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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 29, 2025
Filed:
Nov. 12, 2021
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Chenyang Li, Bellevue, WA (US);
Hongli Deng, Bellevue, WA (US);
Gabriel Blanco Saldana, Kirkland, WA (US);
Joseph Milan Filcik, Redmond, WA (US);
Ryan Savio Menezes, Bellevue, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A method to predict a traversal-time interval for traversal of a service queue comprises receiving video of a region including the service queue, recognizing in the video, via machine vision, a plurality of persons awaiting service within the region, estimating an average crossing-time interval between successive crossings, by the plurality of persons, of a fixed boundary along the service queue, wherein such estimating is based on features of the service queue and of the one or more persons awaiting service, and returning an estimate of the traversal-time interval based on a count of the persons awaiting service and on the average crossing-time interval as estimated.