Multi-Sensor Intrusion Detection Using Dynamic Recognition

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current security systems for premises face challenges in accurately identifying authorized individuals due to factors like lighting and camera angles affecting facial recognition, and burdening users with multiple recognition mechanisms for every access attempt.

Innovation Solution

A multi-recognition mechanism system that uses a decision tree to selectively engage recognition mechanisms such as facial, voice, and biometric sensors, determining a confidence level to authorize access without requiring all mechanisms to be used every time, optimizing the sequence based on training data and user profiles.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If multiple recognition mechanisms are used for every access attempt, then identification accuracy is improved, but user burden and operation time increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveidentification accuracyVSAvoiduser burden
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system dynamically adjusts the number and type of recognition mechanisms activated based on real-time confidence levels. When confidence is high, fewer mechanisms are required; when confidence is low, additional mechanisms are activated. This dynamic adaptation resolves the contradiction by making the system both accurate and user-friendly under different conditions.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The system changes the parameter of recognition mechanism activation based on confidence thresholds. The decision tree modifies which mechanisms are activated depending on the confidence level from previous mechanisms, allowing the system to maintain accuracy while reducing unnecessary user burden when high confidence is achieved.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

2Reliability

If all recognition mechanisms are required for every access attempt, then identification reliability is improved, but access time and productivity decrease

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveidentification reliabilityVSAvoidaccess time
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The system applies partial action by requiring only the necessary number of recognition mechanisms based on confidence levels. When confidence is high, the system accepts partial verification; when confidence is low, it requires additional mechanisms. This resolves the contradiction by avoiding unnecessary verification steps while maintaining reliability when needed.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #16Partial or excessive action

Solution Approach 2:

The dynamic decision tree adjusts the verification process in real-time based on confidence levels, allowing the system to maintain reliability without imposing fixed time requirements. The system adapts the number of mechanisms needed based on actual verification quality, optimizing access time.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

3Ease of operation

If facial recognition is used alone, then ease of operation is improved, but measurement precision deteriorates due to lighting and camera angle factors

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveease of useVSAvoididentification accuracy
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements multi-functionality by combining facial recognition with other recognition mechanisms (voice, biometric, etc.) in a unified decision tree framework. This allows the system to maintain ease of use through primary facial recognition while compensating for its limitations with supplementary mechanisms when needed, resolving the contradiction between ease of operation and precision.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentUS10026283B1Multi-sensor intrusion detection system
Publication Date: 2018.07.17 INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINE CORPORATION
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AI summary

An embodiment of the present invention may include a system and method for intrusion detection of an unauthorized human. The embodiment may include a security device with a human presence detector, recognition mechanisms, and a computer coupled to the device over a network. The device may detect a human and notify the computer. In response, the computer may cause the device to collect and transmit recognition mechanism information. This may include causing the device to collect and transmit first information, determining a degree of match to each corresponding stored information associated with a human, and determining that a sufficient match does not exist. For each subsequent mechanism, the embodiment may include causing the device to collect and transmit the subsequent information, determining a degree of match, and in response to determining that the confidence level of the match is above the threshold, classifying the human as authorized.