Visual Icon Aptitude Testing for Subconscious Stress Mapping

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing aptitude testing systems struggle to accurately and objectively assess an individual's mental structure and vocational aptitude due to the invisibility of stress and the rigidity of conventional performance theories, which makes it difficult to grasp psychological and social behaviors.

Innovation Solution

A visual approach-based aptitude testing system that utilizes icons to stimulate the amygdala's rapid emotional response, allowing for the expression of subconscious consciousness before neocortex processing, thereby capturing potential consciousness through visual stimuli.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If conventional performance theory is used for aptitude testing, then the testing system has a rigid structural system, but the analytical result is difficult to be reused and appropriate determination is difficult

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetesting system structureVSAvoidreusability of analytical result
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The patent transforms the rigid structural system into a dynamic one by introducing a two-dimensional coordinate system where the abscissa represents stress resistance and the ordinate represents work ability. This dynamic framework allows examinees to be positioned and evaluated flexibly across multiple dimensions, enabling the analytical results to be reused and reapplied to different occupational scenarios and decision-making contexts.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

2Measurement precision

If stress is measured through conventional methods, then the measurement process is complex, but stress is invisible and difficult to visually and accurately grasp

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvestress measurement accuracyVSAvoidmeasurement process complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent replaces complex mechanical or physiological stress measurement devices with a visual evaluation system. Examinees complete check sheets with icons representing their responses to various situations, and the system automatically plots these responses on a two-dimensional coordinate system. This substitution transforms invisible stress into visible graphical representations that can be accurately grasped and analyzed without complex measurement equipment.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent employs visual indicators including color-coded regions and icons on check sheets to represent different stress levels and response patterns. The coordinate system uses visual differentiation to show examinee positions relative to ideal ranges, making invisible stress and psychological states visually apparent and easily interpretable.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #32Color changes

3Adaptability or versatility

If visual information is used to assess mental structure, then the assessment can be multifaceted, but the system must accurately determine icon relationships and patterns

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemultifaceted assessment capabilityVSAvoidicon relationship determination accuracy
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the assessment into distinct icon selection categories on check sheets, where examinees mark icons representing their responses to specific situations. Each icon and its position on the check sheet represents a discrete data point that is systematically processed and plotted on the coordinate system. This segmentation allows multifaceted assessment while maintaining precision through structured data collection and automated plotting procedures.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentEP3816897B1Visual approach-based aptitude testing system
Publication Date: 2025.08.13 JINSOKEN CO LTD
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AI summary

[Problem] To grasp human mental structure in a multifaceted manner through a visual information, and to accurately and objectively grasp an examinee's propensity such as a vocational aptitude. [Solution] The potential consciousness of an examinee is expressed by the application state of the multiple icons in a check sheet comprising a large number of areas and figures having no particular meaning by itself in a rectangular frame. It is possible to visually and specifically express an examinee's internal and potential consciousness through the images obtained from the examinee's application state of icons on a check sheet. Amygdala that controls emotion will respond to visual information responds 100ms earlier than neocortex. Therefore, it is possible to understand an examinee's aptitude by grasping his/her subconsciousness under unawareness prior to conscious controls. Since the icons are recognized as figures, they affect subconscious of the frontal lobe without stimulating the emotional system.