Training Data Selection for AI Camera Operation Estimation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Collecting learning data for training a machine learning model to generate impressing content is challenging due to the subjective nature of impressiveness and privacy concerns, especially when relying on social network data, and existing methods fail to consider contextual elements that influence impressions.

Innovation Solution

A training system that includes a data collection device and a training device, utilizing content evaluation information, biological information, and context analysis to identify segments that impress, and a re-training mechanism based on influence analysis to refine learning data.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If learning data is collected based on subjective impressiveness, then the training model can capture human impression, but data collection becomes difficult and unreliable

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetraining data qualityVSAvoiddata collection difficulty
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDifficulty of detecting and measuring

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces an intermediary approach by using content evaluation information from professional judges or annotated datasets as a mediator between the subjective human impression and the objective data collection process. This intermediary standard allows systematic data collection while maintaining the essence of capturing human impression, resolving the contradiction between measurement precision and collection difficulty.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent applies preliminary action by pre-collecting and annotating learning data with ground truth labels before the main training process. This preliminary data preparation creates a foundation that simplifies subsequent data collection and ensures high quality training data are available from the outset, addressing both the quality and collection difficulty aspects of the contradiction.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Measurement precision

If social network data is used to reflect subjectivity, then taste information can be captured, but privacy threats arise

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesubjectivity reflection accuracyVSAvoidprivacy threat
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts only the necessary evaluation information from social network data while excluding personally identifiable information. By taking out only the relevant content evaluation aspects and discarding privacy-sensitive user identifiers, the system captures subjectivity reflection accuracy without propagating privacy threats through the training data.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent uses content evaluation information as an intermediary that bridges social network data and training data without directly using raw social network data. This intermediary layer filters out privacy threats while preserving the essential taste and preference information needed for accurate subjectivity reflection.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Ease of manufacture

If only image data is collected, then data collection is simplified, but contextual elements that influence impressions are lost

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedata collection simplicityVSAvoidcontext information loss
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of manufactureVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges multiple data types including images, audio tracks, and contextual metadata into a unified learning data structure. This combination maintains data collection simplicity while capturing contextual elements that influence impressions, as all relevant information is integrated into a single comprehensive dataset that can be processed together.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent creates a universal data collection framework that handles multiple data types (visual, auditory, contextual) through a single unified approach. This multi-functional system collects and processes diverse information simultaneously, preventing context loss while maintaining collection simplicity through standardized handling procedures.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

4Ease of operation

If existing training methods are used, then training process is straightforward, but data relevance and privacy are compromised

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetraining process simplicityVSAvoiddata relevance and privacy protection
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies preliminary action by implementing data filtering and selection processes before training begins. Relevant data is pre-identified and privacy-sensitive information is pre-removed, ensuring data relevance and privacy protection are established before the training process starts, thus maintaining simplicity while improving reliability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces feedback mechanisms that continuously monitor data quality and privacy compliance during the training process. This feedback loop allows for real-time adjustment of data selection and processing, maintaining training simplicity while ensuring data relevance and privacy protection through automated verification and correction processes.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS12541997B2Training system and data collection device
Publication Date: 2026.02.03 SONY GROUP CORP
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AI summary

Provided is a training system that performs training of a machine learning model that generates an impressing content or estimates a camera operation for capturing an impressing content. The training system includes a data collection device that collects data, and a training device that performs training of a machine learning model by using the data collected by the data collection device, in which the training device performs re-training of the machine learning model by using learning data that affects the training of the machine learning model to a predetermined degree or more, insufficient learning data, or data similar thereto, collected on the basis of a result of analyzing learning data that affects the training of the machine learning model.