Generic Threat Detector

• US 20120044336A1
• Filed: 12/24/2010
• Published: 02/23/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 12/30/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Thales SA
• Original Assignee: Thales SA
• Inventors: Zouaoui, Rhalem, Lamarque, Thierry, D'Hose, Johan
• Application Number:
  US12/978,475
• Publication Number:
  US 20120044336A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/77
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 31/00 Predictive alarm systems characterised by extrapolation or other computation using updated historic data

Abstract

A device including at least one threat detector, which estimates the level of threat represented by an individual based on measurements taken when the individual enters a measurement zone. The device has application to protection of infrastructures.

Claims

1. A device having at least one threat detector for estimating the level of threat represented by an individual based on measurements taken when the individual goes through a measurement zone, the device comprising:

at least one physical-signature detector taking measurements in the measurement zone in order to recognize the individual if the latter is known in a database of the individuals likely to go through the measurement zone, the database containing, for each of said individuals, an identifier associated with his physical signature that can be recognized by the physical-signature detector, the device sending a report according to a predetermined format irrespective of the type of measurements taken and of the nature of the estimated threat, wherein the report is sent in several distinct portions so that the transmission of the data can begin before the detections of threat and of physical signature are completed.

2. A device according to claim 1, further comprising a presence detector in order to detect the presence of the individual in the measurement zone.

3. A device according to claim 2, wherein the presence detector comprises an infrared beam which the individual breaks when he enters the measurement zone and an infrared beam which the individual breaks when he leaves the measurement zone.

4. A device according to claim 1, wherein the threat detector detects:

metals that can be carried by the individual, or;

traces of precursors in the manufacture of explosives that can be carried by the individual, or;

objects that can be hidden under the clothing of the individual.

5. A device according to claim 1, wherein the physical-signature detector is a camera capable of detecting the face of the individual.

6. A device according to claim 1, wherein the report contains the raw measurements taken when the individual goes through the measurement zone and the estimated level of threat based on these measurements.