Access control device

• US 9,129,451 B2
• Filed: 03/22/2011
• Issued: 09/08/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 03/23/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: KABA Gallenschuetz GmbH (dormakaba Holding AG)
• Original Assignee: KABA Gallenschuetz GmbH (dormakaba Holding AG)
• Inventors: Frueh, Bernhard
• Primary Examiner(s): Zimmerman, Brian
• Assistant Examiner(s): Nguyen, An T
• Application Number:
  US13/583,992
• Publication Number:
  US 20130002399A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,631 Days
• Field of Search: 340/5.52, 340/5.82, 340/5.83, 235/380, 235/382, 235/384, 382/115, 705/13
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 9/257 electronically G07C9/26 takes precedence

Abstract

From the prior art, access control devices are already known in which a distinction is made between a first detection device (2) and the actual access and access is enabled or not, on the basis of a comparison of the data detected by the first detection device (2) with the data detected again at the actual access lock (7). Starting from the prior art, the solution according to the invention proposes an expansion of the system such that modern Internet booking procedures are considered and furthermore the new possibilities of facial recognition are performed in a quasi manner as the last examination before access is enabled, and access is granted or rejected depending on the examination result, in other words the examination of a biometric feature. The invention can be used for a border crossing control device.

Claims

1. Access control device, having a person passage gate that releases or blocks access to an aircraft, wherein this person passage gate has at least one document reading unit and at least one optical recording device assigned to it, wherein the at least one document reading unit of the person passage gate and the at least one optical recording device of the person passage gate are connected with a control unit of the person passage gate, wherein the control unit in turn is connected with a central database, and releases or blocks the person passage gate as a function of a comparison of the data recorded with at least one of the at least one document reading unit of the person passage gate and the at least one optical recording device of the person passage gate with data stored in the central database, wherein an individual, temporary flight record is stored in the central database for every passenger and every flight, wherein the individual, temporary flight record was compiled at the time of booking of the flight, in each instance, wherein the individual temporary flight record at first comprises at least the booking data of the flight and an ID of the flight record, wherein a first recording device precedes the person passage gate, comprises a check-in biometric recording device and a check-in barcode scanner, scans via the check-in barcode scanner a boarding unit comprising a barcode and presented by a person, the barcode having been generated at the booking of the flight and comprising the ID of the flight record, the boarding unit comprising a ticket, a laptop display, or a cell phone display, to gather person identifying document information, scans a person identifying document presented by the person, the person identifying document comprising a passport or a personal identity card, transmits the ID of the flight record to the central database to call up the individual, temporary flight record and transmits the person identifying document information from the person identifying document to the central database for comparison with the individual, temporary flight record, after the comparison of the individual, temporary flight record with the person identifying document information, records, via the check-in biometric reading device, check-in biometric information of the person, and enters the check-in biometric information into the individual temporary flight record, the check-in biometric information comprising a facial image of the person and at least one further biometric characteristic of the person, wherein the control unit only releases the person passage gate if first, via the at least one document reading unit of the person passage gate, person-identifying data of the person was recorded in the region of the person passage gate via the at least one document reading unit of the person passage unit, and a current facial image of the person was generated via the at least one optical recording device of the person passage gate, and was successfully compared with the facial image of the check-in biometric information stored in the temporary flight record, wherein the person passage gate comprises a computer having an evaluation unit, the computer being connected to the at least one document reading unit of the person passage unit, the evaluation unit being able to read out the person-identifying data recorded by the at least one document reading unit of the person passage unit, and wherein a comparison of the person-identifying data with data stored in the individual, temporary flight record that was called up-takes place, with formation of a checksum, and the boarding procedure can only be continued if a defined minimum sum is exceeded.

2. Access control device according to claim 1, wherein the at least one further biometric characteristic comprises one or more fingerprints of the person.

3. Access control device according to claim 1, wherein the person passage gate has an optical and/or acoustic signal unit assigned to it, in such a manner that users of the person passage gate can be requested, by way of the optical and/or acoustic signal unit, to present a document or a facial image to the at least one document reading unit of the person passage gate or to the at least one optical recording device of the person passage gate, for the purpose of identification.

4. Access control device according to claim 3, wherein facial recognition can be carried out via a software tool contained in the control unit of the person passage gate, on the basis of the facial image stored in the corresponding flight record, which facial image has already been identified via the checksum, and

wherein access can be released if successful facial recognition occurs.

5. Access control device according to claim 3, wherein the optical and/or acoustical signal unit assigned to the person passage gate is provided with a traffic light system, and

wherein the traffic light system switches from one traffic light signal to the next upon recognition of the flight record assigned to the person, and after subsequent successful facial recognition, changes to the next following traffic light signal to signal successful release of the pass-through.

6. Access control device according to claim 1, wherein the flight record can be automatically deleted after release of the person passage gate, at the earliest, but after expiration of a defined time interval, at the latest.

7. Access control device according to claim 1, wherein the data of the individual, temporary flight record stored in the central database are compared, at the latest before release of access by the person passage gate, with the data stored in a so-called blacklist, and if a critical checksum is exceeded, release of access by the person passage gate is blocked.

8. Access control device according to claim 1, wherein a document checking unit for checking the authenticity of the person-identifying documents presented is additionally assigned to the first recording device and/or the person passage gate.

9. Access control device according to claim 1, wherein the person passage gate further comprises a fingerprint reader, and wherein the at least one further biometric characteristic of the person comprises one or more fingerprints of the person.