Biometric Guide Display System for Automatic Destination Selection

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing guide display systems require users to perform multiple operations on their terminals before a guide display is shown, leading to decreased user convenience.

Innovation Solution

A guide display system comprising a user terminal, a checkpoint terminal, and a server that uses biometric information to identify users and automatically select destinations based on date and time information, generating display information for a guide display on the user terminal.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If the system requires users to manually input departure and destination information before displaying the guide, then the system can display accurate guide information, but user convenience decreases due to multiple required operations

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser convenienceVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by automatically obtaining departure location information from the user's current position and destination information from pre-registered data before the guide display is needed. The server automatically selects appropriate guide content based on this pre-obtained information, eliminating the need for users to manually input these details during the actual guide viewing process.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system enables self-service by automatically gathering necessary information (departure location from current position, destination from registered data) and generating the guide display without requiring active user participation in information input. The server autonomously processes the guide generation based on automatically obtained data, making the system serve itself rather than requiring extensive user operations.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

2Ease of operation

If the system automatically selects destinations based on date and time information, then user convenience improves by reducing manual operations, but the system complexity increases due to additional processing requirements

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveease of guide displayVSAvoidserver processing complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The server performs preliminary processing by pre-obtaining date and time information and pre-selecting appropriate destinations from registered data before the guide display is actually needed. This advance preparation allows the system to automatically generate the guide display without complex real-time processing during the actual guide viewing, thus managing system complexity while maintaining ease of operation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The server acts as an intermediary that automatically processes the selection between available destinations and the appropriate guide content. It mediates between the user's automatic access request and the complex decision-making process of selecting the correct destination and guide information, handling the complexity centrally while presenting simplicity to the user.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentUS12264937B2Guide display system, guide display method, guide display apparatus, and computer readable recording medium
Publication Date: 2025.04.01 NEC CORP
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AI summary

A guide display system includes: a user terminal; a checkpoint terminal; and a server, in which the server includes: a specifying unit that uses biometric information obtained from the checkpoint terminal to specify person identification information for identifying a user associated with the biometric information; an obtaining unit that obtains date and time information indicating a date and time when the user passed through a checkpoint; a selection unit that selects, based on the obtained date and time information, one or more destinations from destination information indicating a plurality of destinations that are registered in association with the specified person identification information and are the destinations of the user; and a display information generation unit that generates display information for displaying the guide display corresponding to the one or more selected destination on the user terminal.