Wallpaper Part Number AI Identification Application "KABEPITA" Receives Good Design Award 2024 Received the "Good Design Award 2024

Komatsu Ltd. (Head Office: Higashiosaka City, Osaka; President: Satoshi Komatsu) and Intelligent Mechanisms Laboratory, Department of Intelligent Information Engineering, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Doshisha University (Professor: Masahiro Okuda) have jointly developed the wallpaper AI identification application "KABEPITA," which incorporates an "automatic texture identification program," and has recently received the Good The application, "KABEPITA," which is equipped with an automatic texture identification program, was awarded the Good Design Award for 2024 (sponsored by the Japan Institute of Design Promotion).

In addition, "KABEPITA" will be exhibited at the GOOD DESIGN EXHIBITION 2024, an event to be held at Tokyo Midtown in Roppongi, Tokyo, from November 1, 2024 (Friday).

Under the theme of "Design with Courage and Organic", Komatsu Ltd. took on the challenge of "courage" and co-created "organic" new values with Doshisha University. We will continue to make further efforts to create an innovative future for the industry, as well as to eliminate the tedious work involved with the use of Kabe Pita.

Industry-academia collaboration] "KABEPITA," an application that identifies wallpaper part numbers by AI

Name: "KABEPITA," an application that identifies wallpaper part numbers by AI

Key design points

1. the AI application reduces work hours of construction workers who have part number identification issues. Helping to reform the way of working by improving labor efficiency. 2.

(2) Developed a new identification technology "automatic texture identification program" focusing on material texture through industry-academia collaboration and applied for a patent.

Contribution to the SDGs by reducing CO2 emissions through reduced vehicle travel and reusing waste materials through accurate identification

Reason/Background of ■Design

In the interior design and construction industry, identification of part numbers of installed construction materials has been a longstanding issue. When a specification sheet was lost, a large number of catalogs had to be brought to the job site, and the manual identification process was inefficient and labor-intensive with many errors, and had long been neglected due to the lack of a technical solution.

Komatsu Komatsu, President of Komatsu Ltd., believed that IT and DX were needed to improve efficiency, and in cooperation with Doshisha University and Professor Okuda, completed the KABEPITA by establishing a new identification technology that differed from the conventional method. It brings many benefits to labor improvement and SDGs, such as reduction of working hours, CO2 emission reduction, and reuse of waste materials. This technology is a design that will change many futures.

Image of "KABEPITA" in use

■How the design was realized and its results

In order to solve the problem of identifying household wallpaper, which is difficult even for knowledgeable people, we developed a highly accurate image identification program in collaboration with Professor Okuda of the Intelligent Mechanism Laboratory, Department of Intelligent Information Engineering, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Doshisha University, which led to the patent application. This system, which identifies not only color and shape, but also material texture, has achieved an identification accuracy of over 90% and an identification time of only a few seconds. Furthermore, aiming for an operation screen for contractors, consumers, and all ages, we went through a trial and error process to realize easy operation with highly visible buttons, and released "KABEPITA," an application that incorporates the patented technology. With its memo and image transfer functions, Kabepita frees users from various constraints such as labor, time, distance, travel, and cost.

Awardees

Satoru Komatsu, Representative Director, Komatsu Ltd.

Masahiro Okuda, Professor, Intelligent Mechanisms Laboratory, Department of Intelligent Information Engineering, Doshisha University

■Detailed information on the application

<iPhone version

Title: iPhone application "KABEPITA

Recommended environment: iOS version 6.0 or higher

Price: Free of charge

Location: App Store

URL ： https://apps.apple.com/jp/app/%E3%81%8B%E3%81%B9%E3%81%B4%E3%81%9F/id6476473697

App Store 2D code for download

＜Android version

Title : Android application "KABEPITA

Recommended environment : Android OS version 5.0 or higher

Price ： Free

Location : Google Play

URL ： https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.textoragekabe.pita&pli=1

Google Play 2D code for download

List of "KABEPITA" functions

＜KABEPITA official website

https://textorage.com/kabe-pita/

What is the Good Design Award?

The Good Design Award is an activity to evaluate and promote Japan's representative designs, inheriting the Good Design Product Selection System established in 1957. As a global design award with the participation of many domestic and international companies and organizations, the Good Design Awards are held annually with the aim of improving the quality of life and utilizing design to solve social issues and themes.

The symbol of the award, the "G Mark," is widely known as a symbol of excellent design.

https://www.g-mark.org/

Exhibiting at the Good Design Award-winning exhibition "GOOD DESIGN EXHIBITION 2024

KABEPITA" will be exhibited and introduced at "GOOD DESIGN EXHIBITION 2024", an event to introduce the award-winning products of the Good Design Award 2024 at Tokyo Midtown in Roppongi, Tokyo.

Event Name： GOOD DESIGN EXHIBITION 2024

Location ： Various locations in Tokyo Midtown (Roppongi, Tokyo *Free admission, no advance reservations required.

　　　　　　 (Admission may be restricted due to congestion)

Dates : November 1 (Friday) - November 5 (Tuesday), 2024

Hours: 11:00-19:00 (Doors close at 18:00 on November 5)

Sponsor : Good Design Award Office, Japan Institute of Design Promotion

Details : https://www.jidp.or.jp/ja/2024/10/01/2024gde

Company Profile

Company Name : Komatsu Ltd.

Head Office: Komatsu Building, 1-15-14 Kawamata, Higashiosaka-shi, Osaka

Representative Director: Satoru Komatsu

HP : https://komatsu-coltd.co.jp/