TALLYING SYSTEM, TALLYING APPARATUS AND TALLYING METHOD

• US 20110238361A1
• Filed: 09/04/2008
• Published: 09/29/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 09/28/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: NEC Soft Limited (NEC Corporation)
• Original Assignee: NEC Soft Limited (NEC Corporation)
• Inventors: Ueki, Kazuya
• Application Number:
  US12/671,838
• Publication Number:
  US 20110238361A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 702/127
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management

Abstract

The object is to provide a tallying system, a tallying apparatus and a tallying method which are capable of tallying characteristics of non-users who have not perform predetermined use among visitors in a predetermined place.

Included here are: a characteristics presumption system which acquires visitor-count data by counting the number of visitors to a predetermined place based on predetermined input data and acquires characteristics presumption data by presuming visitor'"'"'s characteristics based on the input data; a use state management system which acquires user data indicating the characteristics of users who have performed predetermined use among the visitors; and a tallying apparatus which generates tallying result data including at least a result of tallying about the characteristics of non-users besides the users among the visitors based on the visitor-count data and the characteristics presumption data received from the characteristics presumption system and the user data received from the use state management system.

Claims

1. A tallying system comprising:

a characteristics presumption system which counts visitors to a predetermined place based on a predetermined input data to obtain visitor-count data, and presumes characteristics of said visitors based on said input data to obtain characteristics presumption data;

a use state management system which acquires user data indicating characteristics of users who have performed predetermined use among said visitors; and

a tallying apparatus which generates tallying result data including at least a result of tallying about characteristics of non-users besides said users among said visitors based on said visitor-count data and said characteristics presumption data received from said characteristics presumption system, and said user data received from said use state management system.

2. A tallying system according to claim 1, wherein

said characteristics presumption system comprising:

a first presumption device that presumes said visitor'"'"'s characteristics as a discrete quantity based on said input data;

a second presumption device that presumes said visitor'"'"'s characteristics as a continuous quantity based on said input data; and

a characteristics presumption data acquisition device that acquires at least one of a presumed result of said first presumption means device and a presumed result of said second presumption device as said characteristics presumption data.

3. A tallying system according to claim 2, wherein

said characteristics presumption data acquisition device performs integration of a presumed result of said first presumption device and a presumed result of said second presumption device to obtain a result of said integration as said characteristics presumption data.

4. A tallying system according to claim 2, wherein

said first presumption device comprising:

at least one first characteristics quantity extraction unit that extracts a first characteristics quantity of no smaller than one from said input data;

at least one first discrimination circuit that presumes said visitor'"'"'s characteristics as a discrete value by comparing said first characteristics quantity with criterion data which has been already learned in advance.

5. A tallying system according to claim 2, wherein

said second presumption device comprising:

at least one second characteristics quantity extraction unit that extracts a second characteristics quantity of no smaller than one from said input data;

at least one second discrimination circuit that presumes said visitor'"'"'s characteristics as a continuous value by comparing said second characteristics quantity with criterion data which has been already learned in advance.

6. A tallying system according to claim 2 comprising

an indexation unit that indexes relation between respective presumed results of said first presumption device and said second presumption device and an actual numerical value, wherein

said characteristics presumption data acquisition device integrates presumed results of said first and second presumption device that have been indexed by said indexation unit.

7. A tallying system according to claim 6, wherein

said indexation unit indexes respective presumed results of said first and second presumption device based on said criterion data.

8. A tallying system according to claim 1, wherein

said input data is at least one of image data and voice data.

9. A tallying system according to claim 1, wherein

said use state management system acquires user data from a recording medium possessed by said user in which said user data is recorded.

10. A tallying apparatus which is used in a tallying system according to claim 1.

11. A tallying method comprising:

a first data obtaining step for counting visitors to a predetermined place based on a predetermined input data to obtain visitor-count data, and presuming characteristics of said visitors based on said input data to obtain characteristics presumption data;

a second data obtaining step for obtaining user data indicating characteristics of users who have performed predetermined use among said visitors; and

a tallying step for generating tallying result data including at least a result of tallying about characteristics of non-users besides said users among said visitors based on said visitor-count data and said characteristics presumption data obtained in said first obtaining step and said user data obtained in said second data obtaining step.

12. A tallying method according to claim 11, wherein

said first data obtaining step comprising:

a first presumption step for presuming said visitor'"'"'s characteristics as a discrete quantity based on said input data;

a second presumption step for presuming said visitor'"'"'s characteristics as a continuous quantity based on said input data; and

a characteristics presumption data acquisition step for acquiring at least one of a presumed result in said first presumption step and a presumed result in said second presumption step as said characteristics presumption data.

13. A tallying method according to claim 12, wherein,

in said characteristics presumption data acquisition step,

integration of a presumed result of said first presumption step and a presumed result of said second presumption step is performed and a result of said integration is obtained as said characteristics presumption data.