Centralized Skill Competition Platform Using AI Validation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current technologies lack a centralized platform to facilitate and authenticate skill-based competitions, ensuring fair play and integrity across different geographic locations, as users cannot reliably compete against each other without a system to validate submissions and determine winners.

Innovation Solution

A computerized method and system that allows users to compete in skill-based competitions by providing event rules, livestreaming their submissions, and using photogrammetry and AI engines to validate compliance with these rules, ensuring fair play and accurate scoring through local and network-based processing.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If a centralized platform is implemented to manage skill-based competitions, then competition integrity and fairness are improved, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecompetition integrityVSAvoidsystem complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system divides competition management into separate functional modules: event rule management, submission reception, photogrammetry analysis, AI validation, leaderboard management, and prize distribution. Each module operates independently but connects through standardized interfaces, reducing overall system complexity while maintaining comprehensive control over competition integrity

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The centralized platform acts as an intermediary between competitors, validating submissions through photogrammetry and AI analysis before accepting results. This mediator role ensures fair play by objectively verifying competition conditions without requiring direct trust between competitors, thereby improving reliability while keeping the system architecture manageable

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Measurement precision

If photogrammetry and AI validation are used to verify submissions, then measurement precision of competition results is improved, but processing time and computational resources increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvesubmission validation accuracyVSAvoidprocessing time

Core Design Contradiction:

Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs photogrammetry analysis and AI validation in real-time or near real-time as submissions are received, rather than batch processing later. This preliminary validation approach ensures measurement precision is maintained while allowing winners to be determined and prizes distributed without excessive delays

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

Manual verification of competition submissions is replaced with automated photogrammetry engines and AI validation systems. These computational systems analyze video footage and submission data to objectively verify compliance with event rules, significantly improving measurement precision while the parallel processing architecture minimizes processing time

Inventive Principle:

Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

3Speed

If real-time leaderboard updates and winner determination are implemented, then competition responsiveness is improved, but computational load and system resources increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecompetition responsivenessVSAvoidcomputational resources

Core Design Contradiction:

SpeedVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The system updates leaderboards and determines winners based on validated submissions without requiring analysis of every single submission in detail. Once a winner is determined through photogrammetry and AI validation, the system can stop processing further submissions for that competition, using partial action to achieve the necessary responsiveness without excessive computational resource consumption

Inventive Principle:

Principle #16Partial or excessive action

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

Enables fair and authentic skill-based competitions by ensuring all users adhere to the same rules, allowing for real-time or near real-time management of submissions and leaderboards, and crowning winners, while also facilitating community engagement and revenue generation through advertising.

Implementation Method 1

analyzing the video feed of the first user competing in the skill-based competition using photogrammetry techniques

Methodology Applied

Scientific EffectPhotogrammetry: Photogrammetry

Data Source

PatentUS11813534B1Computerized method and computing platform for centrally managing skill-based competitions

Publication Date: 2023.11.14 METAFLO LLC

AI summary

A computerized method and computing platform provides for managing a skill-based competition including receiving event rules including competition set-up rules and authentication a competition set-up prior to competing. Upon validating set-up, the method includes capturing, via the recording device, a video feed of the first user competing in the skill-based competition. A local processing engine can therein analyze the submission to either prepare it for network transmission or determine if network transmission is warranted in relation to other competitor submissions in the competition.