Roomfinder Platform Using Image Recognition for Automated Reservation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current room reservation systems are inefficient and inconvenient, requiring users to manually search for and identify rooms, often involving multiple resources and complex interfaces, especially on mobile devices, which leads to delays and unnecessary resource usage.
Innovation Solution
A roomfinder platform that uses image recognition, machine learning, and sensor data from mobile devices to automatically identify desired rooms, determine availability, and generate reservation options, leveraging existing facility data without additional infrastructure.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If manual room search and identification methods are used, then users can reserve rooms, but the process is inefficient and consumes excessive time and resources
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces manual mechanical room search methods with automated image recognition technology. The system captures images of rooms using a mobile device camera and automatically identifies room features, attributes, and availability status through computer vision algorithms, eliminating the need for users to manually search and identify rooms.
Solution Approach 2:
The system enables self-service room reservation by automatically processing room identification, availability checking, and reservation generation without requiring manual intervention. The image recognition system autonomously analyzes room images, matches them with facility data, and presents reservation options to users.
2Loss of information
If complex interfaces and multiple resources are used for room reservation, then comprehensive room information can be accessed, but the operation becomes cumbersome and inconvenient
Solution Approach 1:
The system extracts only the essential room information needed for reservation from the complete facility data set. By using image recognition to identify key room attributes and features directly from photos, the system presents a simplified subset of information to users while maintaining access to comprehensive facility data in the background.
Solution Approach 2:
The image recognition system acts as an intermediary between the complex facility data and the user interface. It translates detailed room information into visual image-based identification, allowing users to select rooms based on visual recognition rather than navigating complex data structures.
3Extent of automation
If additional infrastructure is deployed for room identification, then automated room recognition can be achieved, but system complexity and cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system uses a mobile device camera, which is a universal component already present in most smartphones, for room image capture. This multi-functional device serves both as a communication tool and an imaging device, eliminating the need for dedicated room scanning hardware while achieving automated room identification.
Solution Approach 2:
Instead of using physical room tags, labels, or specialized markers that would require additional infrastructure, the system creates digital copies of room appearances through photographs. The image recognition algorithms analyze these visual copies to identify and distinguish different rooms without requiring any physical modifications to the facility.
Data Source
AI summary
A method may include receiving, from a client device, a reservation time and image data relating to a desired room; receiving, from a network storage device, facility data for a plurality of rooms; identifying, using an image recognition model, the desired room based on the image data and the facility data; determining an availability of the desired room based on the reservation time and the facility data; generating a first reservation option to reserve the desired room and/or a second reservation option to reserve an alternate room; transmitting, to the client device, the first reservation option and/or the second reservation option; receiving, from the client device, a user selection of the first reservation option and/or the second reservation option; and transmitting, to the network storage device, an instruction to reserve the desired room and/or the alternate room.