Patent Document ID: 20150323464
Application ID: 14477898
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A situational awareness apparatus based on a hand-held Raman laser device integrating multiple functional systems for distant life-death determination, the apparatus comprising: a laser resonance Raman backscattering device; a set of day & night EO/IR cameras capable of high resolution imaging; a user I/O fusion capability to take into account first responder medics knowledge and/or ground truth obtained from a touch screen and said set of EO/IR cameras to determine remotely estimated and final decisions of first responder medics; a signal-to-noise enhancement processing system implementing a method of measuring an effluent plume of peri-mortem and post mortem molecules based on said laser resonance Raman backscattering device; a smart storage firmware, CPU and I/O device with memory to compute a process to identify molecules present and their concentration based on a spectral library of known molecules, wherein said process incorporates: stored updatable molecular spectrum library of peri-mortem and post-mortem laser backscattering data for identifying mortem fuzzy membership function, and/or stored fuzzy logic rule based 2×2 tables to combine vital and mortem signs based on remote estimations; and a touch-screen interface comprising a programmable firmware to display situational awareness results based on said process and accomplish a fine resolution geo-location grid touch screen.