Abstract: Photographic souvenir augmentation includes capturing a digital image of a guest at a location in an attraction and invisibly grid-striping of a portion of the guest based upon a two-dimensional grid. The augmentation additionally includes image sensing the grid-striped portion of the guest and correlating locations of the two-dimensional grid with locations of the grid-striped portion. The augmentation yet further includes selecting a graphical image and transforming the graphical image according to the correlation into a morphed graphical image. Finally, the augmentation includes superimposing the morphed graphical image onto the digital image of the guest and storing the digital image in association with an identifier for the guest.

Abstract: The present invention provides for high throughput passenger identification in portal security. A method for high throughput passenger identification includes receiving in memory of a host computing system from an image acquisition device a contemporaneously acquired image of a group of individuals approaching a portal passageway and identifying a set of faces of the group. The method yet further includes querying a database of faces with each identified face in the set and for each face assigning a confidence value of having matched the face to a record of a known person in the database. Finally, the method includes visually decorating each face in the contemporaneously acquired image with an initial visual characteristic on condition that a correspondingly assigned confidence value falls short of a threshold, but otherwise with a different visual characteristic, and displaying the contemporaneously acquired image in a display of the host computing system.

Abstract: The present invention provides for high throughput passenger identification in portal security. A method for high throughput passenger identification includes receiving in memory of a host computing system from an image acquisition device a contemporaneously acquired image of a group of individuals approaching a portal passageway and identifying a set of faces of the group. The method yet further includes querying a database of faces with each identified face in the set and for each face assigning a confidence value of having matched the face to a record of a known person in the database. Finally, the method includes visually decorating each face in the contemporaneously acquired image with an initial visual characteristic on condition that a correspondingly assigned confidence value falls short of a threshold, but otherwise with a different visual characteristic, and displaying the contemporaneously acquired image in a display of the host computing system.