Inspiration Assistance Device Using Combined Data Extraction

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing methods for assessing students' comprehension and inspiration during learning, such as those using electronic pens, primarily detect inspiration through stroke analysis but fail to assist in creating user inspiration effectively.

Innovation Solution

An information providing device that combines first and second data groups, stored in memory units, to assist in creating user inspiration by extracting and displaying relevant images or data in a way that enhances inspiration, using image processing and artificial intelligence for effective combination and presentation.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If stroke analysis is used to detect inspiration, then inspiration detection capability is improved, but inspiration creation assistance capability deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinspiration detection capabilityVSAvoidinspiration creation assistance capability
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces an intermediary system that connects stroke analysis with inspiration creation assistance. The image generation unit acts as a mediator that transforms detected stroke patterns into visual representations, which then serve as triggers for generating related images and inspiration. This intermediary mechanism allows the system to transition from passive detection to active creation assistance.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements a feedback loop where stroke analysis results are fed back into the inspiration creation process. The image generation unit receives stroke information and generates images that are displayed to the user, creating a feedback cycle that actively supports inspiration creation rather than merely detecting it.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Measurement precision

If electronic pen stroke analysis is used, then comprehension assessment is improved, but idea generation assistance deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecomprehension assessment accuracyVSAvoididea generation efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by pre-generating and storing multiple images in advance. When a user's stroke pattern is analyzed, the system can quickly retrieve and display pre-prepared related images without requiring time-consuming real-time generation, thus maintaining both assessment accuracy and idea generation efficiency.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system creates copies of relevant images and presents them to the user based on stroke analysis. Instead of generating entirely new content, the system efficiently copies and displays pre-existing images that match the user's current thought process, accelerating the idea generation process while maintaining comprehension assessment capabilities.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

3Adaptability or versatility

If random word combination is used for inspiration, then idea diversity is improved, but relevance to user's current thought deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveidea diversityVSAvoidrelevance to user's current thought
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies local quality by making the word combination process context-dependent. Instead of uniformly random selection, the system selects words and images based on the local context of the user's current stroke pattern and detected inspiration state. This ensures that while diversity is maintained, all combinations remain relevant to the user's current line of thought.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Solution Approach 2:

The system dynamically adjusts the word and image combination process based on real-time stroke analysis. The randomness is not static but adapts to the user's current writing behavior, detected inspiration moments, and contextual cues from the stroke data, ensuring that combinations are both diverse and highly relevant to the user's current thought process.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Data Source

PatentUS11442981B2Information providing device, information providing method, and recording medium with combined images corresponding to selected genre
Publication Date: 2022.09.13 HONDA MOTOR CO LTD
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AI summary

An information providing device, an information providing method, and a program capable of assisting in creating user's inspiration and improving efficiency in creating inspiration are provided. The information providing device is an information providing device displaying first data extracted from a first data group and second data extracted from a second data group in combination, and includes: a first memory unit storing a data group classified under a genre as the first data group; and a second memory unit storing a data group related to the genre of the first data group as the second data group.