Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Automated location visit verification for officer monitoring systems
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Application No.: US14998869Application Date: 2016-02-24
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Publication No.: US10339174B2Publication Date: 2019-07-02
- Inventor: Dean M. Chriss , Bryan Johnson
- Applicant: TimeKeeping Systems, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US OH Solon
- Assignee: Time Keeping Systems, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Time Keeping Systems, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US OH Solon
- Agent David A. Burge; Benjamin D. Burge
- Main IPC: G06K9/62
- IPC: G06K9/62 ; G06K9/00 ; G06F17/30 ; H04N7/18 ; G06F16/51 ; G06F16/583 ; H04W88/02 ; H04W84/12

Abstract:
A method of using image comparison techniques to identify locations to be visited by an officer during a guard tour is disclosed. A reference image is created for each location to be visited by the officer during the guard tour. When the officer is at a location to be visited during a guard tour, the officer utilizes a portable wireless device, such as a smartphone, to display the reference image of the location and the live preview image of the location produced by the smartphone superimposed on one another. Image comparison software analyzes the live preview image being produced by the smartphone relative to the reference image. If the image comparison software determines that the live preview image of the guard tour location being produced by the smartphone and the reference image of the particular guard tour location identify the same location, a picture is automatically captured by the software and saved along with the date, time, and other information indicating that a visit was made by the guard tour officer to the particular location.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170243080A1 Automated location visit verification for officer monitoring systems Public/Granted day:2017-08-24
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