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- Patent Title: Method for identifying potential associates of at least one target person, and an identification device
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Application No.: US16642279Application Date: 2019-08-16
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Publication No.: US11250251B2Publication Date: 2022-02-15
- Inventor: Hui Lam Ong , Satoshi Yamazaki , Wei Jian Peh , Hong Yen Ong
- Applicant: NEC CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Sughrue Mion, PLLC
- Priority: SG10201807678W 20180906
- International Application: PCT/JP2019/032161 WO 20190816
- International Announcement: WO2020/049980 WO 20200312
- Main IPC: G06K9/00
- IPC: G06K9/00

Abstract:
There is provided a method for identifying potential associates of at least one target person, the method comprising: providing a plurality of videos; identifying appearances of the at least one target person in the plurality of videos; establishing a plurality of video scenes from the plurality of videos, wherein each one of the plurality of video scenes begins at a first predetermined duration before a first appearance of the at least one target person in the respective video scene and ends at a second predetermined duration after a last appearance of said at least one target person in the respective video scene; determining individuals who appear in more than a predetermined threshold number of the plurality of video scenes; and identifying the individuals as potential associates of the at least one target person.
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