Intelligent video verification of point of sale (POS) transactions

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10755259-B2
Application number	US-201816235073-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 28, 2018
Priority date	May 25, 2006
Publication date	Aug 25, 2020
Grant date	Aug 25, 2020

Abstract

Methods and systems are provided for monitoring a point of sale (POS) transaction. Operations performed by the methods and systems include generating POS primitives by processing non-video data of a transaction recorded at POS terminal. The operations also include generating video primitives by processing video data of the transaction recorded at the POS terminal. The operations further include determining that the transaction comprises an exceptional transaction by comparing the non-video data and/or the video data to exceptional transaction rules. Additionally, the operations include determining that the exceptional transaction comprises a verified exceptional transaction by generating a video event based on the video primitives and a corresponding video rule.

First claim

What we claim is:

1. A computing system comprising:
a processor;
a computer-readable memory device; and
program instructions stored on the computer-readable memory device that, when executed by the processor, causes the computing system to perform operations comprising:
generating one or more point of sale (POS) primitives by processing non-video data of a transaction recorded at a POS terminal, the one or more POS primitives comprising data descriptions of the content of the non-video data;
generating first video primitives by processing primary video data of the transaction recorded at the POS terminal, the first video primitives comprising data descriptions of the content of the primary video data;
generating second video primitives by performing facial recognition on secondary video data different than the first video data, the second video primitives comprising data descriptions of the content of the secondary video data, wherein the secondary video data comprises video of an individual involved in the transaction; and
inferring an exceptional transaction based on a corresponding exceptional transaction rule and at least portions of each of the POS primitives, the first video primitives and the second video primitives.

2. A method comprising:
generating one or more point of sale (POS) primitives by processing non-video data of a transaction recorded at a POS terminal, the one or more POS primitives comprising data descriptions of the content of the non-video data;
generating first video primitives by processing primary video data of the transaction recorded at the POS terminal, the first video primitives comprising data descriptions of the content of the primary video data;
generating second video primitives by performing facial recognition on secondary video data different than the first video data, the second video primitives comprising data descriptions of the content of the secondary video data, wherein the secondary video data comprises video of an individual involved in the transaction; and
inferring an exceptional transaction based on a corresponding exceptional transaction rule and at least portions of each of the POS primitives, the first video primitives and the second video primitives.

3. A non-transitory computer-readable memory device storing program instructions that, when executed by a processor, causes a computer system to perform operations comprising:
generating one or more point of sale (POS) primitives by processing non-video data of a transaction recorded at a POS terminal, the one or more POS primitives comprising data descriptions of the content of the non-video data;
generating first video primitives by processing primary video data of the transaction recorded at the POS terminal, the first video primitives comprising data descriptions of the content of the primary video data;
generating second video primitives by performing facial recognition on secondary video data different than the first video data, the second video primitives comprising data descriptions of the content of the secondary video data, wherein the secondary video data comprises video of an individual involved in the transaction; and
inferring an exceptional transaction based on a corresponding exceptional transaction rule and at least portions of each of the POS primitives, the first video primitives and the second video primitives.

4. The computing system as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising an appliance configured to perform said operations.

5. The computing system as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising a digital video recorder configured to perform said operations.

6. The computing system as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising a network video recorder configured to perform said operations.

7. The computing system as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the primary and secondary video data comprising video data captured by first and second video cameras respectively, and wherein the second video camera provides better face snapshots than the first video camera.

8. The method as claimed in claim 2 , wherein the primary and secondary video data comprising video data captured by first and second video cameras respectively, and wherein the second video camera provides better face snapshots than the first video camera.

9. The computer-readable memory device as claimed in claim 3 , wherein the primary and secondary video data comprising video data captured by first and second video cameras respectively, and wherein the second video camera provides better face snapshots than the first video camera.

Assignees

• Avigilon Fortress Corp

Inventors

• Lipton Alan J
• Venetianer Peter L
• Yu Li
• Hu Yongtong
• Scanlon W Andrew
• Zhang Zhong
• Yin Weihong

Classifications

• G06Q20/401 Primary

  Transaction verification · CPC title

• G07G3/00

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• G07G1/0036

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• H04N7/18

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• G06Q20/20

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