METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DATA COLLECTION USING PROCESSED IMAGE DATA
First Claim
1. A system for collecting demographic data, the system comprising:
- a set of data collection devices adapted to capture a set of image data from a vehicle;
at least one server communicatively connected through a network to the set of data collection devices, the server comprising;
a database adapted to store data received from the set of data collection devices;
at least one processor adapted to process the set of image data to generate a set of salient objects identified from the set of image data, the at least one processor further adapted to generate a set of processed data from the identified set of salient objects, to generate a set of customer data based in part on the set of customer data, and to associate the set of customer data with a customer;
a collected data database adapted to store the set of customer data; and
an output module adapted to generate and transmit a set of output data comprising data from the set of customer data.
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a system and method for capturing data from vehicles and processing the captured vehicle data to generate a set of demographic data based on the set of captured demographic data. Specifically, the invention captures video or image data of one or more vehicles at a business location. Additional data may be gathered and transmitted with the image data. The captured data may then be compressed and sent to a remote server for further processing. The data is processed to identify a set of salient objects and to generate a set of demographic data from the identified set of objects. The demographic data is then associated one or more customer records.
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23 Claims
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1. A system for collecting demographic data, the system comprising:
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a set of data collection devices adapted to capture a set of image data from a vehicle; at least one server communicatively connected through a network to the set of data collection devices, the server comprising; a database adapted to store data received from the set of data collection devices; at least one processor adapted to process the set of image data to generate a set of salient objects identified from the set of image data, the at least one processor further adapted to generate a set of processed data from the identified set of salient objects, to generate a set of customer data based in part on the set of customer data, and to associate the set of customer data with a customer; a collected data database adapted to store the set of customer data; and an output module adapted to generate and transmit a set of output data comprising data from the set of customer data. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A method for collecting data, the method comprising:
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collecting a set of unprocessed data from a set of vehicles at a first location; transmitting the set of unprocessed data to a temporary storage location; retrieving the unprocessed data from the temporary storage location; processing the unprocessed data to generate a set of processed data; generating a set of preferences from the set of processed data; associating the set of processed data, the set of unprocessed data, and the set of preferences with one or more entities; generating a set of reports from the set of processed data and the set of preferences. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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21. A method for reducing the size of an image, the method comprising:
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a. receiving an image frame from an image capture device; b. detecting a set of predefined objects in the image; c. determining the size of each of the objects in the set of predefined objects; d. generating a compressed image, the generating comprising; i. determining if each object in the set of objects satisfies a minimum acceptable object size for the object, and if the size of the object does not satisfy the minimum acceptable object size, generating a resized object; ii. determining if the size of the image frame satisfies a minimum acceptable image size for the frame, and if the size of the image frame does not satisfy the minimum acceptable image size, requesting a resized image from the image capture device; e. transmitting the compressed image. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23)
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