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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 19, 2021
Filed:
May. 21, 2020
Ism Connect, Doylestown, PA (US);
Yann Henon, Doylestown, PA (US);
Gennady Livitz, Doylestown, PA (US);
Samson Timoner, Doylestown, PA (US);
ISM CONNECT, LLC, Doylestown, PA (US);
Abstract
Aspects of the invention provide a vision pipeline-based method of censusing a crowd that includes presenting content on an outdoor digital display or other content player (e.g., a loudspeaker) and capturing with a video camera or other image acquisition device frames or other time-wise succession of images of a scene in the field of view or otherwise in the vicinity of the display/player. First and second people detectors (both, for example, face detectors) are used to determine respective counts of persons in the scene. Estimated viewing statistics, generated with a detection pipeline that includes the first people detector and a tracker, include at least one of (i) a number of persons in the scene that viewed the content on the player, and (ii) for at least one of those persons, a duration during which he/she was in the scene and/or looking toward the player. Corrected viewing statistics, generated as a function of the estimated viewing statistics and a difference between the counts determined by each of the first and second people detectors, are used to select or alter content presented on the player.