Avatar Authentication Marks for Identity-Verified Creation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional techniques allow malicious users to create avatars resembling others without permission, posing risks such as reputation damage and deception, necessitating a method to authenticate avatars created by the individual they resemble.
Innovation Solution
An authentication apparatus that generates and verifies avatar data using user images, adds authentication marks to authentic avatars, and removes authentication based on predefined conditions, ensuring avatars are created by the individual they represent.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If avatar creation technology is provided without authentication, then ease of avatar creation is improved, but security and reliability deteriorate due to unauthorized avatar creation
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary authentication of the user's identity against the avatar's represented person before allowing avatar creation. This preliminary action ensures that only authorized users can create avatars, preventing unauthorized creation while maintaining ease of use for legitimate users.
Solution Approach 2:
The system provides feedback to users about the authentication status and represented person of created avatars. This feedback mechanism allows users to understand the authentication process and ensures transparency, maintaining both ease of creation and reliability through informed user interaction.
2Reliability
If authentication process is added to verify avatar creator identity, then avatar authenticity is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system introduces an intermediary authentication mechanism that verifies the user's identity against the avatar's represented person without requiring direct complex verification processes. This intermediary approach simplifies the overall system architecture while maintaining high authenticity verification.
Solution Approach 2:
The authentication system is designed with multi-functionality, serving multiple purposes including identity verification, authorization control, and authentication status management. This universal design reduces the need for separate dedicated components, thereby reducing overall system complexity while maintaining authenticity.
3Reliability
If authentication data is permanently stored, then avatar authenticity verification is improved, but loss of information increases due to inability to remove authentication
Solution Approach 1:
The authentication data storage is made dynamic rather than static, allowing the system to adaptively manage authentication information. The system can retain authentication data for verification purposes while also providing mechanisms to remove or update authentication status based on changing conditions, preventing information loss while maintaining verification reliability.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements mechanisms to discard authentication data when appropriate (e.g., when authentication fails or is revoked) while recovering or preserving authentication data when needed for verification. This dynamic management ensures that authentication information is retained only when necessary, preventing unnecessary information accumulation while maintaining verification capability.
Data Source
AI summary
An authentication apparatus includes an avatar generator configured to generate avatar data representative of an avatar of a service user who uses a service relating to avatars, the avatar data being generated using a user image obtained by capturing an image of the service user; an authenticator configured to generate authentication data in a case in which the avatar data is verified as being authentic; and an authentication data remover configured to remove the authentication data based on a removal condition being satisfied.