Heatmap providing apparatus and method

#This application claims priority from Korean Patent Application No. 10-2014-0000407, filed on Jan. 2, 2014, in the Korean Intellectual Property Office, the disclosure of which is incorporated herein in its entirety by reference.

#Apparatuses and methods consistent with exemplary embodiments relate to generating a heatmap and displaying an area of interest that is set from a full region.

#Analysis of a customer flow and customers' concern in a shop is important data for business/marketing decision making. Such data may be directly collected by an interview, a membership card, or a shop assistant or may be indirectly collected by a closed-circuit television (CCTV) camera, a sensor, or a cellular phone.

#These and/or other aspects will become apparent and more readily appreciated from the following description of the exemplary embodiments, taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, in which:

#FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating a heatmap providing apparatus according to an exemplary embodiment;

#FIG. 2 illustrates an example in which the frequencies of occurrence of motion in a captured region or an area of interest are accumulated according to an exemplary embodiment;

#Reference will now be made in detail to exemplary embodiments in reference to the accompanying drawings, wherein like reference numerals refer to like elements throughout. In this regard, the embodiments described herein may have different forms according to various situations and should not be construed as being limited to the descriptions set forth herein. Accordingly, the embodiments are merely described below, by referring to the figures, to explain aspects of the present description. As used herein, the term “and/or” includes any and all combinations of one or more of the associated listed items. Expressions such as “at least one of,” when preceding a list of elements, modify the entire list of elements and do not modify the individual elements of the list.

#Hereinafter, various embodiments will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings. In the following description, a detailed description of known functions and configurations incorporated herein will be omitted when it may obscure the subject matter of the inventive concept.

#Although ordinal numbers such as “first,” “second,” and so forth will be used to describe various components, those components are not limited by the terms. The ordinal terms are used only for distinguishing one component from another component.