Visual Field Image Processing for Real-Time Training Guidance

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Solution Overview

Problem

There is a demand for a technique that supports teachers in guiding students in real-time for advanced training, considering factors like work procedures, instruments, objects, situations, and student proficiency levels.

Innovation Solution

An information processing system that acquires visual field images of both a teacher and a student, and uses a processor to control display devices, showing interest information indicating the position of specific regions of interest in each visual field, allowing for real-time guidance and feedback.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If a teacher and student perform operations in parallel with separate display devices, then real-time guidance is enabled, but the system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvereal-time guidance capabilityVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges the teacher's and student's visual field images into a single composite image that is displayed on both display devices. This composite image includes the teacher's visual field image with detected regions of interest and the student's visual field image with corresponding regions, allowing both users to see the same integrated view and enabling real-time guidance without requiring separate complex processing systems for each user.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The display device is designed to serve multiple functions: it displays both the teacher's and student's visual field images, shows detected regions of interest, provides guidance information, and maintains the same functionality for both users simultaneously. This multi-functional design reduces system complexity by using a single unified display system rather than separate specialized devices.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

2Measurement precision

If region of interest detection is performed on both visual field images, then training accuracy improves, but information processing time increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetraining accuracyVSAvoidinformation processing time
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent detects regions of interest in the teacher's visual field image first, then uses these detected regions as a reference to identify corresponding regions in the student's visual field image. This copying approach allows the system to leverage the teacher's detected regions to guide the detection process for the student's image, reducing redundant processing while maintaining high training accuracy.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs region of interest detection on the teacher's visual field image before processing the student's image. The detected regions from the teacher's image are used as preliminary information to guide and accelerate the detection process for the student's image, reducing overall processing time while maintaining detection accuracy.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS20250077161A1Information processing system, information processing method, and information processing program
Publication Date: 2025.03.06 FUJIFILM CORP
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AI summary

An information processing system including at least one processor, wherein the processor is configured to: acquire a first visual field image showing a visual field of a first user and a second visual field image showing a visual field of a second user; perform control of causing a second display device viewed by the second user to display first interest information indicating a position of at least one first region of interest included in the first visual field image; and perform control of causing a first display device viewed by the first user to display second interest information indicating a position of at least one second region of interest included in the second visual field image.