Face-Authenticated Visit Records With Multi-Point Composite Images
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing techniques for promoting visits to multiple points, such as in a stamp rally, are insufficient in utilizing the recorded visits effectively for regional revitalization or purchase promotion.
Innovation Solution
A visit promotion apparatus and method that captures user images, performs face authentication, generates a composite image of visited points, and transmits it to a display terminal when certain conditions are met, including successful face authentication at multiple points and potential purchases.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If face authentication is performed at multiple points to verify actual visits, then the reliability of visit verification is improved, but the complexity of the authentication system increases
Solution Approach 1:
The authentication apparatus serves multiple functions: it performs face authentication, verifies visit locations, confirms purchase transactions, and generates composite images. By making the authentication system multi-functional, the patent reduces the need for separate systems while maintaining high reliability in visit verification.
Solution Approach 2:
The visit promotion apparatus acts as an intermediary between the authentication apparatus and the display terminal. It collects authentication results, manages visit records, and coordinates image generation, thereby simplifying the overall system architecture while maintaining reliable multi-point verification.
2Loss of information
If captured images from multiple points are collected and processed into a composite image, then the information provided to users is improved, but the processing time and computational resources increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by collecting and storing captured images and authentication results at each point during the user's visit. The composite image is generated only after all necessary data is collected and the visit is complete, reducing processing time during active use while maintaining information completeness.
Solution Approach 2:
Multiple captured images from different points are merged into a single composite image that summarizes the user's visit journey. This consolidation provides complete visit information while reducing the amount of data that needs to be processed and transmitted to the display terminal.
3Measurement precision
If the system verifies face authentication at multiple points to confirm actual visits, then the accuracy of visit recording is improved, but the ease of operation for users decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs self-service authentication by automatically capturing images, verifying faces, and recording visits without requiring manual intervention from users. The composite image is generated and transmitted automatically once the visit conditions are met, maintaining high recording accuracy while minimizing operational complexity for users.
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AI summary
Provided are visit promotion apparatuses for providing users who have actually visited various points with information in which visits to the respective points are recorded. A visit promotion apparatus (100) includes: an acquisition unit (130) configured to acquire captured images in which a user is photographed; an authentication control unit (140) configured to extract the user's face area or facial feature information from the captured images and cause an authentication apparatus (200) to perform face authentication; an image generation unit (170) configured to, when a prescribed image generation condition based on the face authentication at a plurality of points is satisfied, generate a composite image including the captured images at the respective points of the user who has succeeded in the face authentication; and an output unit (180) configured to transmit the composite image generated by the image generation unit (170) to a prescribed display terminal.