US 7,057,509 B2
MONITORING AN OBJECT WITH IDENTIFICATION DATA AND TRACKING DATAGeneral
US 7,057,509 B2
MONITORING AN OBJECT WITH IDENTIFICATION DATA AND TRACKING DATA
Tech Center:
2600 Communications
Examiner:
Julie Bichngoc Lieu
Art Unit:
2612 Computer Graphic Processing, 3D Animation, Display Color Attribute, Object Processing, Hardware and Memory
Inventors:
Giovanni Gualdi; Cyril Brignone; Salil Pradhan
Assignee:
Priority:
06/29/04
Filed:
06/29/04
Granted:
06/06/06
Expiration:
10/10/24
Abstract
An object is monitored with identification data and tracking data. In an embodiment, a monitoring apparatus is utilized to monitor the object. The monitoring apparatus has a first interface for receiving identification data from an identification system. Moreover, the monitoring apparatus includes a second interface for receiving tracking data from a tracking system. Additionally, the monitoring apparatus further includes a merging unit for merging and storing the identification data and the tracking data of each monitored object to form monitoring data for each monitored object.
Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC)
G07G07C9/257G07CG08B13/2462G08B