Presenting an image indicating a position for a person in a location the person is waiting to enter
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsTomoka MOCHIZUKI, Wen LIANZI, Munehiko SATO, Tomonori SUGIURA
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Abstract
Methods for presenting an image indicating a position for a person are disclosed. A method includes: determining, by a computing device, at least one free space in a location using at least one camera; determining, using the computing device, a new position for a first person in the location based upon the determined at least one free space in the location; and presenting an image to indicate the determined new position for the first person in the location.
Claims20
A computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions executable by a computing device to cause the computing device to:
- determine free spaces in a location using at least one camera;
- and
- display an image, in the location, to indicate a select free space of the free spaces in the location for at least one of a plurality of people in a waiting area, the image directing the at least one of the plurality of people from the waiting area to move to the select free space in the location.
A system comprising:
- a hardware processor, a computer readable memory, and a computer readable storage medium associated with a computing device;
- program instructions to determine free spaces in a location using at least one camera;
- and
- program instructions to display an image in the location to indicate a select free space of the free spaces for at least one of a plurality of people in the location, the image directing the at least one of the plurality of people to move from a current position in the location to the new position in the location,
- wherein the program instructions are stored on the computer readable storage medium for execution by the hardware processor via the computer readable memory.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.