Body Shape Change Detection for Personal Property Replacement

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional technologies face challenges in providing effective proposals for replacing personal property that no longer fits a user's body shape, hindering improved services related to such replacements.

Innovation Solution

An information processing apparatus that acquires user body shape information, determines if the shape change exceeds a threshold, and provides recommendations for replacing personal property that no longer fits due to this change, using a system comprising a terminal apparatus, information processing apparatus, and management server to facilitate proposals for letting go and purchasing substitutes within an electronic mall.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If conventional technology is used, then basic personal property proposal is possible, but it cannot provide effective proposals for replacement when body shape changes, resulting in poor service quality

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveadaptability to body shape changesVSAvoidservice quality for replacement proposals
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by acquiring body shape information periodically and comparing it with historical data before the user actually needs a replacement. This allows the system to proactively identify when body shape changes occur and trigger replacement proposals in advance, improving both adaptability to body shape changes and the reliability of service quality.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements feedback by continuously monitoring body shape information, comparing current measurements with historical records, and using this feedback to dynamically adjust replacement proposals. The feedback loop ensures the system adapts to actual body shape changes and provides reliable, personalized replacement recommendations based on real data.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Measurement precision

If body shape information is continuously monitored and processed, then replacement proposal accuracy is improved, but system complexity and data processing requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveaccuracy of body shape change detectionVSAvoidsystem complexity for information processing
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system extracts only the essential body shape information needed for replacement decisions, filtering out unnecessary data. By focusing on key measurement parameters and extracting relevant changes from the data, the system achieves high measurement precision while reducing the complexity of data processing and storage requirements.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The system applies partial action by processing and analyzing only the necessary body shape measurements rather than all possible data. This selective approach maintains measurement precision for replacement accuracy while minimizing the complexity of information processing and system resource consumption.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #16Partial or excessive action

Data Source

PatentUS20240249339A1Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and information processing program
Publication Date: 2024.07.25 ZOZO INC
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AI summary

To promote improvement in services related to purchase of a replacement for a personal property based on a body shape change of a user. An information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit, a determination unit, and a providing unit. The acquisition unit acquires information on a body shape of a user. The determination unit determines whether a change of the body shape is equal to or larger than a predetermined threshold based on the information on the body shape of the user acquired by the acquisition unit. The providing unit, when the determination unit determines that the change of the body shape is equal to or larger than the predetermined threshold, provides information for proposing purchase of a substitute of a personal property of the user, the personal property not fitting the body shape of the user due to the change.