Patent ID: 7382267

Claim:
A sensor system comprising: a sensory structure that can be walked on, said structure having sensors therein that detect objects in contact with said structure; and at least one classification routine, operable to aggregate successive sensory detection by portions of said structure over time to approximate the footprint shape of an object that is in motion across said structure, such that not all portions of said object that eventually contact said structure to comprise said footprint are in contact with said structure simultaneously; determine a relationship between a plurality of approximated footprints generated by the object and, based at least in part on the determined relationship, to associate the plurality of footprints generated by the object with each other to form an object path; and classify said object into one of a plurality of predefined categories, based at least in part on a detected gait of the object, the gait determined at least in part based on the footprints comprising the object path.