Face recognition image data cache

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10762127-B2
Application number	US-201816185186-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 9, 2018
Priority date	May 29, 2015
Publication date	Sep 1, 2020
Grant date	Sep 1, 2020

Abstract

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for storing facial recognition image data in a cache. One of the methods includes receiving an image from a camera, detecting, in the received image, a face of a person, searching a biometric data cache based on the detected face, in response to searching the biometric data cache based on the detected face, determining whether the biometric data cache includes data for the person, in response to a determination that the biometric data cache includes data for the person, using the data from the biometric data cache to determine an identifier for the person, and in response to a determination that the biometric data cache does not include data for the person: searching a data storage system based on the detected face of the person to determine whether the data storage system includes data for the person.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A system comprising:
a first camera;
a first data processing apparatus for the first camera that is in communication with the first camera;
a first cache for the first camera that i) is configured to maintain, for a first group of multiple different people, image data for each person in the first group, each person in the first group having at least a threshold likelihood of being within a field of view of the first camera, and ii) is in communication with the first data processing apparatus; and
a non-transitory computer readable storage medium in data communication with the first data processing apparatus and storing instructions executable by the first data processing apparatus and upon such execution cause the first data processing apparatus to perform operations comprising:
receiving an image from the first camera;
detecting, in the image, a face of a person;
in response to detecting the face of the person, determining, using data for the image, whether the first cache includes data for the person by searching the first cache;
determining that the first cache does not include data for the person;
in response to determining that the first cache does not include data for the person, sending, to a second data processing apparatus in communication with a second camera that is a different camera than the first camera, a request for data that indicates whether a second cache for the second camera includes data for the person,
wherein the second cache for the second camera a) is a separate cache from the first cache, b) is configured to maintain, for a second group of multiple different people, image data for each person in the second group, each person in the second group having at least a threshold likelihood of being within a field of view of the second camera, and c) is in communication with the second data processing apparatus;

in response to sending the request for data indicating whether the second cache for the second camera includes data for the person, receiving, from the second data processing apparatus when the second data processing apparatus determines that the second cache for the second camera includes the data for the person, a message that includes data for the person; and
in response to receiving the message that includes data for the person, storing at least some of the data for the person in a first cache for the first camera that is a different cache than the second cache for the second camera.

2. The system of claim 1 , comprising the second camera and the second cache.

3. The system of claim 2 , comprising a plurality of second cameras that includes the second camera, the operations comprising:
determining that a field of view for the first camera captures data for a first physical area closer to a second physical area included in a field of view for the second camera compared to other cameras in the plurality of second cameras,
wherein sending, to the second data processing apparatus, the request for data indicating whether the second cache for the second camera includes data for the person is responsive to determining that a field of view for the first camera captures data for the first physical area closer to the second physical area included in a field of view for the second camera compared to other cameras in the plurality of second cameras.

4. The system of claim 1 , wherein the second cache is a shared cache configured to maintain, for the second group of multiple different people, image data for each person in the second group, each person in the second group having at least a threshold likelihood of being within a field of view of the second camera or within a field of view of a third camera that is a different camera than the first camera and the second camera.

5. The system of claim 1 , the operations comprising, for a second image that is different from the image:
receiving the second image from the first camera,
detecting, in the second image, another face of another person;
sending, to the second data processing apparatus, a second request for data indicating whether the second cache for the second camera includes data for the other person;
in response to sending the request for data indicating whether the second cache for the second camera includes data for the other person, receiving, from the second data processing apparatus, a second message that indicates that the second cache does not include data for the other person; and
in response to receiving the second message that indicates that the second cache does not include data for the other person, searching, using data for the second image, a data storage system to determine whether the data storage system includes data for the other person, the data storage system configured to maintain, for a third group of multiple different people, biometric data for each of the multiple different people in the third group, the third group of multiple different people including more people than a) the second group of multiple different people for which the second cache maintains data and b) the first group of multiple different people for which the first cache maintains data.

6. The system of claim 5 , comprising the data storage system.

7. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing instructions executable by a data processing apparatus and upon such execution cause the data processing apparatus to perform operations comprising:
receiving an image from a first camera that is in communication with the data processing apparatus, wherein the data processing apparatus is for the first camera and in communication with a first cache for the first camera that is configured to maintain, for a first group of multiple different people, image data for each person in the first group, each person in the first group having at least a threshold likelihood of being within a field of view of the first camera;
detecting, in the image, a face of a person;
in response to detecting the face of the person, determining, using data for the image, whether the first cache includes data for the person by searching the first cache;
determining that the first cache does not include data for the person;
in response to determining that the first cache does not include data for the person, sending, to a second data processing apparatus in communication with a second camera that is a different camera than the first camera, a request for data that indicates whether a second cache for the second camera includes data for the person,
wherein the second cache for the second camera a) is a separate cache from the first cache, b) is configured to maintain, for a second group of multiple different people, image data for each person in the second group, each person in the second group having at least a threshold likelihood of being within a field of view of the second camera, and c) is in communication with the second data processing apparatus;

in response to sending the request for data indicating whether the second cache for the second camera includes data for the person, receiving, from the second data processing apparatus when the second data processing apparatus determines that the second cache for the second camera includes the data for the person, a message that includes data for the person; and
in response to receiving the message that includes data for the person, storing at least some of the data for the person in a first cache for the first camera that is a different cache than the second cache for the second camera.

8. The computer readable storage medium of claim 7 , the operations comprising:
determining that a field of view for the first camera captures data for a first physical area closer to a second physical area included in a field of view

Assignees

• Accenture Global Services Ltd

Inventors

• Bataller Cyrille
• Astrom Anders
• Schiopu Vitalie
• Khalafi Hakim

Classifications

• G06V10/771

  Feature selection, e.g. selecting representative features from a multi-dimensional feature space · CPC title

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• G06F18/211

  Selection of the most significant subset of features · CPC title

• G06V40/172 Primary

  Classification, e.g. identification · CPC title

• G06F16/53

  Querying · CPC title