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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 14, 2011
Filed:
Oct. 31, 2008
Russell Patrick Bobbitt, Pleasantville, NY (US);
Quanfu Fan, Somerville, MA (US);
Arun Hampapur, Norwalk, CT (US);
Frederik Kjeldsen, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Sharathchandra Umapathirao Pankanti, Darien, CT (US);
Akira Yanagawa, New York, NY (US);
Yun Zhai, White Plains, NY (US);
Russell Patrick Bobbitt, Pleasantville, NY (US);
Quanfu Fan, Somerville, MA (US);
Arun Hampapur, Norwalk, CT (US);
Frederik Kjeldsen, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
Sharathchandra Umapathirao Pankanti, Darien, CT (US);
Akira Yanagawa, New York, NY (US);
Yun Zhai, White Plains, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Techniques for using transactional and visual event information to facilitate loss prevention are provided. The techniques include obtaining video of one or more visual events at a point of sale environment and one or more transaction log entries that correspond to the video, wherein the one or more transaction log entries comprise one or more transactional events, categorizing each event as one of one or more model events, using each categorized event to create a revised transaction log, wherein the revised transaction log comprises a sequence of categorized events, wherein each categorized event is a combination of the one or more transactional events and the one or more visual events, examining the revised transaction log to correct one or more mis-categorizations, if any, and revise one or more model event categories with the one or more corrected mis-categorizations, if any, and using the revised transaction log to facilitate loss prevention.