Composite Image Display with On-Demand Resolution
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing electronic information display applications face interference between zooming/magnifying image content within an image window and macroscopic manipulation of the entire displayed information, leading to inconvenient user interactions and suboptimal image resolution when trying to pan or zoom the entire display area.
Innovation Solution
An image processing system that displays a composite image with a configurable picture within a background image, allowing on-demand download of higher resolution image data when zoomed or panned, enabling seamless zooming and panning operations without disrupting macroscopic interactions and optimizing bandwidth usage.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If higher resolution image data is downloaded for zoomed or panned regions, then image quality is improved, but bandwidth consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by detecting zoom or pan operations before actually downloading higher resolution image data. This allows the system to prepare and retrieve high-resolution data only when and where needed, rather than loading all high-resolution data upfront, thus optimizing bandwidth usage while maintaining image quality.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent applies local quality by downloading higher resolution image data specifically for the zoomed or panned regions of interest, while maintaining lower resolution for the rest of the image. This selective approach ensures high image quality where needed while minimizing overall bandwidth consumption.
2Adaptability or versatility
If zooming and panning operations are enabled on image content within an image window, then user interaction flexibility is improved, but interference with macroscopic manipulation of the entire display area occurs
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the user interface by providing separate and distinct controls for microscopic operations (zooming and panning within the image window) and macroscopic operations (manipulation of the entire display area). This segmentation prevents interference between the two types of operations while maintaining flexibility for both.
Solution Approach 2:
The system introduces an intermediary mechanism that distinguishes between user intentions to perform microscopic vs. macroscopic operations. This intermediary layer routes appropriate operations to the correct control system, preventing conflicts and ensuring smooth user interaction for both types of manipulations.
Data Source
AI summary
A composite image displayed on an image display incorporates a first portion of image content, and incorporates one or more second portions of image content within corresponding one or more picture regions of the composite image. One or more images properties selected from a resolution, a level of magnification, a measure of pan, a size, and a scale of each of the first and second image portions can be modified, and the modification of an image property of the one or more second portions of image content entails receiving either supplemental or replacement image data that provides for displaying a corresponding modified version of the corresponding one or more second portions of image content, the modification of which can be independent of the first portion of image content and is responsive to an action by the user that indicates at least an interest in or focus on the one or more second portions of image content.