Query Modification Assistance System for Legal Compliance

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Solution Overview

Problem

Users modifying images for search queries may introduce changes that violate laws or regulations, necessitating a system to assist in modifying queries while adhering to relevant conditions and constraints.

Innovation Solution

A query modification assistance system that includes a processor to present users with modification options based on individual and general constraints, ensuring that modifications comply with legal, regulatory, and practical limitations, thereby reducing the need for repeated searches.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If users freely modify images for search queries, then search results can be closer to user desires, but modifications may violate laws or regulations

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveuser freedom to modify imagesVSAvoidcompliance with laws and regulations

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces an intermediary system (query modification assistance system) that mediates between user modification desires and legal constraints. The system presents multiple modification options to users, some of which comply with regulations while others do not, allowing users to make informed choices that balance freedom and compliance.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

Instead of preventing users from making illegal modifications directly, the system inverts the approach by presenting both compliant and non-compliant options, allowing users to choose compliant modifications when desired. This reverses the traditional constraint model from prohibition to informed selection.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #13The other way round (Inversion)

2Measurement precision

If users make modifications that do not comply with regulations, then search results may better match user intentions, but repeated searches are required

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveaccuracy of search results to user intentionVSAvoidtime for repeated searches

Core Design Contradiction:

Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary analysis of modification options before the user finalizes their query, identifying which modifications comply with regulations. This allows users to see compliant options upfront and adjust their search intentions accordingly, avoiding the need for repeated searches after discovering compliance issues.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system provides feedback to users about the compliance status of their proposed modifications. By showing which modifications are legal and which are not, users can adjust their search queries in real-time to achieve desired results while complying with regulations, eliminating the need for repeated search attempts.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

3Reliability

If the system presents compliance information to users, then legal requirements are met, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecompliance with regulationsVSAvoidsystem complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the modification options into distinct categories (compliant and non-compliant) and presents them separately to users. This segmentation simplifies the user interface by clearly labeling which modifications are legal, making the compliance checking function straightforward without requiring complex integrated verification systems.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentUS11403292B2Query modification assistance system, search system, and computer readable medium

Publication Date: 2022.08.02 FUJIFILM BUSINESS INNOVATION CORP

AI summary

A query modification assistance system includes: a processor configured to present, in a case where at least a part of an image used as a query that is to be provided to a search engine is designated as a target to be modified, assist information for assisting a modification according to at least one condition relating to the target, to a user.