Patent Document ID: 7978085
Application ID: 12396002
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method of tracking and analyzing movement of human subjects, the method comprising: providing a plurality of tracking technology sensors; placing the plurality of sensors within a designated space; determining an origin location within the space; providing a plurality of tracking technology transponders, wherein the transponders provide location parameters; affixing one of the plurality of transponders to each human subject; collecting the location parameters of each human subject from the transponders at predetermined time intervals using the sensors; determining a plurality of movement paths for each human subject from the location parameters, wherein each movement path comprises the location parameters from each period of movement of each human subject; recording the plurality of movement paths for fractal dimension tortuosity characteristics; setting a spatial scale; calculating an estimated fractal dimension for each of the plurality of movement paths of each human subject; and calculating an average of the estimated fractal dimensions for each of the plurality of movement paths for each subject to produce a single fractal dimension score for each human subject, wherein a high fractal dimension score corresponds to a high likelihood of agitated movement and the greater the value of the fractal dimension score corresponds to the greater degree of agitated movement.