Communications: electrical – Condition responsive indicating system – Specific condition
Patent
1997-03-10
1998-04-28
Swann, Glen
Communications: electrical
Condition responsive indicating system
Specific condition
340573, 340691, G08B 2100
Patent
active
057450340
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention pertains to personal-security alarm systems and methods such as may be used for detecting and/or deterring an assault, such as a bank robbery.
Typical personal-security alarm systems include an alarm device that is activated by a person being assaulted. The alarm may be an audio alarm that is so loud as to cause the perpetrator of the assault to flee before others respond to the sound of the alarm and/or to escape discomfort caused by the loud alarm. Audio alarms are provided by both small, personally carried alarm devices and by larger alarm systems installed in buildings, such as banks. Alarm systems installed in banks also provide visual, silent alarm indications to locations that are remote from the location of the person activating the alarm, such as a teller window, so that persons viewing the alarm indication may assist in deterring the assault before the perpetrator becomes aware that an alarm indication has been provided. Alarm systems installed in banks also provide audio alarms that are sounded in areas that are remote from the public pan of the bank in order to summon remotely stationed security personnel to the public pan of the bank. Many bank robbers are aware of such alarm systems and frequently prevent a person under assault from activating an alarm.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The present invention provides a system for providing an alarm when a person suddenly experiences fear, comprising monitoring means for coupling to a person for monitoring at least one physiological condition of the person to provide physiological data signal(s) that are indicative of the status of the monitored physiological condition(s); a computer system coupled to the monitoring means for processing the physiological data signal(s) to determine whether the person may have suddenly experienced fear; and alarm-indicating means coupled to the computer system for providing an alarm indication in response to a determination by said processing that the person may have suddenly experienced fear; wherein the computer system determines whether the person may have suddenly experienced fear by processing the physiological data signal(s) in relation to (1) stored data for the person based upon measurements of the monitored physiological condition(s) of the person during situations of stress and/or (2) stored stress profile data based upon statistical classification in view of a combination of predetermined characteristics of the person.
The present invention also provides a system for detecting and/or deterring an assault, such as a bank robbery, at a facility, such as a bank, comprising monitoring means for coupling to a person, such as a bank teller, for monitoring at least one physiological condition of the person to provide physiological data signal(s) that are indicative of the status of the monitored physiological condition(s); a computer system coupled to the monitoring means for processing the physiological data signal(s) to determine whether the person may have suddenly experienced fear; and alarm-indicating means coupled to the computer system for providing an alarm indication in response to a determination by said processing that the person may have suddenly experienced fear; wherein the alarm-indicating means are so adapted and/or disposed at the facility as to provide an initial alarm indication that is perceivable by the person whose physiological condition is monitored but is not perceivable by a perpetrator of said assault.
The present invention further provides a system for providing an alarm when a person suddenly experiences fear, comprising monitoring means for coupling to a person for monitoring at least one physiological condition of the person to provide physiological data signal(s) that are indicative of the status of the monitored physiological condition(s); a computer system coupled to the monitoring means for processing the physiological data signal(s) to determine whether the person may have suddenly experienced fear; first alarm-indicating means
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Andersen Stig Lundegaard
Sorensen Jens Ole
Callan Edward W.
Swann Glen
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