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Security kiosk

  • US 9,789,977 B2
  • Filed: 07/29/2011
  • Issued: 10/17/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/29/2011
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A security kiosk comprising:

  • an identification device;

    communications circuitry;

    a security scanner for examining a traveler and items carried with the traveler including carry-on baggage as the traveler walks through the security scanner, wherein the security scanner includes an entrance door that is opened by a processor on successful authentication of the traveler and the entrance door is closed after receiving a signal indicative of the traveler being within a security tunnel of the security kiosk and adjacent to the security scanner from a sensor and a predetermined delay period of time and an exit door that is opened by the processor on successful scanning of the traveler and the exit door remains closed when scanning is unsuccessful, the entrance door and exit door contain emissions from the security scanner while scanning the traveler when the emissions are harmful, and wherein the security scanner includes an intercom system for facilitating communication between a security person and the traveler, wherein each door is elevated at that door'"'"'s bottom above a bottom surface of the security scanner to a height of a touch screen elevated from the bottom and affixed on an interface wall;

    the processor for obtaining identification information from the traveler using the identification device, for connecting to a host computer system using the communications circuitry, for determining whether the traveler has previously checked in from the host computer system, for checking in the traveler when the traveler has not previously checked in, for reading a check-in document when the traveler has previously checked in, and for operating the security scanner, and wherein the security kiosk is operated by the traveler.

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