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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 08, 2026
Filed:
Aug. 16, 2022
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Marios Savvides, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Chenchen Zhu, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Nnamdi Adom, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Abstract
Disclosed herein is a system and method for the automatic detection of persons engaged in the open carry of firearms at a venue. The system and method comprise strategically placed cameras at the venue which are connected to edge devices which extract frames from video generated by the cameras. The video frames are sent to a server for analysis by an AI/ML model trained to detect firearms and, specifically, to detect persons carrying firearms. If a person wielding a firearm is detected in any image, an alert is raised and local authorities are automatically contacted. The system is designed to run continuously such as to be able to quickly detect a person in a venue carrying a firearm.