range and transferred to at least one facility, wherein the facility automatically loads the biometric data of all persons located within the operating range from a central memory storage into a device internal memory storage, and that an identification of the person as well as of the authorization to possess the document is performed at the facility.

Claims

1-10. -10. (canceled)

11. A method for verifying access authorization of persons to a facility, wherein each person possesses a document having a carrier material applied thereto, the carrier material including biometric data of an owner of the respective document and at least one identifiable body containing readable data, the method comprising:

touchlessly acquiring the readable data from each identifiable body within a defined operating range using an acquisition unit;

transferring the acquired readable data from the acquisition unit to the facility;

automatically loading the biometric data corresponding to each person for whom the readable data is transferred from a central memory storage to into a device internal memory storage;

performing an identification of each person and determining the authorization of each person to possess the respective document at the facility.

12. The method as recited in claim 11, wherein the loading is performed by the facility.

13. The method as recited in claim 11, wherein the facility is a gambling machine in a casino and wherein the persons are gamblers.

14. The method as recited in claim 11, further comprising generating a dataset of the identifiable body and transferred the dataset to the central memory storage.

15. The method as recited in claim 11, wherein the facility is a gambling machine in a casino and wherein the gambling machine and several further gambling machines are located within reach and linked to the central memory storage.

16. The method as recited in claim 11, wherein the identifiable body includes a radio chip mounted on the carrier material.

17. The method as recited in claim 11, wherein the document is disposed in one of a portable radio and a telephone set.

18. The method as recited in claim 17, wherein the portable radio or telephone set is connectable to a socket mounted at the gambling machine.

19. The method as recited in claim 11, wherein the identification of the person is performed by analyzing a fingerprint of the person at the facility.

20. The method as recited in claim 11, wherein the document is an identity card, and wherein the biometric data includes at least one of a photograph, a fingerprint of the owner, and an access right.

21. The method as recited in claim 11, wherein the document includes a rechargeable value transponder.

22. A method as recited in claim 11, wherein the performing of the identification includes:

illuminating an object using a light source;

acquiring at least two images of the object using optical scanning from at least two different directions simultaneously;

determining numerical parameters using digital image processing;

calculating a three-dimensional model of the object from the at least two images;

comparing the three-dimensional model with a reference model; and

determining the identification to be right if the numerical parameters are simultaneously concordant with the reference model within predetermined tolerances.

23. A method as recited in claim 22, further comprising previously creating the n the reference model using a plurality of images of the object.