Abstract: A system and method for a remote state following device that includes an electronic device with a controllable operating state; an imaging device; and control system that when targeted at a control interface interprets a visual state from the control interface, and modifies the operating state in coordination with the visual state.

Abstract: A system and method for interaction monitoring in a retail environment that includes executing a first monitoring system and thereby generating a first evaluation of customer selection of items; executing a second monitoring system and thereby generating a second evaluation of customer selection of items; determining monitoring alignment between the first evaluation and the second evaluation of a first customer; and triggering an action in response to the monitoring alignment.

Abstract: A system and method for dynamically controlling cameras for computer vision monitoring, which can include: operating a computer vision monitoring system with a network of imaging devices distributed across an environment; collecting, using at least a subset of imaging devices from the network of imaging devices, a first set of image data of a base image form; processing the first set of image data and generating an interpreted data model of the environment; detecting, through the data model, a data model state condition; and in response to detection of the data model state condition, capturing image data in an enhanced image data form within at least a select subregion of the environment.

Abstract: A system and method for sensor-enabled automated inventory stocking management that can include: operating a computer vision monitoring system comprising collecting image data, and identifying, by processing the image data, products and shelf space locations of the products; maintaining a shelving property map based on the products and shelf space locations identified through the computer vision monitoring system; in association with at least one request, allocating a shelf space usage option within a shelf space management database system, wherein each shelf space usage option specifies fulfillment parameters including at least one product identity and a set of shelf space placement parameters; confirming, based on processing of updated image data from the computer vision monitoring system, fulfillment of conditions defined through the fulfillment parameters of the a shelf space usage option and, in response, performing reactionary actions in the computing system.

Abstract: A system and method for computer vision driven applications in an environment that can include collecting image data across an environment; maintaining an environmental object graph from the image data whereby maintaining the environmental object graph is an iterative process that includes: classifying objects, tracking object locations, detecting interaction events, instantiating object associations in the environmental object graph, and updating the environmental object graph by propagating change in at least one object instance across object associations; and inspecting object state for at least one object instance in the environmental object graph and executing an action associated with the object state. The system and method can be applied to automatic checkout, inventory management, and/or other system integrations.

Abstract: A system and method for differentially locating and modifying audio sources that includes receiving multiple audio inputs from a set of distinct locations; determining a multi-dimensional audio map from the audio inputs; acquiring a set of positional audio control inputs applied to the audio map, each audio control input comprising a location and audio processing property; and generating an audio output according to the audio control inputs and the audio inputs. The audio control inputs capable of configuration through manual, automatic, computer vision analysis, and other configuration modes.

Abstract: A system and method for interaction monitoring in a retail environment that includes executing a first monitoring system and thereby generating a first evaluation of customer selection of items; executing a second monitoring system and thereby generating a second evaluation of customer selection of items; determining monitoring alignment between the first evaluation and the second evaluation of a first customer; and triggering an action in response to the monitoring alignment.

Abstract: System and method for dynamic marketing of products that can include collecting image data; identifying a set of product instances within the environment; for each product instance of the set of product instances, analyzing image data of the product instance and thereby determining a product presentation variation associated with the product instance; detecting user-item interactions associated with the set of product instances; and analyzing user-item interactions associated with the set of product instances according to the product presentation variations.

Abstract: A system and method for privacy protection in vision systems that can include collecting image data from an environment; collecting spatial information corresponding to the image data; selecting a sanitization image region in the image data based at least in part on the spatial information; and applying image sanitization to the sanitization image region thereby generating sanitized image data.

Abstract: An imaging system comprising of a set of cameras, the cameras having a configured relative camera arrangement; and each camera of the set of cameras comprising at least one corrective optical system. The system and method may comprise of multi-camera variations for coordinated alignment in multi-camera variations and/or split-field optical systems.

