Multi-Component Gesture Recognition for IoT Feedback

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Solution Overview

Problem

IoT systems face challenges in effectively managing and responding to user feedback in smart environments, leading to misbehavior such as performing functions at inappropriate times or under incorrect conditions, due to the lack of efficient mechanisms for user interaction and system reconfiguration.

Innovation Solution

Implementing a gesture recognition algorithm that analyzes image data to translate user gestures into feedback, allowing the IoT system to learn from user approval or disapproval and reconfigure itself to improve user satisfaction by adjusting trigger conditions and contextual monitoring.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Speed

If the IoT system activates functions based on simple trigger conditions, then the system responds quickly, but the system performs functions at inappropriate times leading to misbehavior

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveresponse speedVSAvoidfunction activation accuracy
Core Design Contradiction:
SpeedVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements feedback loops where gesture recognition results and system activation outcomes are fed back into the model. User responses (explicit or implicit) are used to retrain and refine the gesture recognition model, allowing the system to learn from past activations and improve timing accuracy over time while maintaining quick response capabilities

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary analysis of contextual conditions and gesture patterns before activating functions. By pre-processing image data, identifying gesture components in sequence, and evaluating multiple object models beforehand, the system ensures accurate function activation timing without sacrificing response speed

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Measurement precision

If the system monitors multiple gesture components sequentially, then the gesture recognition accuracy improves, but the processing time increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvegesture recognition accuracyVSAvoidprocessing time
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The gesture recognition system segments complex gestures into multiple detectable components or object models. By breaking down a gesture into distinct phases or elements that can be identified sequentially, the system achieves high recognition accuracy while optimizing processing efficiency through targeted analysis of each segment

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs partial analysis by evaluating only the necessary number of object models required to confirm a gesture, rather than exhaustively analyzing all possible models. This allows the system to achieve sufficient accuracy without unnecessary processing delays

Inventive Principle:
Principle #16Partial or excessive action

3Device complexity

If the IoT system uses basic user interaction mechanisms, then the system complexity remains low, but the system lacks effective user feedback mechanisms leading to misbehavior

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesystem complexityVSAvoiduser feedback capability
Core Design Contradiction:
Device complexityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The system employs self-service mechanisms where gesture recognition and interpretation occur automatically without requiring complex configuration or manual programming. The system autonomously processes gestures, determines user intent, and adjusts its behavior accordingly, maintaining simplicity while enhancing adaptability through automated learning and reconfiguration capabilities

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Data Source

PatentUS10496879B2Multiple-detection gesture recognition
Publication Date: 2019.12.03 QUALCOMM INC
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AI summary

Systems and methods are disclosed for recognizing a multi-component gesture within a sequence of image frames. A method comprises selecting a first object model as the selected object model, wherein the first object model corresponds to a first component of the multi-component gesture, receiving a frame in the sequence of frames and analyzing the frame to determine whether the frame includes a first object that matches the selected first object model, selecting a second object model as the selected object model, wherein the second object model corresponds to a second component of the multi-component gesture, receiving at least one subsequent frame and analyzing the at least one subsequent frame to determine whether the at least one subsequent frame includes a second object that matches the selected second object model, and recognizing that the multi-component gesture is present in the sequence of image frames.