Surveillance device for the protection of an automatic delivery apparatus

• US 4,942,464 A
• Filed: 03/09/1989
• Issued: 07/17/1990
• Est. Priority Date: 03/09/1988
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Erhard Milatz
• Original Assignee: Erhard Milatz
• Inventors: Milatz, Erhard
• Primary Examiner(s): NOT, DEFINED
• Assistant Examiner(s): Juo, James
• Application Number:
  US07/321,564
• Time in Patent Office: 495 Days
• Field of Search: 358/108, 358/245, 358/93, 346/107 C, 235/379, 902/1, 902/6, 340/673, 340/676, 340/691, 340/541, 340/540, 340/554, 307/125, 307/134, 307/142
• US Class Current: 348/150
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 19/20 Automatic teller machines [ATMs]
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 19/207 Surveillance aspects at ATMs
• CPC Class Codes: G07G 3/00 Alarm indicators, e.g. bells

Abstract

A surveillance device for the protection of an automatic delivery apparatus operable by code carriers, in particular of a money dispenser, has a video camera (12), which is arranged to be triggered responsive to actuation of the automatic delivery apparatus (10), and which takes and stores a picture of a field of view (14) within which a user has to be, when actuating the automatic delivery apparatus. A sensor (16) responds to the presence of objects within a forbidden zone comprising a region adjacent to the video camera. The automatic delivery apparatus is blocked, when the sensor (16) responds to an object.

Claims

1. A surveillance device for the protection of an automatic delivery apparatus operable by code carriers, characterized by

(a) a picture recording device (12), which is arranged to be triggered responsive to actuation of said automatic delivery apparatus (10), and which takes and stores a picture of a field of view (14) within which a user has to be, when actuating said automatic delivery apparatus,

(b) sensor means (16), which respond to the presence of objects within a forbidden zone comprising a region adjacent to said picture recording device, and

(c) means (34,36) for blocking said automatic delivery apparatus (10), when said sensor means respond to such object.

2. A surveillance device as claimed in claim 1, wherein said picture recording device is a video camera.

3. A surveillance device as claimed in claim 1, wherein said sensor means comprise an automatic range finder.

4. A surveillance device as claimed in claim 1, and further comprising means (28,32) for recording data of said code carrier, said data being recorded unambiguously associated with said recorded pictures.