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Area surveying apparatus and communication system

  • US 5,500,525 A
  • Filed: 07/29/1994
  • Issued: 03/19/1996
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/01/1993
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A method of protecting a predetermined area, comprising the steps of:

  • a) providing a base station positioned essentially at the center of the area to be protected, said base station being provided with a scanning laser beam generating and receiving means, image and signal processing units, a memory means, a voice receiving and transmitting means and an image viewing means;

    b) causing a laser beam generated from the base station to be reflected from the surveyed area into the receiving means of the base station;

    c) processing the received reflected light to generate an image of the surveyed area;

    d) storing one or more scanned images in memory means, to be used as reference images;

    e) at any given time, comparing a real-time scanned image with one or more stored reference image(s), to determine changes which have occurred on the image, which exceed predetermined threshold values, and alerting the operator of the base station of any such changes;

    f) providing one or more moving station(s) comprising an emitting/receiving laser generating means and a signal processing means, and causing the said moving station to generate an emitted signal which identifies it;

    g) providing recognition means within the signal processing means of the base station, to recognize the signal generated by the moving station as a friendly signal, and to alert the operator of the base station whether a change in the image of the scanned area belongs to a friendly or to an unfriendly force.

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