Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090164284 | CUSTOMER SHOPPING PATTERN ANALYSIS APPARATUS, METHOD AND PROGRAM - A customer shopping pattern analysis apparatus includes a correlating information storage section, and a sub-area information storage section. Upon receiving specifications of a particular sub-area as analysis conditions, flow line data of customers who passed through the particular sub-area are extracted based on information specifying the particular sub-area in the sub-area information storage section and based on the flow line data of each of the customers. In addition, transaction data correlated with the flow line data extracted is specified with reference to data in the correlating information storage section. Then, information about correlations between the flow line data extracted and the transaction data is created. From the thus created information, the apparatus analyzes the shopping patterns of the customers in the shop. | 06-25-2009 |
20090192882 | CUSTOMER BEHAVIOR MONITORING SYSTEM, METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A flow line storage stores flow line data of each customer obtained by tracking a behavior of each customer in a store, by adding time data on an estimated time of payment made by each customer. A transaction data storage stores transaction data for each customer including records of items purchased by each customer, by adding time data on an estimated time of payment made by each customer. A combination unit determines a combination in which a difference between time data is minimum, for each piece of flow line data stored in the flow line storage and each piece of transaction data stored in the transaction data storage. A correlating unit correlates the flow line data and transaction data combined by the combination unit. | 07-30-2009 |
20090195388 | FLOW LINE RECOGNITION SYSTEM - A flow line recognition system comprises a first information recording unit which records a position of a mobile object in a monitoring area together with a time, a second information recording unit which records a position of the mobile object in a specified area together with a time, and a flow line information generation unit which generates flow line information of the mobile object on the basis of the monitoring area mobile object information and the specified area mobile object information. | 08-06-2009 |
20090257624 | FLOW LINE ANALYSIS APPARATUS AND PROGRAM RECORDING MEDIUM - A control section edits a complete flow line as an entire trajectory in a sales area for each customer, based on data for a flow line generated from a camera image obtained by shooting the sales area. The complete flow line is reproduced as trajectories of customers by a display section. The control section accepts input of information on transaction settlements by the customers. When the information is input through an input section, it is added to the complete flow line data of the customers being reproduced and is stored into a complete flow line database. The control section matches the complete flow line data stored in the complete flow line database with transaction data specified by the information on the transaction settlements added to the complete flow line data. | 10-15-2009 |
20090268028 | FLOW LINE TRACING SYSTEM AND PROGRAM STORAGE MEDIUM FOR SUPPORTING FLOW LINE TRACING SYSTEM - A flow line creation section generates flow line data indicative of a trajectory of a customer moving in a monitored area. The generated flow line data is stored in a flow line database. A customer extraction section extracts image data including the customer's face image from a video captured by a camera. The extracted image data is stored in a customer image database. A matching section matches the flow line data stored in the flow line database individually with the image data including the customer's face image corresponding to the flow line data, out of the image data stored in the customer image database. Data indicative of a correlation between the matched flow line data and image data is stored in a matching list database. | 10-29-2009 |
20090319340 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ANALYZING PERSONAL BEHAVIOR - The invention provides a personal behavior analysis apparatus capable of statistically analyzing a personal behavior. To analyze personal behaviors, a population data file is provided that stores flow-line data for individual persons as a population acquired by tracking the behaviors of persons within a monitored area. After input of a condition for narrowing down the flow-line data as analysis objects is accepted via a condition input section, the population data file is searched based on the condition and flow-line data meeting the condition is acquired. The acquired flow-line data is stored in a subpopulation data file as a subpopulation. A control section of the apparatus calculates statistics values related to personal behavior analysis using the flow-line data stored in the subpopulation data file and displays them on a display section. | 12-24-2009 |