Wireless Animal Emotion Display via Tail Wagging Detection
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional animal emotion display systems are limited in that they cannot accurately convey an animal's emotions from a distance, as they consist of a single unit attached to the animal's body, making it difficult to understand the animal's emotional state when not in close proximity.
Innovation Solution
An animal emotion display system comprising a transmitter attached to the animal, which detects various types of tail wagging and transmits corresponding emotion data to a receiver, allowing for wireless communication and display of emotion data, enabling remote understanding of the animal's emotions through a display section.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Device complexity
If a single unit is positioned on the animal body to detect emotions, then the device structure is simple, but the emotion understanding accuracy at a distance deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system is divided into two separate units: a transmitter attached to the animal that detects tail wagging patterns, and a receiver held by the owner that displays the decoded emotions. This segmentation allows the detection function to remain close to the animal while the display function can be positioned at a distance, resolving the contradiction between simple structure and accurate remote emotion understanding.
2Ease of operation
If a single unit detects and displays emotions simultaneously, then the system is compact, but the ability to understand emotions from a distance deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The transmitter acts as an intermediary device that captures tail wagging data from the animal and transmits it wirelessly to the receiver. This intermediary function enables emotion information to be transmitted over distance without loss, while the system remains compact because the transmitter is small and attached to the animal.
3Measurement precision
If multiple tail wagging patterns are detected to improve emotion accuracy, then the detection precision improves, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The transmitter leverages the animal's own natural tail wagging movements as the detection target, requiring no additional sensors or complex mechanisms beyond what is naturally present. The system processes multiple wagging patterns by analyzing variations in this single natural movement, achieving high detection accuracy without increasing device complexity.
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AI summary
An animal emotion display system 100 including: a transmitter 10 which is attached to an animal; and a receiver 20 which is capable of communicating with the transmitter, wherein the transmitter 10 includes: a tail wagging detection sensor 12 to detect a plurality of kinds of tail wagging of the animal as a plurality of kinds of emotion of the animal, respectively; and a transmitting section 15 to transmit emotion data corresponding to the respective kinds of tail wagging detected by the tail wagging detection sensor 12 to the receiver 20, and the receiver 20 includes: a receiving section 22 to receive the emotion data transmitted by the transmitting section 15; a display section 25; and a display control section 24 to display a display content corresponding to the emotion data received by the receiving section 22 on the display section 25.