Order Support System Simplified Shape Data Security

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing order supporting systems lack sufficient security measures as they transmit product shape information directly to candidate providers, risking unauthorized manufacturing.

Innovation Solution

An order supporting method that generates simplified shape information from product shape information, allowing for secure calculation of manufacturing conditions without revealing precise product details, using techniques like voxel, point cloud, or bounding box representations.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of information

If product shape information is transmitted to candidate providers for manufacturing estimation, then manufacturing condition calculation is enabled, but security of product shape information deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvesecurity of product shape informationVSAvoidaccuracy of manufacturing condition calculation

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of informationVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts only the essential geometric features needed for manufacturing estimation while removing detailed product shape information. The system calculates manufacturing conditions based on extracted features such as volume, surface area, and basic geometric parameters without transmitting the complete product shape data, thus protecting intellectual property while enabling accurate cost and time estimation.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent creates a simplified copy or representation of the product shape information that retains sufficient characteristics for manufacturing estimation but lacks the detail required for actual product reproduction. This simplified model enables providers to calculate manufacturing conditions accurately without accessing the original confidential design data.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #26Copying

2Measurement precision

If detailed product shape information is provided to multiple providers, then accurate manufacturing estimates are obtained, but risk of unauthorized manufacturing increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveprecision of manufacturing estimationVSAvoidrisk of unauthorized manufacturing

Core Design Contradiction:

Measurement precisionVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies different levels of information quality to different purposes: detailed product shape information is retained locally for design protection, while only essential geometric characteristics are transmitted to providers for estimation purposes. This local differentiation of information quality enables accurate manufacturing estimation without exposing detailed design data that could be used for unauthorized reproduction.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #3Local quality

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces an intermediary processing step that transforms detailed product shape information into simplified geometric representations before transmission to providers. This intermediary representation serves as a mediator that enables manufacturing estimation while preventing unauthorized manufacturing, as it contains sufficient information for cost and time calculation but lacks the precision needed for product reproduction.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Reliability

If product shape information is kept confidential, then intellectual property is protected, but ability to obtain manufacturing estimates is reduced

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveintellectual property protectionVSAvoidefficiency of order supporting process

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent performs preliminary processing of product shape information to extract essential geometric features before initiating the manufacturing estimation process. This preliminary action prepares simplified data that can be efficiently transmitted to multiple providers for parallel estimation, maintaining intellectual property protection while enabling efficient order supporting operations.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent changes the parameters of product shape information from detailed geometric data to simplified characteristics such as volume, surface area, and basic dimensional parameters. This parameter transformation maintains the essential information needed for manufacturing estimation while reducing the information sufficient for unauthorized reproduction, thus balancing IP protection with process efficiency.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentUS20250014085A1Order supporting method, order supporting system, and recording medium

Publication Date: 2025.01.09 ASICS CORP

AI summary

To provide a computer-executed order supporting method of supporting an order of a predetermined product including any one of clothing, footwear, accessories, and a product utilized to conform to a part of a body. The method includes acquiring product shape information relating to a product shape of the predetermined product, generating, based on the product shape information, simplified shape information indicating a simplified shape of the predetermined product, the simplified shape information allowing for calculation of manufacturing condition information relating to a manufacturing condition of the predetermined product, in a manufacturing section that manufactures the predetermined product, and outputting the simplified shape information.