Characteristic Image Display Apparatus Color Bar Search
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing image search methods using thumbnail images are inefficient on small display units, such as digital cameras, where the number of visible images is limited, making it time-consuming to search through large collections of captured images.
Innovation Solution
A characteristic image display apparatus that extracts characteristics from captured images by dividing them into blocks, identifying characteristic colors, and creating a band-like image by arranging small single-color images based on these colors, allowing for a more efficient and recognizable image search.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If thumbnail images are used for image search, then image content can be visually estimated, but the number of displayable images is limited and search time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the essential characteristic (color information) from each image and represents it as a simplified color bar. This extraction process removes unnecessary visual details while preserving the key identifying feature, allowing many more images to be displayed simultaneously without losing search effectiveness.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent transforms the image representation from a 2D thumbnail to a 1D color bar parameterization. By changing the dimensional parameters and representing images through their dominant color characteristics rather than full visual content, the system can display significantly more images on the same screen while maintaining searchability.
2Quantity of substance
If more thumbnail images are displayed on a small screen, then more images can be viewed at once, but the display size of each thumbnail becomes too small for content estimation
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the essential characteristic (color information) from each image and represents it as a simplified color bar. This extraction process removes unnecessary visual details while preserving the key identifying feature, allowing many more images to be displayed simultaneously without losing search effectiveness.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent transforms the image representation from a 2D thumbnail to a 1D color bar parameterization. By changing the dimensional parameters and representing images through their dominant color characteristics rather than full visual content, the system can display significantly more images on the same screen while maintaining searchability.
3Ease of operation
If thumbnail images are used for searching, then visual search is possible, but the search process takes much time when over 1000 images are recorded
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the essential characteristic (color information) from each image and represents it as a simplified color bar. This extraction process removes unnecessary visual details while preserving the key identifying feature, allowing many more images to be displayed simultaneously without losing search effectiveness.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent transforms the image representation from a 2D thumbnail to a 1D color bar parameterization. By changing the dimensional parameters and representing images through their dominant color characteristics rather than full visual content, the system can display significantly more images on the same screen while maintaining searchability.
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AI summary
A characteristic image display apparatus including a controller that comprises a band-like image creation section configured to create a single-color small image according to characteristics of an object in a captured image. The band-like image creation section incorporates the single-color small image created according to the characteristics of the object in the captured image into a plurality of small images created on the basis of the captured image, so as to create a band-like image in which a plurality of small images are arranged.