Sensor Event Detection System for Social Media Tagging

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing motion capture systems fail to efficiently detect and tag events using sensor data, leading to excessive data storage and processing requirements, inability to differentiate between event types, and lack of integration with social media for event confirmation and filtering.

Innovation Solution

A sensor and media event detection system that utilizes motion capture sensors and other sensors to confirm and differentiate events, integrates with social media for event tagging and filtering, and enables intelligent video synchronization and transfer, reducing storage needs by uploading only event-related data.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If all motion capture data is stored and uploaded, then complete data record is maintained, but storage requirements and upload times increase excessively

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedata completenessVSAvoiddata storage volume
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSQuantity of substance

Solution Approach 1:

The system extracts and identifies only the relevant portions of motion capture data that correspond to detected events, separating them from the bulk of non-event data. This allows the system to maintain complete event data for reliability while excluding irrelevant data segments, thereby reducing overall storage volume and upload requirements.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary event detection and data filtering during the data capture phase, identifying and tagging event-related segments before storage or upload. This preliminary classification enables subsequent efficient retrieval and transmission of only necessary data, reducing both storage needs and upload times while preserving complete event information.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Measurement precision

If event detection sensitivity is increased to capture all events, then detection accuracy improves, but false positive events increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveevent detection accuracyVSAvoidfalse positive rate
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements feedback mechanisms where detected events are validated against multiple criteria including sensor data patterns, contextual information, and previously learned event characteristics. This feedback loop allows the system to maintain high detection sensitivity while filtering out false positives through iterative validation and correction.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The system dynamically adjusts detection parameters and thresholds based on contextual information and learned patterns from previous events. By changing parameters adaptively rather than using fixed thresholds, the system maintains high detection accuracy while reducing false positives through context-aware parameter optimization.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Measurement precision

If multiple sensors are integrated to differentiate event types, then event classification accuracy improves, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveevent differentiation accuracyVSAvoidsensor integration complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments the complex task of event differentiation into distinct processing stages, with each sensor type handling specific aspects of event detection. This segmentation allows multiple sensors to be integrated systematically, with each contributing specialized measurements that together enable accurate event classification without overwhelming system complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements a unified event detection framework that processes data from multiple sensor types through a common analysis pipeline. This multi-functional approach allows the same processing architecture to handle data from various sensors, reducing overall system complexity while maintaining the ability to differentiate event types through combined sensor inputs.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

4Reliability

If video synchronization is performed for all motion data, then complete video record is maintained, but storage and processing requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvevideo completenessVSAvoidvideo storage volume
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSQuantity of substance

Solution Approach 1:

The system extracts and synchronizes video segments only for detected event portions, separating event-related video from non-event video. This extraction approach maintains complete video records for all events while excluding irrelevant video segments, thereby reducing overall video storage volume and processing requirements while preserving video completeness for event analysis.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Data Source

PatentUS9646209B2Sensor and media event detection and tagging system
Publication Date: 2017.05.09 NEWLIGHT CAPITAL LLC
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AI summary

Enables detection and tagging of events using sensor data combined with data from servers such as social media sites. Sensors may measure values such as motion, temperature, humidity, wind, pressure, elevation, light, sound, or heart rate. Sensor data and event tags may be utilized to curate text, images, video, sound and post the results to social networks, for example in a dedicated feed. Event tags generated by the system may represent for example activity types, players, performance levels, or scoring results. The system may analyze social media postings to confirm or augment event tags. Users may filter and analyze saved events based on the assigned tags. The system may create highlight and fail reels filtered by metrics and by tags.