Sensormatic Electronics Corporation

Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings Llp

John McKenna

Derek Joseph Boyes

Terry Neill

Martin Joseph Donaghy

Walter Andrew Martin

Ian Christopher Westmacott

Frederick Michael McBride

Peter Alexander Ainsworth

Anne Gallagher

Ashish Italiya

Mark Paterson

Methods and system for monitoring and assessing employee moods are disclosed. A proposed enterprise employee monitoring system includes surveillance cameras, a facial recognition module, an emotional analyzer module, and an employee database. The surveillance cameras capture image data including employee individuals within the enterprise. The facial recognition module identifies the individuals in the image data, and the emotional analyzer module determines an emotional state of the individuals based upon the image data. The employee database stores employee information and the emotional state information from the emotional analyzer module, based upon the identification performed by the facial recognition module.

Methods and system for monitoring and assessing employee moods

A frictionless access control system and method embodying satellite cameras for facial recognition are disclosed. The cameras capture image data of individuals at an access point such as a door. Preferably, two or more cameras are placed on opposite sides of the access point to increase the likelihood that the individuals are captured in the image data. A facial cropper module extracts facial patches from the image data, and a facial signature module computes facial signatures from the facial patches. A facial recognition module receives the computed facial signatures from the facial signature module, matches the computed facial signatures to stored facial signatures, and sends user identity information of individuals corresponding to the stored facial signatures to the facial signature module when the computed facial signatures match the stored facial signatures.

Frictionless access control system embodying satellite cameras for facial recognition

A frictionless access control system and method providing ultrasonic user location are disclosed. The access control system authorizes users within proximity of an access point such as a door, based upon user information (e.g. credentials) sent in RF wireless messages from user devices carried by the users. When the users are authorized, the system instructs the user devices to transmit coded acoustic signals. An positioning unit at the access point includes an ultrasonic microphone array, which is located above the access point and detects the acoustic signals. The positioning unit determines an angle of arrival (AoA) of the acoustic signals at microphones of the array, and determines positions of the users relative to the access point from the AoA. In one implementation, pre-authorized users are granted access when the determined positions of the users are within an inner zone of the access point.

Frictionless access control system providing ultrasonic user location

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John McKenna