Royalty Report: Electrical & Electronics, Security, Software – Collection: 28985

License Grant

We entered into a license agreement with the University. Under the agreement, we have been granted an exclusive, worldwide license, with a right to grant sublicenses, to make, have made, use, sell and lease any product that incorporates knowledge, information, know-how, software and devices, whether patentable or not, in the possession of the University and related to a video vehicle detection system developed by the University solely or jointly with us, including certain improvements made to this technology.

License Property

The United States patent for some aspects of the technology underlying Autoscope system was issued in 1989 to the University .

The Autoscope system converts video images of a traffic scene into digitized traffic data that may be transmitted to local or remote locations for real-time traffic management or stored for later analysis. The Autoscope system is modular, flexible and expandable and has a variety of applications in intersection control, freeway traffic management and traffic data collection. The system can be used by traffic managers for traffic control, management, planning, research and other applications and ultimately can help reduce traffic congestion, improve roadway planning and increase cost efficiencies in traffic management and control.

The Autoscope System
Automated vehicle detection for traffic management traditionally has been performed with inductive wire loops buried in the pavement. However, embedded loop detectors are difficult to install and maintain, are destructive to road surfaces, and are not capable of wide-area vehicle detection without the use of many loops. The Autoscope system is easier to install and maintain than embedded loop detectors, is non-destructive to road surfaces, and is capable of wide-area vehicle detection with a single camera, thus enabling one camera to do the work of many loops. We believe that the Autoscope system's range of applications and its ability to support new applications for advanced technology solutions to traffic management problems make it superior to loop detectors and most other commercially available vehicle detection systems.

The Autoscope system permits users to draw detection zones on a video screen displaying the traffic scene and to derive traffic data from the portion of the image specified by the detection zones displayed on the screen. The system analyzes virtual detection zones that appear only on the video screen, not on the roadway. Each detection zone represents an area in the field of view of the camera that the system user wishes to analyze for determining the presence of vehicles or extracting other pertinent traffic data. More than 50 detection zones can be programmed per camera. The system user determines the detection zones by drawing them on a video monitor with a mouse. Different types of detection zones can be selected and may be placed anywhere in any orientation within the field of view of the cameras using the system's unique interactive graphics. The detection zones can be changed easily by using the mouse to resize, reshape or relocate the detection zones on the video monitor.

License Grant

Licensor hereby grants to Licensee, a subsidiary, a license (i) to use internally to Licensee the Subject Technology in connection with the development and manufacture by Licensee of the Subject Products and (ii) to sublicense the use of Subject Software and the Subject Patents to others but only if each such sublicense is for, and a part of, such third party's use or distribution of Subject Products and is in full compliance with all of the terms and conditions of this Agreement.

The License shall be exclusive within the field-of-use of the development, manufacture and sublicense of the Subject Products.

License Property

Certain patents, patent applications owned by Licensor relating to RCE and PRCE neural networks and/or object identification and tracking in video and other data streams.

Any product whose function is materially and principally (i) the analysis of video and other sensors to analyze, monitor and respond to movement and patterns of persons or objects in vehicular, rail, air or other modes of transportation or (ii) the support of the foregoing.

Field of Use

The Licensee has the Company’s proprietary technologies in the area of traffic-management systems.

Traffic Management Systems – are a combination of internally developed software and internally and externally developed hardware components that perform as a traffic management system for open road and intersection applications.  The products enable dual use of video networks to support both traffic/roadway data and surveillance.

TrafficVision and CrossingGuard products are a combination of Company-developed software and modular hardware components that provide for remote monitoring to support traffic data collection and control of traffic flows.  The product is flexible and can be configured to a wide range of road configurations, including open roads and intersections.

Features include remote video monitoring, real-time vehicle classification, individual vehicle tracking, simultaneous communication of video and traffic data over a single communication network, detection and enforcement of red-light violators, and generation and logging to a database of a variety of traffic-information measurements.

License Grant

The Licensor grants to the Licensee an Exclusive License to make, use and sell Licensed Products.

License Property

Fiber Optic Intelligent Detection System 'FOIDS(R)'.  Fiber optic based security system and components are used in the system that are immune to most external electronic impulses such as radio frequency emissions, static electricity (including lightning), and moisture and ambient temperature variations.  Digital processing minimizes nuisance alarms and permits the operator to set the desired probability of detection (i.e., sensitivity to certain conditions or intrusions).  The FOIDS(R) system can be fully integrated with a variety of digital security.

Fiber Optic Intelligence Detection Systems is a cost effective perimeter security system utilizing single mode fiber optic cable and highly sensitive interferometry technology for intrusion detection along fences and walls up to a zone length of 3.5 miles. FOIDS can secure virtually any size perimeter without electrical power or electronic components outside a central control room. FOIDS detects pressure changes along length of zone including climbing, lifting, or cutting of the fence.

The Licensed Products are covered by the Licensed U.S. Patents;

1. No.5,355,208, 'Distributed Fiber optic Sensor for Locating and Identifying Remote Disturbances'  
2. No.5,373,487, 'Distributed Acoustic Sensor'  
3. No.5,567,933 (issuing 10/22/96) 'Optical Fiber Detection System with Disturbance and Positive Cut-Loop Detection Capabilities'

License Grant

The Licensee has entered into a License Agreement with our Chief Technology Officer and member of our Board of Directors, under which we have acquired exclusive rights to proprietary high technology intellectual properties invented and/or developed by the Licensor, that we will further develop and offer to our customers.

