Automated Image Selection System for Personalized Product Design

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Solution Overview

Problem

Consumers face a time-consuming process when manually searching for and composing digital images to create personalized products that meet preselected artistic criteria, such as number of persons, facial expressions, and background, which often results in unsatisfactory aesthetic outcomes.

Innovation Solution

A system comprising a digital camera, computer, and electronic display that automatically selects and arranges digital images based on programmed artistic designs by matching image attributes with template attributes, allowing for real-time extraction of metadata and user input to optimize image placement in image-enhanced products.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If users manually search and compose digital images to meet artistic criteria, then they can select and arrange images themselves, but the process becomes time-consuming and results in unsatisfactory aesthetic outcomes

Engineering Contradiction:

ImproveManual image selection and arrangementVSAvoidTime required for manual image composition

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs automatic image selection and arrangement without requiring user intervention. The computer executes algorithms that autonomously evaluate images against artistic criteria, extract relevant attributes, and compose final products, allowing the system to serve itself rather than requiring manual user operation

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The patent replaces the mechanical manual process of image selection and arrangement with an automated computer-based system. Software algorithms substitute for human users in evaluating images, extracting attributes, making selection decisions, and arranging images according to artistic criteria, thereby eliminating the time-consuming manual operation

Inventive Principle:

Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

2Ease of operation

If users manually search and compose digital images to meet artistic criteria, then they can control image selection, but the aesthetic quality and fulfillment of artistic criteria deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:

ImproveUser control over image selectionVSAvoidAesthetic quality and artistic criteria fulfillment

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The system changes the parameters of image evaluation by using computer algorithms to objectively measure and compare images against multiple artistic criteria simultaneously. The system evaluates numerous parameters such as composition, color, subject matter, and technical quality, assigning fitness scores that precisely determine which images best fulfill the specified artistic requirements, thereby achieving superior aesthetic quality

Inventive Principle:

Principle #35Parameter changes

Solution Approach 2:

The automated system independently evaluates images and makes selection decisions based on artistic criteria without requiring user judgment. The computer system serves itself by autonomously determining which images best meet the artistic requirements, ensuring consistent and high-quality aesthetic outcomes that fulfill the specified criteria

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

3Manufacturing precision

If the system automatically selects images based on artistic criteria, then aesthetic quality improves, but the device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

ImproveAesthetic quality and artistic criteria fulfillmentVSAvoidSystem complexity for automatic image evaluation

Core Design Contradiction:

Manufacturing precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the complex image evaluation process into distinct functional modules: image attribute extraction, artistic criteria definition, fitness score calculation, and image selection. Each module handles a specific aspect of the evaluation, making the overall complex system manageable and systematic while achieving high aesthetic quality through coordinated operation of these segmented components

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

4Measurement precision

If multiple image attributes are evaluated in parallel, then image selection accuracy improves, but computational complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

ImproveImage selection accuracy based on artistic criteriaVSAvoidComputational complexity for parallel attribute evaluation

Core Design Contradiction:

Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments the parallel evaluation of multiple image attributes into separate, independent evaluation streams. Each attribute (composition, color, subject matter, etc.) is evaluated independently against relevant criteria, with results aggregated into an overall fitness score. This segmentation allows accurate multi-attribute evaluation while managing computational complexity through modular processing

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentUS11533456B2Group display system

Publication Date: 2022.12.20 KODAK ALARIS LLC

AI summary

A system for generating an image display comprising a digital camera for capturing digital images, a computer for automatically selecting a digital image template having a designated location for disposing one of the captured digital images, and the computer for selecting one of the captured digital images to be disposed therein, an electronic display for displaying the digital template with the captured digital image disposed in the designated location, and a transmission channel for transmitting to the electronic display the captured digital images.