Sensor-Text Fusion for Long-Duration Action Recognition

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing techniques for detecting user action patterns using motion sensors struggle to accurately estimate specific, long-duration actions from short-duration data, as they primarily focus on short-term actions and unintentional patterns, making it difficult to infer intentionally performed, entertaining activities over extended periods.

Innovation Solution

An information processing apparatus and method that combines motion sensor data with text information to extract user experiences and action patterns, utilizing relationship information to correlate and display relevant experience information, enhancing the recognition of long-duration action patterns by integrating position sensor data and machine learning algorithms.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Duration of action of moving object

If motion sensor data is used to detect action patterns, then short-term actions can be detected, but long-duration specific actions cannot be accurately estimated

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedetection durationVSAvoidaction recognition accuracy
Core Design Contradiction:
Duration of action of moving objectVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines motion sensor data with text information from social network services to create a comprehensive action recognition system. By merging multiple information sources (sensor data detecting physical movements and text data containing user-described experiences), the system can accurately recognize both short-term and long-duration actions, resolving the contradiction between detection duration and recognition accuracy

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces text information as an intermediary element that bridges the gap between sensor data and action interpretation. User-generated text content serves as a mediator that provides contextual meaning to sensor measurements, enabling accurate identification of specific long-duration actions that sensor data alone cannot determine

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Loss of information

If only sensor information is used, then objective action data is obtained, but user experience and intention are lost

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinformation completenessVSAvoiddata processing complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system merges sensor information with text information from social network services in an integrated processing framework. This combination preserves both objective physical data and subjective user experience information, achieving complete action understanding while managing complexity through unified data structure design

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent creates a multi-functional information processing system that handles both sensor data and text data through common processing modules. The system universally processes multiple data types (motion sensors, position sensors, text information) using integrated algorithms, reducing overall system complexity while maintaining comprehensive information capture

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

3Loss of information

If text information is integrated with sensor data, then higher-level user experience information is obtained, but information processing complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinformation qualityVSAvoidprocessing system complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent performs preliminary extraction of experience information from text data before integrating it with sensor information. By pre-processing text information to extract relevant experience elements and storing them in structured format, the system reduces the complexity of subsequent integration processes while maintaining high information quality

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system segments the information processing into distinct modules: text information extraction, sensor data processing, and integrated experience recognition. This segmentation allows each module to handle specific data types independently, reducing overall processing complexity while achieving high-quality comprehensive information output

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentUS9369535B2Information processing apparatus, information processing method and program
Publication Date: 2016.06.14 SONY GROUP CORP
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AI summary

There is provided an information processing apparatus including an experience extracting unit extracting experience information indicating a user experience from text information, an action extracting unit extracting an action pattern from sensor information, a correspondence experience extracting unit extracting, based on relationship information indicating a correspondence relationship between the experience information and the action pattern, experience information corresponding to the action pattern extracted from the sensor information, and a display controlling unit displaying information related to the experience information extracted from the text information along with information related to the experience information corresponding to the action pattern.