RU2164055C2 - Acquaintanceship method - Google Patents

Abstract

FIELD: satisfying person needs in finding helpmate. SUBSTANCE: person who wants to make acquaintance of anticipated helpmate carries instrument whose memory keeps his or her characteristics and standard set of desired characteristics of person the instrument owner should like to make acquaintance of. Instruments carry out remote exchange of information by means of electromagnetic waves without direct participation of their owners. Having received information the instrument tests characteristics for coincidence and generates characters coincidence signal which is responded by person and exchanges characteristics-identifying information with other instrument. Characteristics of particular person are compared with standard set of characteristics of other person and those of the latter with standard set of characteristics of particular person. Person responding to characters coincidence signal easily makes acquaintance of person who has sent message. Ways of recording, reading, and sending information, as well as contents of information, instrument design, and type of characters coincidence signal are given in description of invention. EFFECT: provision for generating identification character information without participation of persons. 3 dwg

Description

 The invention relates to the field of satisfying vital needs, in particular, to methods for facilitating acquaintances of people in order to satisfy their mutual needs, for example, the need for a person to have a life partner.

 The natural way of meeting people with mutual needs and wanting, for example, to start a family, is not always successful due to lack of time, inappropriate environment, narrow circle of communication, natural qualities that make it difficult to get to know each other (shyness, inferiority complex, etc.), and other reasons. In practice, if you can’t get to know the right person in a natural way, people use a method of facilitating dating based on comparing the characteristics of real individuals with reference sets of signs. In order to make acquaintance, people submit announcements to the media containing brief information about themselves (signs of a real individual) and a description of the alleged life partner whom they would like to meet (reference set of signs). People read ads and make acquaintances in cases where their own characteristics coincide with the reference sets of signs in the ads, as well as if the signs of real individuals who have submitted these ads coincide with the reference sets of people that people who have read these ads. In addition, people turn to dating services for help [A. S. Salnikova "I am a matchmaker", M., Moscow Worker, 1991], who accumulate information about people who want to get to know each other. The choice of a person to meet here is also based on a comparison of the characteristics of real individuals with reference sets of signs. To make a choice by comparing signs helps a qualified specialist - a psychologist dating service. For the same purpose, computers can be used. Thus, people who did not manage to get to know themselves in a natural way, using the methods known from practice known on their own or with the help of dating services, can make a selective acquaintance based on the coincidence of signs. The selectivity of these methods of dating can reduce the time spent on finding the right person. The likelihood of an unsuccessful acquaintance also decreases when the presence of a person with whom an acquaintance has occurred, signs that impede the continuation of this acquaintance, is revealed only after a considerable time. In addition, these methods significantly expand the range of possible communication between people, since a person can be searched for with matching attributes even in other cities and countries. The listed methods of facilitating acquaintances make it possible in some cases to make successful acquaintances when the mutual needs of people are satisfied. However, in methods known in practice for making acquaintances of people in order to satisfy mutual needs, technical means have not been previously applied.

 In [A. Z. Rubinov “Family, loneliness, love”, M., “Soviet Russia”, 1986] it is noted that in the process of active movements characteristic of modern people, people are in close proximity to them at certain points in time, getting to know which with high probability would satisfy their mutual needs, for example, to find a life partner. However, acquaintances in the process of ordinary movements (on the streets of the city on foot and by transport, in shops, in places of rest, during sports and recreational and social events, in country walks, etc.) occur not so often. The fact is that a person’s reaction is usually too slow to single out the right person from the crowd while he is in sight. In addition, people justifiably do not trust only the visual sense organs, which do not tell them all the necessary information. In order to decide to try to get acquainted with a person who is interested in his appearance, it is advisable for a person to at least know whether the characteristics of this person coincide with the reference set of characteristics of the person with whom he would like to meet, and also whether his own characteristics coincide with the standard that the observed person is looking for . Such knowledge in many cases would overcome shyness and shyness and make acquaintance. Thus, it can be considered justified to claim that in many cases people would be able to make acquaintances in the process of ordinary movements if they would receive information about the coincidence of their signs with those of people who are in the immediate vicinity of them at a given time. To facilitate acquaintance in the process of ordinary movements of people, it is proposed to carry out a remote exchange of information about the characteristics of individuals and reference sets without their direct participation. People who want to make acquaintance in order to check the coincidence of signs in the process of moving, have with them functionally identical devices that differ from each other only in information that is recorded in the electronic memory of the device. This information is individual and consists of the characteristics of the person and the characteristics of the standard with which this person would like to meet. The specified information is transmitted through the environment using electromagnetic waves (radio waves or infrared). The radiation parameters - carrier frequency, power, principles of coding and modulation - are the same for all devices. The transmission function is performed by the transmitter and the antenna of the device. Electromagnetic waves are received by the antenna of the device and the receiver of the device, then the received information is compared with the information recorded in the memory. Moreover, the accepted signs of a real individual are compared with a reference set of signs in the device’s memory, and the adopted reference set of signs is compared with the signs of a natural person recorded in the device’s memory. If the characteristic of the standard corresponds not to one but to the whole set of values of the characteristics of the individual, the signs are considered to be the same if the attribute of the individual belongs to the set of values that defines the characteristic of the standard. If all the signs coincide (except for reference signs, see below), a signal is generated that is perceived by any human senses. The presence of a signal of coincidence of signs facilitates the implementation of dating.

