US 10,832,545 B2 · Systems and methods for increasing alarm confidence in EAS detection systems

Abstract

Systems and methods for operating an EAS detection system. The methods comprise: detecting an Active Security Tag (“AST”) in an EAS detection zone; determining whether AST is coupled to an object identified in a list; and performing operations when a determination is made that AST is coupled to a listed object. The operations involve: accessing sensor data generated by at least one sensor device disposed on/near display equipment associated with the listed object; processing the sensor data to determine whether a person was within a defined distance range of AST during a period of time immediately preceding the detecting; concluding that a false alarm scenario exists when the sensor data indicates that a person was not within the defined distance range of AST during the period of time; and suppressing alarm issuance by the EAS detection system in response to the false alarm scenario conclusion.

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Dependent claims

A method for operating an Electronic Article Surveillance (“EAS”) detection system, comprising:

detecting, by the EAS detection system, an alarm of a tag of the system;
and
determining whether or not the alarm is a false alarm by:
determining whether the alarmed tag is associated with an object identified in a list of objects on display within a detection zone of the system;
and
performing the following operations when a determination is made that the alarmed tag is coupled to an object identified in the list:
accessing sensor data generated by at least one sensor device disposed on or near display equipment associated with the object identified in the list;
processing the sensor data to determine whether a person was within a defined distance range of the alarmed tag during a period of time immediately preceding the detecting;
concluding that the alarm is a false alarm when the sensor data indicates that the person was not within the defined distance range of the alarmed tag during the period of time;
and
suppressing an issuance of the alarm by the EAS detection system in response to the false alarm determination.

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A system, comprising:

a processor;
and
a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising programming instructions that are configured to cause the processor to implement a method for operating an Electronic Article Surveillance (“EAS”) detection system, wherein the programming instructions comprise instructions to:
cause the EAS detection system to detect an active security tag in an EAS detection zone for causing issuance of an alarm;
determine whether or not the alarm is a false alarm by:
determining whether the active security tag is coupled to an object identified in a list of objects on display within a detection zone of the system;
and
performing the following operations when a determination is made that the active security tag is coupled to an object identified in the list of objects:
accessing sensor data generated by at least one sensor device disposed on or near display equipment associated with the object identified in the list of objects;
processing the sensor data to determine whether a person was within a defined distance range of the active security tag during a period of time immediately preceding the detecting;
and
concluding that the alarm is a false alarm when the sensor data indicates that the person was not within the defined distance range of the active security tag during the period of time;
and
suppress the issuance of the alarm by the EAS detection system in response to the false alarm determination.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

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