DRIVER'S LECENSE DETECTOR

• US 20130314207A1
• Filed: 07/30/2013
• Published: 11/28/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 08/23/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Duane Yamasaki, George Sunsumu Yonekura, Michael Cao
• Original Assignee: Duane Yamasaki, George Sunsumu Yonekura, Michael Cao
• Inventors: Yamasaki, Duane, Cao, Michael, Yonekura, George Sunsumu
• Granted Patent: US 9,430,684 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/5.8
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/35 communicating wirelessly
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 7/10366 the interrogation device being adapted for miscellaneous applications
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/08 Logistics, e.g. warehousing, loading or distribution; Inventory or stock management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/3278 RFID or NFC payments by means of M-devices
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/34 using cards, e.g. integrated circuit [IC] cards or magnetic cards
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/352 Contactless payments by cards
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/265 Personal security, identity or safety
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 5/0031 for data transfer
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 5/0062 in RFID [Radio Frequency Identification] Systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 5/0068 in transponders
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 5/45 Transponders
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 5/72 for local intradevice communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 5/77 for interrogation
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/00 Radio transmission systems, i.e. using radiation field H04B10/00, H04B15/00 take precedence

Abstract

A license detector system enables a person such as a police officer to monitor vehicles on the road to ensure drivers have valid licenses. Within each valid license is an RFID tag which contains specific information and each RFID tag is able to send that information to a detector when requested. To use the system, the police officer aims the detector at a vehicle, initiates the signal to be received by the RFID tag within the license and waits to receive a signal back from the RFID tag. If a signal is received, then a valid license has been detected within the vehicle. However, if no signal or an invalid signal is received by the detector, then no one, specifically the driver of the car, has a valid license. Upon discovering such information, the police officer should be justified in stopping the vehicle and taking the necessary police action.

Claims

1. A system for detecting a license comprising:

a. a tag device coupled to the license; and

b. a detector for transmitting a first signal to the tag device to request and receive information contained within the tag device, wherein the tag device receives the first signal from the detector and sends a second signal to the detector, and further wherein the information contained within the tag device sent within the second signal indicates the presence of the license at the location of the tag device.

2. The system as claimed in claim 1 wherein the tag device is a Radio Frequency IDentification tag.

3. The system as claimed in claim 1 wherein the second signal contains information within the tag device.

4. The system as claimed in claim 1 wherein the tag device is selected from the group consisting of passive, semi-passive and active tags.

5. The system as claimed in claim 1 wherein the license is selected from the group consisting of a driver'"'"'s license, a fishing license, a hunting license, a pilot'"'"'s license and a government issued identification.

6. The system as claimed in claim 1 wherein the detector further comprises a verifying component for verifying validity of the second signal.

7. The system as claimed in claim 1 wherein the detector further comprises an indicator for indicating whether the license is detected.

8. The system as claimed in claim 7 wherein the indicator comprises one or more visual confirmations.

9. The system as claimed in claim 7 wherein the indicator comprises one or more light emitting diodes.

10. The system as claimed in claim 1 wherein the detector further comprises a processor for processing the information, a first transmitter for transmitting the first signal and a sensor for sensing the second signal.

11. The system as claimed in claim 10 wherein the detector further comprises a second transmitter to transmit a third signal to a remote location.

12. The system as claimed in claim 1 wherein the detector is hand-held.

13. The system as claimed in claim 1 wherein the detector is portable.

14. The system as claimed in claim 1 wherein the detector is affixed to an immobile object.

15. The system as claimed in claim 1 wherein the detector is affixed to a police car.

16. The system as claimed in claim 1 further comprising a remote system for receiving a request signal containing information within the tag device for determining a status of the tag device and transmitting a status signal containing the status of the tag device to the detector.

17. A system for detecting a driver'"'"'s license within a moving vehicle comprising:

a. a passive Radio Frequency IDentification tag device coupled to the driver'"'"'s license; and

b. a detector for transmitting a first signal to the tag device to request and receive information contained within the tag device, wherein the tag device receives the first signal from the detector and sends a second signal of the information contained within the tag device to the detector, further wherein the detector further comprises;

i. a processor for processing the information;

ii. a first transmitter for transmitting the first signal;

iii. a sensor for sensing the second signal;

iv. a verifying component for authenticating the second signal by determining if the second signal has authentication data; and

v. an indicator for indicating whether the license is detected.

18. The system as claimed in claim 17 wherein the indicator comprises one or more visual confirmations.

19. The system as claimed in claim 17 wherein the indicator comprises one or more light emitting diodes.

20. The system as claimed in claim 17 further comprising a remote system for receiving a request signal containing information within the tag device for determining the status of the tag device and transmitting a status signal containing the status of the tag device to the detector.

21. A method of detecting the presence of a license within a vehicle comprising:

a. transmitting a first signal from a detector to a tag device within the license;

b. receiving a second signal at the detector from the tag device; and

c. authenticating the second signal by determining if the second signal has authentication data.

22. The method as claimed in claim 21 wherein the tag device is a Radio Frequency IDentification tag.

23. The method as claimed in claim 21 wherein the tag device is selected from the group consisting of passive, semi-passive and active tags.

24. The method as claimed in claim 21 wherein the license is selected from the group consisting of a driver'"'"'s license, a fishing license, a hunting license, a pilot'"'"'s license and a government issued identification.

25. The method as claimed in claim 21 further comprising verifying validity of the second signal with a verifying component.

26. The method as claimed in claim 21 further comprising indicating whether the license is detected with an indicator.

27. The method as claimed in claim 26 wherein the indicator comprises one or more visual confirmations.

28. The method as claimed in claim 26 wherein the indicator comprises one or more light emitting diodes.

29. The method as claimed in claim 21 further comprising transmitting a third signal containing a status of the tag device to a remote location.

30. The method as claimed in claim 21 wherein the detector is hand-held.

31. The method as claimed in claim 21 wherein the detector is portable.

32. The method as claimed in claim 21 wherein the detector is affixed to an immobile object.

33. The method as claimed in claim 21 wherein the detector is affixed to a police car.

34. The method as claimed in claim 21 further comprising transmitting a third signal containing information within the tag device to a remote device and receiving a fourth signal at the detector from the remote device containing a status of the tag device.

35-43. -43. (canceled)

44. A driver'"'"'s license comprising:

a. identification information comprising all data textually indicated on the driver'"'"'s license; and

b. a tag device configured to communicate only the status of the driver'"'"'s license to a detector.

46. The identification device as claimed in claim 44 wherein the tag device is a Radio Frequency IDentification tag.

47. The identification device as claimed in claim 44 wherein the tag device is selected from the group consisting of passive, semi-passive and active tags.

45. (canceled)

48-51. -51. (canceled)