Product Display State Evaluation Using Segmented Indices
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing product monitoring systems in stores struggle to specifically identify necessary work items for improving inappropriate product display states, such as disturbances or shortages, making it difficult for users to recognize and address these issues effectively.
Innovation Solution
A product monitoring device and system that captures images of store display areas, sets state monitoring areas, detects product positions, evaluates display states using indices like volume, alignment, and face-up degrees, and presents evaluation results to users, allowing for targeted product management work recognition.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If a comprehensive determination of inappropriate display state is performed, then the user can recognize the necessity of product management work, but the user cannot recognize specific work items required
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides the comprehensive display state evaluation into multiple specific evaluation indices (volume degree, alignment degree, face-up degree). Each index independently evaluates a specific aspect of product display, allowing users to identify particular work items needed (e.g., if alignment degree is low, products need rearranging). This segmentation transforms a vague comprehensive evaluation into actionable specific information without requiring complex additional hardware.
2Measurement precision
If multiple evaluation indices are used to assess display state, then specific work items can be identified, but the processing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The evaluation system is segmented into multiple independent indices (volume degree, alignment degree, face-up degree), each calculating a specific aspect of display quality. This allows precise measurement of different display problems separately, enabling targeted work assignments while keeping each individual calculation relatively simple and modular.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent transforms visual display state assessment into quantifiable parameters (volume degree, alignment degree, face-up degree). By converting qualitative display conditions into measurable numerical parameters, the system achieves precise evaluation while maintaining relatively simple processing through standardized calculation methods for each parameter.
3Measurement precision
If product display evaluation is performed in detail, then specific management actions can be determined, but the time required for evaluation increases
Solution Approach 1:
By segmenting the evaluation into parallel independent indices (volume degree, alignment degree, face-up degree), the system can process multiple aspects of display quality simultaneously rather than sequentially. This segmentation enables detailed evaluation without proportional time increase, as each index can be calculated independently and in parallel.
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AI summary
A product monitoring device is provided that presents, to the user, information by which the user can recognize specific work items of a product management work for improving an inappropriate display state. The product monitoring device acquires a captured image of a display area, sets a state monitoring area on the captured image of the display area, acquires product detection information indicating a position of a product in the state monitoring area, based on a captured image of the state monitoring area, evaluates a display state of the product in the state monitoring area, using a plurality of evaluation indices relating to display disorder of the product, based on the product detection information, and presents information on an evaluation result to a user.