Digital Collage Creation via Multi-Device Content Merging
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Solution Overview
Problem
There is a need for a method to create digital collages that reflect a user's personality and sentiment, while also fostering a sense of community and bonding among users, particularly in the context of mobile device usage where users can share and combine content.
Innovation Solution
An apparatus and method for creating digital collages that involve a sending/receiving unit to collect and merge content from multiple users, using a story template or predetermined form, allowing for the creation of unique collages that reflect individual contributions and sentiments, and can be output in various formats including images, videos, or application files.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If contents from multiple users are merged to create a digital collage, then the uniqueness and community bonding are improved, but the system complexity and coordination requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system divides the collage creation process into separate segments: users independently create contents on their own devices, the host device receives and manages these separate contents, and finally merges them into a collage. This segmentation allows multiple users to contribute without requiring complex real-time coordination, resolving the contradiction between collage uniqueness and system complexity
Solution Approach 2:
The host device acts as an intermediary between multiple slave devices. It receives contents from various users, manages the merging process, and produces the final collage. This intermediary role simplifies the system architecture by centralizing coordination functions, allowing complex multi-user collaboration without proportionally increasing overall system complexity
2Productivity
If a host device collects and merges contents from multiple slave devices, then the collage creation capability is improved, but the communication and coordination overhead increases
Solution Approach 1:
Users create their contents independently on their slave devices before submitting to the host device. This preliminary action allows content creation to occur in parallel without requiring continuous communication during the creative process, reducing communication overhead while maintaining collaborative collage creation capability
Solution Approach 2:
The host device merges pre-created contents from multiple slave devices into a single collage. By combining independently created contents rather than coordinating real-time collaboration, the system achieves high productivity in collage creation while minimizing communication and coordination time
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AI summary
A method and apparatus for creating a digital collage, the apparatus including a sending/receiving unit and a creating unit, the sending/receiving unit receiving contents from a plurality of slave devices, and the creating unit merging the received contents in a predetermined form to create the digital collage.