Consolidating Duplicate Image Metadata
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Solution Overview
Problem
Duplicate images and their associated metadata often result in redundant storage, leading to inefficiencies in image organizing and processing applications, as these duplicates can arise from various sources such as low-resolution previews, image imports, and metadata synchronization.
Innovation Solution
A method is described to identify and consolidate duplicate images by selecting a primary image and aggregating metadata, where the selected image is stored along with aggregated information, while discarding the unselected duplicates, ensuring that essential data like edits and online statuses are preserved without losing information.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If duplicate images and their associated metadata are stored in image libraries, then complete information is preserved, but storage space is wasted and processing efficiency is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges duplicate images into a single representative image and consolidates their metadata into a unified metadata structure. The consolidation process combines information from multiple duplicate images' metadata, preserving complete information while storing it once, thereby reducing storage space requirements without losing data completeness.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a single copy of the representative image instead of storing multiple duplicate copies. The metadata is consolidated into one unified structure that references the single image, eliminating redundant storage of identical or near-identical image data while maintaining information accessibility.
2Adaptability or versatility
If duplicate images are stored in image libraries, then all image versions are available, but image processing time and system complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple duplicate images into a single representative image, reducing the number of images that need to be processed. The consolidated metadata structure allows the system to access information from all duplicate images through a single unified interface, maintaining versatility while improving processing efficiency by eliminating redundant operations on duplicate files.
3Reliability
If duplicate images and metadata are maintained separately in different image libraries, then data redundancy is preserved, but system complexity and management difficulty increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges duplicate images and their associated metadata from different image libraries into a single consolidated structure. The unified metadata consolidation process integrates information from multiple sources into one coherent metadata set, reducing system complexity by eliminating the need to manage separate duplicate entries across multiple libraries while preserving data redundancy through the consolidated information.
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AI summary
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, are described for resolving duplicate images. In one aspect, a method includes obtaining a selection of a single image from among a plurality of duplicate images. Each duplicate image has an associated set of metadata. The method also includes aggregating each set of metadata into aggregated information, and storing the selected image together with the aggregated information on data storage accessible to a data processing apparatus.