System and Method for Providing Real-time Location Previews

• US 20150134418A1
• Filed: 11/08/2013
• Published: 05/14/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 11/08/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Chon Hock Leow, Mark David Deyong Leow
• Original Assignee: Chon Hock Leow
• Inventors: Leow, Chon Hock, Leow, Mark David Deyong
• Application Number:
  US14/075,767
• Publication Number:
  US 20150134418A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/7.34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/29 Geographical information databases
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0205 Location or geographical consideration
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2854 Wide area networks, e.g. public data networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices

Abstract

Method and system for providing real-time location previews. For example, a system and method for collecting data about activity levels, including persons waiting in queues and density of persons, as well as environmental conditions of a location from one or more client devices and/or user devices; processing the collected data to remove privacy concerns, calculate queue times, density levels and other activity levels within a defined location, and retrieve contextual and historical information, including scheduled events, relevant to determining anticipated level of activity and environmental conditions within and around a location; and making processed data available to users via communications network for purpose of previewing a location.

Claims

1. A method for providing real time previews of locations comprising:

collecting data about one or more locations;

processing the collected data to

remove privacy issues, and

calculate activity levels of persons; and

providing summary representations of the processed data to users via communications network.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein collecting data comprises

recording data using one or more client devices.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein collecting data comprises

receiving data from one or more users.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein collecting data comprises

obtaining data from one or more third party resources.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein processing data to remove privacy issues comprises

blocking the display of facial features of persons depicted in video images.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein processing the collected data further comprises

determining audio levels.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein processing the collected data further comprises

determining audio frequency.

8. The method of claim 1 wherein processing the collected data further comprises

determining environmental conditions.

9. The method of claim 1 wherein processing the collected data further comprises

predicting changes in activity levels for one or more locations within a predefined area.

10. The method of claim 1 wherein processing the collected data further comprises

predicting changes in density of persons for one or more locations within a predefined area.

11. The method of claim 1 wherein processing data to calculate activity levels of persons comprises calculating queue times.

12. The method of claim 9 wherein processing the collected data comprises

predicting changes in activity levels for one or more locations based on scheduled events.

13. The method of claim 1 wherein processing data comprises

predicting changes in environmental conditions based on data obtained from third party resources.

14. The method of claim 1 wherein processing data comprises

mapping levels of relatively high activity within a predefined area.

15. The method of claim 1 wherein providing comprises

displaying time lapse video clips recorded over a predetermined time on a continuously updated basis.

16. The method of claim 1 wherein providing comprises

graphically representing recorded sound levels and sound frequency.

17. The method of claim 1 wherein providing comprises

numerically representing recorded sound levels and sound frequency.

18. The method of claim 1 wherein providing comprises

graphically representing relative density and activity levels within a predefined area using a “

heat map”

.

19. A system for providing real time previews of one or more locations comprising:

one or more sensors for collecting data about activity of persons and environmental conditions within one or more locations;

one or more processing units configured for

removing privacy issues,

calculating activity levels of persons, and

providing summary representations of processed data to users via communications network;

one or more storage units configured for

storing collected data; and

one or more communications units configured for providing previews to users via communications network.

20. The system of claim 19 wherein the one or more processing units is further configured for blocking the display of facial features of persons depicted in video images.

21. The system of claim 19 wherein the one or more processing units is further configured for determining audio levels and audio frequency occurring in one or more locations.

22. The system of claim 19 wherein the one or more processing units is further configured for determining environmental conditions for one or more locations.

23. The system of claim 19 wherein the one or more processing units is further configured for predicting changes in activity levels for one or more locations.

24. The system of claim 19 wherein the one or more processing units is further configured for calculating queue times.

25. The system of claim 19 wherein the one or more processing units is further configured for predicting changes in activity levels for one or more locations based on scheduled events.

26. The system of claim 19 wherein the one or more processing units is further configured for mapping levels of relatively high activity within a predefined area.

27. The system of claim 19 wherein the one or more processing units is further configured for providing time lapse video clips recorded over a predetermined time on a continuously updated basis.

28. The system of claim 19 wherein the one or more processing units is further configured for graphically representing recorded audio levels and audio frequency.

29. The system of claim 19 wherein the one or more processing units is further configured for graphically representing levels of relatively high activity and density of persons within a predefined area using a “

heat map”

.

30. A system for providing real time previews of one or more locations comprising:

one or more client devices having one or more processing units, one or more memory units, one or more storage units, one or more communications units, and one or more sensors, wherein the one or more client device processing units are configured for processing data collected by the one or more client devices and providing the processed data to one or more servers via communications network; and

one or more servers having one or more processing units, one or more memory units, one or more storage units, and one or more communications units, wherein the one or more server processing units are configured for processing data received from the one or more client devices, one or more users and one or more third party data resources;

wherein said one or more client devices and said one or more servers is configured for

blocking display of personally identifying information of persons appearing in video images,

calculating activity levels and densities of persons within a predefined area,

determining environmental conditions within one or more locations,

predicting changes in activity levels and environmental conditions, and providing summary representations of the processed data to users via communications network.