Camera Image Session Management via Segmented Interface
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional data management and user interface applications for digital cameras, especially those in camera phones, are unintuitive and difficult to use, lacking effective organization and distribution features for camera images.
Innovation Solution
A camera data management and user interface system that includes a graphical user interface with a live camera sensor view and an image manager pane, which automatically assigns captured images to sessions based on predefined grouping criteria, allowing for organization, processing, and distribution of images to multiple destinations through a content distribution subsystem.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If conventional data management applications are used, then basic image storage is achieved, but the user interface is unintuitive and difficult to use
Solution Approach 1:
The application interface is segmented into multiple panes (live camera sensor view pane, image manager pane, and additional image manager pane) that can be independently interacted with. This segmentation allows users to access different functions in isolated, intuitive areas rather than navigating a complex monolithic interface.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary processing layer that automatically assigns captured images to sessions based on predefined grouping criteria. This intermediary automation mediates between the user's simple capture action and the complex organization task, eliminating the need for users to manually manage image files.
2Productivity
If manual image organization is implemented, then image categorization is achieved, but user time and operational complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary organization actions automatically at the moment of image capture. Images are immediately assigned to sessions based on predefined grouping criteria without requiring user intervention later. This preliminary automation eliminates subsequent manual sorting time.
Solution Approach 2:
The image management system serves itself by automatically organizing captured images into sessions without requiring user input. The predefined grouping criteria enable the system to self-categorize images based on attributes like time, location, or camera settings, freeing users from manual management tasks.
3Adaptability or versatility
If multiple distribution destinations are supported, then image distribution versatility is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The content distribution subsystem is designed with multi-functionality to handle multiple distribution destinations (email, messaging applications, social networking sites) through a unified interface. This universal design allows the same system architecture to serve multiple purposes without requiring separate complex subsystems for each destination.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent merges the distribution functionality into the existing image capture and management flow. The content distribution subsystem is integrated with the image manager pane, combining organization and distribution functions into a single coordinated system rather than separate independent systems.
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AI summary
In certain embodiments a computing device displays a live camera sensor view in a graphical user interface, captures a camera image, displays a visual indicator representative of the captured camera image in an image manager pane, the image manager pane and the live camera sensor view displayed together in the graphical user interface, displays, together with the image manager pane and the live camera sensor view in the graphical user interface, a selector for toggling an active input mode between the image manager pane and the live camera sensor view displayed together in the graphical user interface, and sends data representative of the captured camera image to another computing device by way of a network.