Wearable Device Profile Creation via Proximity Data Merging
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Solution Overview
Problem
Wearable devices struggle to incorporate images of the user into profile creation functions due to their limited data acquisition capabilities, primarily capturing scenes away from the user.
Innovation Solution
A wearable device that communicates with other devices in proximity to gather and share data, such as images and audio, from devices within the same conversation group, expanding the range of expression in profile creation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a wearable device captures images only in the direction facing away from the user, then the device structure remains simple and compact, but the range of expression in profile creation is limited and cannot include images of the user
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges data from multiple wearable devices worn by different participants in the same event. By combining images captured by other participants' devices with audio data and event information, the system creates comprehensive profiles that include images of the user without requiring the user's device to have front-facing imaging capability.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an event information database as an intermediary that stores and manages data from multiple wearable devices. This mediator collects images, audio, and event information from various sources, processes them, and integrates them into unified profiles, resolving the limitation of individual device capabilities.
2Loss of information
If a wearable device relies solely on its own collected data for profile creation, then data processing remains simple, but the quality and completeness of the profile is insufficient
Solution Approach 1:
The system merges data from multiple sources including images captured by other participants' wearable devices, audio recordings from various devices, and event information from the database. This combination ensures comprehensive coverage of the event and includes images of all participants, including the user.
Solution Approach 2:
The event information database serves multiple functions: storing raw data from wearable devices, processing and matching data with event information, generating profiles, and managing communication between devices. This multi-functional approach enhances data completeness while distributing processing complexity across the system.
3Measurement precision
If manual editing is required to include user images in profiles, then profile accuracy can be improved, but user operation becomes complex and time-consuming
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs automatic profile creation by having the wearable device automatically select images of the user captured by other participants' devices, match them with audio data and event information, and generate the profile without user intervention. This self-service approach maintains high accuracy while eliminating manual editing requirements.
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses audio data as feedback to automatically identify when the user is speaking and selects images captured during those time periods. This feedback mechanism ensures accurate matching of user images with corresponding audio segments, achieving high profile accuracy automatically.
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AI summary
A wearable device is worn by a person participating in an event in which a plurality of other people are participating and wearing other wearable devices. The wearable device includes a request unit for transmitting a request signal to other wearable devices that are in a predetermined range, and receiving a response to the request signal from each of the other wearable devices, and a communication unit for determining, with use of the received responses, one or more of the other wearable devices to be a communication partner, and performing data communication with the determined one or more other wearable devices. The data received in the communication is data collected by the one or more other wearable devices determined to be communication partners, and the data is used as a profile component when creating a profile of the event.