Wallet Server Food Evaluation System

Resolve Bottlenecks,
Find Innovative Solutions
Generate Solutions

Solution Overview

Problem

Evaluating each food item in a store, such as a restaurant, is complex, and existing techniques lack the capability to collect detailed evaluations for individual items and provide sufficient marketing information.

Innovation Solution

A wallet server system that captures images of food items and associates them with user information, allowing for evaluation input through a user terminal, enabling detailed evaluation collection and marketing insights for each food item.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of information

If evaluation data is collected for each individual food item, then marketing information detail is improved, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemarketing information detailVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the evaluation system into distinct functional modules: image capture unit, image processing unit, food item identification unit, evaluation data collection unit, and marketing information generation unit. Each module performs a specific task in the evaluation workflow, allowing the complex system to be managed through modular components that can be developed, maintained, and scaled independently.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces an intermediary processing layer between image capture and evaluation data collection. The image processing unit acts as a mediator that converts raw images into structured food item identification data, which then feeds into the evaluation system. This intermediary layer simplifies the overall system architecture by handling complex image analysis separately from the evaluation logic.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Measurement precision

If image capture and processing is implemented for each food item, then evaluation accuracy is improved, but processing time increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveevaluation accuracyVSAvoidprocessing time
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements preliminary action by pre-processing images to extract and identify food items before the actual evaluation takes place. The image processing unit prepares structured data about each food item in advance, creating a ready-to-use format that accelerates the subsequent evaluation process. This preliminary structuring of data eliminates the need for complex real-time analysis during evaluation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

3Loss of information

If detailed food item evaluations are collected, then marketing insight quality is improved, but data processing complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemarketing insight qualityVSAvoiddata processing complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies local quality by generating marketing information that is specifically tailored to each food item's evaluation data. Rather than processing all evaluation data uniformly, the system generates targeted marketing insights for individual food items based on their specific evaluation metrics, images, and characteristics. This allows high-quality marketing insights to be produced without requiring complex processing of the entire dataset at once.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Data Source

PatentUS11669852B2Wallet server, wallet system, and computer-readable recording medium
Publication Date: 2023.06.06 TOYOTA JIDOSHA KK
  • US11669852B2 patent drawing
  • US11669852B2 patent drawing
  • US11669852B2 patent drawing

AI summary

In a wallet server including a processor having hardware, the processor acquires image information that includes a captured image of food provided to a user transmitted from a store terminal of a store providing the food, and user information related to the user provided with the food, and associates the acquired image information with the user information and transmits a display instruction to instruct display of the image information and a screen for accepting input of evaluation for the food to a user terminal of the user determined based on the user information.