Automatic electronic device detection
View Patent ↗A system that detects cellular telephone and other electronic use within an unauthorized locations. The location can be detected by GPS or triangulation, and once detected can automatically produce certain operations.
1. A system comprising:
a combustible material pump, having a first portion that allows dispensing combustible material;
a camera, associated with said combustible material pump, and having a lens of a type that enables imaging a user who is standing within range of the combustible material pump; and
a connection to a security part, that sends an image obtained by said camera to said security part, wherein said connection includes a connection to a processor that automatically detects use of a communication device at the combustible material pump, wherein said processor looks for known cellular telephone images, and matches items in said image to said known cellular telephone images.
2. A system as in claim 1 , wherein said combustible material pump is a gasoline pump.
3. A system as in claim 1 , wherein said connection sends the image to an attendant to individually view said images.
4. A system as in claim 3 , wherein the attendant also includes the ability to disable the combustible material pump.
5. A system as in claim 1 , further comprising storing a database of a plurality of known cellular telephone images, and comparing said known cellular telephone images with images within a field of view of said camera.
6. A method comprising:
associating a camera with a device for dispensing combustible material, the camera having a lens, and the lens being sufficiently wide angle to enable obtaining images of users who are within the field of view of the dispensing device; and
sending the image to a security part, that carries out at least one function related to security associated with the dispensing device wherein said sending comprises sending the image to a processor that automatically processes the image to determine security aspects thereof, wherein said processor automatically processes the image to find images of cellular telephones therein.
7. A method as in claim 6 , wherein said security device includes sending the image to an attendant who also includes the ability to manually turn off the pump.
8. A method as in claim 6 , wherein the dispensing device is a device for dispensing gasoline.
9. A method as in claim 6 , further comprising storing images of a plurality of known cellular telephones, wherein said automatically processes comprises comparing said images of known cell phones with images from said camera.
10. A method as in claim 6 , wherein said the dispensing device is a device for dispensing propane.