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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 17, 2009
Filed:
Jun. 07, 2007
Chidanand Apte, Chappaqua, NY (US);
Brenda Lynn Dietrich, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Arun Hampapur, Norwalk, CT (US);
Andrew W. Senior, New York, NY (US);
Chidanand Apte, Chappaqua, NY (US);
Brenda Lynn Dietrich, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Arun Hampapur, Norwalk, CT (US);
Andrew W. Senior, New York, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Demographic and transaction data are presented in a report usable for marketing-related purposes and other applications using a camera apparatus to capture customer image data at a point-of-sale location and sends the image data to a customer image database where the image data is stored. Demographic data (such as gender, age group, height) are extracted from the customer image data and sent to the customer image database. Point-of-sale transaction data is collected and sent to a transaction database where the transaction data is stored. A computer processes customer image data, transaction data, and attributes relating to the customer image data and transaction data, to correlate extracted demographic data to transaction data. The correlated data is preferably sent to a target marketing database and used to generate a market research report.