Cognitive Apparel Compliance System Using AI Detection

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Solution Overview

Problem

Occupational professions face challenges in ensuring compliance with apparel requirements due to the complexity and variability of regulations across jurisdictions and tasks, leading to difficulties in tracking and maintaining compliance, especially in dynamic environments where risk levels change frequently.

Innovation Solution

A cognitive system utilizing an artificial intelligence platform dynamically analyzes the apparel worn by individuals to determine compliance with established practices, providing suggestions for overcoming non-compliance by comparing real-time data against a knowledge base that includes jurisdictional and extra-jurisdictional compliance standards, historical incidents, and personal biometrics.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If manual monitoring and tracking of apparel compliance is used, then implementation simplicity is maintained, but compliance accuracy and real-time monitoring capability deteriorate due to the complexity and variability of regulations

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecompliance detection accuracyVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent replaces manual monitoring mechanisms with an automated cognitive system that uses image recognition, natural language processing, and machine learning to detect apparel compliance. The system automatically captures images, analyzes them against compliance rules, and generates reports without human intervention, thereby improving detection accuracy while managing system complexity through automation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces a cognitive system as an intermediary between compliance regulations and manual monitoring processes. This intermediary automatically interprets complex regulations, compares them against captured images, and determines compliance status, thereby enhancing measurement precision while shielding users from the underlying system complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Reliability

If comprehensive real-time analysis of apparel compliance is implemented, then compliance monitoring reliability is improved, but processing time and resource consumption increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecompliance monitoring reliabilityVSAvoidprocessing time
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent performs preliminary actions by pre-processing images to identify relevant apparel items before conducting full compliance analysis. The system also pre-loads compliance rules and regulations into the cognitive system, enabling faster real-time analysis without compromising reliability. This staged approach reduces processing time while maintaining comprehensive monitoring capabilities.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

3Measurement precision

If detailed capture and analysis of apparel items is performed, then compliance detection precision is improved, but data processing complexity and time consumption worsen

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveapparel detection precisionVSAvoiddata processing complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the apparel compliance analysis into distinct modules: image capture, preprocessing, apparel item detection, compliance rule matching, and report generation. Each module handles specific tasks independently, improving detection precision through focused analysis while reducing overall data processing complexity through modular architecture.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentUS11645600B2Managing apparel to facilitate compliance
Publication Date: 2023.05.09 INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINE CORPORATION
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AI summary

Embodiments relate to a system, program product, and method for managing apparel to facilitate compliance through a cognitive system, i.e., using an artificial intelligence (AI) platform to dynamically analyze the apparel donned by individuals to determine compliance with established apparel compliance practices and provide suggestions for overcoming non-compliance. The determinations of non-compliance are accompanied with respective risk factors. The system, program product, and method disclosed herein facilitate leveraging written requirements processed by natural language processing (NLP) for the donning of apparel that includes proper clothing articles and accessories, as well as associated requirements of clothing articles and accessories that are not appropriate for the respective conditions.