Dynamic Layout Frame for Uniform Additional Information Printing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing printing methods for digital cameras and smartphones fail to uniformly arrange and print varying amounts of additional information alongside images, leading to uneven character sizes and excessive blank spaces, which can result in unclear or aesthetically deteriorated printouts.
Innovation Solution
An information processing method and apparatus that dynamically adjusts the size of additional information arrangement frames based on the amount of information for each image, allowing for uniform printing by distributing areas accordingly within a template.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If equal areas for additional information are allocated to all images in advance, then the template structure is simple and easy to implement, but images with large amounts of additional information result in small, densely described characters and images with small amounts of information generate excessive blank spaces
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies dynamics by making the additional information arrangement frame size variable rather than fixed. The frame area is dynamically adjusted based on the actual amount of additional information for each image, allowing the layout to adapt to different information volumes while maintaining uniform character sizes and eliminating excessive blanks.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent applies local quality by allocating different area sizes to additional information frames corresponding to different images. Instead of uniform allocation, each frame's size is tailored to the specific information volume of its associated image, ensuring optimal display quality for each local region.
2Quantity of substance
If character size is reduced to accommodate all additional information in a fixed area, then the entire additional information can be printed, but the characters become small and densely described reducing readability
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the determination of arrangement frame size with the amount of additional information. By combining these two elements, the system automatically calculates appropriate frame areas that accommodate complete information while maintaining readable character sizes, eliminating the need to reduce character size.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent changes the parameter of arrangement frame area from a fixed value to a variable that depends on the amount of additional information. This parameter change allows the frame size to scale appropriately, ensuring complete information display without compromising character size or readability.
3Ease of manufacture
If excessive blank spaces are generated in images with small additional information, then the fixed template can be used, but the appearance of the printout is deteriorated
Solution Approach 1:
The patent makes the arrangement frame size dynamic rather than fixed, allowing it to contract or expand based on the actual information volume. This eliminates excessive blank spaces while maintaining template-based processing, improving printout appearance without sacrificing ease of manufacture.
4Loss of information
If small characters are densely described to fit all additional information, then complete information can be printed, but the user cannot correctly understand the additional information
Solution Approach 1:
The patent changes the frame area parameter based on information volume, which allows character size to remain large and readable while still accommodating complete information. This parameter adjustment resolves the conflict between information completeness and readability.
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AI summary
To provide an information processing apparatus capable of printing a plurality of additional information without non-uniformity in a case where a plurality of images and the plurality of additional information corresponding to the respective images are arranged and printed on the same print medium, an information processing apparatus prepares a template in which image arrangement frames for arranging the plurality of images individually and an additional information arrangement frame for arranging the plurality of additional information together are laid out. The information processing apparatus arranges the plurality of images in the respective image arrangement frames and arranges the plurality of additional information in the additional information arrangement frame. At this time, the information processing apparatus sets a plurality of areas for describing the respective additional information in the additional information arrangement frame based on the amounts of description of the respective additional information.