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Human and physical asset movement pattern analyzer

  • US 7,978,085 B1
  • Filed: 03/02/2009
  • Issued: 07/12/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/29/2008
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A method of tracking and analyzing movement of human subjects, the method comprising:

  • providing a plurality of tracking technology sensors;

    placing the plurality of sensors within a designated space;

    determining an origin location within the space;

    providing a plurality of tracking technology transponders, wherein the transponders provide location parameters;

    affixing one of the plurality of transponders to each human subject;

    collecting the location parameters of each human subject from the transponders at predetermined time intervals using the sensors;

    determining a plurality of movement paths for each human subject from the location parameters, wherein each movement path comprises the location parameters from each period of movement of each human subject;

    recording the plurality of movement paths for fractal dimension tortuosity characteristics;

    setting a spatial scale;

    calculating an estimated fractal dimension for each of the plurality of movement paths of each human subject; and

    calculating an average of the estimated fractal dimensions for each of the plurality of movement paths for each subject to produce a single fractal dimension score for each human subject, wherein a high fractal dimension score corresponds to a high likelihood of agitated movement and the greater the value of the fractal dimension score corresponds to the greater degree of agitated movement.

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