Virtual Human Model for Privacy-Preserving Service Determination

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current technologies for acquiring personality diagnosis data from user behavior do not fully utilize this data to enhance quality of life in specific geographic areas while protecting real humans' privacy by generating and observing virtual humans without direct observation.

Innovation Solution

An information processing apparatus that collects behavior-related information, extracts human parameters, trains models, generates virtual humans, measures their behavior, and determines service content in geographic areas to improve quality of life while maintaining real humans' privacy.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If behavior-related information of real humans is collected and analyzed directly, then service content determination accuracy is improved, but real humans' privacy is compromised

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveservice content determination accuracyVSAvoidprivacy infringement
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The patent creates virtual humans as copies that replicate the behavioral patterns and characteristics of real humans without exposing actual personal data. The virtual humans are generated from collected behavior-related information through parameter extraction and model training, allowing service determination while preserving real human privacy.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces virtual humans as an intermediary between behavior data collection and service content determination. Instead of directly analyzing real human behavior data, the system uses virtual humans as a mediator to perform the analysis, thereby protecting privacy while maintaining determination accuracy.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Object-affected harmful factors

If virtual humans are generated and used to protect privacy, then privacy protection is improved, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveprivacy protectionVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Object-affected harmful factorsVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the complex task of privacy protection into distinct modules: behavior information collection, parameter extraction, model training, virtual human generation, and service determination. This segmentation makes the system more manageable and easier to implement while achieving privacy protection goals.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentUS20240320555A1Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and non-transitory computer readable medium
Publication Date: 2024.09.26 TOYOTA JIDOSHA KK
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AI summary

An information processing apparatus includes a controller. The controller is configured to execute operations that include collecting behavior-related information regarding the behavior of one or more humans in a certain geographic area, extracting a human parameter from the behavior-related information, training a model using the human parameter, generating one or more virtual humans using the model, measuring the behavior of the one or more virtual humans in the geographic area, and determining, from the measured behavior, a service content in the geographic area.