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Image processing apparatus and database

US7139767B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Filing dateMar 6, 2000
Grant dateNov 21, 2006
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Expiry dateMar 6, 2020

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10S707/99945
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Three-dimensional computer model data, moving image data or still image data showing at least one person is stored in an archive database 126, 703, 850, 1303, together with additional information to improve the searching and retrieval of data therefrom. The additional information includes view parameter data 512, 1040 which defines at whom or what each person is looking during each predetermined period of time or image. Text data 504, 1020 which comprises words associated with the person, and viewing histogram data 540 which, for each period of text data defines the percentage of time that the speaking person spent looking at each other person or object, may also be stored.

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