Dynamic Animation Matching in Composite Image Output
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional image processing apparatuses produce composite images that are often flat and uninteresting as they simply combine a picked-up scene image with a fixed animation image without dynamic interaction or adaptation to the scene content.
Innovation Solution
A composite image output apparatus and method that acquires a picked-up scene image, extracts a target image from it, and adds a corresponding animation image that matches the scene's content, allowing for dynamic combination and replacement of images to create more engaging composite images.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If a fixed animation image is simply combined with a picked-up scene image at a fixed or desired position, then the composite image can be output quickly and easily, but the composite picture becomes flat and tiresome
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies dynamics by making the animation image adaptive rather than fixed. The system automatically adjusts the animation image based on the picked-up scene content, such as matching character poses to object orientations in the scene. This dynamic adaptation transforms the static combination process into an intelligent, context-aware composition that resolves the contradiction between operational simplicity and adaptability.
2Productivity
If a prepared image is simply combined at a fixed position with a picked-up scene image, then the processing is simple and fast, but the composite picture excludes the picked-up image and becomes flat and tiresome
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies self-service by enabling the animation image to automatically adapt to the picked-up scene without requiring manual intervention. The apparatus autonomously analyzes the scene content, determines appropriate animation images that match the scene characteristics, and positions them appropriately. This self-adaptive mechanism maintains fast processing speeds while achieving sophisticated content integration.
3Adaptability or versatility
If an animation image corresponding to the picked-up scene image is obtained and added, then the composite image becomes more delightful and dynamic, but the processing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies segmentation by dividing the complex image processing task into distinct functional modules: a picked-up scene image acquiring unit, a target image extracting unit, a corresponding-image obtaining unit, and an image outputting unit. Each module handles a specific aspect of the processing, which reduces overall system complexity while achieving sophisticated animation-to-scene matching through coordinated operation of these segmented components.
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AI summary
A composite image output/delivery apparatus for (10) adding to a picked-up scene image a corresponding animation image and outputting/delivering a resulting composite image without adding a fixed animation image simply to the picked-up scene image. When an object image is extracted from the picked-up scene image received via an image input unit (17), any specified type of character image corresponding to the scene image is selected from an appropriate one of a character 1“memory (12)e, a character 3“cat” pose image memory (12f). The selected type of character image replaces the object image in the picked-up scene image or adds to the scene image to thereby provide and display a resulting composite image. That is, by replacing the object image with an animation image similar in pose to the object image or by adding the animation image to the scene image, a very delightful picked-up image with an animation is easily created without adding a fixed animation image simply to an image pickup framerabbit” pose image memory (12d), a character 2“bear” pose image.