Object Identification Device Input Verification

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing object identification systems require multiple matching processes, leading to increased processing time and user labor, and are vulnerable to impersonation and wrong recognition.

Innovation Solution

An object identifying method and device that incorporates a shooting unit, input request unit, and control unit to perform a truth and falseness deciding process based on the input operation and a matching process using a shot image, allowing for improved accuracy and convenience by reducing the need for multiple matching processes and preventing impersonation.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If multiple matching processes are performed to reject impersonation and wrong recognition, then identification reliability is improved, but processing time and user labor increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveidentification reliabilityVSAvoidprocessing time
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies preliminary action by performing a truth and falseness deciding process on input operations before conducting the matching process. The control unit verifies whether the input operation (e.g., button press, touch panel input) matches a pre-registered normal operation pattern. Only when the input operation is confirmed as true does the system proceed to the matching process. This preliminary verification prevents impersonation attempts from reaching the resource-intensive matching stage, thereby maintaining high identification reliability while significantly reducing processing time and user labor.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Reliability

If multiple matching processes are performed to reject impersonation and wrong recognition, then identification reliability is improved, but user labor increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveidentification reliabilityVSAvoiduser labor
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary verification of the input operation's truth and falseness before initiating the matching process. The control unit compares the received input operation against pre-registered normal operation characteristics (such as pressing force, duration, sequence). This preliminary check automatically filters out impersonation attempts without requiring additional user actions. The user simply performs the normal input operation once, and the system handles the verification and matching processes transparently, thus maintaining high reliability while keeping user labor minimal.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

3Measurement precision

If truth and falseness deciding process is added to verify input operation, then identification accuracy is improved, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveidentification accuracyVSAvoiddevice complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies universality by making the control unit perform multiple functions: it not only controls the shooting operation and matching process but also performs the truth and falseness deciding process on input operations. The control unit utilizes existing system resources (processors, memory, input operation storage) to implement the verification function without requiring separate dedicated hardware. This multi-functional approach improves identification accuracy through comprehensive verification while avoiding significant increases in device complexity.

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

Data Source

PatentUS7705737B2Object identifying device, mobile phone, object identifying method, program executable on computer for operating the object identifying device and computer-readable medium including the program
Publication Date: 2010.04.27 OMRON CORP
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AI summary

An object identifying device includes: an input request unit for requesting an input for starting a shooting operation; an input unit for receiving the input for starting the shooting operation and a control unit for controlling them. The control unit performs a truth and falseness deciding process for comparing an input operation of the input for starting the shooting operation that is received by the input unit with a normal operation previously registered as a normal operation to decide a truth or a falseness, a matching process for matching the object on the basis of the shot image obtained by the shooting operation and the registered data of the object that is previously registered and an identifying process for identifying the object to be relevant when both a decided result by the truth and falseness deciding process and a matched result by the matching process are true.