- Patent Title: Techniques for automatic real-time calculation of user wait times
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Application No.: US14789320Application Date: 2015-07-01
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Publication No.: US10339544B2Publication Date: 2019-07-02
- Inventor: Zachary Klima , Thomas Sterling , John Mars, Jr. , Doyle Mosher
- Applicant: WaitTime, LLC
- Applicant Address: US MI Detroit
- Assignee: WAITTIME, LLC
- Current Assignee: WAITTIME, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US MI Detroit
- Agency: RMCK Law Group, PLC
- Main IPC: G06Q30/02
- IPC: G06Q30/02 ; G06T5/00 ; G06T11/60 ; H04N7/18 ; G06Q10/06 ; G06Q10/10 ; G07C11/00

Abstract:
A computer-implemented technique can process overhead images of users in a line at a venue to obtain a user wait time for the line. The processing can include (a) identifying a user of the group of users that is second in the line to obtain a target user, (b) detecting when the target user becomes first in the line to obtain a start time, (c) after the target user becomes first in the line, detecting when the target user leaves the line to obtain an end time, (d) determining a period from the start time to the end time, and (e) calculating the user wait time by calculating a product of (i) the determined period and (ii) a quantity of the group of users in the line after the target user leaves the line. The calculated user wait time can then be output.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160005053A1 TECHNIQUES FOR AUTOMATIC REAL-TIME CALCULATION OF USER WAIT TIMES Public/Granted day:2016-01-07
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