Composite Image Creation Assist Using Multi-User SNS Data

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing composite image creation assist services are limited to using only images from the user's own social networking service (SNS) account, making it complicated for multiple users to collaborate and potentially failing to reflect the intentions of all users in the creation of a composite image.

Innovation Solution

A composite image creation assist apparatus and method that extracts and selects images from other users within the same group based on registration information, using network connections to identify suitable images for inclusion in a composite image, such as event-based, person-based, or scenery-based images, allowing for the determination of use images to enhance the image creation process.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If images are selected based on information registered by the representative of multiple users, then the image selection process is simplified, but the intention of other users cannot be easily reflected in the creation of the electronic album

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveimage selection processVSAvoiduser intention

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The system automatically acquires images from multiple users' SNS accounts and provides feedback by allowing each user to review and select images from their own perspective. This feedback mechanism ensures that each user's intention is reflected in the final composite image while maintaining ease of operation through automated image acquisition and presentation.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

Each user independently reviews and selects images from the acquired collection based on their own judgment and intentions. The system empowers each user to self-select images that reflect their personal perspective, ensuring that diverse user intentions are captured without requiring complex coordination or representative-based selection.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

2Quantity of substance

If each user transmits an image to the specific email address assigned by the managing server, then images from multiple users can be collected, but the image registration work by multiple users becomes complicated

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvenumber of imagesVSAvoidimage registration process

Core Design Contradiction:

Quantity of substanceVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system introduces an intermediary mechanism that automatically acquires images from multiple users' SNS accounts through API connections. This intermediary approach eliminates the need for users to manually transmit images via email, thereby collecting a sufficient quantity of images while keeping the registration process simple and automated.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The manual mechanical process of email transmission and image attachment is replaced with an automated digital system that directly accesses and retrieves images from SNS accounts through programmatic interfaces. This substitution eliminates the complicated registration work while efficiently collecting images from multiple users.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

3Ease of operation

If only the image group created by the user himself or herself in the SNS is used for composite image creation, then the creation process is simple, but the composite image lacks comprehensiveness and value

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecreation processVSAvoidcomposite image comprehensiveness

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The system merges image collections from multiple users' SNS accounts into a unified set of candidate images for composite image creation. By combining resources from multiple sources while maintaining automated processing, the system achieves both operational simplicity and enhanced comprehensiveness of the final composite image.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The system creates a multi-functional platform that can access and utilize images from multiple users' SNS accounts simultaneously. This universal approach allows the composite image creation process to incorporate diverse images from various sources while maintaining a single, streamlined creation workflow that serves multiple users and purposes.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentUS9665959B2Composite image creation assist apparatus using images of users other than target user, and non-transitory computer readable recording medium

Publication Date: 2017.05.30 FUJIFILM CORP

AI summary

There are provided a composite image creation assist apparatus and a composite image creation assist method capable of easily assisting the creation of a composite image using not only an image group that a user himself or herself holds but also images that other users hold. An other user image group extraction section extracts image groups of other users belonging to the same group as a target user based on the registration information of an SNS. A second candidate image selection section selects at least one second candidate image suitable for the composite image from the extracted image groups of other users. A use image determination section determines use images, which are to be used for the composite image, from the plurality of first candidate images and the second candidate image.