MARKET RESEARCH METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR COLLECTING RETAIL STORE AND SHOPPER MARKET RESEARCH DATA

Patent №

US 5,331,544

Granted

1994-07-19

Filed 1992

Owner

A.C. NIELSEN COMPANY, A CORP. OF DE

+1 more

Lab

AI components

2

vision · planning

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

07872881

A market research system and method are provided. A plurality of cooperating establishments are included in a market research test area. Each cooperating establishment is adapted for collecting and storing market research data. A computer system remotely located from the plurality of cooperating establishments stores market research data collected from the cooperating establishments. The collected market research data includes monitored retail sales transactions and captured video images of retail customers.

VisionPlanningG06Q 30/02G06Q 30/0201

AI classification

Planning0.89
Vision0.84
Natural language0.07
AI hardware0.07
Machine learning0.00
Knowledge representation0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

A.C. NIELSEN COMPANY, A CORP. OF DE

assignment · 60910860

NIELSEN COMPANY (US), LLC, THE

correct · 227930520

Assignors

LU, DAOZHENG, KIEWIT, DAVID A., ZHANG, JIA

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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