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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 14, 2023
Filed:
Jul. 16, 2020
Applicant:
Rapiscan Systems, Inc., Torrance, CA (US);
Inventor:
Edward James Morton, Guildford, GB;
Assignee:
Rapiscan Systems, Inc., Torrance, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V 5/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V 5/0066 (2013.01); G01V 5/0041 (2013.01);
Abstract
A drive-through scanning system comprises a radiation generating means arranged to generate radiation at two different energy levels and direct it towards a scanning volume, detection means arranged to detect the radiation after it has passed through the scanning volume, and control means arranged to identify a part of a vehicle within the scanning volume, to allocate the part of the vehicle to one of a plurality of categories, and to control the radiation generating means and to select one or more of the energy levels depending on the category to which the part of the vehicle is allocated.