Album Generating Apparatus Image Sorting by Time and Position
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing album generating systems fail to effectively allocate images in an album to reflect the chronological order of image capturing times or geographical locations, leading to an inefficient and time-consuming process, especially when creating albums for recording a child's growth or travel experiences.
Innovation Solution
An album generating apparatus that includes an image storing section, importance judging section, image capturing time sorting section, image capturing position sorting section, and layout determining section, which sorts and lays out images based on the importance of image capturing time or position, distributing images evenly across pages to create a coherent and chronological or geographical album.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If the album is generated by manually judging the allocation of images based on image contents, then the album quality and coherence are improved, but the time required to generate the album increases significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by automatically sorting images based on captured position and time data before the album generation process. The image sorting section pre-organizes images into chronological or geographical sequences, and the page allocation section pre-determines optimal page assignments based on distribution analysis, eliminating the need for manual judgment during album creation.
Solution Approach 2:
The system makes the album generation process self-service by automatically analyzing image metadata (position and time), determining optimal allocation sequences, and generating the album without requiring manual intervention. The computer automatically judges image distribution patterns and allocates images to pages based on calculated metrics, making the system autonomous.
2Productivity
If images are sorted and allocated automatically based on position and time data, then the album generation time is reduced, but the ability to create meaningful chronological or geographical sequences may be compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The system incorporates feedback mechanisms by calculating image distribution metrics (such as position deviation and time intervals) and using this information to adjust the allocation strategy. The page allocation section receives feedback from the distribution calculation about whether images should be sorted by position or time, and automatically adjusts the sequencing approach to maintain meaningful patterns.
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes parameters dynamically by switching between different sorting criteria (position-based vs. time-based sequencing) based on the characteristics of the image set. The importance determination section evaluates parameters such as position distribution variance and time intervals to decide which parameter should drive the allocation, ensuring optimal sequence accuracy for different album types.
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AI summary
There is provided an album generating apparatus for generating an album whose pages are adequately allocated in accordance to image capturing position and time. The album generating apparatus has an image storing section for storing images by correlating with the image capturing time and position of the images, a importance judging section for judging importance of the image capturing time and image capturing position in the plurality of images stored in the image storing section, an image capturing time sorting section for sorting the plurality of images stored in the image storing section per page in the album based on the image capturing time stored in the image storing section when the importance judging section judges that the importance of the image capturing time is greater than that of the image capturing position, an image capturing position sorting section for sorting the plurality of images stored in the image storing section per page of the album based on the image capturing position stored in the image storing section when the importance judging section judges that the importance of the image capturing position is greater than that of the image capturing time and a layout determining section for laying out the images sorted per page by the image capturing time sorting section or the image capturing position sorting section to each page of the album.