Abstract: A system and method for linking observed human activity on video to a user account of a preferred embodiment that includes: through a computer vision monitoring system, detecting and tracking a human as a computer vision modeled person within an environment, the computer vision monitoring system being part of a computing platform managing a user interaction experience; through at least one associative mechanism, establishing an association between the computer vision modeled person and at least one associative element and thereby associating the computer vision modeled person and a user-record linked through the associative element; and directing the user interaction experience at least in part based on the combination of the modeled person and at least the user-record.

Abstract: A system and method for computer vision driven applications in an environment that can include collecting image data across an environment; maintaining an environmental object graph from the image data whereby maintaining the environmental object graph is an iterative process that includes: classifying objects, tracking object locations, detecting interaction events, instantiating object associations in the environmental object graph, and updating the environmental object graph by propagating change in at least one object instance across object associations; and inspecting object state for at least one object instance in the environmental object graph and executing an action associated with the object state. The system and method can be applied to automatic checkout, inventory management, and/or other system integrations.

Abstract: A system and method for outfitting an environment with a camera array that includes: a set of camera modules mounted and interconnected as a monitoring network within the environment; wherein each camera module instance of the set of camera modules comprises of: at least one camera, and at least a first connection port and second connection port; and wherein the camera modules of the set of camera modules serially connect through the connection ports of adjacent camera modules.

Abstract: A system and method for applications of computer vision in linking users with virtual data that can include detecting digital interaction state of a plurality of subjects in an environment using at least one sensor-based monitoring system; detecting a contextual organization of subjects relative to an operator station; at the operator station, augmenting the user interface based on the contextual organization of subjects which comprises of at least: presenting a set of subject indicators in the user interface with the subject indicators arranged in response to contextual organization, and in response to received user interaction with at least one selected subject indicator, accessing the digital interaction state of the subject associated the at least one subject indicator.

Abstract: A system and method for remote SKU on-boarding of products for identification and sale which can include collecting image data in an environment; triggering computer vision detection of an item; processing the image data for item detection; relaying item related image data to a product mapping tool upon detection of item detection exception; presenting image data in the product mapping tool and receiving product identifier input; and updating a computer vision monitoring system in response to the product identifier input.

Abstract: A system and method for linking observed human activity on video to a user account of a preferred embodiment that includes: through a computer vision monitoring system, detecting and tracking a human as a computer vision modeled person within an environment, the computer vision monitoring system being part of a computing platform managing a user interaction experience; through at least one associative mechanism, establishing an association between the computer vision modeled person and at least one associative element and thereby associating the computer vision modeled person and a user-record linked through the associative element; and directing the user interaction experience at least in part based on the combination of the modeled person and at least the user-record.

Abstract: A system and method for deployable barrier, deployed along a surface that can include: a receptacle that includes a set of walls that are at least partially made of a flexible material and that define at least one sub-channel extending along a length of the receptacle, and the receptacle comprising an inlet to the at least one sub-channel; wherein the receptacle can be arranged in a collapsed configuration; and a filler material that when introduced into the at least one sub-channel through the inlet expands the receptacle into a deployed configuration and thereby forming a barrier with an expanded form. The deployable barrier can have applications and customized features for fire containment and mitigation, flood containment, and/or other applications.

Abstract: An imaging system comprising of a set of cameras, the cameras having a configured relative camera arrangement; and each camera of the set of cameras comprising at least one corrective optical system. The system and method may comprise of multi-camera variations for coordinated alignment in multi-camera variations and/or split-field optical systems.

Abstract: A system and method for visually automated interface integration that includes collecting image data; detecting a device interface source in the image data; processing the image data associated with the device interface source into an extracted interface representation; and exposing at least one access interface to the extracted interface representation.

Abstract: A system and method for computer vision driven applications in an environment that can include collecting image data across an environment; maintaining an environmental object graph from the image data whereby maintaining the environmental object graph is an iterative process that includes: classifying objects, tracking object locations, detecting interaction events, instantiating object associations in the environmental object graph, and updating the environmental object graph by propagating change in at least one object instance across object associations; and inspecting object state for at least one object instance in the environmental object graph and executing an action associated with the object state. The system and method can be applied to automatic checkout, inventory management, and/or other system integrations.