Information Processing Apparatus for Plant Environmental Response Analysis
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current optical measurement technologies face challenges in quantitatively analyzing the relationship between a plant's environment and its response, particularly in managing physical values like light quantity, reflectance, and fluorescent intensity, which limits their ability to express changes in reflectance and fluorescent intensity accurately.
Innovation Solution
An information processing apparatus that acquires and analyzes captured image information to extract physical values indicative of a plant's environment and response, storing these values in correlation with each other, allowing for the management and expression of dimensional relationships between environmental and response-related physical values.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If optical measurement technology is used to capture plant images, then measurement capability is improved, but ability to quantitatively analyze environmental-response relationships deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transitions from two-dimensional spatial image processing to three-dimensional physical value space analysis. By extracting multiple physical values (light quantity, reflectance, fluorescent intensity) and organizing them in a correlated data structure, the system adds a dimensional layer that enables quantitative analysis of environmental-response relationships while preserving the benefits of optical measurement.
2Ease of operation
If traditional image processing operations are performed in two-dimensional planar space, then processing simplicity is maintained, but ability to express dimensional relationships of physical values deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the complex task of environmental-response analysis into distinct physical value components (light quantity, reflectance, fluorescent intensity). Each physical value is extracted and managed separately with its own data structure, allowing simple individual processing while enabling complex relational analysis when the segments are correlated together.
Solution Approach 2:
The system moves from two-dimensional spatial coordinates to a three-dimensional physical value space where each dimension represents a different physical parameter. This dimensional transformation allows the system to maintain processing simplicity for individual parameters while capturing the full complexity of their interrelationships.
3Device complexity
If optical measurement device does not include mechanism to manage physical values, then device complexity is reduced, but ability to appropriately express relationship between physical values deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a data management intermediary layer that sits between the optical measurement device and the analysis system. This intermediary structure (the correlated data storage mechanism) manages the relationships between physical values without requiring complex hardware modifications, thus maintaining simple device architecture while enabling sophisticated analysis of physical value relationships.
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AI summary
An information processing apparatus, an information processing method, a non-transitory computer-readable medium, an a storage device for quantitatively analyzing and storing a relationship between an environment of a measurement target and a response of the measurement target with respect to the environment. The information processing apparatus includes a storage circuitry and an operation circuitry configured to acquire a first physical value by analyzing captured image information, the first physical value being indicative of an environment of a measurement target associated with a first pixel of the plurality of pixels, acquire a second physical value by analyzing the captured image information, the second physical value being indicative of a response of the measurement target with respect to the environment, and control the storage circuitry to store the first physical value and the second physical value in correlation with each other.