Video analytics for retail business process monitoring
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1. A system for video monitoring a retail business process comprising:
- a video analytics engine to process video obtained by a video camera and to generate video primitives regarding the video;
a user interface to define at least one activity of interest regarding an area being viewed, wherein each activity of interest identifies at least one of a rule or a query regarding the area being viewed; and
an activity inference engine to process the generated video primitives based on each defined activity of interest and determine if an activity of interest occurred in the video.
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Abstract
A system for video monitoring a retail business process includes a video analytics engine to process video obtained by a video camera and generate video primitives regarding the video, A user interface is used to define at least one activity of interest regarding an area being viewed, each activity of interest identifying at least one of a rule or a query regarding the area being viewed. An activity inference engine processes the generated video primitives based on each defined activity of interest to determine if an activity of interest occurred in the video.
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20 Claims
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1. A system for video monitoring a retail business process comprising:
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a video analytics engine to process video obtained by a video camera and to generate video primitives regarding the video;
a user interface to define at least one activity of interest regarding an area being viewed, wherein each activity of interest identifies at least one of a rule or a query regarding the area being viewed; and
an activity inference engine to process the generated video primitives based on each defined activity of interest and determine if an activity of interest occurred in the video. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A method for video monitoring a retail business process comprising:
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obtaining video from a video camera;
processing the video obtained from the video camera;
generating video primitives regarding the video;
defining at least one activity of interest regarding an area being viewed, wherein each activity of interest identifies at least one of a rule or a query regarding the area being viewed; and
processing the generated video primitives based on each defined activity of interest to determine if an activity of interest occurred in the video.
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16. A computer-readable medium comprising software for video monitoring a retail business process, which software, when executed by a computer system, causes the computer system to perform operations comprising a method of:
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processing video obtained by a video camera;
generating video primitives regarding the video;
defining at least one activity of interest regarding an area being viewed, wherein each activity of interest identifies at least one of a rule or a query regarding the area being viewed; and
processing the generated video primitives based on each defined activity of interest to determine if an activity of interest occurred in the video.
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17. An apparatus for video monitoring a retail business process comprising:
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a video camera to obtain video of an area;
a video analytics engine to process the obtained video and generate video primitives regarding the video; and
an activity inference engine to process the generated video primitives based on at least one activity of interest regarding the area being viewed to determine if an activity of interest occurred in the video, wherein each activity of interest defines at least one of a rule or a query selectively identified by a user regarding the area being viewed. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20)
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