The present invention is a system and method for printing facial images of
people, captured automatically from a sequence of images, onto coupons or
any promotional printed material, such as postcards, stamps, promotional
brochures, or tickets for movies or shows. The coupon can also be used as
a means to encourage people to visit specific sites as a way of promoting
goods or services sold at the visited site. The invention is named
UCOUPON. A plurality of Computer Vision algorithms in the UCOUPON
processes a plurality of input image sequences from one or a plurality of
means for capturing images that is pointed at the customers in the
vicinity of the system in an uncontrolled background. The coupon content
is matched by the customer's demographic information, and primarily, the
UCOUPON system does not require any customer input or participation to
gather the demographic data, operating fully independently and
automatically. The embodiment of the UCOUPON system can be integrated
into any public place that requires the usage of coupons, such as
existing checkout counters of the retail store environment. The UCOUPON
can also be integrated into a stand-alone system, such as a coupon Kiosk
system.