INDIVIDUAL BIOMETRIC-BASED TRACKING
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1. A method, comprising:
- extracting features from an image of an individual;
associating the features with a location;
identifying a specific customer from the features; and
reporting the features, the location, and the specific customer.
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Abstract
Real-time individual tracking at a site is provided by capturing an image at a specific location for the individual, extracting a limited number of biometric features from the image, and providing a searching mechanism for matching the scored biometric features to the individual at the specific location.
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20 Claims
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1. A method, comprising:
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extracting features from an image of an individual; associating the features with a location; identifying a specific customer from the features; and reporting the features, the location, and the specific customer. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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11. The method of claim 11 further comprising, providing the payment token from the linked list as payment for a second transaction of the specific customer.
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13. A method, comprising:
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checking a customer into a store; capturing an image of a face of the customer during check-in; extracting a set of biometric features for the face from the image; updating a customer account for the customer with the set of biometric features; obtaining second images of the face at different locations within the store; and tracking the customer at those different locations based on matching second sets of biometric features extracted from the second images and performing a search against a customer data store that includes the customer account.
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18. A system, comprising:
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a server having at least one hardware processor; a real-time order people tracker configured to;
(i) execute on the hardware processor, (ii) extract biometric features from images taken of customers while in a store, (iii) link the biometric features to accounts of the customers, and (iv) track each of the customers and locations of the customers while in the store based on the biometric features. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20)
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