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Method for detecting portable objects and system for carrying out said method

US6972663B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Filing dateJan 31, 2000
Grant dateDec 6, 2005
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Expiry dateJan 31, 2020

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06K7/10356
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A method for detecting portable objects from a network of N antennae controlled by a centralized management unit. Signals are simultaneously emitted by the management unit to all antennae. Resulting response signals from antennae that have detected a portable object are received by the management unit. Each object thus detected is successively selected from these signals according to a pre-established sequence. The invention applies in particular to access control.

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