METHODS AND APPARATUS TO COUNT PEOPLE APPEARING IN AN IMAGE

Patent №

US 7,203,338

Granted

2007-04-10

Filed 2005

Owner

NIELSEN MEDIA RESEARCH, INC.

+1 more

Lab

AI components

4

ml · vision · kr · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

10538483

Methods and apparatus to count people appearing in an image are disclosed. One disclosed method reduces objects appearing in a series of images to one or more blobs; for each individual image in a set of the images of the series of images, represents the one or more blobs in the individual image by one or more symbols in a histogram; and analyzes the symbols appearing in the histogram to count the people in the image.

AI classification

Vision1.00
AI hardware0.98
Machine learning0.98
Knowledge representation0.68
Natural language0.41
Planning0.02
Evolutionary computation0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

NIELSEN MEDIA RESEARCH, INC.

assignment · 140030840

NIELSEN COMPANY (US), LLC, THE

merger · 228920544

Assignors

RAMASWAMY, ARUN, NELSON, DANIEL J., SRINIVASAN, VENUGOPAL

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

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