Identification based on a location of a mobile communications device

Abstract

A system for use in identifying a person or vehicle carrying a mobile communications device includes a transmitter arranged to transmit a beacon signal for reception by the mobile communications device, a timing entity communicable with the mobile communications device via a base station apparatus and arranged to determine a capture time in dependence on a measurement report received from the mobile communications device indicating a peak measurement of the beacon signal by the mobile communications device, and a camera arranged to capture an image at the determined capture time for use in identifying the person or vehicle. The camera is positioned relative to the transmitter such that the image captured at the determined capture time contains the person or vehicle.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.