Information Display Apparatus Feeling Estimation Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing information display apparatuses that estimate and display users' feelings can cause psychological stress and inaccurately estimate feelings when the displayed emotions affect the subject, leading to changes in their actual emotional state.
Innovation Solution
A method for controlling an information display apparatus that estimates a user's feeling based on physical values from sensors and determines whether to display this feeling, controlling the display to avoid showing it when the user is looking, adjusting display frequency and intensity based on the feeling's intensity, and allowing user instructions to manage the display.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If the estimated feeling is displayed on the display, then the information can be provided to users, but the user's emotional state may change leading to inaccurate estimation
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs feeling estimation before displaying the result, ensuring the measurement occurs when the user's emotional state is natural and undisturbed. This preliminary action captures authentic emotional data before any potential influence from the display itself.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent extracts only the necessary information (estimated feeling) for display while separating the measurement process from the display process. The feeling is estimated and then selectively displayed based on determination results, preventing the display from influencing the measurement.
2Loss of information
If the estimated feeling is displayed, then users can see the information, but psychological stress is caused to the user
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs determination about whether to display before actually displaying the feeling information. This preliminary decision-making process prevents harmful displays that would cause psychological stress while still allowing beneficial information provision.
Solution Approach 2:
The determination unit acts as an intermediary between the feeling estimation and the display output. It evaluates whether displaying the estimated feeling would be appropriate or harmful, serving as a protective mediator that filters out potentially stress-causing displays.
3Productivity
If continuous monitoring and display of feelings is performed, then real-time information is provided, but the emotional state changes due to display feedback
Solution Approach 1:
Instead of continuous display, the system performs periodic determination and display only when appropriate conditions are met. This periodic action maintains continuous monitoring capability while avoiding constant display feedback that would alter emotional states.
Solution Approach 2:
The system maintains continuous feeling estimation (useful action) while selectively discontinuing the display component when it would be harmful. This ensures continuous data collection for productivity while preserving measurement precision by removing the harmful display feedback loop.
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AI summary
In a method for controlling an information display apparatus that displays information on a display seen by a plurality of users, a feeling of a first user among the plurality of users is estimated on the basis of a physical value obtained from a sensor, it is determined, using the obtained physical value or the estimated feeling, whether to display the estimated feeling, and the display is controlled in accordance with a result of the determination.