Tracking of members within a group
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1. A method, comprising:
- identifying, by executable instructions that are executed by a hardware processor of a server from a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, a group of consumers for a frictionless store as a plurality of individuals on an outdoor premises associated with a store before any individual of the group enters an inside of the store by processing at least some video tracking and imaging tracking processing that captures images of the individuals in proximity to one another, assigns the individuals to the group, extracts attributes from the images associated with the group as a whole and each individual of the group, and tracks the consumers as belonging to the group through the images using the attributes before the individuals enter the store, wherein at least a portion of a store includes a frictionless store that allows customers to pick specific items from the frictionless store without scanning the specific items for a checkout at the store, and wherein the attributes include for each individual include;
a height of that individual, a color of apparel worn by that individual, facial features of that individual, sex of that individual, and ethnicity of that individual; and
providing, by the executable instructions, the attributes that define the group and each individual to an indoor tracking system associated with the frictionless store when at least one individual of the group is detected as entering the inside of the store through the images associated with the outdoor premises, wherein the indoor tracking system picks up tracking of the at least one individual and the group as a whole by analyzing other images received by the indoor tracking system using the attributes and tracking, by the indoor tracking system associations between the group, the individuals, and the specific items through the other images.
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Abstract
A group of consumers are identified before the members of the group enter a frictionless store on an outside premises of the store. In an embodiment, a registered account holder for a member of the group is passed to an indoor tracking system of the frictionless store when the group enters the store. In an embodiment, attributes of a potential group of consumers is passed to an indoor tracking system when the group enters the store without a registered account being identified.
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1. A method, comprising:
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identifying, by executable instructions that are executed by a hardware processor of a server from a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, a group of consumers for a frictionless store as a plurality of individuals on an outdoor premises associated with a store before any individual of the group enters an inside of the store by processing at least some video tracking and imaging tracking processing that captures images of the individuals in proximity to one another, assigns the individuals to the group, extracts attributes from the images associated with the group as a whole and each individual of the group, and tracks the consumers as belonging to the group through the images using the attributes before the individuals enter the store, wherein at least a portion of a store includes a frictionless store that allows customers to pick specific items from the frictionless store without scanning the specific items for a checkout at the store, and wherein the attributes include for each individual include;
a height of that individual, a color of apparel worn by that individual, facial features of that individual, sex of that individual, and ethnicity of that individual; andproviding, by the executable instructions, the attributes that define the group and each individual to an indoor tracking system associated with the frictionless store when at least one individual of the group is detected as entering the inside of the store through the images associated with the outdoor premises, wherein the indoor tracking system picks up tracking of the at least one individual and the group as a whole by analyzing other images received by the indoor tracking system using the attributes and tracking, by the indoor tracking system associations between the group, the individuals, and the specific items through the other images. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A method, comprising:
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tracking, by executable instructions that are executed on a hardware processor of a server from a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, image attributes of members of a potential group detected on an outdoor premises of a store by capturing images from cameras and analyzing initial images of the group on the outdoor premises and extracting the image attributes from the initial images for the potential group as a whole and for each member assigned to the group, wherein at least a portion of a store includes a frictionless store that allows customers to pick specific items from the frictionless store without scanning the specific items for a checkout at the store, and wherein the image attributes include for each member include;
a height of that member, a color of apparel worn by that member, facial features of that member, sex of that member, and ethnicity of that member;providing, by the executable instructions, the image attributes for tracking the group and the members to an indoor tracking system when the group and the members are detected as moving from the outdoor premises to an inside of the store; monitoring, by the executable instructions, any items acquired through image processing of other images captured for the group and the members by the indoor tracking system using the image attributes and sensor processing by the members in both indoor and outdoor areas associated with the store and the frictionless store; and permitting, by the executable instructions, one member to elect to checkout from the store through payment for all the items acquired by the members by identification of the one member from the other images using the attributes. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 19)
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18. A system, comprising:
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a processor; a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having executable instructions; the executable instructions when executed by the processor cause the processor to; identify members of a group on an outdoor premises of a store by analyzing images captured by cameras and extract attributes for the group from the initial images, wherein the attributes include for each member include;
a height of that member, a color of apparel worn by that member, facial features of that member, sex of that member, and ethnicity of that member;link a registered account to a specific member of the group identified from the images using the attributes; and provide the attributes for each member of the group and the group as a whole along with the registered account to an indoor tracking system of the store that tracks each member of the group from other images captured by cameras associated with the indoor tracking system, wherein at least a portion of a store includes a frictionless store that allows customers to pick specific items from the frictionless store without scanning the specific items for a checkout at the store.
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