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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 24, 2012
Filed:
Aug. 18, 2009
Hankyu Moon, State College, PA (US);
Kevin Maurice Irick, State College, PA (US);
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, State College, PA (US);
Rajeev Sharma, State College, PA (US);
Namsoon Jung, State College, PA (US);
Hankyu Moon, State College, PA (US);
Kevin Maurice Irick, State College, PA (US);
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, State College, PA (US);
Rajeev Sharma, State College, PA (US);
Namsoon Jung, State College, PA (US);
Other;
Abstract
The present invention is an embedded audience measurement platform, which is called HAM. The HAM includes hardware, apparatus, and method for measuring audience data from image stream using dynamically-configurable hardware architecture. The HAM provides an end-to-end solution for audience measurement, wherein reconfigurable computational modules are used as engines per node to power the complete solution implemented in a flexible hardware architecture. The HAM is also a complete system for broad audience measurement, which has various components built into the system. Examples of the components comprise demographics classification, gaze estimation, emotion recognition, behavior analysis, and impression measurement.