Biometric Memory Metrics for Automatic Wearable Moment Capture

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Solution Overview

Problem

Modern mobile devices often fail to capture important spontaneous moments due to their limitations in capturing events too quickly or users forgetting to take images or videos because they are emotionally engaged, leading to missed memories.

Innovation Solution

A wearable multimedia device that captures multimedia data with minimal user interaction, automatically edits and formats it on a cloud computing platform based on user preferences, and prioritizes content presentation using memory metrics derived from biometric and location data.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If mobile devices are used to capture spontaneous moments, then convenience is improved, but important moments are missed due to rapid occurrence or user distraction

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveconvenience of capturing momentsVSAvoidcapture reliability of important moments
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The wearable device automatically captures multimedia data without requiring user intervention. The system monitors biometric signals and location data to autonomously determine when to capture moments, eliminating the need for users to manually operate the device while engaged in spontaneous activities.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system continuously monitors biometric signals (heart rate, respiration, body temperature) and location data to detect emotional states and contextual significance. This feedback loop enables the device to automatically identify and capture moments that are emotionally significant or contextually important, improving capture reliability without user distraction.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Loss of information

If all captured multimedia data is stored and presented, then completeness is improved, but resource expenditure increases due to processing and presenting irrelevant content

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecompleteness of captured momentsVSAvoidresource expenditure for processing and presenting
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The system extracts and analyzes only the most relevant features from captured data using machine learning models. By filtering and selecting only emotionally significant moments based on biometric patterns and contextual data, the system reduces the volume of content requiring processing and presentation while maintaining completeness of important moments.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The system dynamically adjusts presentation parameters based on memory metrics derived from biometric data. Content is prioritized and presented differently according to its emotional significance, allowing the system to allocate computational resources efficiently by focusing on high-value moments rather than processing all captured data uniformly.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Measurement precision

If memory metrics are calculated for all content items, then presentation accuracy is improved, but computational resources are consumed

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveaccuracy of memory metric measurementVSAvoidcomputational power required for memory metric calculation
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSPower

Solution Approach 1:

The computational task is segmented into stages: biometric data is processed locally to identify significant patterns, memory metrics are calculated only for moments exceeding threshold criteria, and detailed analysis is performed selectively. This segmentation reduces overall computational power requirements while maintaining high measurement precision for emotionally significant moments.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentUS12407900B2Generating, storing, and presenting content based on a memory metric
Publication Date: 2025.09.02 HEWLETT PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY LP
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AI summary

Systems, methods, devices and non-transitory, computer-readable storage mediums are disclosed for a wearable multimedia device and cloud computing platform with an application ecosystem for processing multimedia data captured by the wearable multimedia device. In an embodiment, a wearable multimedia device obtains sensor data from one or more first sensors of the wearable multimedia device, and generates a first content item based on the sensor data. Further, the device obtains biometric data regarding a user of the device. The biometric data is obtained from one or more second sensors of the wearable multimedia device. The device determines a metric for the first content item based on the biometric data, and stores the first content item and the metric. The metric is stored as metadata of the first content item.