3D Scene Intent Inference Using a Personal Knowledge Base

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing computer systems struggle to provide personalized and efficient assistance to users in three-dimensional environments by accurately interpreting user intent and generating relevant actions based on user-specific knowledge, leading to inefficiencies and increased power consumption.

Innovation Solution

A computer system that utilizes image sensors to detect data representing a scene, determines user intent, and selects a personalized knowledge base to generate actions that satisfy specific criteria, reducing the need for user inputs and optimizing power usage.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If the computer system uses a personalized knowledge base to generate relevant actions, then user interaction accuracy is improved, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser intent recognition accuracyVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The knowledge base is segmented into personalized user profiles containing preferences, habits, and context-specific information. This segmentation allows the system to retrieve only relevant portions of the knowledge base for each user interaction, improving accuracy while managing complexity through modular organization of user-specific data structures.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

An intermediary processing layer is introduced between image sensor input and action generation. This layer infers user intent by mediating between raw scene data and the personalized knowledge base, using intermediate representations to bridge the gap between visual input and contextual understanding, thereby improving accuracy without directly increasing overall system complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Measurement precision

If the system processes complete scene data to determine user intent, then interaction accuracy is improved, but power consumption increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvescene interpretation accuracyVSAvoidpower consumption
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The system extracts only the essential and relevant features from complete scene data rather than processing all available information. By taking out and focusing on critical elements such as key objects, user actions, and contextual cues, the system maintains interpretation accuracy while significantly reducing the computational power required for processing.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The system applies partial processing by selectively analyzing portions of the scene data that are most relevant to determining user intent. Rather than exhaustively processing the entire scene, the system performs sufficient analysis on critical regions and objects, achieving adequate accuracy with reduced energy expenditure.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #16Partial or excessive action

3Productivity

If the system generates automated actions based on user intent, then user interaction efficiency is improved, but the number of user inputs required decreases which reduces control precision

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinteraction efficiencyVSAvoiduser control precision
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The system incorporates feedback mechanisms where generated actions are presented to the user for confirmation or correction. This feedback loop allows the automated system to learn from user responses and adjust future actions, maintaining high efficiency while preserving user control precision through iterative refinement and validation of generated actions.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary analysis and generates candidate actions before final execution. By preparing multiple potential actions and presenting them to the user in advance, the system improves efficiency through pre-processing while maintaining control precision by allowing user selection or modification of the preliminary generated actions.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS20250377767A1Facilitating user interactions with a three-dimensional scene
Publication Date: 2025.12.11 APPLE INC
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AI summary

An example process includes: detecting, via at least the one or more image sensors, first data that represents a first scene; and in response to detecting, via at least the one or more image sensors, the first data that represents the first scene and after an inference about a user intent with respect to the first scene is determined based on the first data that represents the first scene: in accordance with a determination that a portion of a knowledge base is selected based on the inference about the user intent with respect to the first scene, wherein the knowledge base is personal to a user of the computer system, and in accordance with a determination that a first action satisfies a set of action criteria, performing the first action, wherein the first action is generated based on the selected portion of the knowledge base.