Methods and apparatus to count people
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Methods and apparatus to count people are disclosed. Example apparatus disclosed herein include means for discarding existing characteristic datasets from a list; means for populating the list with first characteristic datasets obtained from a first plurality of images representative of an environment during a first period of time of a media presentation; means for limiting a number of the first characteristic datasets stored in the list for a first location represented in the first plurality of images; and means for comparing the first characteristic datasets to each other to determine a first number of unique faces in the environment during the first period of time, wherein the means for discarding is to delete the first characteristic datasets from the list, and the means for populating is to re-populate the list with second characteristic datasets obtained from a second plurality of images representative of the environment.

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- H04N:PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
- G09B:EDUCATIONAL OR DEMONSTRATION APPLIANCES; APPLIANCE....
- G06T:IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL
- G06F:ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
- G02B:OPTICAL ELEMENTS, SYSTEMS, OR APPARATUS
- G04F:TIME-INTERVAL MEASURING
- G01C:MEASURING DISTANCES, LEVELS OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING....
- G01B:MEASURING LENGTH, THICKNESS OR SIMILAR LINEAR DIME....
- H04H:BROADCAST COMMUNICATION
- G06K:RECOGNITION OF DATA; PRESENTATION OF DATA; RECORD ....

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Inventor Name | Address | # of filed Patents | Total Citations |
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Soundararajan, Padmanabhan | Tampa, US | 47 | 808 |
Srinivasan, Venugopal | Tarpon Springs, US | 207 | 5897 |
Usaj, Marko | Izola, SI | 29 | 105 |
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