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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 11, 2000
Filed:
Sep. 29, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
Josef Osterweil, Rockville, MD (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G08B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
3405734 ; 3405731 ; 3405737 ; 600473 ;
Abstract
Monitoring an individual to determine when the individual is likely to exit a supportive structure. An apparatus has an image capturing device that captures successive images of the monitored individual in the supportive structure. A processing device compares a current captured image to a previous image to detect predetermined characteristics of the monitored individual with respect to the supportive structure. An alarm is actuated when it is determined that the detected predetermined characteristics exceed predetermined threshold values for at least one of the predetermined characteristics.