Patents by Inventor Ken P. Cheng

Ken P. Cheng 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).

  • Adaptive multi-modal integrated biometric identification and surveillance systems
    Patent number: 9432632
    Abstract: A surveillance system is provided that includes at least one sensor disposed in a security area of a surveillance region to sense an occurrence of a potential security breach event; a plurality of cameras is disposed in the surveillance region; at least one camera thereof has a view of the security area and can be configured to automatically gather biometric information concerning at least one subject person in the vicinity of the security area in response to the sensing of a potential security breach event; one or more other of the plurality of cameras can be configured to search for the at least one subject person; a processing system is programmed to produce a dossier corresponding to the at least one subject person to match biometric information of one or more persons captured by one or more of the other cameras with corresponding biometric information in the dossier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: Proximex Corporation
    Inventors: Ken P. Cheng, Edward Y. Chang, Yuan-Fang Wang
  • ADAPTIVE MULTI-MODAL INTEGRATED BIOMETRIC IDENTIFICATION AND SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS
    Publication number: 20150138332
    Abstract: A surveillance system is provided that includes at least one sensor disposed in a security area of a surveillance region to sense an occurrence of a potential security breach event; a plurality of cameras is disposed in the surveillance region; at least one camera thereof has a view of the security area and can be configured to automatically gather biometric information concerning at least one subject person in the vicinity of the security area in response to the sensing of a potential security breach event; one or more other of the plurality of cameras can be configured to search for the at least one subject person; a processing system is programmed to produce a dossier corresponding to the at least one subject person to match biometric information of one or more persons captured by one or more of the other cameras with corresponding biometric information in the dossier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2015
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Inventors: Ken P. Cheng, Edward Y. Chang, Yuan-Fang Wang
  • Adaptive multi-modal integrated biometric identification detection and surveillance systems
    Patent number: 8976237
    Abstract: A surveillance system is provided that includes at least one sensor disposed in a security area of a surveillance region to sense an occurrence of a potential security breach event; a plurality of cameras is disposed in the surveillance region; at least one camera thereof has a view of the security area and can be configured to automatically gather biometric information concerning at least one subject person in the vicinity of the security area in response to the sensing of a potential security breach event; one or more other of the plurality of cameras can be configured to search for the at least one subject person; a processing system is programmed to produce a dossier corresponding to the at least one subject person to match biometric information of one or more persons captured by one or more of the other cameras with corresponding biometric information in the dossier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: Proximex Corporation
    Inventors: Ken P. Cheng, Edward Y. Chang, Yuan-Fang Wang
  • Adaptive multi-modal integrated biometric identification detection and surveillance systems
    Patent number: 8373753
    Abstract: A surveillance system is provided that includes at least one sensor disposed in a security area of a surveillance region to sense an occurrence of a potential security breach event; a plurality of cameras is disposed in the surveillance region; at least one camera thereof has a view of the security area and can be configured to automatically gather biometric information concerning at least one subject person in the vicinity of the security area in response to the sensing of a potential security breach event; one or more other of the plurality of cameras can be configured to search for the at least one subject person; a processing system is programmed to produce a dossier corresponding to the at least one subject person to match biometric information of one or more persons captured by one or more of the other cameras with corresponding biometric information in the dossier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2013
    Assignee: Proximex Corporation
    Inventors: Ken P. Cheng, Edward Y. Chang, Yuan-Fang Wang
  • Adaptive multi-modal integrated biometric identification detection and surveillance systems
    Patent number: 7956890
    Abstract: A surveillance system is provided that includes at least one sensor disposed in a security area of a surveillance region to sense an occurrence of a potential security breach event; a plurality of cameras is disposed in the surveillance region; at least one camera of the plurality has a view of the security area and can be configured to automatically gather biometric information concerning at least one subject person in the vicinity of the security area in response to the sensing of a potential security breach event; one or more other of the plurality of cameras can be configured to search for the at least one subject person; a processing system is programmed to produce a subject dossier corresponding to the at least one subject person to match biometric information of one or more persons captured by one or more of the other cameras with corresponding biometric information in the subject dossier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2011
    Assignee: Proximex Corporation
    Inventors: Ken P. Cheng, Edward Y. Chang, Yuan-Fang Wang