Television – Special applications – Observation of or from a specific location
Patent
1995-01-10
1995-11-07
Britton, Howard W.
Television
Special applications
Observation of or from a specific location
348170, H04N 718
Patent
active
054651158
ABSTRACT:
A video traffic monitor and method for counting people using video imaging provides an inexpensive hardware implementation for analyzing real-time video where the operational environment presents a reasonably restricted traffic flow, such as in the entryway of a building. The video traffic monitor utilizes a windowed subsample of an image frame, and the image frame is further subdivided into gates. The video traffic monitor processes this windowed area to highlight the objects moving through the gates. The gates are then analyzed to determine a direction of movement for the people and support the logic for noise elimination and object discrimination. The video traffic monitor counts the detected people and records the count according to the direction of movement of the people.
REFERENCES:
patent: 3736376 (1973-05-01), Kato, Jr.
patent: 4688090 (1987-08-01), Veitch
patent: 4908704 (1990-03-01), Fujioka et al.
patent: 5097328 (1992-03-01), Boyette
patent: 5134472 (1992-07-01), Abe
patent: 5136383 (1992-08-01), Shepard et al.
patent: 5196929 (1993-03-01), Miyasaka
patent: 5243418 (1993-09-01), Kuno et al.
Conrad Gary L.
Denenberg Byron A.
Kramerich George L.
Britton Howard W.
Lee Richard
RCT Systems, Inc.
LandOfFree
Video traffic monitor for retail establishments and the like does not yet have a rating. At this time, there are no reviews or comments for this patent.
If you have personal experience with Video traffic monitor for retail establishments and the like, we encourage you to share that experience with our LandOfFree.com community. Your opinion is very important and Video traffic monitor for retail establishments and the like will most certainly appreciate the feedback.
Profile ID: LFUS-PAI-O-199756