Patents Assigned to ShopperTrak RCT LLC
  • Patent number: 11954924
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods for determining information about one or more objects in a 3-dimensional (3D) space are disclosed. One aspect of the method includes defining a virtual ground plane within a monitored 3D space. The virtual ground plane is divided into a plurality of bins. Each bin has corresponding counter value. An object is detected in a respective image captured by each of a plurality of sensors. A respective line segment is selected corresponding to a respective light between each of the plurality of image sensors and the detected object. One or more bins of the virtual ground plane are selected onto which a respective projected line segment of each respective line segment overlap. Each counter value for each of the one or more selected bins is increased. A location of the object is determined based on a bin of the one or more bins having a highest counter value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: ShopperTrak RCT LLC
    Inventor: Zhiqian Wang
  • Patent number: 11868940
    Abstract: Examples described herein generally relate to a system for monitoring workers in a retail environment. The system may include a plurality of cameras located in different regions of the retail location and configured to capture a video feed of a respective region. The system may include a computer system comprising a memory storing computer executable instructions. The system may provide a video feed of at least one region of the retail environment to a machine learning classifier, the machine learning classifier trained on labeled videos, to classify a sequence of images of a worker into a probability certainty of an activity being performed by the worker. The processor may determine, based on the probability certainties generated by the machine learning classifier over a period of time, an activity schedule of the worker. The system may determine labor productivity statistics based on the activity schedule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: SHOPPERTRAK RCT LLC
    Inventors: Steve Edward Trivelpiece, Michael Paolella, Michelangelo Palella, Amit R. Patil
  • Patent number: 11689707
    Abstract: Techniques for calibrating a device having a stereoscopic camera are disclosed. According to an embodiment, the device calibrates the stereoscopic camera using a target provided by a mobile device. One or more zones each defining an area in a field of view of the calibrated stereoscopic camera are generated. The one or more zones are refined based on input provided by the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: SHOPPERTRAK RCT LLC
    Inventors: Michael J. Paolella, Spencer Neilan, Jeffrey R. Rendlen, Zhiqian Wang
  • Patent number: 11670086
    Abstract: A method of identifying, tracking, and counting human objects of interest based upon at least one pair of stereo image frames taken by at least one image capturing device, comprising the steps of: obtaining said stereo image frames and converting each said stereo image frame to a rectified image frame using calibration data obtained for said at least one image capturing device; generating a disparity map based upon a pair of said rectified image frames; generating a depth map based upon said disparity map and said calibration data; identifying the presence or absence of said objects of interest from said depth map and comparing each of said objects of interest to existing tracks comprising previously identified objects of interest; for each said presence of an object of interest, adding said object of interest to one of said existing tracks if said object of interest matches said one existing track, or creating a new track comprising said object of interest if said object of interest does not match any of sai
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: ShopperTrak RCT LLC
    Inventors: Zhiqian Wang, William C. Kastilahn
  • Patent number: 11611872
    Abstract: In an aspect, the present disclosure includes a method, apparatus, and non-transitory computer readable medium for wireless communications for initiating, by a provisioning system, a provisioning procedure to configure and update a device that initiates an initial connection to a wireless network based on a unique identifier of the device; and establishing, by the provisioning system, a secure socket with the device based on the provisioning procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: ShopperTrak RCT LLC
    Inventors: Kelly Surles, Spencer Neilan, Zafar Mohammad Haq, William A. Knopf, Jr., William Edward Dubois