Patent ID: 6400835
Filing Date: 2002-06-04
Classification: B60Q,B60R,G06K

Abstract:
A security system for a movable vehicle provided with an enabling system, the security system comprising:(a) an electronic camera mounted along the vertical center plane of the vehicle and adjacent to the rear window, wherein the scanning axis of the camera is directed along the center plane and at a rear-view mirror of the vehicle, and wherein the camera is positioned to scan at least a portion of the face of a person located at the driver's station of the vehicle and structured to produce image signals; (b) an electronic facial-recognition system mounted adjacent to the camera, responsive to the image signals, and controllably coupled to the enabling system; and (c) an electronic storage device mounted adjacent to the camera and coupled to the facial-recognition system to store a set of image signals, such that the facial-recognition system activates the enabling system only if signals representative of select characteristics of the scanned face of the person derived from the image signals produced on the camera's output match a member of a set of signals stored in the electronic storage device, each member representative of select characteristics of the scanned face of an authorized operator.