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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 29, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 06, 2007
Rajeev Sharma, State College, PA (US);
Satish Mummareddy, Washington, DC (US);
Priya Baboo, State College, PA (US);
Jeff Hershey, Norfolk, VA (US);
Namsoon Jung, State College, PA (US);
Rajeev Sharma, State College, PA (US);
Satish Mummareddy, Washington, DC (US);
Priya Baboo, State College, PA (US);
Jeff Hershey, Norfolk, VA (US);
Namsoon Jung, State College, PA (US);
VideoMining Corporation, State College, PA (US);
Abstract
The present invention is a method and system for automatically analyzing a category in a plurality of the categories in a physical space based on the visual characterization, such as behavior analysis or segmentation, of the persons with regard to the category. The present invention captures a plurality of input images of the persons in the category by a plurality of means for capturing images. The present invention processes the plurality of input images in order to understand the shopping behavior of the persons with the sub-categories of the category and analyzes the level of engagement and decision process at the sub-category level. The processes are based on a novel usage of a plurality of computer vision technologies to analyze the visual characterization of the persons from the plurality of input images. The physical space may be a retail space, and the persons may be customers in the retail space.