License Property

1 – Perimeter intrusion detection radars
Description
We will develop two radar systems for intrusion detection the first, called more properly GUIDAR is based on ranging leaky coaxial cable sensors and creates a volumetric protection zone; the second is a high performances free-space RADAR and creates a virtual barrier. Both systems are designed to detect moving targets.
The GUIDAR exploits the features of Ultra Wide Band (UWB) radar signal transmitted along a leaky coaxial cable and whose reflections, given by targets approaching the cable, are received by another leaky coaxial cable and then processed, detected, and classified by means of a complete and innovative Digital Signal Processing (DSP) system.
The leaky coaxial double cable can be installed, buried or not, along a generic path and protect a cylindrical volume around the double cable with a diameter of about 2 m along its entire length. Each digital processing system, able to detect the position and size of any target, can manage up to hundreds of meters of cable. More digital processing systems can be networked using standard Ethernet and then connected to a central managing system. This technology is generally classified as active, volumetric, terrain following, all-weather, and immune to vegetation and blowing debris.
We also developed a mono-static UWB electronic scanning radar (ESR) using a new antenna design and an advanced DSP system realizing a protection barrier. The processing unit is developed implementing a signal processing scheme able to precisely recognize the intruder radar cross section and position up to hundreds of meters distance from the antenna. More processing units can be networked using standard Ethernet and then connected to a central managing system. This technology is classified as active, volumetric, all-weather, ideal for low profile targets, and immune to vegetation and blowing debris.
Advantages
We will develop innovative cable geometry and innovative antennas that dramatically improve the performances of our systems in terms of ranging with respect to the existing products. Moreover we will adopt innovative UWB radar analysis software based on DSP architecture that permits us to reach very high detection capabilities and performances and to be highly resilient to the environment changes (nuisance).
Applications
These systems are ideal to protect military and operation plants, airports, borders, oil pipes, etc.

2 – EMSEC (protection and eavesdropping)
Description
Electronic equipment can emit unintentional signals from which eavesdroppers may reconstruct processed data at some distance.
We will develop a single pc/laptop active protection system based on the emission of correlated signals (innovative concept) that is intrinsically totally secure. Emitting a composite correlated protection signal the received spectrum is a non discernible mix of the signal to be protected and the protecting signal. This apparatus is low power, narrow band, impossible to violate and easy to be installed.
We will develop a high performances (large distance and through the wall) eavesdropping system on video display unit based on state-of-the-art digital signal processing. The system is an all-digital system implementing a fast AD conversion and digital front-end. Channel equalization, automatic choice of spectral harmonic, automatic extraction of vertical and horizontal synchronizations, and digital image enhancement permit to reach unprecedented performances in terms of readability.
Advantages
A completely and totally new concept is applied to the protection system and a totally digital system will be developed for eavesdropping permitting to reach unprecedented performances.
Application
The protection system can be applied in military installations, in governmental buildings, during tactical operations, etc.

3 – Real time positioning system
Description
Organizations need a system able to locate objects or people. A real time positioning system consists of a fixed infrastructure of base stations and associated hardware and software to enable accurate real-time tracking of small battery powered (active) tags, which can be attached to people or objects, within the area covered by the base stations infrastructure. Compared to Global Positioning Systems (GPS), this system provides greater accuracy (typically to a resolution of a few centimetres) and the ability to work in situations where GPS does not (such as inside buildings) and with very small devices (active tags) with very small batteries.
The sensors in each base station are very sensitive detectors for the low power pulses emitted by the tags and can distinguish between reflections and directly received signals. Each sensor independently determines the azimuth and elevation directions of arrival of the incoming signals using special antenna array and signal analysis. Sensors do not need to have optical line of sight contact with the tags since the signals go through walls and other objects. An infrastructure of base stations can be installed and networked using standard Ethernet and then connected to a central management system.
Advantages
New sensor antennas will be developed with improved performances. Innovative signal processing techniques will improve range and precision. The main advantages of such technologies are high precision, very good performance even in presence of obstacles or limited visibility, capability to work both outdoor and indoor, capability to work also with important metal obstacles using a suitable topology for the base stations, very high noise immunity, etc.
Applications
The system can be applied wherever is necessary to track in real time the position of people or objects, i.e. to associate the data from a bar code scanner with its position in a warehouse, to provide the position of a pallet of goods placed in a warehouse or a container in a storage area or airport, to automatically detect the proximity between objects, to determine if during an emergency procedure employees have all reached designated areas, etc.

4 – Image processing codecs
Description
This system is constituted of an off-the-shelf electronic board based on digital signal processors running state-of-the-art image processing software algorithms (embedded system). It gets an input from any video camera (or radar, or eavesdropping system) and gives alarm and other outputs. It will perform the following content video analyses motion detection, abandoned/removed object/vehicle detection, perimeter crossing detection, panic situation detection, people/vehicle counting and speed evaluation, PTZ camera tracking, plate recognition, behaviour analysis, face recognition.
Advantages
We are confident to reach incredible performances in terms of image resolution (> 1 mega-pixel) and video rate (> 25 frames per second).
Applications
The system is ideal to protect military and operation plants, airports, borders, vip houses, highways, cities, etc.

Field of Use

Licensee has the right to file patents on these technologies in the field of intrusion detection systems, radar systems for border and pipeline surveillance, and technologies for monitoring and surveillance systems, through our License Agreement with the Licensor.

License Grant

Licensor wishes to grant the Licensee the worldwide exclusive right to sell, assign, and transfer all of its right, title and interest in any inventions related to the Patents to the Licensee;  including the exclusive right to sublicense.

License Property

This technology is remote, real time two-way audio with video communication, which incorporates a camera, built-in Web server and network interface.  The technology will manage areas of importance independently by providing programmable audio or by alerting designated users via an audio/video transmission to a smart phone or other compatible device.

Field of Use

Licensee wishes to engage in the business of developing as well as marketing products and services protected by the Patents.