Patent №
US 7,203,338
Granted
2007-04-10
Filed 2005
Owner
NIELSEN MEDIA RESEARCH, INC.
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Lab
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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
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.