Patents by Inventor Chris Ahlers

Chris Ahlers has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Method and system for narrowcasting based on automatic analysis of customer behavior in a retail store
    Patent number: 7930204
    Abstract: The present invention is a method and system for automatically changing the advertisement contents on a means for displaying the contents based on a customer's behavior or a group of customers' behavior in a retail store. The analysis of behavioral pattern is performed automatically and in real-time based on the visual information from the shopping and walkthrough history of a customer or a group of customers, using arrays of sensing devices, such as a plurality of means for capturing images, and a plurality of computer vision technologies on the visual information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2011
    Assignee: VideoMining Corporation
    Inventors: Rajeev Sharma, Satish Mummareddy, Jeff Hershey, Akhil Kamat, Chris Ahlers