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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 24, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 20, 2007
Sergio Borger, Demarest, NJ (US);
Christopher R. Carlson, Incline Village, NV (US);
Arun Hampapur, Norwalk, CT (US);
Andrew W. Senior, New York, NY (US);
Chiao-fe Shu, Scarsdale, NY (US);
Sergio Borger, Demarest, NJ (US);
Christopher R. Carlson, Incline Village, NV (US);
Arun Hampapur, Norwalk, CT (US);
Andrew W. Senior, New York, NY (US);
Chiao-Fe Shu, Scarsdale, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
The present invention relates to the measurement of human activities through video, particularly in retail environments. A method for measuring retail display effectiveness in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention includes: detecting a moving object in a field of view of an imaging device, the imaging device obtaining image data of a product display; tracking the object in the field of view of the imaging device to obtain a track; and obtaining statistics for the track with regard to the product display.