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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 07, 2022
Filed:
Dec. 30, 2015
Joonhwa Shin, State College, PA (US);
Rajeev Sharma, State College, PA (US);
Youngrock R Yoon, Knoxville, TN (US);
Donghun Kim, State College, PA (US);
Joonhwa Shin, State College, PA (US);
Rajeev Sharma, State College, PA (US);
Youngrock R Yoon, Knoxville, TN (US);
Donghun Kim, State College, PA (US);
VideoMining Corporation, State College, PA (US);
Abstract
A method and system for creating an anonymous shopper panel based on multi-modal sensor data fusion. The anonymous shopper panel can serve as the same traditional shopper panel who reports their household information, such as household size, income level, demographics, etc., and their purchase history, yet without any voluntary participation. A configuration of vision sensors and mobile access points can be used to detect and track shoppers as they travel a retail environment. Fusion of those modalities can be used to form a trajectory. The trajectory data can then be associated with Point of Sale data to form a full set of shopper behavior data. Shopper behavior data for a particular visit can then be compared to data from previous shoppers' visits to determine if the shopper is a revisiting shopper. The shopper's data can then be aggregated for multiple visits to the retail location. The aggregated shopper data can be filtered using application-specific criteria to create an anonymous shopper panel.