Gate management system

• US 6,734,783 B1
• Filed: 10/05/2000
• Issued: 05/11/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 10/15/1999
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: OKI Electric Industry Company Limited
• Original Assignee: OKI Electric Industry Company Limited
• Inventors: Anbai, Noriyoshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Horabik, Michael
• Assistant Examiner(s): Shimizu, Matsuichiro
• Application Number:
  US09/679,363
• Time in Patent Office: 1,314 Days
• Field of Search: 340/5.52, 340/5.7, 340/5.82
• US Class Current: 340/5.52
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/37 using biometric data, e.g. fingerprints, iris scans or voice recognition
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 70/7446 Multiple keys
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 70/7989 Key securers, fasteners or retainers

Abstract

A gate management system for controlling an operation of a gate of a vault including a biometrics information management device having a first memory, storing biometrics information of at least a first and second persons, the first person being required to be accompanied with the second person to pass through the gate and the second person being able to pass the gate alone, a gate management device having a second memory, temporarily storing biometrics information of the first and second person in the second memory, and comparing the temporarily stored information with the information stored in the first memory, a controller controlling an operation of the gate based on a result of the comparison performed by the gate management device.

Claims

1. A gate management system for controlling an operation of a gate of a vault, comprising:

a biometrics information management device having a first memory, storing biometrics information of at least a first and second persons, the first person being required to be accompanied with the second person to pass through the gate and the second person being able to pass the gate alone;

a gate management device having a second memory, temporarily storing biometrics information of the first and second persons in the second memory, and comparing the temporarily stored information with the information stored in the first memory in order to operate the gate; and

a controller controlling an operation of the gate based on a result of the comparison performed by the gate management device,

wherein the biometrics information management device stores codes indicating security levels of the first and the second persons in the first memory, and the gate management device recognizes the security level of the first and second persons from the code, and

wherein the codes are characterized in two groups, the second person is assigned to the first group and the first person is assigned to the second group.

2. A gate management system as claimed in claim 1, wherein for a plurality of first persons who intend to pass through the gate, the gate management device stores biometrics information of each of the first person in the second memory temporarily and compares the biometrics information for each of the first person stored in the second memory with corresponding information stored in the first memory.

3. A gate management system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the biometrics information is an iris pattern.

4. A gate management system as claimed in claim 2, wherein the biometrics information is an iris pattern.

5. A gate management system as claimed in claim 2, wherein the gate management device stores a code of each of the first person in the second memory temporarily and compares each biometrics information and the code for each of the first person stored in the second memory with corresponding information stored in the first memory.

6. A gate management system as claimed in claim 5, wherein the biometrics information is an iris pattern.

7. A gate management system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the gate includes a first gate for the first person and a second gate for the second person, and each of the first and second gates allows to pass one person only at once.

8. A gate management system as claimed in claim 7, wherein the controller opens the second gate only when the gate management device recognizes from the code that only the second person wants to pass the gate, and the controller opens the first and second gate when the gate management device recognizes from both codes that the first and second person want to pass the gate.