 The feasibility of the proposed method is illustrated by the diagram of the device shown in FIG. 1, and feature matching circuitry shown in FIG. 2 and FIG. 3.

 The portable device (Fig. 1) contains a device for recording and reading signs 1, the output of which is connected to the input of the memory block of signs 2, the first output of which is connected through a series-connected block of coding signs 3 and the transmitter 4 is connected to the 1st signal input of the switch "reception -transmission "5, the first output of which is connected to the input of the receiver 6, the output of which is connected to the input of the decoding unit of signs 7 and through the signal detection circuit 8 with the input of the synchronizer 9, the first output of which is connected to the 1st control input of the memory unit at 2, the control input of the transmitter 4 and the control input of the receive-transmit switch 5, the 2nd output of which is connected to the input of the antenna unit 10, the output of which is connected to the 2nd signal input of the receive-transmit switch 5. The output of the decoding unit sign 7 is connected to the information input of the multiplexer 11 and the 1st input of the matching circuit 12 signs, the output of which is connected to the input of the block matching signal 13 and the control input of the multiplexer 11, the output of which is connected to the input of the memory unit and signs 2. The 2nd output of the sign memory unit 2 is connected to the input of the write-read device 1. The 2nd output of the synchronizer 9 is connected to the 2nd control input of the sign memory 2 and the control input of the matching circuit 12. Signs of the 3rd the output of the trait memory 2 is connected to the 2nd input of the matching circuit 12.

 The device operates as follows. Characteristics of an individual and a reference set of signs are entered into the memory unit of signs 2 using the device for recording and reading signs 1. At the same time, the recorded information is displayed on the board included in the device for recording and reading of signs 1. The signs recorded in the memory unit 2, if available from the synchronizer 9 the control pulse at the 1st control input of the memory unit 2 is supplied to the character coding unit 3, where it is encoded and fed to the transmitter 4, which generates a radiated electromagnetic signal in the presence of a control pulse L, which in the presence of a control pulse via the transmit-receive switch 5 is supplied to the entrance antenna unit 10 and then is emitted into the environment. If there is no control pulse at the control input of the receive-transmit switch 5 from the output of the synchronizer 9 that allows transmission, the signals received from the environment from the output of the antenna unit 10 are sent to the 2nd signal input of the receive-transmit switch 5 and then to receiver 6 amplifying the received signal and filtering it from interference. From the output of the receiver 6, the signals are fed to the block for decoding the signs 7. Then, the signs extracted from the received signal are fed to the first input of the matching scheme 12, the example of which will be discussed later. The signs are fed to the 2nd input of the matching block 12 signs from a separate 3rd output of the memory block of signs 2 in the order required for comparison. If the signs isolated from the received signal and the signs recorded in the sign memory 2 coincide, the output signal of the sign coincidence verification circuit 12 shows the turn-on signal generation block of the sign coincidence signal 13, which generates a signal perceived by the human senses. The enable signal at the output of the block matching the signs 12 passes information to the output of the multiplexer 11 for recording in the memory block signs 2. This information is for reference and transmitted at the end of the message. It can be read from the memory unit of signs 2 device "write-read" 1 and displayed on its board. Also, for verification, previously recorded feature information can be read. The signal from the output of the receiver 6 goes to the detection circuit of signal 8. When the signal exceeds a predetermined level, at the moment the signals are received, the synchronizer 9 receives the start signal, the synchronizer 9 generates a pulse at the 2nd output that controls the memory of signs 2 and the operation of the verification circuit coincidence of signs 12. After its receipt, the signs in the necessary order are issued to the scheme for checking the coincidence of signs 12.

