System And Process For Detecting, Tracking And Counting Human Objects Of Interest
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1. A system for separately counting and tracking defined objects and anonymous objects, including:
- an image capturing device for capturing object data associated with both defined objects and anonymous objects that pass an entrance;
a reader device for capturing tag data associated with defined objects that pass the entrance;
a counting system for receiving object data and tag data, generating track records based on the object data and sequence records based on the tag data, comparing the track records and the sequence records to identify matching track records and sequence records and track records that do not match a sequence record, wherein the track records that match sequence records are associated with defined objects and the track records that do not match a sequence record are associated with anonymous objects, separately counting the defined objects and anonymous objects; and
tracking defined objects and anonymous objects.
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Abstract
A system is disclosed that includes: at least one image capturing device at the entrance to obtain images; a reader device; and a processor for extracting objects of interest from the images and generating tracks for each object of interest, and for matching objects of interest with objects associated with RFID tags, and for counting the number of objects of interest associated with, and not associated with, particular RFID tags.
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18 Claims
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1. A system for separately counting and tracking defined objects and anonymous objects, including:
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an image capturing device for capturing object data associated with both defined objects and anonymous objects that pass an entrance; a reader device for capturing tag data associated with defined objects that pass the entrance; a counting system for receiving object data and tag data, generating track records based on the object data and sequence records based on the tag data, comparing the track records and the sequence records to identify matching track records and sequence records and track records that do not match a sequence record, wherein the track records that match sequence records are associated with defined objects and the track records that do not match a sequence record are associated with anonymous objects, separately counting the defined objects and anonymous objects; and tracking defined objects and anonymous objects. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A method for counting and tracking defined objects and anonymous objects, comprising the steps of:
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capturing object data with an image capturing device, wherein the object data is associated with both defined objects and anonymous objects that pass an entrance; capturing tag data with a reader device, wherein the tag data is associated with defined objects that pass the entrance; receiving object data and tag data at a counting system and generating track records based on the object data and sequence records based on the tag data; comparing the track records and the sequence records to identify matching track records and sequence records, wherein matching track records and sequence records are representative of the defined objects and track records that do not match a sequence record are representative of the anonymous objects; separately counting the defined objects and the anonymous objects; and tracking the defined objects and the anonymous objects. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17)
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18. A method for separating defined objects and anonymous objects, comprising the following steps:
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capturing object data with an image capturing device, wherein the object data is associated with both defined objects and anonymous objects that pass an entrance; capturing tag data with a reader device, wherein the tag data is associated with defined objects that pass the entrance; receiving object data and tag data at a counting system and generating track records based on the object data and sequence records based on the tag data, wherein each of the track records and sequence records include information indicative of a start time and an end time for the respective track record or sequence record; comparing track records and sequence records to identify track records that overlap temporally with sequence records; iteratively determining which overlapping track records and sequence records best match one another until all of the sequence records and track records have best matches or it is determined that no match exists; and wherein track records that best match sequence records are defined objects and track records that do not match sequence records are anonymous objects.
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