Active subject imaging with body identification
AssigneeSafeView, Inc.
InventorMichael Fleisher
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Abstract
A method of surveilling a subject including a person's body may include or an imaging system may provide interrogating the subject with electromagnetic radiation, and generating, from the interrogating, image data representative of at least a first image of at least a portion of the person's body. In some examples, a first portion of the body may be identified, and a first feature of the image may be determined based at least partially on the identified portion of the body. In some examples, the orientation of the person's body may be determined from one or more features of one or more image portions. In some examples, a portion of the image of the person's body may be replaced with a substitute image portion.
Claims91
A method of surveilling a subject including a person's body comprising:
- interrogating the subject with electromagnetic radiation in a frequency range of about 100 MHz to about 2 THz;
- generating, from the interrogating, image data representative of at least a first image of at least a portion of the person's body;
- identifying from the image data at least a first portion of the body;
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- determining from the image data at least a first feature of the image based at least partially on the identified portion of the body.
An imaging system comprising:
- an antenna assembly including at least a first antenna apparatus, each antenna apparatus configured to transmit toward and receive from a subject, including a person and any discernable objects with the person, in a subject position, electromagnetic radiation in a frequency range of about 100 MHz to about 2 THz, from positions spaced from the subject position, the antenna assembly producing an image signal representative of the received radiation;
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- a controller adapted to produce from at least a first portion of the image signal image data representative of a first image of at least a portion of the person's body, to identify from the image data at least a first portion of the person's body, and to determine from the image data at least a first feature of the image based at least partially on the identified portion of the person's body.
One or more storage media having embodied therein a program of commands adapted to be executed by a computer processor to:
- receive an image signal generated in response to an interrogation of a subject, including a person and any objects carried by the person, with electromagnetic radiation in a range of about 100 MHz to about 2 THz;
- generate, from the received image signal, image data representative of at least a first image of at least a portion of the person's body;
- identify from the image data at least a first portion of the body;
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- determine from the image data at least a first feature of the image based at least partially on the identified portion of the body.
An imaging system comprising:
- means for interrogating the subject with electromagnetic radiation in a frequency range of about 100 MHz to about 2 THz;
- means for generating, from the interrogating, image data representative of at least a first image of at least a portion of the person's body;
- means for identifying from the image data at least a first portion of the body;
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- means for determining from the image data at least a first feature of the image based at least partially on the identified portion of the body.
64 A method of surveilling a subject including a person's body comprising:
- interrogating the subject with electromagnetic radiation in a frequency range of about 100 MHz to about 2 THz;
- generating, from the interrogating, image data representative of at least a first image portion, with each image portion being of at least a portion of the person's body;
- determining from the image data a given feature of at least the first image portion, the given feature being related to the orientation of the person's body;
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- determining the orientation of the person's body based at least in part on the given feature of the first image portion.
The method of claim 64, in which generating image data includes generating image data representative of a first image portion of at least a first portion of the person's body, and of a second image portion of at least a second portion of the person's body, and determining the orientation includes determining the orientation based at least in part on the first image portion and the second image portion.
The method of claim 64, in which interrogating the subject includes interrogating the subject while the subject is in each of at least first and second orientations relative to a reference, generating image data includes generating image data of a first image of the subject in the first orientation and a second image of the subject in the second orientation, the first image portion being included in the first image and a second image portion being included in the second image.
The method of claim 64, in which generating image data includes generating image data corresponding to a three-dimensional holographic first image of at least a portion of the person's body.
An imaging system comprising:
- an antenna assembly including at least a first antenna apparatus, each antenna apparatus configured to transmit toward and receive from a subject, including a person and any discernable objects with the person, in a subject position, electromagnetic radiation in a frequency range of about 100 MHz to about 2 THz, from positions spaced from the subject position, the antenna assembly producing an image signal representative of the received radiation;
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- a controller adapted to produce from at least a first portion of the image signal image data representative of at least a first image portion, with each image portion being of at least a portion of the person's body, to determine from the image data a given feature of the first image portion, the given feature being related to the orientation of the person's body, and to determine the orientation of the person's body based at least in part on the given feature of the first image portion.
One or more storage media having embodied therein a program of commands adapted to be executed by a computer processor to:
- receive an image signal generated in response to an interrogation of a subject, including a person and any objects carried by the person, with electromagnetic radiation in a range of about 100 MHz to about 2 THz;
- generate, from the interrogating, image data representative of at least a first image portion, with each image portion being of at least a portion of the person's body;
- determine from the image data a given feature of at least the first image portion, the given feature being related to the orientation of the person's body;
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- determine the orientation of the person's body based at least in part on the given feature of the first image portion.
An imaging system comprising:
- means for interrogating the subject with electromagnetic radiation in a frequency range of about 100 MHz to about 2 THz;
- means for generating, from the interrogating, image data representative of first and second image portions, with each image portion being of at least a portion of the person's body;
- means for determining from the image data a given feature of the first image portion and the given feature of the second image portion, the given feature being related to the orientation of the person's body;
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- means for determining the orientation of the person's body based at least in part on the given feature of the first image portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.