Patent ID: 7965313

Claim:
An airport security system for identifying and locating a passenger who commits a security breach within a secure terminal area, comprising: a scanner scanning articles of identification of passengers entering the secure terminal area and generating a time stamp signal for each of said articles of identification; a plurality of security cameras positioned in sequence throughout the secure terminal area to view the passengers, said plurality of security cameras having adjacent and overlapping viewing areas covering substantially the entire secure terminal area, each camera in said plurality of security cameras generating a video signal corresponding to its viewing area; a plurality of recorders, each of said recorders generating a video recording of the video signal from a different camera in the plurality of security cameras; and a controller programmed to: generate a seamless video signal of a suspect passenger by stitching recordings from different cameras together in sequence into a single video stream as the image of the suspect passenger passes through recordings from different cameras, visually track an image of said suspect passenger back in time through the seamless video signal of said suspect passenger until an earliest recording of the suspect passenger is found, generate a faster than real-time video sequence of the suspect passenger which terminates with a recording of the suspect passenger's current location, and identify the time stamp signal associated with the earliest recording of the suspect passenger.