Method and apparatus for random-access review of point of sale transactional video

A computer-implemented method in which a computer system performs operations comprising:

• obtaining video data comprising a point-of-sale transaction occurring at a point-of-sale transaction area;
• displaying video, from the obtained video data, of a portion of the point-of-sale transaction, the portion being less than video of a complete duration of the point-of-sale transaction, the portion including at least one point-of-sale transaction event associated with the point-of-sale transactions
• displaying information associated with the point-of-sale transaction event, the information associated with the point-of-sale event being displayed as an overlay over the displayed video of the portion of the point-of-sale transaction;
• receiving an indication of whether the at least one point-of-sale transaction event is suspicious via a user interface in response to displaying video of the portion of the point-of-sale transaction;
• marking the point-of-sale transaction as suspicious based on receiving the indication;
• modifying the video data such that when displaying video containing transaction events of the portion of the point-of-sale transaction, a visual modification to the video data is displayed at a moment in the displayed video when transaction events identified as not potentially suspicious activity occur, transaction events recorded through a point-of-sale transaction terminal being identified as not potentially suspicious activity;
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• displaying at least one video clip of at least one point-of-sale transaction, the at least one video clip displayed containing a potentially suspicious transaction event, at least a portion of potentially suspicious transaction events being identified as potentially suspicious based on an analysis process identifying item presence at a point-of-sale terminal but without identifying corresponding point-of-sale data recorded via the point-of-sale terminal.

A tangible non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising computer-executable instructions for:

• obtaining video data comprising a point-of-sale transaction occurring at a point-of-sale transaction area, the video data including transaction events;
• obtaining transaction data concerning the point-of-sale transaction occurring at the point-of-sale transaction area, the transaction data corresponding to transaction events recorded through a point-of-sale transaction terminal;
• displaying video, from the video data, containing transaction events, the displayed video including video of at least a portion of the point-of-sale transaction, the portion being less than video of a complete duration of the point-of-sale transaction, the portion including at least one transaction event identified as potentially suspicious activity and at least one transaction event identified as not potentially suspicious;
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• visually modifying the displayed video such that when displaying the portion of the point-of-sale transaction, a visual modification to the displayed video is displayed at a moment in the displayed video when the at least one transaction event identified as not potentially suspicious activity occurs.