Patent ID: 7962365

Claim:
A method for using transactional and visual event information to facilitate loss prevention, comprising the steps of: obtaining video of one or more visual events at a point of sale environment and one or more transaction log entries that correspond to the video, wherein the one or more transaction log entries comprise one or more transactional events; categorizing each event as one of one or more model events, wherein categorizing each event as one of one or more model events comprises using a metric to determine a degree of similarity of each event to the one or more model events; using each categorized event to create a revised transaction log, wherein the revised transaction log comprises a sequence of categorized events, wherein each categorized event is a combination of the one or more transactional events and the one or more visual events; examining the revised transaction log to correct one or more mis-categorizations, if any, and revise one or more model event categories with the one or more corrected mis-categorizations, if any; and using the revised transaction log to facilitate loss prevention.