Latest Patents

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Title Filing Date Publication Date Grant Date
Personalized decision tree based on in-store behavior analysis 2016-2-23 2021-3-30 2021-3-30
Cross-channel in-store shopper behavior analysis 2016-1-29 2019-4-16 2019-4-16
Method and system for finding correspondence between point-of-sale data and … 2015-12-31 2020-7-14 2020-7-14
Method and system for creating anonymous shopper panel using multi-modal sensor … 2015-12-30 2022-6-07 2022-6-07
Method and system for in-store shopper behavior analysis with multi-modal … 2015-4-21 2019-2-26 2019-2-26
Method and system for measuring in-store location effectiveness based on … 2014-2-05 2023-3-28 2023-3-28
Method and system for detecting and tracking shopping carts from videos 2009-7-23 2012-12-04 2012-12-04
Method and system for detecting shopping groups based on trajectory dynamics 2009-6-29 2021-5-11 2021-5-11
Method and system for determining the impact of crowding on retail performance 2009-6-29 2014-8-19 2014-8-19
Method for augmenting transaction data with visually extracted demographics of … 2009-4-21 2011-8-30 2011-8-30
Method and system for rating in-store media elements 2009-4-21 2017-8-29 2017-8-29
Method and system for finding correspondence between face camera views and … 2009-4-21 2012-8-28 2012-8-28
Method and system for rating the role of a product category in the performance … 2008-12-30 2013-11-05 2013-11-05
Method and system for evaluating content for digital displays by measuring … 2008-11-20 2022-6-21 2022-6-21
Method and system for robust human ethnicity recognition using image feature- … 2008-9-29 2013-2-19 2013-2-19
Method and system for measuring effectiveness of a marketing campaign on … 2008-9-12 2019-5-21 2019-5-21
Method and system for age estimation based on relative ages of pairwise facial … 2008-9-12 2013-8-27 2013-8-27
Method and system for collecting shopper response data tied to marketing and … 2008-7-21 2021-10-19 2021-10-19
Method and system for analyzing shopping behavior using multiple sensor … 2008-6-30 2011-8-30 2011-8-30
Method and system for robust human gender recognition using facial feature … 2008-3-25 2011-9-27 2011-9-27
Method and system for automatic analysis of the trip of people in a retail … 2008-1-28 2012-1-17 2012-1-17
Automatic detection and aggregation of demographics and behavior of people 2007-12-17 2008-5-08
Method and system for analyzing shopping behavior in a store by associating … 2007-12-06 2013-2-19 2013-2-19
Method and system for automatically analyzing categories in a physical space … 2007-12-06 2012-5-29 2012-5-29
Method and system for characterizing physical retail spaces by determining the … 2007-10-26 2011-7-26 2011-7-26
Method and system for measuring viewership of people for displayed object 2007-6-14 2020-4-07 2020-4-07
Method and system for robust demographic classification using pose independent … 2007-6-11 2010-12-07 2010-12-07
Classification of humans into multiple age categories from digital images 2004-12-03 2008-1-15 2008-1-15