HANDHELD DEACTIVATOR WITH INTEGRATED THERMAL SENSOR

摘要

Systems (100) and methods (600) for controlling operations of a Handheld Scanning and Deactivation (“HSD”) device. The methods comprise: determining whether a human is located within a defined distance range of the HSD device; preventing first operations from being performed by the HSD device which cause a magnetic field to be generated, if it is determined that said human is located within the defined distance range of said HSD device; and initiating the first operations if it is determined that the human is not located within the defined distance range of the HSD device. The first operations comprise (1) interrogation operations for detecting a presence of an electronic article surveillance security tag and/or (2) deactivation operations for deactivating an electronic article surveillance security tag.

主权项

1. A method for controlling operations of a Handheld Scanning and Deactivation (“HSD”) device, the method comprising:
determining whether a human is located within a defined distance range of said HSD device; preventing first operations from being performed by said HSD device which cause a magnetic field to be generated, if it is determined that said human is located within said defined distance range of said HSD device; and initiating said first operations if it is determined that said human is not located within said defined distance range of said HSD device.