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System and method for capturing, storing, analyzing and displaying data relating to the movements of objects

  • US 8,885,047 B2
  • Filed: 07/16/2009
  • Issued: 11/11/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/16/2008
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method operable on a computer that is coupled to a memory containing video data of a plurality of prescribed physical areas, the method responsive to the movement of objects in the plurality of prescribed physical areas, the method comprising:

  • identifying objects in each of the plurality of prescribed physical areas by querying a user-selected portion of the video data, wherein the objects that are identified are moving in a user-selected portion of each of the plurality of prescribed physical areas, and wherein the user-selected video data is video metadata representing movement of at least one object in the user-selected portions of the plurality of prescribed physical areas, and that video metadata is derived from raw video data with a metadata conversion module;

    counting a respective number of the objects in the user-selected portions of each of the prescribed physical areas; and

    generating a visually perceptible output which compares the respective number of objects such that a movement path of each of the respective number of objects is superimposed on an image of each of the plurality of prescribed physical areas.

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