Patents Assigned to Skidata AG
  • Patent number: 10091241
    Abstract: A method of making a “zero knowledge” connection between a computer (2) and an electronic unit (5). At the start of the method, the configuration unit (1) is connected with the computer (2), and a web server is initiated in the configuration unit (1) via the trusted execution environment. A secure network connection is made to a server (3) by the configuration unit (1) and, via the network connection, the items of information required for connection with the electronic units, to which a connection can be made, are synchronized with the trusted execution environment. After synchronization occurs, an electronic unit (5) is selected by the web server via an input of the computer (2), to which electronic unit (5) a connection is made via the trusted execution environment using the stored, synchronized items of information, and via the web server prescribed menu-driven maintenance or configuration steps can be executed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: SKIDATA AG
    Inventor: York Keyser
  • Patent number: 10006247
    Abstract: An access control device for persons designed as a turnstile (1) or a device for counting persons designed as a turnstile (1) is proposed which comprises a housing (2) in which at least one drive is arranged and which comprises two barrier arms (3, 4) which can be driven by at least one drive, which can be driven and controlled independently of one another and at the same speed or at a different speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: Skidata AG
    Inventor: Johann Ebner
  • Patent number: 10000969
    Abstract: An access control apparatus for persons or motor vehicles can be illuminated on both sides facing the persons or motor vehicles arriving along the access track or lane. Lighting is assigned to each side can be controlled independently from the lighting of the other side, and the illumination of each side can only be perceived by persons facing the respective side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: Skidata AG
    Inventors: Thomas Grasmann, Christian Tuma
  • Patent number: 9965902
    Abstract: As part of the process for controlling entry and exit in parking garages and parking facilities, the entrance or exit, in front of which a vehicle stands, is determined on the basis of a location determination of the vehicle, where the location information shall be transmitted by means of the mobile device via a wireless or mobile phone standard to a server, which is capable of controlling the parking barriers of entrances and exits after locating the vehicle, where in the case that the owner of the mobile device is already registered on the server, the user ID is also sent to the server and in the case that the owner of the mobile device is not registered on the server, the registration is done by means of the mobile device via the connection to the server and a user ID is assigned after registration, where the entrance or exit, in front of which the vehicle stands, is determined on basis of the data of location determination in the server, where a ticket in electronic form linked with the user ID is sent to
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: SKIDATA AG
    Inventor: Christian Wenninger
  • Patent number: 9911336
    Abstract: A method for identification of vehicles (4) for operating a car park or a parking area is proposed in the course of which a vehicle (4) is identified at least by the sound profile emitted by the drive train of the vehicle which comprises a vehicle drive unit in the acoustic wave and/or ultrasonic range in at least one speed range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2018
    Assignee: SKIDATA AG
    Inventors: Thomas Schlechter, Reinhard Surkau, Sandra Breitenberger, Thomas Buchegger, Markus Pichler
  • Patent number: 9892574
    Abstract: A method of monitoring access authorizations by an access monitoring system by a first method, the data carriers or the mobile electronic devices, on which a valid access authorization or an ID is assigned, are detected and the carriers/devices current positions are determined by trilateration or multilateration. A second imaging method is executed, parallel to the first method, and the current position of all persons presented in the entry area is detected by cameras. All persons, with and without valid access authorization, in the entry area are detected so that an ID map and a people map are created. The ID map corresponds to people who have valid access authorization and the people map corresponds everybody in the entry area. An overlay map is created by matching the ID map with the people map, to identify persons with valid access authorization or ID and the people without valid access authorization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: SKIDATA AG
    Inventors: Thomas Schlechter, Reinhard Surkau, Michael Heider, Christian Lang, Jorge Juan Clemente Diaz
  • Patent number: 9792811
    Abstract: Access rights are controlled in a cyclically operated transport system having spatially-defined embarkation and disembarkation areas. The access to the transport system occurs without access monitoring in the embarkation areas, but the access rights of the persons on board the transport system are read remotely during travel by an externally mounted, stationary reading device. If the number of detected valid access rights is less than the number of persons on board the transport system, and/or if a discrepancy exists between the number of detected valid access rights per access right category and the number of persons on board the transport system per access right category, then the access rights are monitored after disembarkation in order to identify the person or persons without access rights.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: SKIDATA AG
    Inventor: Erich Kranzinger
  • Patent number: 9715773
