Patents Assigned to Sensormatic Electronics
  • Patent number: 8106779
    Abstract: A door and method of constructing a door whereby a security system antenna is routed through channels that are incorporated within the outer perimeter of the door, and completely or partially hidden from sight. The channels are sized to retain at least a portion of the security system antenna therein. The door can be purchased with the antenna wires already embedded therein and hidden from sight and installed at a facility without the need to mount the antenna wires on a pedestal or dig up floors and/or walls to embed the antenna coils. Existing doors can be retrofitted to install the antenna wires. Such antennas may be used, for example, in an RFID marker system or a magneto-acoustic EAS marker system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2012
    Assignee: Sensormatic Electronics, LLC
    Inventors: Adam Scott Bergman, Denis Chiasson
  • Patent number: 8106834
    Abstract: A switchable patch antenna includes a ground plane, a metal patch, at least two feed lines and a switch. The metal patch is positioned adjacent, but not in contact with, the ground plane. Each feed line is electrically connected to the metal patch. Each feed line is substantially orthogonal to at least one other feed line. The switch is electrically connected to the at least two feed lines. The switch is operable to sequentially select between the at least two feed lines for exciting the switchable patch antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2012
    Assignee: Sensormatic Electronics, LLC
    Inventor: Richard Loyd Copeland
  • Patent number: 8106777
    Abstract: A method and electronic article surveillance (“EAS”) system reduce interference. The EAS system includes a detection zone. At least one reference pattern of transmission windows for an interfering EAS system is provided. The reference pattern indicates a sequence of time slots for which the interfering EAS system is transmitting. A sample pattern of signals is received. Each signal has a corresponding amplitude. The received sample pattern is compared to the at least one reference pattern. Responsive to determining that the received sample pattern matches the at least one reference pattern, the at least one reference pattern is used to trim samples received during receive windows corresponding to the time slots for which the interfering EAS system is transmitting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2012
    Assignee: Sensormatic Electronics, LLC
    Inventors: Manuel A. Soto, Adam S. Bergman, Brent F. Balch
  • Publication number: 20120018505
    Abstract: A tag has a dipole and loop antenna.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2010
    Publication date: January 26, 2012
    Applicant: Sensormatic Electronics , LLC
    Inventors: Bing Jiang, Richard John Campero, Steven E. Trivelpiece
  • Publication number: 20120018504
    Abstract: A tag has antenna system includes three antenna portions. Each of the three antenna portions has a ½ dipole structure. A fourth antenna portion is shorted to the non-linear device. The antenna is tuned to an operating frequency by modifying the electrical lengths of one, two, or all three antenna portions. Preferably, the invention includes an inductive portion, such as a slot inductive portion. The antenna portions are configured in any desired form, such as being spiral or otherwise compacted, for particular operational parameters in a limited space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2010
    Publication date: January 26, 2012
    Applicant: Sensormatic Electronics, LLC
    Inventors: Bing Jiang, Richard John Campero, Steve E. Trivelpiece
  • Patent number: 8089359
    Abstract: Systems and apparatus for a security device for an article having a constrained elongate member are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2012
    Assignee: Sensormatic Electronics, LLC
    Inventors: Pedro Lopez, Dennis L. Hogan, Paul Griffiths, legal representative, Franklin H. Valade, Jr., Craig R. Szklany
  • Publication number: 20110308284
    Abstract: A security device having magnetically actuable locking mechanism for security an optical disc is disclosed. The device includes a detectable security tag secured in a housing having an optical disc receptacle formed as a basin. The housing includes one or more arcuate grooves adjacent to the circular basin. A top cover is sized to fit into the circular basin and is configured to be rotatably mateable with the housing. The top includes arcuate lips extending outwardly therefrom adapted for sliding rotatable engagement with the one or more the arcuate grooves in the housing. Locking the device prevents the top cover from being rotated to a position where the arcuate grooves are fully disengaged with the arcuate lips.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2011
    Publication date: December 22, 2011
    Applicant: Sensormatic Electronics, LLC
    Inventors: Pedro Lopez, Dennis L. Hogan, Paul Griffiths, Franklin H. Valade, JR.