The feasibility of this device is confirmed by the fact that it uses devices and elements that are widely known in the art (an example of performing a scheme for checking the coincidence of signs is discussed below). In addition, methods are known [a. from. N 1832393, USSR, H 04 B 7/26, US Pat. France N 2630278, H 04 B 7/26, G 08 C 19/00], in which radio communication between moving objects is carried out using similar devices and elements. The values of the power of the transmitter 4 and the sensitivity of the receiver 6 are set in such a way as to ensure communication between the two devices only in a small area (not more than units or tens of meters), so as not to complicate the identification of the person with whom the signs coincided. For convenience, the device provides for adjusting the communication range by changing the transmit power synchronously with the gain control of the receiver using a switch equipped with a range scale in meters. It is preferable to have the antenna with a circular radiation pattern, since in the general case the direction towards the subject with whom communication will be established is unknown, however, in some cases it is advisable to be able to switch to a narrowly directed antenna to facilitate identification. In this example, a control pulse of duration t is supplied from a synchronizer 9 with a period T, the value of which is units of seconds, to a feature memory 2, transmitter 4 and a receive-transmit switch 5, as a result of which a pulse radio signal containing information is emitted into space about the signs. Moreover, t is chosen substantially less than T (t << T) so that information can be exchanged between several devices in the message receiving area. Because the beginning of the radiation of the radio signal by the device is arbitrary and the individual devices are not synchronized with each other, the time interval for the emission of radio signals can overlap with the time interval for receiving radio signals from another device. Therefore, the synchronizer 9 generates a control pulse to turn on the transmitter only in the absence of signals at the output of the receiver 6. Thus, the beginning of the emission of radio signals is tied to the moment of the end of the reception of radio signals from another device. This method allows the exchange of information between several devices in the area of receiving messages, and for the reception and transmission of radio signals in the device uses one antenna, which simplifies the design of the device. The feasibility of the device also depends on the amount of information about the characteristics, which must be stored in the memory unit of signs 2 and transferred to the environment during time t, significantly less than a few units of seconds. In [L. S. Salnikova "I am a matchmaker", M., Moscow Worker, 1991] it is noted that for most people the following signs are most important:
- age;
- income;
- character;
- nationality;
- external data;
- education;
- social background;
- height;
- past connections;
- gender;
- The purpose of the implementation of dating.

 Only 11 signs of dating, 3 quantitative and 8 non-quantitative. When encoding each feature with a 6-bit binary code, up to 64 different alternatives are specified, which is quite enough for practice, and for some features it is even clearly redundant (for example, gender). Thus, an individual is represented using a code with a length of 6 · 10 = 60 bits (the 11th characteristic in order is part of only reference features). When describing a standard, features that have quantitative values, such as age, income, height, are represented by a 12-bit code that sets the acceptable minimum (6 digits)) and maximum (6 digits) values of the attribute. For example, the growth of the standard is from 170 to 180 cm, age from 30 to 40 years, income from 5 to 20 living wages. In addition, individual characteristics sometimes, if desired, are not included in the description of the standard for a given person. Therefore, 1 bit of information is introduced into the code of each feature, indicating the non-materiality of this feature in the description. Therefore, the total length of the quantitative trait code is 12 + 1 = 13 bits. For convenience, when describing non-quantitative features in the standard, generalized concepts can be introduced, for example, nationality - European, etc. For their description, 6 digits in each attribute are also sufficient. Then the code of the reference non-quantitative characteristic consists of 1 category, which determines the non-materiality of this characteristic, 6 code bits of the generalized characteristic, 6 code bits of the specific attribute value. Total 1 + 6 + 6 = 13 bits - the length of the code of non-quantitative signs. T.O. the reference is represented using a code of length 3 · 13 + 8 · 13 = 143 bits. The total length of the code sequence is equal to the individual’s code plus the reference code: 60 + 143 = 203 bits. Storing, transmitting, receiving and processing such a volume of information does not present any technical difficulties with the current level of development of radio electronics. The scheme for checking the coincidence of signs 12 consists of an element A for checking the coincidence of quantitative features (the scheme in Fig. 2) and element B for checking the coincidence of non-quantitative signs (the scheme in Fig. 3). The information arriving at the inputs of the scheme for checking the coincidence of features 12 is fed to element A or to element B, depending on the type of the next characteristic. The results of the comparison of signs are combined according to the And circuit to generate an enable signal at the output of the matching circuit 12. The circuit of element A (Fig. 2) contains comparison circuits 1, 2, the outputs of which are connected to the inputs of the logic circuit And 3, the output of which is connected to 1- m the input of the logic circuit OR 4, the output of which is the output of the element A. The 1st inputs of the comparison circuits 1,2 are interconnected.

