Video Call User Identification via Unique ID Images
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current video call systems face challenges in specifying a user without compromising user interface and user experience, particularly in maintaining privacy as user account information is not exposed on the video call screen, making it difficult to identify users in cases of privacy infringement.
Innovation Solution
A method and apparatus that extracts unique IDs from terminals during a video call, creates identification codes, and displays corresponding images on the terminals, allowing user specification through a combination of sub-images that correspond to antilogarithm numbers, enabling user identification without exposing actual IDs.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If user account information is not exposed on the video call screen to maintain privacy, then user privacy is protected, but it becomes difficult to specify and identify users in cases of privacy infringement
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary element (image corresponding to identification code) that mediates between user privacy protection and user identification needs. The image acts as a proxy that reveals user identity information without exposing sensitive account details, thus resolving the contradiction by providing a middle-ground solution that satisfies both privacy protection and identification requirements
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a copy (image) that represents the user's identification code without revealing the original sensitive account information. This copy serves as a substitute that maintains privacy while enabling identification, as the image can be displayed publicly without compromising the security of the actual account credentials
2Difficulty of detecting and measuring
If user account information is exposed on the video call screen to enable user identification, then user specification becomes possible, but user interface and user experience are compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts only the necessary identification information (creating an image from the identification code) while leaving out the sensitive account information. This selective extraction allows user identification to proceed without exposing unnecessary personal data, thus maintaining user interface quality and experience while achieving the identification goal
Solution Approach 2:
The patent applies local quality by displaying only the specific portion of information needed for identification (the image corresponding to identification code) rather than exposing all user account information. This localized information display maintains overall user experience while enabling identification where needed
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AI summary
A video call mediating method includes: connecting, by a first terminal and a second terminal, to a video call platform; extracting a first identifier (ID) of a user of the first terminal and a second ID of a user of the second terminal, that is not displayed on the first terminal and the second terminal, during a video call; creating a first identification code for the first terminal and a second identification code of the second terminal from the first ID and the second ID, respectively; establishing a first video call session between the first terminal and the second terminal; creating a first image and a second image corresponding to the first terminal and the second terminal, respectively, with reference to the first identification code and the second identification code, respectively; and displaying the first image and the second image on a display of the first terminal and on a display of the second terminal, respectively.