Body Shape Management System with Avatar and Plan Calculation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing body shape management systems do not provide specific exercise and meal plans to help users achieve their target body shape, lacking a user-friendly behavioral plan proposal.

Innovation Solution

A body shape management system that acquires user data, displays target body shape avatars, calculates and outputs personalized behavioral plans including exercise and meal items, and adjusts plans based on user interactions and schedule considerations.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If a body shape management system displays only target body shape information, then the system is simple, but it cannot provide specific exercise and meal plans for users

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser-friendlinessVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments the body shape management function into multiple components: avatar display for visual feedback, plan calculation for generating exercise and meal plans, and progress tracking. This segmentation allows the system to provide comprehensive functionality while maintaining modularity and user-friendliness

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system introduces an intermediary plan calculation component that bridges the gap between simple avatar display and comprehensive body shape management. This intermediary generates specific exercise and meal plans based on user input, making the system both simple to operate and functionally comprehensive

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Loss of information

If the system provides detailed behavioral plans, then user guidance is improved, but the calculation complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinformation completenessVSAvoidcalculation complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by pre-calculating and storing multiple plan templates (exercise plans, meal plans) in advance. When a user requests a plan, the system selects and customizes from these pre-prepared templates rather than calculating everything from scratch, reducing real-time calculation complexity while providing detailed guidance

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system uses parameter changes to simplify plan calculation by adjusting key variables such as target body shape, time period, and user preferences. By focusing calculations on these critical parameters rather than all possible details, the system generates comprehensive plans with manageable computational complexity

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentUS20240013888A1Body shape management system, its control method, and control program
Publication Date: 2024.01.11 TOYOTA JIDOSHA KK
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AI summary

A body shape management system includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire information about an actual body shape of a user and information about a target body shape of the user that he/she wants to have after a lapse of a set period; a display control unit configured to display at least an avatar representing the target body shape of the user acquired by the acquisition unit on a monitor; a plan calculation unit configured to calculate at least one plan for a behavioral item that the user should perform during the set period based on the actual body shape of the user and the target body shape of the user that he/she wants to have after the lapse of the set period; and an output unit configured to output the at least one plan calculated by the plan calculation unit.