 Element A works as follows. At the 1st inputs of comparison circuits 1.2, an X code of an individual’s attribute is supplied. The 2 inputs of the comparison circuits 1,2 are supplied, respectively, the code Y1 of the minimum permissible value of the signs and the code Y2 of the maximum permissible value of the sign. At the output of the comparison circuit 1, a signal of a logical unit appears at X ≥ Y1. At the output of the comparison circuit 2, a signal of a logical unit appears at X ≅ Y2. The output signals of the comparison circuits 1,2 are fed to the logic circuit And 3, the output of which the signal of the logical unit appears when Y1 ≅ X ≅ Y2. At the output Z of element A, the signal of a logical unit appears when the condition Y1 ≅ X ≅ Y2 is satisfied, and also if Y0 = 1, where Y0 is the bit of the standard information that determines the non-materiality of this feature.

 The circuit of element B (Fig. 3) contains a functional converter 1, whose M outputs are connected to the first inputs of M of the same type of comparison circuit 2, the outputs of which are connected to the 2nd, 3rd, ... ,, M + 1st logic inputs OR circuit 3. The output of the comparison circuit 4 is connected to the (M + 2) -th input of the logic circuit OR 3, the output of which is the output of the element B. The 2nd inputs of all M comparison circuits 2 and the 1st input of the comparison circuit 4 are interconnected .

The scheme works as follows. The code of the generalized concept Y1 is fed to the 1st input of the functional converter 1, which generates up to M (M <2 ^p , p is the bit capacity of the feature) various output codes R1, ..., RM corresponding to specific values of the feature included in the set defined given generalized concept. The function of converting Y to R1, ..., RM depends on the feature number N, which is fed to the 2nd input of functional converter 1. The feature code of an individual X is compared in M of the same type of comparison schemes 2 with codes R1, ..., RM. If the codes at the inputs of any of the M comparison circuits 2 coincide, a signal of a logical unit appears at its output. This signal passes through the logic OR 3 circuit to the output of the element Z. Z will be equal to 1 also if Y0 = 1, i.e. this feature is not significant. In addition, the code of an individual is compared in comparison scheme 4 with the code of a specific value of the characteristic attribute of standard Y2, and if the code for the generalized concept Y1 is not specified, the comparison in comparison scheme 4 is crucial. If these codes coincide, the logical unit appears at the output of the comparison circuit 4, passing through the logical OR circuit 3 to the output of the Z element. at the output of element B, a signal of coincidence of signs appears in the event that the sign of an individual coincides with one of the signs specified by the generalized concept in the standard or with a specific value of the reference sign, as well as with the non-materiality of this sign. In the case of the sign “purpose of acquaintance”, two reference features are compared, the codes of which are similar to (Y0, Y1, Y2) in FIG. 3 can be written as (CO, C1, C2) and (S0, S1, S2). Then, for comparison, you can use the element B, which works with a double frequency of 2 cycles, and the output signals of the 2nd cycle are combined according to the OR circuit with the delayed signals of the 1st cycle. The input signals of element B (Fig. 3) are as follows:
1 beat - 2 beat
Y0 = C0 - Y0 = S0
Y1 = S1 - Y1 = C1
Y2 = S2 - Y2 = S1
X = C2 - X = S2
Moreover, in the 2nd operation step, the signal X is not supplied to the 1st input of the comparison circuit 4, as shown in FIG. 3, and the signal is Y1.

