Electronic Device Image Object Hiding Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing methods for displaying wide-range images, such as omnidirectional and full spherical images, often inadvertently reveal objects that may infringe on portrait rights or copyright, as they fail to sufficiently hide sensitive content like faces or advertisements, leading to potential legal issues.
Innovation Solution
An electronic device with a processor and memory that detects specific objects in an image and selectively applies image processing to either hide or reduce the visibility of the object's range, depending on its state, ensuring that sensitive content is not inadvertently displayed.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Object-affected harmful factors
If blurring or pixelation is applied to hide objects in wide-range images, then object visibility is reduced, but the object may still be visible and the hiding effect is insufficient
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the problematic object from the visible image by determining a range corresponding to the object's angle of view and selectively excluding this range from the displayed image. This complete removal of the object from the display ensures reliable hiding effectiveness, preventing any visible presence of the object while maintaining the rest of the wide-range image content.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent segments the wide-range image into different angular ranges, identifying the specific range corresponding to the detected object and separating it from the rest of the image content. This segmentation allows selective processing where the object range is excluded while preserving other areas, achieving reliable hiding without affecting the overall image structure.
2Object-affected harmful factors
If the range corresponding to a detected object is completely excluded from display, then the object is fully hidden, but the image completeness is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by selectively processing only the specific angular range corresponding to the detected object, while leaving the rest of the wide-range image unchanged. This localized exclusion ensures the object is fully hidden without unnecessarily removing other complete content from the display, maintaining image completeness to the extent possible while achieving reliable hiding.
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AI summary
An electronic device according to the present invention, includes: a processor; and a memory storing a program which, when executed by the processor, causes the electronic device to obtain an image, detect a specific object from the image, determine a range corresponding to an angle of view including the detected specific object in the image, and selectively execute either of setting processing for hiding the range of the image and setting processing for performing image processing to reduce visibility of the range of the image, depending on a state of the specific object.