Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd.

Tascent, Inc.

Assa Abloy Global Solutions Ab

Jay Schneider

Joey Hasty

Nicholas William Emilton Weir

Alastair Partington

Gregory Morwick

Joshua Takashi Nakaya

Daniel E Potter

Keith W Hartman

David Smith

Josh Nakaya

Joseph Justin Pritikin

Eunha Kim

Laura Barnes

Mary Reilly

Anibal Damian Sarno

Timothy Klauda

Kevin R Strouse

Richard Fain

Distributed muster includes distributing to different mobile devices an identity of an assigned muster location of an ocean-going vessel, and associating each mobile device both with a corresponding passenger of the ocean-going vessel, and also with the assigned muster location. Thereafter, a timer initiates that defines a period during which a muster drill must be completed by all of the passengers and, in response, a message is transmitted to each mobile device that the muster drill has commenced. During the period, as each mobile device is sensed within a geographically defined area of a correspondingly assigned muster location, a record of the completion of the muster drill by the passenger associated with the sensed mobile device is recorded in the memory. As well, subsequent to a lapsing of the timer, a listing is displayed of any passenger not recorded as having completed the muster drill.

Distributed muster for ocean-going vessels

A method for dynamically programming and distributing a wearable in an automated vending machine includes receiving at the vending machine a request from a guest to issue a wearable and the determination of an identity of the guest from the request. The method additionally includes selecting a wearable within the vending machine from a repository of unprogrammed wearables and moving the selected wearable out of the repository and into a programming tray, within the vending machine, that is communicatively segregated from the repository within the vending machine. The method further includes programming the selected wearable while the selected wearable remains in the programming tray with information corresponding to the determined identity of the guest. Finally, the method includes ejecting the programmed selected wearable for retrieval by the guest at a dispensing outlet that is disposed within the vending machine but that is accessible from outside of the vending machine.

Dynamic programming and vending of a wearable

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

Systems and methods for mobile frozen food dispensers are disclosed. In one aspect, a mobile frozen food dispenser includes a dispensing gun comprising an input configured to control dispensing of frozen food from the dispensing gun and a container configured to store the frozen food and maintain a temperature of the frozen food below a predetermined temperature. The mobile frozen food dispenser further includes a delivery tube connecting the container to the dispensing gun, and a motor configured to drive the frozen food from the container to the dispensing gun via the delivery tube based on a signal received from the input.

Mobile frozen food dispenser

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

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.

High throughput passenger identification in portal monitoring

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Miami Beach, FL, United States of America

Jay Schneider