Back to results
US 8,284,990 B2Granted
Social network construction based on data association
AssigneeHoneywell International Inc.
InventorsYunqian Ma, Kirk Schloegel, Roland Miezianko, Petr Cisar
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
A system for social network construction. Video analytics and association may be used to develop a social network. Also, social groups may be developed from temporal proximity of persons. In the case of several social networks, they may be collapsed into one network or a weighted graph that mining algorithms can handle.
Claims20
A system for discovering a social group, comprising:
- a plurality of cameras for providing video data from various locations;
- and
- a video analytics mechanism connected to the plurality of cameras;
- and
- wherein:
- the video analytics mechanism is for recognizing a person of interest in video data, identifying people in temporal proximity to the person of interest from the video data, and for identifying a temporal pattern of people in temporal proximity to the person of interest;
- the temporal pattern of people in temporal proximity to the person of interest is identified with temporal sequence matching;
- and
- the temporal pattern reveals a social group.
6 more elements
A system for discovering a social group, comprising:
- a plurality of cameras for providing video data from various locations;
- and
- a video analytics mechanism connected to the plurality of cameras;
- and
- wherein:
- the video analytics mechanism is for recognizing a person of interest in video data, identifying people in temporal proximity to the person of interest from the video data, and for identifying a temporal pattern of people in temporal proximity to the person of interest;
- temporal proximity comprises:
- one or more people present at a location at a first time;
- a person of interest present at the location at a second time;
- one or more people present at the location at a third time;
- the location is a field of view of each of two or more cameras;
- and
- the fields of view of the two or more cameras do not necessarily overlap;
- and
- the temporal pattern reveals a social group.
12 more elements
A system for discovering a social group, comprising:
- a camera system for providing video data from one or more locations;
- and
- a video analytics mechanism connected to the camera system;
- and
- wherein:
- the video analytics mechanism is for identifying one or more people in temporal proximity to a person of interest from the video data, and for identifying a temporal pattern of people in temporal proximity to the person of interest;
- the temporal pattern of people in temporal proximity to the person of interest is identified through identifying a temporal sequence of people in temporal proximity to the person of interest at a first time and identifying the temporal sequence of people in temporal proximity to the person of interest at a second time;
- the first time is discrete from the second time;
- and
- the temporal pattern reveals a social group.
7 more elements
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.