Patent ID: 6608563
Filing Date: 2003-08-19
Classification: A63F,G06F,G06K

Abstract:
An automated photo capture and retrieval system for automatically capturing and indexing photo images of multiple individuals or groups of individuals within a facility comprising:one or more tags adapted to be worn by each individual or group of individuals desired to be photo imaged, each tag comprising a unique person identifier (â€œUPINâ€ ) for identifying the associated individuals and a unique group identifier number (â€œUGINâ€ ) which may be used to match a defined group of individuals to any relevant captured photo images that contain any individual(s) within the defined group; one or more cameras distributed throughout the facility adapted to automatically capture photo and/or video images of one or more individuals in the field of view of the camera; one or more readers distributed throughout the facility and associated with each camera, each said readers being adapted to read each tag of each individual substantially within the field of view of each associated camera and to determine the unique person and/or group identifier for each tag; and an image processor to receive each captured photo image and all associated unique person and/or group identifiers and to record or each captured photo image and associated unique person and/or group identifiers such that each image may be retrieved according to its associated unique person and/or group identifiers.