Passive Object Tracking via Template Matching
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional tracking systems require internal electronic components and secondary trackers, making it difficult to track objects without pre-installed tracking systems or attachments, limiting their applicability to everyday items that do not have such capabilities.
Innovation Solution
A method and device that collect tracking data independently of the object using image-based, audio-based, voice-based, or gesture-based templates, allowing for the identification and location determination of passive objects without direct communication with the object, utilizing processors and user interfaces to compare data with stored templates.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If conventional tracking systems use internal electronic components (GPS chipset, RFID circuit), then tracking capability is achieved, but device complexity and cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses secondary electronic trackers as intermediaries between the tracking system and passive objects. These trackers contain GPS chipsets and RFID circuits, while passive objects remain simple without internal electronics. The tracker acts as a mediator that attaches to the object and provides tracking data, resolving the contradiction by isolating complex components in the tracker rather than requiring them in every tracked object.
Solution Approach 2:
The system segments the tracking function into two separate components: the passive object being tracked and the active electronic tracker. This segmentation allows the object to remain simple while the tracker handles all complex electronic functions including GPS reception, RFID communication, and data transmission to remote servers.
2Reliability
If secondary electronic trackers are attached to objects, then indirect tracking is enabled, but ease of operation deteriorates due to attachment requirements
Solution Approach 1:
The secondary electronic tracker serves as an intermediary that can be attached to passive objects. The tracker contains all necessary electronic components (GPS chipset, RFID circuit) and communicates with remote servers, while the passive object itself requires no modification or attachment complexity beyond affixing the tracker.
3Measurement precision
If tracking systems require internal electronic components, then tracking accuracy is improved, but adaptability worsens for everyday items without such components
Solution Approach 1:
The secondary electronic tracker is designed as a universal device that can attach to various passive objects (keys, wallets, bags, tools) without requiring each object to have its own electronic components. The tracker provides GPS location tracking and RFID communication universally across different object types, resolving the contradiction by making the tracking capability portable and object-agnostic.
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AI summary
A computer implemented method, device and computer program device are provided that are under control of one or more processors and are configured with executable instructions. The method collects tracking data from one or more tracking devices independent of the object. The tracking data associates with an object. The method further compares the tracking data to one or more templates to identify the object, determines a location associated with the object based on the comparing and outputs, from an electronic device, a response indicative of the location of the object.