AI User Recognition Confidence Feedback Mechanism

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current devices that perform control based on video or sound input data struggle with accurately recognizing users or actions, failing to determine the factors affecting recognition confidence and lacking controls to enhance recognition performance.

Innovation Solution

An artificial intelligence apparatus that analyzes image data to recognize users or actions, calculates confidence levels, and provides feedback on factors influencing recognition, allowing for improved recognition performance by adjusting controls based on confidence thresholds.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If current devices perform control based on video or sound input, then device functionality is enhanced, but recognition accuracy and confidence level remain insufficient

Engineering Contradiction:
Improverecognition accuracyVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements a feedback mechanism that provides users with specific information about recognition failures. Instead of merely indicating failure, the system analyzes and communicates the cause (e.g., lighting conditions, distance, angle) and offers actionable suggestions to improve recognition, thereby enhancing reliability through iterative user correction

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces an intermediary analysis layer that processes recognition results and identifies failure causes. This intermediary component bridges the gap between raw recognition output and user understanding, providing structured feedback without requiring complete system redesign

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Ease of operation

If devices provide simple recognition failure feedback, then system complexity is reduced, but user convenience and recognition performance improvement are limited

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser convenienceVSAvoidtime for re-recognition
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent performs preliminary analysis of recognition failure causes immediately when recognition fails, identifying issues such as lighting, distance, or angle problems before the user attempts re-recognition. This preliminary diagnostic action guides the user's next steps, reducing unnecessary retry attempts and saving time

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system provides detailed feedback including the specific cause of failure and actionable suggestions for improvement. This informative feedback loop enables users to make targeted adjustments, improving ease of operation by reducing frustration and time for re-recognition

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

3Reliability

If no analysis of recognition failure causes is performed, then device complexity is minimized, but recognition performance cannot be improved

Engineering Contradiction:
Improverecognition confidence levelVSAvoidanalysis processing complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces an intermediary analysis module that specifically examines recognition failure causes without requiring complete redesign of the recognition system. This modular intermediary layer analyzes factors like lighting, distance, and angle, providing actionable insights while maintaining manageable system complexity

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent extracts and analyzes specific failure cause factors (lighting conditions, distance, angle) separately from the main recognition process. By isolating and examining these individual factors, the system can identify problems and provide targeted suggestions without requiring complex overhaul of the entire recognition system

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Data Source

PatentUS11126833B2Artificial intelligence apparatus for recognizing user from image data and method for the same
Publication Date: 2021.09.21 LG ELECTRONICS INC
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AI summary

An artificial intelligence apparatus for recognizing a user includes a camera, and a process configured to receive, via the camera, image data including a recognition target object, generate recognition information corresponding to the recognition target object from the received image data, calculate a confidence level of the generated recognition information, determine whether the calculated confidence level is greater than a reference value, if the calculated confidence level is greater than the reference value, perform a control corresponding to the generated recognition information, and if the calculated confidence level is not greater than the reference value, provide a feedback for the object recognition.