Biometric camera mount system
View Patent ↗A system for reducing the substantially vertical extent of a wide-area biometric system and for reducing the cost and complexity of installation while maintaining high biometric performance, using a substantially horizontally configuration of cameras, preferably with an attention mechanism, and using a precision calibration system that can be used by an unskilled technician and that does not require an accurate site survey or additional materials or equipment.
1. A biometric system comprising:
two or more camera sensors with a physical arrangement that is substantially horizontal, each of the two or more camera sensors monitoring a respective region of interest, the respective regions spatially fixed with respect to one another in a substantially vertical arrangement;
a camera housing module housing the two or more camera sensors; and
a biometric housing module comprising a pivot for the camera housing module, and an adjustment mechanism allowing adjustment of a vertical orientation of the camera housing module relative to the biometric housing module at the pivot.
2. The system claim 1 , wherein the camera sensors are closely spaced with respect to each other in the substantially horizontal physical arrangement.
3. The system claim 1 , further comprising an attention mechanism located substantially close to the two or more camera sensors.
4. The system claim 3 , wherein the attention mechanism comprises a video monitor showing imagery of the user.
5. The system of claim 3 , wherein the attention mechanism draws a person's gaze towards a direction of the two or more camera sensors.
6. The system of claim 1 , wherein the adjustment mechanism comprises a screw-thread mechanism.
7. The system of claim 1 , wherein the physical arrangement of the two or more camera sensors are fixed relative to one another.
8. The system of claim 1 , wherein the respective regions overlap at least to some extent.
9. The system of claim 1 , wherein the pivot comprises a substantially horizontal pivot.