Image display device, image display system, image display method, and program

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11051638-B2
Application number	US-202016854458-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 21, 2020
Priority date	Mar 22, 2016
Publication date	Jul 6, 2021
Grant date	Jul 6, 2021

Abstract

An image display device includes an approach situation information acquirer that acquires approach situation information indicating approach of at least part of a customer's body to a shelf on which a plurality of items are displayed and indicating, when there is the approach, a position of the approach on the shelf at each time; an associator that associates the approach situation information with one item of the plurality of items according to the position indicated by the approach situation information; an index value calculator that calculates an index value relating to the customer's behavior on the basis of information indicating the item associated with the approach situation information; and a display unit that displays the index value calculated by the index value calculator together with an image of the item on the basis of the association made by the associator.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An image display device comprising: at least one memory configured to store instructions; and at least one processor configured to execute the instructions to: determine a distance between a hand and a shelf; count a number of times a customer moved the hand toward a product displayed on the shelf based on the determined distance; generate a shelf image based on the number of times; and control a display to display the shelf image.

2. The image display device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the shelf image comprises a superimposed heat map on an image of the shelf.

3. The image display device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the shelf image includes a plurality of products including the product; and
wherein the processor configured to execute the instructions to:
generate the shelf image by adding a color corresponding to the number of times to an area of the shelf image including the product.

4. The image display device according to claim 3 ,
wherein the processor configured to execute the instructions to:
count a second number of times the customer moved the hand toward a second product, of the plurality of products, displayed on the shelf; and
generate the shelf image by adding a second color corresponding to the second number of times to a second area of the shelf image including the second product.

5. The image display device according to claim 3 ,
wherein the shelf image includes a legend indicating an association between the number of times and the color.

6. The image display device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the processor is further configured to execute the instructions to:
determine, by a sensor, a positon to which the customer moved the hand; and
count the number of times the customer moved the hand toward the product based on the position.

7. The image display device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the processor is further configured to execute the instructions to:
generate the shelf image as including a highlighting of the product,

wherein the highlighting comprises at least one of stripped and dotted lines superimposed over the product.

8. An image display method comprising: determining a distance between a hand and a shelf; counting a number of times a customer moved the hand toward a product displayed on the shelf based on the determined distance; generating a shelf image based on the number of times; and controlling a display to display the shelf image.

9. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium comprising instructions which when executed by a processor cause the processor to implement: determining a distance between a hand and a shelf; counting a number of times a customer moved the hand toward a product displayed on the shelf based on the determined distance; generating a shelf image based on the number of times; and controlling a display to display the shelf image.

Assignees

• Nec Corp

Inventors

• Kobayashi Jun
• Saito Shigetsu

Classifications

• G06Q30/02 Primary

  Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising · CPC title

• G06V40/103

  Static body considered as a whole, e.g. static pedestrian or occupant recognition · CPC title

• G06V20/52

  Surveillance or monitoring of activities, e.g. for recognising suspicious objects (recognising microscopic objects G06V20/69) · CPC title

• A47F3/00

  Show cases or show cabinets · CPC title

• G09G3/20

  for presentation of an assembly of a number of characters, e.g. a page, by composing the assembly by combination of individual elements arranged in a matrix {no fixed position being assigned to or needed to be assigned to the individual characters or partial characters} · CPC title