    Abstract: A method for access control wherein verification of access authorization is effected by evaluating an ID sent at regular intervals from a mobile electronic device or a data carrier nearest an access control device (3, 4, 5, 6), via bluetooth low energy standard as part of a “broadcasting”, to which at least one access authorization is unequivocally assigned, which is received by BLE transceiver units (TRX-1, TRX-2, TRX-3, TRX-4) connected to a computer comprising a CPU and storage located within range of the mobile electronic device or the data carrier. Localization of the mobile electronic devices or the data carriers is carried out by evaluation of the RSSI, wherein the signal strength is measured, with which that signal of a mobile electronic device or a data carrier is received, which contains the ID of BLE transceiver units (TRX-1, TRX-2, TRX-3, TRX-4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2017
    Assignee: Skidata AG
    Inventors: Jorge Clemente, Thomas Schlechter, Reinhard Surkau
  • Patent number: 9716845
    Abstract: A digital camera has a 2D image sensor designed as a CCD or CMOS sensor that can be used to measure distances based on a runtime measurement in synchronization with a pulsed infrared source. The measured distances are used to carry out a 3D reconstruction of a detected object. The digital camera does not have to have an infrared cut-off filter; however, it can have an infrared cut-off filter that can be dynamically activated in full or in part or deactivated in relation to pixels of the image sensor. In the latter event, individual areas of the image sensor, for which the infrared cut-off filter is deactivated, are used for the 3D reconstruction or for images in the infrared range. The remaining areas of the sensor are used for images of high color quality in the visible light spectrum. In the event that no infrared cut-off filter is present, individual areas of the image sensor are used for the 3D reconstruction or for images in the infrared range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2017
    Assignee: SKIDATA AG
    Inventor: Thomas Schlechter
  • Patent number: 9666002
    Abstract: In a method for operating a vehicle barrier (1) having a barrier column (2), a barrier arm (4) and a drive mechanism for pivoting the barrier arm (4) between a blocking position and an open position, a camera (7) is used for vehicle recognition, for the license plate recognition, for recognizing a following vehicle and for monitoring for vandalism, and the images thereof are evaluated by an electronic evaluation logic that is coupled to control of the vehicle barrier (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: SKIDATA AG
    Inventors: Guido Harucksteiner, Thomas Schlechter, Reinhard Surkau
  • Patent number: 9648017
    Abstract: In a method for controlling a device requiring user-related permissions via a mobile terminal using a local data connection between the mobile terminal and the device to be controlled, the control commands requiring user-related permissions for the device to be controlled are generated by means of an interaction between the mobile device and an authentication server and/or a device management server and are transferred to the device to be controlled from the authentication and/or device management server via the mobile terminal. The control commands requiring user-related permissions for the device to be controlled are received by the mobile terminal and are thereafter transferred to the device to be controlled for the purpose of controlling the same and are not stored in the mobile terminal. The control commands received by the device to be controlled are not verified as to the permission of the user to utilize these control commands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: SKIDATA AG
    Inventors: Christian Wenninger, Bernd Duchac
  • Patent number: 9473636
    Abstract: A method for optimizing customer support during the activation of an access control device or payment device of an access control system includes starting a pre-set timer when the access control or payment device is activated, and automatically establishing a communication between the customer and the staff support personnel over an intercom system or a video intercom system and activating a video connection whenever the pre-set timer expires and (1) the customer is still standing in front of the access control or payment device, (2) the customer's vehicle is still located in front of the access control or payment device, (3) the customer is still operating the device before completion of the transaction or interaction that was initiated when the timer was started, or (4) an n-times repetition of operator errors occurs in the operation of the access control or payment device where n is a pre-specified natural number ?2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: SKIDATA AG
    Inventor: Harald Lenzeder
  • Patent number: 9454852
    Abstract: An electronic access authorization system maintains location-dependent and/or time-dependent validity data which can be read out wirelessly by an access control device (4), which data can be acquired online or, in the case of an accreditation, can be requested online as a special form of access authorization, and which can be transferred following successful issuance in electronic form to an electronic terminal (1) of a user. Changes, on the part of the issuer of the access authorization, to the validity data of the access authorization can be transferred via a data communication connection between a server (2) of the issuer of the access authorization and the electronic terminal (1) to the electronic access authorization stored in the electronic terminal (1) and displayed on a display device (5) of the electronic terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: SKIDATA AG
    Inventors: Christian Lang, Anton Scheiber
  • Patent number: 9378401
    Abstract: A system for detecting customer media comprising an RF transceiver in a public transport conveyance is proposed, where the system for each passenger compartment or car includes a number of reading devices, which are interconnected and connected to an on-board unit for the purpose of data communication, where the entire interior of passenger compartment or car is covered by a number of reading devices, where the reading devices are arranged in such a manner that any two reading devices are provided on opposite lateral walls of the passenger compartment or car, which cover the room up to the opposite wall, where each two reading units are arranged in the roof area or floor area symmetrically around the central longitudinal axis of the passenger compartment or vehicle, where the detection range of the respective two reading devices is substantially identical and substantially covers the entire width of the passenger compartment or car in the floor area or roof area, where the floor area or the roof area is cover
