Nail Design Identifier Encoding for Secure Information Retrieval

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional nail printing methods lack an efficient way to incorporate and retrieve specific information, such as URLs or membership numbers, without compromising the aesthetic design or requiring direct contact and verbal communication.

Innovation Solution

An information obtaining method that uses a device to identify and extract an identifier from a nail design, which corresponds to specific information, allowing for secure and non-invasive access to the information through a motif-based system.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of information

If specific information is incorporated into nail printing designs, then information retrieval capability is improved, but design aesthetics may be compromised

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveinformation retrieval capabilityVSAvoiddesign aesthetics

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of informationVSShape

Solution Approach 1:

The design is segmented into multiple motifs, where at least one motif serves as an identifier encoding specific information. This allows the nail design to simultaneously maintain aesthetic appeal through decorative motifs and provide information retrieval functionality through encoded motifs, resolving the contradiction between aesthetics and information capability.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

An identifier acts as an intermediary between the visual design and the specific information. The identifier is embedded within the design motifs and serves as a bridge that allows information retrieval without directly displaying raw data, thus preserving design aesthetics while enabling information access.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Loss of information

If identifiers are embedded in design motifs, then information encoding capability is improved, but identifier identification difficulty increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveinformation encoding capabilityVSAvoididentifier identification difficulty

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of informationVSDifficulty of detecting and measuring

Solution Approach 1:

The system provides dynamic control over identifier identification through configurable settings. The identifier identification can be adjusted between easy recognition (for general use) and difficult recognition (for security purposes), allowing the same design to serve different information security requirements without compromising encoding capability.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The identifier's recognizability parameter can be changed to balance between encoding capability and identification difficulty. By adjusting parameters such as motif complexity, color contrast, and positional arrangement, the system optimizes the trade-off between making identifiers easy to detect and maintaining secure information encoding.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentUS12106164B2Information obtaining method, information provision device, information obtaining device, and storage medium comprising obtaining an image of a design printed on a printing target that includes an identifier, the identifier corresponding to specific information and obtaining specific information corresponding to the identifier

Publication Date: 2024.10.01 CASIO COMPUTER CO LTD

AI summary

An information obtaining method includes obtaining an image of a design printed on a printing target. The design includes an identifier corresponding to specific information. The information obtaining method further includes identifying the identifier included in the design based on the image; and obtaining the specific information corresponding to the identifier based on the identifier.