Image Affiliation Recording via User Authentication and Identity Linking

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing technologies fail to record information identifying the affiliation of a camera user in association with captured images, limiting the ability to authenticate the organization associated with the user.

Innovation Solution

An information processing apparatus that includes a user identification unit to identify the user, an affiliation identification unit to determine the user's affiliation, and a recording unit to associate this information with the captured image, using biometric authentication and GPS data to ensure accurate affiliation recording.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If personal authentication is performed using eye image, then user authenticity guarantee is achieved, but affiliation information cannot be recorded

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveuser authenticity guaranteeVSAvoidaffiliation information

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The authentication system is segmented into two independent components: personal authentication (eye image verification) and affiliation identification (organization information retrieval). This allows both functions to operate simultaneously without interference, resolving the contradiction between achieving user authenticity guarantee and recording affiliation information

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces an intermediary database that stores the relationship between personal identification information and affiliation information. This intermediary enables the system to bridge personal authentication results with organizational affiliation data, allowing both user verification and affiliation recording to coexist

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Ease of operation

If only user identity is authenticated, then personal authentication is simple, but organizational authentication capability is lost

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvepersonal authentication simplicityVSAvoidorganizational authentication capability

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The authentication system is designed with multi-functionality to serve both personal authentication and organizational authentication purposes. By retrieving affiliation information based on personal identification data, the system becomes universal enough to handle both individual user verification and organizational authorization requirements without complicating the basic authentication process

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentUS20250390566A1Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and storage medium

Publication Date: 2025.12.25 CANON KK

AI summary

An information processing apparatus comprises a user identification unit configured to identify a user that captured an image by using an image capturing apparatus; an affiliation identification unit configured to identify the affiliation of the user and acquire attribute information of the affiliation of the user based on personal identification information that identifies individual identity of the user identified by the user identification unit; and a recording unit configured to record attribute information of the affiliation of the user in association with the image captured by the user.