Patents by Inventor Tom STRAT

Tom STRAT 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).

  • Methods and systems for audience monitoring
    Patent number: 8913781
    Abstract: Systems and methods for audience monitoring are provided that include receiving an input including a recording or live feed of an audience composed of several persons, detecting foreground of the input, performing blob segmentation of the input, and analyzing human presence on each segmented blob by identifying at least one person, identifying a spatial distribution of at least one identified person, determining a dwell time of at least one identified person, determining a temporal distribution of at least one identified person, and determining a gaze direction of at least one identified person. Such detecting provides the ability to track individual persons present in the audience, and how long they remain in the audience. The method also provides the ability to determine gaze direction of persons in the audience, and how long one or more persons are gazing in a particular direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2014
    Assignee: SET Corporation
    Inventors: Tom Strat, Qinfen Zheng
  • METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR AUDIENCE MONITORING
    Publication number: 20100046797
    Abstract: Systems and methods for audience monitoring are provided that include receiving an input including a recording or live feed of an audience composed of several persons, detecting foreground of the input, performing blob segmentation of the input, and analyzing human presence on each segmented blob by identifying at least one person, identifying a spatial distribution of at least one identified person, determining a dwell time of at least one identified person, determining a temporal distribution of at least one identified person, and determining a gaze direction of at least one identified person. Such detecting provides the ability to track individual persons present in the audience, and how long they remain in the audience. The method also provides the ability to determine gaze direction of persons in the audience, and how long one or more persons are gazing in a particular direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2009
    Publication date: February 25, 2010
    Applicant: SET Corporation
    Inventors: Tom STRAT, Qinfen Zheng