Camera Preview Overlay for App Interface Alignment
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users face challenges when incorporating images into application interfaces due to alignment and sizing issues, with focal points often obstructed by display context, leading to inefficiencies in image capture and editing processes.
Innovation Solution
A system and method that overlays display context from application interfaces onto a real-time image capture preview, allowing users to adjust the image capture settings and filters before capturing the image, ensuring the focal point is not obstructed by interface elements, and tagging the image with digital identifiers for later retrieval and use in the application interface.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Manufacturing precision
If users capture multiple images and perform multiple edits to obtain a properly configured image for the application interface, then the image quality and alignment with the interface are improved, but the time and resource expenditure increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by overlaying the application interface elements (text, images, input boxes, etc.) onto the real-time camera preview before the user captures the image. This allows users to see exactly how the final image will appear in the interface context, enabling them to adjust the camera angle, position, and composition in advance to avoid obstructions. Users can capture a single properly aligned image without needing multiple edits later.
Solution Approach 2:
The system provides visual feedback by displaying the application interface elements overlaid on the camera preview in real-time. This feedback loop allows users to immediately assess whether their current camera positioning will result in an acceptable final image, and make adjustments before capturing. The overlay shows exactly what will be visible and what will be obscured, guiding users to achieve proper alignment in one capture.
2Ease of operation
If the display context is overlaid over the real-time image capture preview to show interface elements, then users can evaluate image placement and alignment, but the visual complexity and processing requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a simplified copy or representation of the application interface elements and overlays them onto the camera preview. Rather than requiring full rendering of the actual interface with all its complexity, the system uses a streamlined version that captures the essential elements (text regions, image placeholders, input boxes) needed for alignment evaluation. This reduces processing requirements while maintaining the utility of the preview function.
Data Source
AI summary
One or more systems and/or methods for capturing an image are provided. In an example, an application interface (e.g., a weather application interface), within which the image is to be populated, may be identified. The application interface may be evaluated to identify display context (e.g., a temperature label, weather visual effect, a weather icon, etc.) of the application interface. A camera user interface, associated with a camera of a device, may be displayed to a user. The display context may be overlaid a real-time image capture preview provided by the camera user interface so that the user may preview how the image may appear when used as a background image for the application interface (e.g., how a scene of a park may appear when the temperature label, weather icon, etc. are displayed over the background image). The image may be captured through the camera user interface utilizing the camera.