Digital Comic Editor Frame Boundary Correction for Mobile Viewing

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing digital comic editing technologies do not provide efficient methods for manually editing frame region information to optimize comic content viewing on mobile terminals with specific screen sizes, leading to excessive scrolling and reduced visibility.

Innovation Solution

A digital comic editor that includes data acquisition, size information acquisition, display control, frame boundary correction, and editing devices to manually adjust frame region information based on mobile terminal screen size, allowing for efficient viewing by correcting and updating frame boundaries and information files.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If frame region information is manually edited without assistance tools, then editing flexibility is maintained, but editing efficiency and precision deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveediting efficiencyVSAvoidframe boundary precision
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces a border line representing mobile terminal screen size as an intermediary element. This border line is superimposed on the comic page image to serve as a visual reference during frame boundary correction, enabling precise manual editing without requiring complex automated tools or sacrificing editing flexibility

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent replaces complex automated frame detection algorithms with a simplified visual comparison method. By displaying the border line and allowing manual adjustment of frame boundaries to match the border, the system substitutes complex computational mechanics with intuitive visual-mechanical adjustment, improving both efficiency and precision

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

2Productivity

If frame boundaries are not corrected for mobile screen size, then original comic integrity is preserved, but viewing efficiency on mobile terminals deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveviewing efficiencyVSAvoidscrolling operations
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent performs preliminary adjustment of frame boundaries to match mobile terminal screen dimensions before the actual viewing process. By pre-correcting frame boundaries using the border line as reference, the system eliminates the need for excessive scrolling during viewing, thereby improving viewing efficiency while maintaining ease of operation

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent changes the spatial parameters of frame boundaries to match the mobile terminal's screen size parameters. By adjusting frame position and dimension parameters based on the displayed border line, the system optimizes the comic layout for mobile viewing without requiring complex transformation algorithms

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentUS8930814B2Digital comic editor, method and non-transitory computer-readable medium
Publication Date: 2015.01.06 FUJIFILM CORP
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AI summary

The digital comic editor edits a piece of master data of a digital comic suitably for efficiently viewing a digital comic which has an image size larger than a screen size of a predetermined mobile terminal. The digital comic editor enables the master data of the digital comic to be appropriately edited. The master data includes a piece of image file having high resolution image of the entire page of the comic and an information file having described therein a piece of frame information including a piece of frame region information of the frame within the page. Particularly, the digital comic editor displays a frame boundary while superimposing the frame boundary on the image based on the frame region information included in the information file and displays a border F corresponding to the screen size of the predetermined mobile terminal on the image. The digital comic editor allows an editor to virtually drag and shift the position of the displayed frame boundary while referring to the border F; thereby the frame region information can be corrected to match with the screen size of the mobile terminal.