Multi-Point Visit Verification Through Face-Linked Composite Images
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing techniques for promoting visits to multiple points, such as in a stamp rally, are insufficient in utilizing the recorded visits effectively.
Innovation Solution
A visit promotion apparatus and method that acquires and authenticates user images, generates a composite image of visited points, and transmits it to a display terminal upon satisfying certain conditions, such as successful face authentication at multiple points and payment history.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If face authentication is performed at multiple points to verify actual visits, then visit verification reliability is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system divides the verification process into separate modules: image acquisition units at each point, face authentication units that process images, and a composite image generation unit that consolidates results. This segmentation allows reliable multi-point verification while managing complexity through modular architecture.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary authentication apparatus that receives images from multiple points, performs face authentication, and generates a composite image. This intermediary component simplifies the overall system by centralizing the authentication logic and coordinating between multiple distributed points.
2Loss of information
If composite images are generated to record visit information, then information provision to users is improved, but processing time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by continuously acquiring and storing images at each point during the stamp rally process. When a user completes the required visits, the composite image is generated from pre-acquired images, reducing processing time compared to capturing images in real-time during the final verification.
Solution Approach 2:
The image acquisition and authentication processes continue uninterrupted throughout the stamp rally event. By maintaining continuous operation of the authentication units and image processing systems, the system ensures visit information is always ready to be provided to users without significant delays.
3Loss of information
If multiple captured images are combined into a composite image, then visit record completeness is improved, but image processing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple captured images from different points into a single composite image that represents the user's complete visit record. This combining approach maintains visit record completeness while managing processing complexity by consolidating multiple images into one unified output rather than processing them separately.
Solution Approach 2:
The composite image generation unit serves multiple functions: it consolidates images from various points, verifies authentication results, and creates a unified visit record. This multi-functionality reduces overall processing complexity by combining several operations into a single comprehensive process.
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AI summary
Provided are visit promotion apparatuses for providing users who have actually visited various points with information in which visits to the respective points are recorded. A visit promotion apparatus (100) includes: an acquisition unit (130) configured to acquire captured images in which a user is photographed; an authentication control unit (140) configured to extract the user's face area or facial feature information from the captured images and cause an authentication apparatus (200) to perform face authentication; an image generation unit (170) configured to, when a prescribed image generation condition based on the face authentication at a plurality of points is satisfied, generate a composite image including the captured images at the respective points of the user who has succeeded in the face authentication; and an output unit (180) configured to transmit the composite image generated by the image generation unit (170) to a prescribed display terminal.