Context-Aware Visual Media Reframing for Variable Displays
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing visual media cropping methods, such as center cropping, fail to ensure the inclusion of significant features on devices with varying display sizes and aspect ratios, leading to unsatisfactory user experiences.
Innovation Solution
A system and method for context-aware visual media reframing using computer vision and image processing to detect significant features, determine optimal cropping windows, and apply overlays, ensuring retention of key elements on variable resolution displays.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If traditional static cropping (center cropping) is used, then the cropping process is simple and fast, but significant features within the visual frame are dismissed and user experience is unsatisfactory
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary detection of significant features and objects in the visual frame before cropping occurs. By pre-identifying what needs to be retained through computer vision algorithms, the system can then apply intelligent cropping that preserves these features while maintaining processing efficiency
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces traditional mechanical center-cropping methods with computer vision-based intelligent cropping. Using AI models to detect and identify significant features allows the system to automatically determine optimal cropping regions that preserve meaningful content rather than relying on fixed geometric centers
2Adaptability or versatility
If variable resolution displays are implemented, then device versatility and display quality are improved, but the complexity of handling different aspect ratios and resolutions increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system dynamically adjusts cropping parameters based on the detected aspect ratio and resolution of the display device. Rather than using fixed cropping rules, the system adapts its behavior in real-time to match the specific display characteristics, ensuring optimal presentation across diverse device configurations
Solution Approach 2:
The patent changes cropping parameters such as region boundaries, crop ratio, and framing based on the detected display characteristics. By modifying these parameters according to the specific aspect ratio and resolution of each device, the system maintains consistent and optimal visual quality across variable resolution displays
3Manufacturing precision
If intelligent media reframing is applied to retain significant features, then user experience is improved, but processing time and computational resources increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system extracts only the most significant features and objects from the visual frame using detection algorithms. By identifying and isolating these key elements, the system can focus computational resources on preserving them during cropping, rather than processing every pixel equally, thus reducing overall processing time while maintaining high feature retention accuracy
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary processing layer that analyzes visual content and generates cropping recommendations before final cropping occurs. This intermediate step filters and prioritizes significant features, allowing the main cropping process to be more efficient by working with pre-processed guidance rather than raw input alone
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AI summary
An apparatus and a method for processing an image are provided. The method includes obtaining one or more frames from at least one input visual media, for at least one frame of the one or more frames, detecting one or more features from the at least one frame based on feature detection model, determining at least one cropping window based on the one or more detected features and information regarding an aspect ratio of a display, obtaining one or more cropped frames based on the at least one cropping window, selecting one or more overlays based on one or more cropped out features, text, picture-in-picture display, and spaces left in the display, and generating one or more reframed frames by situating one or more selected overlays on the one or more cropped frame.