METHOD, MEDIUM, AND SYSTEM TO MONITOR SHOPPERS IN A RETAIL OR COMMERCIAL ESTABLISHMENT

Patent №

US 8,239,277

Granted

2012-08-07

Filed 2009

Owner

THE NIELSEN COMPANY (US), LLC

Lab

AI components

3

kr · planning · evo

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

12415506

Methods and apparatus to monitor shoppers in a retail environment are disclosed herein. In a disclosed example method involves collecting location information indicative of a measured path of travel of a person through a monitored environment. The example method also involves collecting person detection event information associated with a plurality of zones in the monitored environment. The person detection event information is indicative of detections of the person in each of the zones. In addition, the example method involves determining an adjusted path of travel of the person through the monitored environment based on the location information indicative of the measured path of travel and the person detection event information.

AI classification

Planning0.96
Knowledge representation0.90
Evolutionary computation0.87
Vision0.17
Natural language0.02
AI hardware0.00
Machine learning0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

THE NIELSEN COMPANY (US), LLC

assignment · 224900666

Assignors

LEE, MORRIS, RAMASWAMY, ARUN

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

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