Extracted-Color Wallpaper Gradients for Cluttered Home Screens
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Solution Overview
Problem
It is difficult to view an image used as a wallpaper for a home screen user interface due to overlapping application icons, which can cause visual clutter and cognitive burden.
Innovation Solution
Generate a resultant image, such as a color gradient, based on colors extracted from an input image, to maintain visual continuity between user interfaces by automatically creating a wallpaper for the home screen that is a color gradient or solid color based on the image set for the wake screen.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Stability of the object's composition
If an image is used as wallpaper for home screen user interface, then visual continuity between user interfaces is maintained, but visibility of the wallpaper image deteriorates due to overlapping application icons
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the essential visual characteristics (color palette, dominant hues) from the original wallpaper image and uses these extracted features to generate a new simplified wallpaper. This separates the visual identity information from the problematic full-image display, allowing the essence of the wallpaper to be preserved while eliminating the visibility issue caused by icon overlays.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent applies color transformation by generating a new wallpaper based on the color palette extracted from the original image. The new wallpaper uses modified color representations (such as color gradients or solid colors derived from dominant hues) that maintain visual continuity with the original wallpaper while providing sufficient contrast and visibility against overlaid interface elements.
2Ease of operation
If application icons are overlaid on the wallpaper image, then functionality of the home screen is enabled, but visual clutter and cognitive burden increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent removes the problematic full-image wallpaper and replaces it with a simplified version generated from extracted color characteristics. This extraction approach eliminates the visual clutter caused by complex images while preserving the essential visual identity, thereby reducing cognitive burden without affecting the functionality of overlaid application icons.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent changes the local quality of the wallpaper from a detailed full-image representation to a simplified color-based representation. This local modification reduces visual complexity in areas where icons are displayed, while still maintaining the overall visual theme and identity of the wallpaper through preserved color characteristics.
3Stability of the object's composition
If a complex image is used as wallpaper, then visual continuity is maintained, but processing complexity and computational resources increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts only the essential color information from the complex original wallpaper image, discarding the detailed visual content. This extraction process significantly reduces the data complexity and computational requirements for wallpaper processing, while the extracted color palette is sufficient to maintain visual continuity through the generated simplified wallpaper.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent transforms the wallpaper representation from a high-dimensional image matrix to a lower-dimensional color parameter set (dominant hues, color palette). This parameter transformation reduces computational complexity for wallpaper generation and management, while the essential visual identity is preserved through these condensed color parameters.
Data Source
AI summary
In some implementations, a method includes: obtaining a first image; determining characterization properties for each of a plurality of pixels within the first image; determining a dominant hue based on the one or more characterization properties for each of the plurality of pixels within the first image; determining a plurality of hues that satisfy a predetermined perception threshold relative to the dominant hue based on the characterization properties for each of the plurality of pixels within the first image, wherein the plurality of hues is different from the dominant hue; and generating a second image based at least in part on the dominant hue and the plurality of hues. In some implementations, the second image corresponds to a color gradient generated based on the dominant hue within the first image. In some implementations, the second image is set as a wallpaper for a user interface.