Patents by Inventor Andrew Lawrence Rowsell

Andrew Lawrence Rowsell has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Object monitoring system detecting motion and tracking human skin
    Patent number: 7657914
    Abstract: An object monitoring system, including a slave system having slave processors (14, 16) and a plurality of cameras (10) for monitoring one or more objects, images of the cameras (10) being processed by respective ones of the slave processor (14, 16), and the slave processors including sensors (30) assigned to respective cameras (10) and at least parts of the fields of view of the cameras (10) to detect predetermined characteristics of the at least parts and generate a trigger in response thereto. A master system has to master processor (20) including agents (34) assigned to at least one of the objects and having one or more of the sensors (30) allocated thereto, the agents (34) each generating an event on receiving triggers from the one or more allocated sensors (30). An event system (6) receives the events and determines whether an alarm condition exists. A user interface system (8) can configure the sensors (30) and agents (34) and respond to events.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2010
    Assignee: Safehouse International Inc.
    Inventors: Michael David Clive Whelan, Matthew Daniel McArdell, Andrew Lawrence Rowsell, Zoltan Indiana Toth, Robert Pieter Koger
  • Object monitoring system
    Publication number: 20030163289
    Abstract: An object monitoring system, including a slave system having slave processors (14, 16) and a plurality of cameras (10) for monitoring one or more objects, images of thc cameras (10) being processed by respective ones of the slave processor (14, 16), and the slave processors including sensors (30) assigned to respective cameras (10) and at least parts of the fields of view of the cameras (10) to detect predetermined characteristics of the at least parts and generate a trigger in response thereto. A master system has to master processor (20) including agents (34) assigned to at least one of the objects and having one or more of the sensors (30) allocated thereto, the agents (34) each generating an event on receiving triggers from the one or more allocated sensors (30). An event system (6) receives the events and determines whether an alarm condition exists. A user interface system (8) can configure the sensors (30) and agents (34) and respond to events.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2003
    Publication date: August 28, 2003
    Inventors: Michael David Clive Whelan, Mathew Daniel MCardell, Andrew Lawrence Rowsell, Zoltan Indiana Toth, Robert Pieter Koger