Integrated Camera Preview and Photo Reel Interface
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users face inconvenience when capturing and sharing images, as they need to switch between camera and gallery applications to manage, review, and share images, which complicates the process of confirming image quality and selecting images to share.
Innovation Solution
An image display method and apparatus that integrates camera and gallery functions, allowing real-time image preview, quality assessment through visual marks, and easy sharing by displaying a photo reel with thumbnails, enabling touch inputs for image management, sharing, and face recognition for tagging and sharing images.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If users switch between camera and gallery applications to manage and share images, then they can access different functions, but the operation process becomes complex and time-consuming
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges camera and gallery applications into a single integrated interface. The camera preview screen displays both the live camera feed and captured image thumbnails simultaneously, allowing users to review, manage, and share images without leaving the camera application. This consolidation eliminates the need to switch between separate applications, directly resolving the contradiction by improving ease of operation while reducing time loss.
Solution Approach 2:
The camera preview screen is designed to serve multiple functions simultaneously: it acts as a live viewfinder for capturing images, a gallery for reviewing captured images through thumbnails, and a sharing interface for selecting images to share. This multi-functionality allows users to perform camera operations, image management, and sharing tasks within a single unified interface, eliminating the need to switch applications and thereby improving ease of operation while reducing time consumption.
2Reliability
If users review captured images to confirm quality, then they can ensure satisfactory images, but the process becomes complicated requiring separate gallery application
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines the image review function with the camera preview screen by displaying captured image thumbnails directly on the same screen used for live camera viewing. Users can review captured images to assess quality without switching to a separate gallery application, maintaining reliability of image quality confirmation while reducing the complexity associated with application switching.
3Productivity
If users select multiple images for sharing, then they can share comprehensive content, but the selection process becomes time-consuming
Solution Approach 1:
The patent displays captured image thumbnails in a photo reel at the bottom of the camera preview screen, allowing users to pre-select multiple images for sharing before initiating the sharing process. This preliminary display and selection capability enables users to efficiently choose multiple images without time-consuming sequential operations, thereby improving productivity while reducing time loss.
Data Source
AI summary
An image display method is provided. The image display method includes displaying a camera preview screen that provides an image of a subject in real time, capturing one or more images by capturing the camera preview screen, and displaying a photo reel on the camera preview screen, the photo reel being generated by arranging thumbnails of the captured one or more images in a row.