 In one embodiment of the present invention, when it is difficult to identify a person in the crowd, reference information is used (address, phone, their signs: hair color, shirts, trousers, shoes), which is recorded in the memory unit of signs 2 (Fig. 1) when all other signs coincide . Reference information follows at the end of the transmitted message. To transmit, for example, a 7-digit telephone number, a maximum of 28 bits of code is required. It does not present any technical difficulties to transmit and remember such a volume of information. Reference information is read from the memory unit signs 2 using the device write-read 1 with the display of information on the scoreboard. In the described embodiment, acquaintance can be made even if it was not possible to identify the person with whom the signs coincided or the person did not dare to make the acquaintance at the first moment. The transfer of external features makes it easier to identify.

 The embodiment of the device shown in FIG. 1, includes a write-read device 1 that displays information on the scoreboard. This allows you to fundamentally unlimited number of times change the values of the signs during operation, which expands the possibilities of dating and delivers additional convenience to the user. In the simplest version of a portable device, the values of the attributes are recorded in the device memory once at the beginning of operation. In this case, the write-read device 1 and the multiplexer 11 are not included in the portable device. The device has smaller weight and dimensions, however, there is no possibility of multiple recording and reading of information about signs and reference information. This invention is also carried out in the variant when, in order to increase a person’s confidence that information about him will not fall into the hands of an accidental person who can use this information to cause this person any harm, the transmitted information message is divided into several parts, and first only the first part of the message is transmitted, and each subsequent part is added to the transmitted message only after the fact of coincidence of features in the previous parts of the message is established. For example, a message consists of 4 parts in order: the purpose of the acquaintance, signs of a standard, signs of an individual, and background information. The method is implemented using a portable device that differs from the described device (Fig. 1) in that the matching circuit of features 12 has a 2nd output, the synchronizer 9 has a 2nd input, and the 2nd output of the matching circuit of features 12 is connected to 2nd input of synchronizer 9. This connection is shown in FIG. 1 dotted line. At the 2nd output of the feature matching verification scheme 12, information appears on feature matching in the K parts of the message, if any. According to this information, the synchronizer 9 increases the duration of the control pulse at the 2nd output to the duration of the message, including (K + 1) part. This process continues until all the attributes are matched. If when checking for coincidence in parts of the message, information about the coincidence of signs does not appear, then only the first part of the message starts to be transmitted again. An option of this method of transmitting information is to introduce in the device a silence mode for the emission of signs until a signal arrives with signs that match the reference for a person with a device. For many people who want to use the described method to facilitate dating, it is important to keep secret from others that they are resorting to this method. For this purpose, a portable device is structurally designed so that it is not visible to others, for example, it is mounted in everyday objects that are usually taken with you when traveling - watches, glasses, bags, etc. In [Pat. Japan, N 890227, H 04 B 1/08, US Pat. USA, N 890808, H 04 B 1/08] describes radio devices designed in this way, which confirms the feasibility of such structures. In addition, the signal of coincidence of signs should also be invisible to others or disguised as a signal of a device for other purposes. For example, a watch with the coincidence of signs play a certain melody.

Claims (1)

 A dating method based on the mutual verification of the individual characteristics of persons set independently by persons wishing to make acquaintance, consisting of the attributes of a given person and a plurality of reference features, including checking whether the attributes of a given person belong to a plurality of reference features specified by another person, and checking belonging of the features of another person to the set of reference features specified by this person, and if there is a mutual belonging of individual characteristics of the persons meeting, characterized in that the mutual verification of the individual characteristics of persons wishing to make acquaintance, is carried out using a portable device, which is equipped with everyone who wants to get acquainted and with the help of which they remotely exchange information about the individual characteristics of persons with other devices through the environment using electromagnetic waves , providing communication between them in a small area, so as not to impede the recognition of the person - the owner of the device, while previously in the memory of each device their owners record information about the individual characteristics of persons and reference information containing identification signs, if there is a mutual affiliation of individual characteristics of persons, the devices mutually generate warning signals and display the reference information that the owners of the devices perceive, then they recognize each other and selectively acquaintance.

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