Dynamic Language Prioritization for Information Display Devices

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Solution Overview

Problem

In automatic translation systems used in facilities with a large number of unspecified people, it is difficult to predict and extract languages with a strong possibility of use, leading to inconvenience in language selection due to the vast number of available languages.

Innovation Solution

An information display device and system that dynamically extracts languages with a strong possibility of use by acquiring and analyzing language information and sojourn data from users in a given area, prioritizing languages based on usage frequency and sojourn situations, and generating a display screen that reflects these priorities.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If a large number of languages are provided in the automatic translation service, then the service can support diverse linguistic environments, but it becomes inconvenient to select a language from the large number of languages on a limited-size selection screen

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvelanguage support coverageVSAvoidlanguage selection convenience
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary extraction and prioritization of languages that are likely to be used in the current area before displaying them to the user. By analyzing sojourn information and language information in advance, the system pre-arranges the language list in descending order of usage probability, so users don't need to search through all available languages manually.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The language selection screen dynamically adapts its content based on the user's location and contextual information. The system continuously updates the prioritized language list according to real-time sojourn information from multiple terminals in the area, making the language selection interface context-aware and adaptive rather than static.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

2Measurement precision

If language selection is based on use language information from each computer terminal, then personalized language selection is achieved, but it becomes difficult to predict languages for unspecified people in facilities with high foot traffic

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvelanguage prediction accuracyVSAvoidapplicability to unspecified users
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The system merges information from multiple sources to determine language priority: use language information from individual terminals, sojourn information from multiple terminals in the area, and area-based language distribution data. By combining these diverse information sources, the system achieves accurate language prediction for both individual users and unspecified people in high-traffic facilities.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The system collects sojourn information and language information from multiple terminals in real-time, analyzes this feedback data to determine current area language distribution, and uses this feedback to dynamically update the prioritized language list. This continuous feedback loop enables accurate prediction of languages for unspecified people based on actual area usage patterns.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS11030422B2Information display device and information display system
Publication Date: 2021.06.08 PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO LTD
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AI summary

An information display device is an information display device for allowing content to be output in a plurality of languages, and includes a management information acquisition unit, a priority determination unit, and an image generator. The management information acquisition unit acquires management information including language information including information indicating a language used by sojourners in an area where the information display device is used, and sojourn information including information indicating a sojourn situation of the sojourners in the area. Based on the acquired management information, the priority determination unit determines priority of the languages used in the information display device. The image generator generates a display image in accordance with the priority.