  • Patent number: 8058994
    Abstract: A system and method for providing synchronized transmission in an electronic article surveillance (EAS) system is provided. The method includes determining a transmission timing difference between a plurality of units of the EAS system using a communication link of the EAS system and synchronizing transmissions for each of the plurality of units based on the transmission timing difference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2011
    Assignee: Sensormatic Electronics, LLC
    Inventors: Gerardo Aguirre, Douglas A. Drew
  • Patent number: 8054185
    Abstract: A magnetic detacher has a core magnet and a ring magnet. The core magnet has a body with a top and bottom surface, and produces a first magnetic field. The ring magnet defines a cavity. The ring magnet has a body with a top and bottom and produces a second magnetic field. The ring magnet is axially aligned with the core magnet such that the first magnetic field opposes the second magnetic field along the bodies and enhances it within the cavity. The top surface of the core magnet is separated from the bottom surface of the ring magnet by a predetermined distance thereby producing a resultant magnetic field having a first resultant field strength at a specific position greater than a second resultant field strength produced at the same position when the top surface of the core magnet abuts the bottom surface of the ring magnet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Assignee: Sensormatic Electronics, LLC
    Inventors: Ming-Ren Lian, Wing K. Ho, Ronald Joseph Davis, William Johnson, III
  • Patent number: 8047434
    Abstract: System and method for collecting information pertaining to a defeated electronic article surveillance (EAS) tag are disclosed. The method includes the steps of providing a recording unit for collecting data pertaining to missing merchandise having at least one user interface, recording the data into the recording unit in response to a series of user interface prompts displayed on the recording unit, the interface prompts being programmed according to a predetermined user input sequence, the recording unit being adapted to transmit the data through a communications network, and transmitting the data through the communications network to a data processing unit, the data processing unit being configured to analyze the data and to generate a report based on the data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2011
    Assignee: Sensormatic Electronics, LLC
    Inventors: David B. Fallin, Scott Alan Tribbey, John Clark, Sean Ryan
  • Patent number: 8049598
    Abstract: A method for controlling electronic article surveillance (EAS) transmissions is described. The method includes calculating system parameters associated with one or more of a desired frequency a desired duty cycle, and a desired phase difference between antennas for a transmitter, and initializing a counter with a value based on the system parameters. The method also includes comparing a count from the counter to the system parameters, and modulating EAS transmission signals based on the comparison between the count and the system parameters. An EAS transmitter and an EAS system are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2011
    Assignee: Sensormatic Electronics, LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey T. Oakes, Thomas J. Frederick, Richard L. Herring
  • Patent number: 8031073
    Abstract: Systems and apparatuses for a security device for a bottle are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2011
    Assignee: Sensormatic Electronics, LLC
    Inventors: Dennis L. Hogan, Paul Griffiths, legal representative, Gilbert Fernandez, Pedro Lopez, Dale W. Raymond, Franklin H. Valade, Jr.
