Information Processing Apparatus for Custom Cosmetic Dispensing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing cosmetic customization technologies do not adequately consider user-unique factors such as environment, action, and psychosomatic information, leading to insufficient suitability of customized cosmetics.
Innovation Solution
An information processing apparatus that retrieves user-unique information including environmental, action, psychosomatic, and skin data to select and transmit customized cosmetic recipes to a dispenser for precise formulation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If existing cosmetic customization technology is used, then cosmetic dispensing can be achieved, but the suitability to user-unique factors is insufficient
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments user information into multiple distinct categories: user attribute information (age, gender, skin type), environmental information (temperature, humidity, UV exposure), action information (exercise, diet, sleep), and psychosomatic information (stress, emotion, hormonal changes). This segmentation allows each type of information to be collected, analyzed, and applied independently to create highly customized cosmetic formulations that address specific user needs across multiple dimensions.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent adds multiple new dimensions to cosmetic customization by incorporating environmental, action, and psychosomatic information beyond traditional skin type classification. This multi-dimensional approach transforms the customization process from considering only basic skin attributes to a comprehensive model that accounts for external environmental factors, user behaviors, and internal physiological states, thereby significantly improving adaptability to user-unique factors.
2Adaptability or versatility
If comprehensive user-unique information is retrieved, then customized cosmetic suitability is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an information processing apparatus as an intermediary between data collection and cosmetic dispensing. This intermediary component receives diverse user-unique information from multiple sources, processes and integrates the data through systematic analysis, and generates appropriate cosmetic recipes. The intermediary structure manages system complexity by centralizing information processing logic and providing a clear interface between data input and cosmetic output, thereby enabling comprehensive customization without proportionally increasing overall system complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The information processing apparatus serves multiple functions: collecting user attribute information, environmental information, action information, and psychosomatic information; analyzing all these diverse data types; and generating customized cosmetic formulations. This multi-functional design consolidates various processing tasks into a single system component, reducing the need for multiple separate devices and thereby managing complexity while achieving comprehensive customization.
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AI summary
Customized cosmetics corresponding to user-unique factors are provided.An information processing apparatus can communicate with a cosmetic dispenser configured to dispense at least one of a plurality of cosmetics based on recipe information indicating a usage amount of each of the plurality of cosmetics.The apparatus includes a retrieve module configured to retrieve user-unique information unique to the user, the user-unique information including at least one of user attribute information related to the user's attributes, environmental information related to the user's environment, action information related to the user's action, and psychosomatic information related to the user's psychosomatic, skin information related to the user's skin, and information related to cosmetics which the user has used, a selection module configured to select the recipe information based on the user unique information among a plurality of recipe information, and a transmission module configured to transmit the selected recipe information to the cosmetic dispenser.