Scanning systems
AssigneeRapiscan Systems, Inc.
InventorEdward James Morton
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Abstract
The present application is directed toward cargo scanning systems having scanners, each arranged to scan a respective object and generate a set of scan data, processors arranged to process each set of scan data to determine whether it meets a predetermined threat condition, workstations, and data management system arranged to direct data that meets the threat condition to one of the workstations for analysis.
Claims28
A non-transient computer readable medium comprising a plurality of programmatic instructions that, when executed by at least one processor:
- receive scan data, wherein the scan data are representative of contents positioned within one or more containers;
- perform an automated detection process on the scan data;
- receive descriptive information of the contents of the one or more containers;
- assess the scan data based on the automated detection process;
- for a first portion of the assessed scan data, acquire a threat object image from a library of images representative of known threats and combine the threat object image with the first portion of the assessed scan data to generate hybrid scan data;
- and
- send the hybrid scan data and a second portion of the assessed scan data to an operator workstation, wherein the second portion of the assessed scan data does not have a threat object image from the library of images representative of known threats and wherein an amount of the second portion of the assessed scan data is greater than an amount of the hybrid scan data.
A method implemented by at least one processor configured to execute a plurality of programmatic instructions in a non-transient computer readable medium, the method comprising:
- receiving scan data, wherein the scan data are representative of contents positioned within one or more containers;
- performing an automated detection process on the scan data;
- receiving descriptive information of the contents of the one or more containers;
- assessing the scan data based on the automated detection process;
- for a first portion of the assessed scan data, acquiring a threat object image from a library of images representative of known threats and combining the threat object image with the first portion of the assessed scan data to generate hybrid scan data;
- and
- sending the hybrid scan data and a second portion of the assessed scan data to an operator workstation, wherein the second portion of the assessed scan data does not have a threat object image from the library of images representative of known threats and wherein an amount of the second portion of the assessed scan data is greater than an amount of the hybrid scan data.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.