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignees: SKIDATA AG, EM MICROELECTRONIC-MARIN SA
    Inventors: Reinhard Surkau, Charles Egli, Fabien Maupas, Oliver Prevost
  • Patent number: 9324202
    Abstract: A method and system for providing location-based services are proposed, wherein the objective is the determination of the authorization of a person to use location-based services using non-contact detection and the evaluation of media information from a customer medium, whereby the location of the customer medium is carried out based on the detection of the medium and where the media information of the customer medium is recorded based on an automatically implementable non-contact interaction between at least one reading device assigned one location and connected to computer and the customer medium, if the customer medium is within the range least one reading device, where the customer medium comprises an RF transceiver and communicates with the computer via at least one reading device in a predetermined frequency range, where location-based services are provided cases of a valid authorization, the provision of which depends on the detection of the customer medium via at least one reading device assigned to t
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: SKIDATA AG
    Inventors: Clemens Lindig, Thomas Schlechter, Jorge Clemente, Reinhard Surkau
  • Patent number: 9251391
    Abstract: A method for continuous determination of a person's presence in a public transport conveyance is proposed, where a customer medium comprising an RF transceiver is assigned to the person, where at least one reading device per passenger compartment or car is provided for data communication with the customer media in the conveyance, which is connected to a computer serving as an on-board unit for the purpose of data communications, where these are also connected to each other in the case that several reading devices are provided, where an on-board unit serving as the main on-board unit is assigned to a passenger compartment or car if several passenger compartments or cars are present, and the other passenger compartments or cars are assigned to on-board units serving as secondary on-board units, which are connected to the main on-board unit for the purpose of data communication, where the customer medium is in a “sleep” mode upon entering the transport in order to keep energy consumption as low as possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: SKIDATA AG
    Inventors: Reinhard Surkau, Charles Egli, Francois Fer, Eric Piret, Jean-Claude Fournier, Fabien Maupas, Oliver Prevost
  • Patent number: 9206642
    Abstract: A turnstile personnel access-control device (1) has one or more blocking arms (2, 3) connected to a drive element (5) mounted on a carrier (4) such that the blocking arms are rotatable about a main axis or shaft (11). The blocking arms (2, 3) assume a blocking position and at least one free position in dependence upon the rotation of the drive element (5). Each blocking arm (2, 3) includes a flat component (6, 7) that is mounted to rotate about a longitudinal axis (8, 9) thereof in dependence upon the rotation of the drive element (5). In the blocking position of the blocking arms (2, 3), one such flat component assumes a pre-defined angular position with respect to the vertical, whereas in the free position, this flat component (6, 7) is rotated such that passage of a person is allowed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: SKIDATA AG
    Inventors: Guido Harucksteiner, Markus Leitner, Reinhard Surkau
  • Patent number: 9195928
    Abstract: A customer medium (1) for detecting the utilization of services is proposed, comprising a first and a second antenna (2, 3) for long-range data communication, a third antenna (4), an integrated circuit (6) comprising at least one crypto-engine, one microprocessor (5) connected with the integrated circuit (6) or integrated into the integrated circuit (6), an operational amplifier (8) and an RF transceiver (7) connected to the second antenna (3), where the third antenna (4) is connected to an NFC-module in the integrated circuit (6) and is used for the short-range data communication in an active mode of the customer medium (1), where the first antenna (2) is used as a wake-up antenna for receiving an amplitude-modulated wake-up signal if the customer medium is in a “sleep” mode, where the signal received by the wake-up antenna (2) is demodulated and amplified by the operational amplifier (8) serving as the wake-up detection module and is evaluated by the microprocessor (5) partially activated in the “sleep” mod
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignees: SKIDATA AG, EM MICROELECTRONIC-MARIN SA
    Inventors: Charles Egli, Fabien Maupas, Jose Luis Geijo Lilma, Juergen Riedel, Martin Schwander
  • Patent number: 9189674
    Abstract: A 2D barcode scanner (1) comprises a housing (2) having a reading window (3) and a digital camera (4) arranged in the housing (2) for detecting the area of the reading window (3) either directly or via a deflecting mirror arrangement (8, 9). At least one external light source (5) is provided for illuminating an area in front of the reading window (3) in the housing (2), at the side of the reading window (3) that is facing away from the digital camera (4). At least one external light source (5) is provided with an optical adapter (7) by which the light therefrom is distributed, such that the reflection paths are not illuminated at the inside of the reading window (3) back into the camera (4), or are illuminated with a very low intensity. This avoids or significantly reduces the intensity of the light reflections that arise on the inside of the reading window (3) and are superimposed on the barcode that is to be read as very bright spots in the image of the digital camera (4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: SKIDATA AG
    Inventors: Markus Leitner, Angelika Hofmann
  • Patent number: D834091
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: Skidata AG
    Inventor: Achim Storz