Information Processing Apparatus Signal Comparison Privacy Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Devices like smart speakers and communication robots face challenges in providing information while ensuring privacy and confidentiality, as they often disseminate information to anyone in the vicinity, rather than just the intended recipient.
Innovation Solution
An information processing apparatus that determines the information-providing method based on a comparison between communication signals from external devices and registered signals, allowing for normal, private, or restricted modes of information delivery, ensuring that information is only accessible to authorized individuals.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If information is provided to anyone in the space where the device is installed, then information accessibility is improved, but privacy and information confidentiality deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by registering communication signals from authorized persons in advance. When information provision is requested, the system compares the current communication signal against these pre-registered signals to determine whether to provide information, thus preventing privacy violations before they occur while maintaining easy access for authorized users.
2Object-affected harmful factors
If communication signal comparison with registered signals is performed, then information confidentiality is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system creates copies of communication signals from authorized persons and stores them as registered signals. During information provision, it compares the current communication signal against these signal copies using equality comparison, which is a simple and efficient method that maintains information confidentiality without requiring complex processing algorithms.
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AI summary
An information processing apparatus, wherein, in a mode determination unit, an information-providing method in response to an information providing request from a user is determined on the basis of a result of comparing a communication signal or communication signals from one or a plurality of external devices with one or a plurality of registration signals registered in advance.