Camera-Based Care Content Control via Execution Status Detection

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing robots provide unidirectional content without considering user characteristics and execution status, leading to unsatisfactory service delivery.

Innovation Solution

An electronic apparatus with a camera, display, and processor that captures user images, analyzes context information, and adjusts content output based on user execution status, providing personalized feedback and interaction.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Device complexity

If unidirectional content provision is used, then device complexity is reduced, but service satisfaction deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvesystem complexityVSAvoidservice adaptability

Core Design Contradiction:

Device complexityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements feedback mechanisms by capturing user images through a camera, analyzing execution status, and using this information to adjust subsequent content provision. This closed-loop feedback enables the system to adapt to user needs dynamically without requiring complex manual configuration.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs self-adjustment by automatically analyzing user execution status from captured images and autonomously modifying content provision strategies. This self-service capability allows the system to adapt to individual users without external intervention, maintaining simplicity while improving service quality.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

2Adaptability or versatility

If user monitoring and analysis are added, then service adaptability is improved, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecontent adaptabilityVSAvoidsystem complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system introduces an intermediary analysis module that processes user images and extracts execution status information. This intermediary layer bridges the gap between simple image capture and complex content adaptation, enabling intelligent adjustments without requiring the entire system to become overly complex.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system replaces manual assessment of user execution status with automated image analysis technology. This substitution eliminates the need for human evaluators while providing consistent, objective measurements of user performance, thereby improving adaptability without proportionally increasing operational complexity.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

3Measurement precision

If real-time image analysis is performed, then response accuracy is improved, but processing time increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveexecution status detection accuracyVSAvoidcontent provision delay

Core Design Contradiction:

Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs partial analysis by focusing on key execution status indicators rather than comprehensive image analysis. This selective approach captures sufficient information to adjust content provision accurately while minimizing processing time and computational resources required.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #16Partial or excessive action

Data Source

PatentUS12427377B2Electronic apparatus providing content-based care service and controlling method thereof

Publication Date: 2025.09.30 SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD

AI summary

An electronic apparatus is provided. The electronic apparatus may include a display; a camera; a memory in which reference information associated with a content that provides information is stored; and a processor may be configured to obtain an image photographing a user through the camera while the content is provided through the display; obtain context information associated with the user based on the image; identify an execution status of the user associated with the information provided by the content by comparing the obtained context information and the reference information; and control an output state of the content based on the execution status of the user.