Patent ID: 7796470
Filing Date: 2010-09-14
Classification: F41H,G01S

Abstract:
1. A system for determining a location of a weapon firing incident in proximate position to a region where vehicles traverse the region, said system comprising: a first set of acoustic sensors arranged along a travel path of vehicles associated with the region, wherein the first set of acoustic sensors provides a first output; and a processing component that determines the location of the weapon firing incident as a function of the first output and data regarding relative position of sensors in the first set of sensors; wherein the processing component is configured to: wherein the set of sensors is arranged along the travel path and includes a collection of sensors arranged in a non-regularly spaced pattern along the travel path, with sensors on a first side of the travel path being staggered from sensors of a second side of the travel path such that sensors across the travel path from each other are offset to provide few or no pairs of sensors directly opposed from each other.