RFID Reader for Cosmetics Recognition and Management
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users face difficulties in managing and utilizing various types of cosmetics due to the increasing diversity of cosmetics, leading to challenges in finding optimal makeup methods and tracking the remaining usage periods of different cosmetics.
Innovation Solution
A mobile terminal equipped with an RFID reader unit that recognizes cosmetics through attached RFID tags, generating a list of recognized cosmetics, displaying them categorized, and providing features such as recommending makeup methods, simulating makeup results, and tracking remaining usage periods.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If users manually manage and track various types of cosmetics, then they can keep track of their cosmetics inventory, but it becomes difficult and time-consuming to find optimal makeup methods and track remaining usage periods due to the increasing diversity of cosmetics
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces manual mechanical management of cosmetics with an automated RFID-based recognition system. The RFID reader unit automatically detects and reads information from RFID tags on cosmetics, eliminating the need for manual tracking and organization, thereby significantly improving management efficiency and reducing time loss.
Solution Approach 2:
The cosmetics automatically provide their identification information through RFID tags when scanned by the reader unit. This self-service mechanism allows the system to automatically gather cosmetics data without requiring user intervention, enabling efficient inventory management and usage period tracking.
2Quantity of substance
If the mobile terminal recognizes and displays all cosmetics in the environment, then it provides comprehensive cosmetics information, but it may recognize cosmetics that the user does not actually possess
Solution Approach 1:
The system uses feedback from user input to refine and update the possessed cosmetics list. When users confirm or correct the recognized cosmetics through the input unit, the control unit adjusts the list accordingly, ensuring that only actually possessed cosmetics are maintained in the database, thus improving reliability while maintaining comprehensive recognition capability.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The mobile terminal effectively recognizes and organizes cosmetics, helping users manage their cosmetics inventory, recommend optimal makeup methods, and prevent the use of expired cosmetics, thereby enhancing user convenience and cosmetics utilization.
Implementation Method 1
an RFID reader unit for recognizing cosmetics through an RFID tag attached to the cosmetics and receiving cosmetic information from the recognized RFID tag
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AI summary
The present invention relates to a mobile terminal and a cosmetics automatic recognition system capable of recognizing cosmetics located nearby and recommending a make-up method using the recognized cosmetics. The present invention may comprise a mobile terminal including: an RFID reader unit configured to recognize cosmetics through an RFID tag attached to a cosmetic and receive cosmetic information from the recognized RFID tag and from cosmetics having an RFID tag which stores cosmetic information attached thereto; a control unit configured to generate a cosmetics list consisting of at least one cosmetic recognized by the RFID reader unit; and a display unit configured to display the cosmetics list.