Patents by Inventor Howard Jason Harrison

Howard Jason Harrison 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).

  • Publication number: 20200320576
    Abstract: Systems and methods to determine demographic attributes of persons in a retail environment are presented. In some examples, media content is selected for presentation to one or more persons based on the determined demographic attributes. In a further example, the media content is interactive, and a response is received from the person indicating recognition of the interactive media content and an identity of the person. In one aspect, a demographic attribute of a person is determined based on biometric attributes of a personal recognition instance and radio frequency information. In another aspect, the demographic attributes of a group of persons passing a particular location are aggregated to determine a demographic profile of a person traffic flow. In this manner, advertisements and incentive offers in the retail facility can be adjusted to meet the desires of the identified demographic profile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2020
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Inventor: Howard Jason Harrison
  • Publication number: 20200320573
    Abstract: Systems and methods to determine a demographic attribute of a likely occupant of a vehicle based on a radio frequency communication from a mobile electronic device likely to be located within the vehicle, an image of the vehicle, or both, are presented herein. Furthermore, media content is selected based on the identified demographic attribute and presented to the likely occupant of the passing vehicle. In some embodiments, the media content is interactive. In another aspect, a demographic profile of likely vehicle occupants is identified based on image information, radio frequency communications, or both, gathered at a location over a period of time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2020
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Inventor: Howard Jason Harrison
  • Patent number: 10621414
    Abstract: Methods and systems for implementing health monitoring based on changes in body dimensions derived from images of a human collected over long periods of time are presented herein. An image based medical diagnosis system precisely measures body dimensions, changes in body dimensions over time, or both, and identifies whether any measured dimensions, changes in dimensions, or both, have exceeded one or more threshold values indicative of the onset or recurrence of a medically significant condition. In another further aspect, an alert is communicated to medical professionals to further investigate the medical condition of the human user. In one aspect, body dimensions are estimated based on a known value of a reference dimension identifiable in each of the plurality of images. In some examples, the distance between facial features in an image is normalized with respect to the measured inter-pupillary distance associated with that image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Inventors: Howard Jason Harrison, Ryszard M. Pluta
  • Publication number: 20190258848
    Abstract: Methods and systems for implementing health monitoring based on changes in body dimensions derived from images of a human collected over long periods of time are presented herein. An image based medical diagnosis system precisely measures body dimensions, changes in body dimensions over time, or both, and identifies whether any measured dimensions, changes in dimensions, or both, have exceeded one or more threshold values indicative of the onset or recurrence of a medically significant condition. In another further aspect, an alert is communicated to medical professionals to further investigate the medical condition of the human user. In one aspect, body dimensions are estimated based on a known value of a reference dimension identifiable in each of the plurality of images. In some examples, the distance between facial features in an image is normalized with respect to the measured inter-pupillary distance associated with that image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2019
    Publication date: August 22, 2019
    Inventors: Howard Jason Harrison, Ryszard M. Pluta
  • Patent number: 9536158
    Abstract: Systems and methods to determine demographic attributes of pedestrians in a retail environment are presented. In some examples, media content is selected for presentation to one or more pedestrians based on the determined demographic attributes. In a further example, the media content is interactive, and a response is received from the pedestrian indicating recognition of the interactive media content and an identity of the pedestrian. In some examples, the demographic attributes of a group of pedestrians passing a particular location are aggregated to determine a demographic profile of a pedestrian traffic flow. In some other examples, demographic attributes of pedestrians are derived from biometric responses to a media presentation. Based on the location and duration of visual attention to the media presentation, a demographic attribute of the pedestrian is determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: ARBOC, LLC
    Inventor: Howard Jason Harrison
  • Patent number: 8693733
    Abstract: Systems and methods to determine a demographic attribute of a likely occupant of a passing vehicle based on a license plate number of the vehicle are presented. A demographic attribute associated with a likely occupant of a passing vehicle is determined based on a license plate number identified with the vehicle. In response, media content targeted to the likely occupant of the passing vehicle is selected based on the demographic attribute. In some embodiments, the selected media content is presented within view of the occupant of the vehicle. In another aspect, a demographic profile of likely occupants of vehicles passing a particular location over a period of time is based on License Plate Recognition (LPR) information gathered at that location. Media content is selected for presentation based on the identified demographic profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Arboc, LLC
    Inventor: Howard Jason Harrison
  • Publication number: 20130325629
    Abstract: Systems and methods to determine a demographic attribute of a likely occupant of a passing vehicle based on a license plate number and present interactive media content to the likely occupant are presented. Interactive media content targeted to the likely occupant of the passing vehicle is selected based on the demographic attribute. In some embodiments, the selected media content is presented within view of the likely occupant of the vehicle. In some other embodiments, the selected media content is presented to the likely occupant via electronic message. The interactive media content includes an invitation to respond to the interactive media content electronically. A response to the interactive media content is received from a likely occupant of the vehicle. The response includes an indication that the occupant specifically recognized the interactive media content and an indication of the identity of the occupant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2013
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Inventor: Howard Jason Harrison
  • Publication number: 20130322704
    Abstract: Systems and methods to determine demographic attributes of pedestrians in a retail environment are presented. In some examples, media content is selected for presentation to one or more pedestrians based on the determined demographic attributes. In a further example, the media content is interactive, and a response is received from the pedestrian indicating recognition of the interactive media content and an identity of the pedestrian. In some examples, the demographic attributes of a group of pedestrians passing a particular location are aggregated to determine a demographic profile of a pedestrian traffic flow. In some other examples, demographic attributes of pedestrians are derived from biometric responses to a media presentation. Based on the location and duration of visual attention to the media presentation, a demographic attribute of the pedestrian is determined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2013
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Inventor: Howard Jason Harrison
  • Patent number: 7967270
    Abstract: The invention comprises an eyeglass holder. In one embodiment, the eyeglass holder comprises a toy or doll figure to encourage children to wear and take care of eyeglasses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2011
    Inventors: Howard Jason Harrison, Dana Alison Harrison