Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd.

Tascent, Inc.

Assa Abloy Global Solutions Ab

Alastair Partington

Joey Hasty

Jay Schneider

Gregory Morwick

Daniel E Potter

Keith W Hartman

Daniel J Reetz

Dan Potter

Joseph Justin Pritikin

Eunha Kim

Kevin R Strouse

Timothy Klauda

Wall mountable door access device

Multifunction smart door devices may be part of a system of multifunction smart door devices installed within or near stateroom doors of a cruise ship. Each smart door device can control access to a stateroom based on facial recognition or a wireless credential and can perform other functions such as controlling stateroom personalization features, providing an electronic peephole function, allowing controlled access for authorized crew members, accommodating remote unlocking, and providing notifications. Data obtained by the smart door devices can be provided to the cruise operator for service, safety, or security purposes, such as for anonymized foot traffic analysis, hazard detection, and stateroom access auditing. Smart door device functionality may be implemented in part by customers' mobile devices.

Multifunction smart door device

An imaging system associates one or more the iris images with a selfie face image for biometric identity. The imaging system captures a first image of a subject using light in a visible wavelength range and captures a second image of the subject using light in a near infrared wavelength range. The image system retrieves a selfie face image of the subject, and matches a face portion of the first image against a face portion of the selfie face image, wherein the face portion for each at least comprises an iris. In response to the matching, the image system segments one or more iris portions from the second image to generate one or more iris images and binds the first image and the one or more iris images to the selfie face image for biometric identity.

Binding of selfie face image to iris images for biometric identity enrollment

Systems and methods are provided for identifying customers aboard a cruise ship for provision of products and location access and for embarkation or disembarkation. Systems can include a data store on the cruise ship storing customer profiles of customers, a plurality of networked computing devices including image capture devices, and a processor in communication with the data store and the networked computing devices. The processor receives access requests in conjunction with images of the requestors, uses facial recognition software algorithms to identify the requestor as a customer entitled to the requested access, based on facial recognition data stored for the customer, and causes access to be granted to the customer. Confidence levels of facial recognition results may be improved by combining initial facial recognition results with additional cruise-specific information associated with customers.

Facial recognition system and methods for identity credentialing and personalized services

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Minnetonka, MN, United States of America

Alastair Partington