  • Patent number: 8013729
    Abstract: Rules are applied to video surveillance data to detect events. Localization of the events is achieved by decomposing events into distinct components, each of which can, in some embodiments, be defined at different locations and by different users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2011
    Assignee: Sensormatic Electronics, LLC
    Inventor: Christopher J. Buehler
  • Patent number: 8011579
    Abstract: An integrated data reader and electronic article surveillance (EAS) system, and methods of operation. In one configuration, a data reader such as a bar code scanner is equipped with an EAS deactivation module disposed behind the scanner surface preferably downstream and/or upstream of the scanner window. The system may be configured such that the EAS deactivation module is interchangeable from the right side of the scanner housing (which is preferred for left-to-right scanning motion) to the left side of the scanner housing (which is preferred for right-to-left scanning motion). In other configurations, the deactivation module may be disposed in the housing adjacent to the window and oriented longitudinally and parallel to the sweep direction of the item. The EAS deactivation modules have various configurations such as simple planar coils, a magnetically active core with coil windings, or two part L-shape construction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2011
    Assignees: Datalogic Scanning, Inc., Sensormatic Electronics, LLC
    Inventors: Jorge L. Acosta, Michael P. Svetal, Mohamed A. Salim, Robert W. Rudeen, Craig H. Bontly
  • Patent number: 8013742
    Abstract: An Electronic Article Surveillance (“EAS”) tag and method and system for deactivating EAS tags without the need to physically contact the tag with a deactivation device. The EAS tag replaces the conventional diode with a non-linear device such as a metal-oxide-semiconductor (“MOS”) capacitor with a given breakdown voltage threshold. Inducing a predetermined voltage across the MOS capacitor results in destruction of the MOS capacitor rendering the EAS tag undetectable in the EAS interrogation system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2011
    Assignee: Sensormatic Electronics, LLC
    Inventors: Ming-Ren Lian, Richard Loyd Copeland
  • Patent number: 8009039
    Abstract: A system and method for managing the power consumption of power-consuming devices. A remote device manager transmits power save schedules to a local device manager over a communication network such as the internet. The local device manager transmits power save commands to one or more devices in a location such as a store, over a dedicated local communication network. The commands instruct one or more devices to activate or de-activate its power save mode according to the power save schedules. The commands could be dependent upon one or more trigger events.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2011
    Assignee: Sensormatic Electronics, LLC
    Inventors: David B. Fallin, John J. Clark, Scott Alan Tribbey
  • Patent number: 8009044
    Abstract: A detector, system including a detector and method for sensing motion within a detection region. The detector has a detection element and a focusing element aiming received energy corresponding to a presence within the detection region toward the detection element. The focusing element has a plurality of sections in which each of the plurality of sections establishes a corresponding detection zone within the detection region. The plurality of sections are arranged to allow a motion vector to be determined for an object passing through the detection region. The system includes a detector that generates pulses each time presence in a detector zone is detected as well as a central alarm panel. The central alarm panel receives the pulses and has processor that evaluates the timing between electrical pulses to determine the motion vector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2011
    Assignee: Sensormatic Electronics, LLC
    Inventors: Gary Mark Shafer, Alfred Yarbrough
  • Patent number: 8006524
    Abstract: Systems and apparatuses for a magnetically actuable locking mechanism and a security device having a magnetically actuable locking mechanism are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2011
    Assignee: Sensormatic Electronics, LLC
    Inventors: Pedro Lopez, Dennis L. Hogan, Paul Griffiths, legal representative, Franklin H. Valade, Jr.
  • Patent number: 8006904
    Abstract: A system and method for monitoring operation and performance of electronic tags such as article surveillance (EAS) tags or radio frequency identification (RFID) tags such as by monitoring and reporting electronic tag readability and operator/system performance levels. The system includes an optical symbol reader and/or electronic tag sensor/deactivator that measures and reports values of reading, detection, or deactivation events during operation which may be indicative of electronic tag operability. The apparatus may further comprise a data accumulation device including memory storage to accumulate the measurement values for each set of electronic tags, and a programmed computing system to analyze the measured values and report on the results of the analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2011
    Assignees: Datalogic Scanning, Inc., Sensormatic Electronics LLC
    Inventors: Mohamed A Salim, Harold C. Clifford, Alan Jackson Guess, Bruce Edward Paris
  • Patent number: 8009743
    Abstract: A system and method for transferring power using a data communications signal line. The data communications signal line is in a high impedance powerless state when idle. A main device is electrically coupled to the data communications signal line. The main device generates and transmits a signal on the data communications signal line. The signal includes power generation and non-power generation characters. A peripheral device is electrically coupled to the data communications signal line. The peripheral device has a functional unit arranged to perform a desired function for the peripheral device. A power conversion module is electrically coupled to the data communications signal line and receives the signal. The power conversion module converts power from the received signal to a form suitable for storage. A controller is in electrical communication with the functional unit and the power conversion module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2011
    Assignee: Sensormatic Electronics, LLC
    Inventors: Stewart E. Hall, James A. Cook