Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd.

Laura Barnes

Joey Hasty

Jay Schneider

David Smith

Joshua Takashi Nakaya

Richard Fain

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

Embodiments of the invention provide a method, system and computer program product for object location and tracking. A method for object location and tracking within a bounded space includes establishing a wireless communications link between a wireless network adapter disposed within a smartphone and a wireless access point positioned remotely from the smartphone, and receiving thereafter, an identity of the wireless access point. Thereafter, a short-range wireless signal is received in the smartphone by a short-range wireless receiver disposed within the smartphone separately from the wireless network adapter, and an identifier of an object is extracted therefrom. Finally, a message is generated that combines the identity of the wireless access point and the identifier of the object and the message is transmitted through the wireless communications link to a host server coupled both to the wireless access point and also several other wireless access points over a computer communications network.

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Miami, FL, United States of America

Laura Barnes