Patent ID: 7636043

Claim:
An apparatus for increasing the accuracy of a security system, the apparatus comprising: an input/output (I/O) interface configured to receive object location information from a first object-locating system and from a second object-locating system, the first object-locating system being capable of locating at least cooperative objects, the second object-locating system being capable of locating at least non-cooperative objects, wherein a cooperative object is an object that cooperates with the apparatus by emitting or transmitting at least one signal from a signal emitting or transmitting device that is on or in the cooperative object to the first object-locating system to enable the first object-locating system to locate the cooperative object, the object location information received by the I/O interface from the first object-locating system describing a location of a cooperative object in at least one dimension, the object location information received by the I/O interface from the second object-locating system describing a location of a non-cooperative object in at least one dimension; and a processor configured to perform an object-type determination (OTD) algorithm, the processor processing the object location information to determine whether the location of the cooperative object and the location of the non-cooperative object are the same or at least substantially the same, wherein if the processor determines that the location of the cooperative object is the same or substantially the same as the location of the non-cooperative object, the processor decides that the cooperative object and the non-cooperative object are the same object, and wherein if the processor determines that the location of the cooperative object is not the same or substantially the same as the location of the non-cooperative object, the processor decides that the cooperative object and the non-cooperative object are not the same object.