Facial Recognition Engine for Automated Call Recording

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current call recording systems require human intervention to determine whether calls between spouses or lawyers should be recorded, and to detect changes in participants, which is inefficient and prone to errors.

Innovation Solution

Implementing a facial and video content recognition engine to analyze video streams in real-time, extracting metadata that determines whether a call should be recorded and identifies participants, eliminating the need for human polling and enhancing call content with participant information.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If human intervention is used to determine whether calls should be recorded and to detect participant changes, then compliance accuracy can be maintained through human judgment, but system efficiency deteriorates due to manual polling and human error

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecall recording efficiencyVSAvoidcompliance determination accuracy
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent replaces the mechanical system of human polling and manual compliance determination with an automated facial recognition system. The facial recognition engine continuously analyzes video feeds from device cameras, automatically identifies participants, and determines compliance requirements based on recognized identities, eliminating manual intervention while maintaining accurate compliance determination

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

Solution Approach 2:

The system enables self-service by allowing the facial recognition engine to autonomously perform compliance determination without human assistance. The engine independently analyzes video streams, identifies participants, matches them against compliance databases, and makes real-time decisions about recording requirements, making the system self-sufficient in compliance matters

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

2Measurement precision

If manual polling is used to detect changes in call participants, then system complexity can be kept simple with basic monitoring, but measurement precision deteriorates due to delayed detection and human error

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveparticipant change detection accuracyVSAvoidmonitoring system complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements continuous monitoring through the facial recognition engine, which continuously analyzes video feeds without interruption. This continuous action ensures that participant changes are detected immediately and accurately, eliminating the delays inherent in periodic manual polling while maintaining manageable system complexity through automated processing

Inventive Principle:
Principle #20Continuity of useful action

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary action by continuously analyzing video feeds and identifying participants before compliance issues arise. The facial recognition engine proactively detects participant changes and determines compliance requirements in advance, preventing problems rather than reacting to them, thereby improving detection precision without proportionally increasing complexity

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS10135980B1Systems and methods for enhancing recorded or intercepted calls using information from a facial recognition engine
Publication Date: 2018.11.20 VERINT SYST INC
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AI summary

A video stream from a webcam or video telephone is received. The video stream can be analyzed in real-time as it is being received or can be recorded and stored for later analysis. Information within the video streams can be extracted and processed by a facial and video content recognition engine and the information derived therefrom can be stored as metadata. The metadata can be used for enriching the call content recorded by a recorder. The information derived from the video streams can be used to solve business and legal issues.