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Standoff security and real-time vendor verification system and apparatus

  • US 7,280,042 B2
  • Filed: 03/23/2005
  • Issued: 10/09/2007
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/24/2004
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A digital image and computer-based standoff security checkpoint system and apparatus for deterring vehicle and suicide bomber attacks by initiating a process and system of security checkpoint steps an entrant to a facility goes through from a standoff distance away from security personnel that verifies an entrants'"'"' identity in real-time at a facility entrance comprising:

  • a machine housing that serves as a base station for the gathering and simultaneous transmission of real-time images of an entrant to a facility as well as said entrant'"'"'s drivers license or other I.D. card;

    a digital camera positioned at the top of said machine housing positioned to visually capture the face image of an entrant to a facility to transmit via conventional image transmission means including but not limited to cable, hard wired Internet, wireless Internet, microwave transmission and receiving systems, cellular signal or satellite transmission accurate images of an entrant to a facility as well as a separate digital camera positioned at the center of said machine housing positioned to visually capture and transmit via conventional image transmission means including but not limited to cable, hard wired Internet, wireless Internet, microwave transmission and receiving systems, cellular signal or satellite transmission accurate images of an entrants'"'"' identification card or drivers license upon an entrants approach to a facility;

    a server computer including a processor for maintaining digital image gathering software and a video card system for generating LAN and WAN Web site accessible communications;

    a digital image database designed for storing digital images of an entrants'"'"' face and digital images of an entrants'"'"' identification card or drivers license including the date and time information of an entrants access to the facility;

    a web based hyperlink for accessing real-time visual information from an entrants'"'"' use of said machine housing which allows real-time viewing of the entrants'"'"' I.D. as well as a real-time viewing of an entrants face over the Internet;

    a web based hyperlink for accessing real-time visual information from an entrants'"'"' use which allows real-time viewing of the entrants'"'"' I.D. as well as a real-time viewing of his face over a local area network;

    a wireless video transmission for providing information to on-site security personnel, wherein the provided information comprises a real-time digital video image of the user as well as real-time digital image of an entrants'"'"' identification card or drivers license for the purpose of identifying the true identity of an entrant entering a facility in real-time while keeping an entrant at a safe stand-off distance;

    a local wireless transmission receiver that allows the real-time verification of an entrants'"'"' identification card or drivers license as well as an entrant while maintaining a safe stand off distance from the entrant; and

    a local wireless two-way radio communication system that allows communication between the user and the security guard at a sate standoff distance away.

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