Patent Document ID: 9489570
Application ID: 14145132
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for recognizing behavior, the method comprising: capturing at least one video stream of data on one or more subjects, wherein the at least one video stream data comprises a plurality of frames; extracting body skeleton data from each frame of the at least one video stream of data; computing feature extractions on each joint of the extracted body skeleton data for each frame of the extracted body skeleton data, wherein the extracted features of the joint of the body skeleton describes a speed feature, a movement feature, and a pose feature of the joint of the body skeleton data, and wherein the speed feature describes a relative position between joint n in frame t and every joint in a preceding frame (t−k), where k is a parameter of speed estimation step size; generating a plurality of histograms for each frame by respectively projecting the extracted features for each frame to a spherical coordinate system having a plurality of spherical bins; generating an energy map for each of the plurality of histograms by mapping the plurality of spherical bins versus time; applying a Histogram of Oriented Gradients (HOG) algorithm on the plurality of energy maps to generate a single column vector; and classifying the single column vector as a behavior and/or emotion.