Gallery App Context Enrichment via Machine Learning

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current mobile terminals lack an efficient user interface for easy control and the ability to provide additional information with images during gallery application usage, limiting the utilization of images within a single application without closing the gallery app.

Innovation Solution

A mobile terminal with a gallery application that employs machine learning to recognize user interaction patterns, allowing additional information to be displayed alongside images, and enabling images to be used in various ways within the app without closing it, through a real mode that senses specific user inputs and displays context-related data.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of information

If a conventional gallery application is used to display images, then the application can show basic image content, but it cannot provide additional context information alongside the images

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontext informationVSAvoidapplication functionality
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines the gallery application with a machine learning engine and additional information sources into an integrated system. The processor merges image display functionality with context recognition and information retrieval capabilities, allowing the gallery app to simultaneously present images and their associated context information without requiring separate applications.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The gallery application is transformed into a multi-functional system that not only displays images but also performs machine learning-based context recognition, retrieves additional information from multiple sources, and presents synthesized context-enriched content. This universal approach allows a single application to handle multiple tasks that would traditionally require separate tools.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

2Ease of operation

If the gallery application displays only basic images, then the application interface remains simple, but the user experience lacks depth and context

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser interface simplicityVSAvoidcontext information
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The system employs machine learning algorithms that automatically analyze images and retrieve context information without requiring explicit user commands. The processor autonomously identifies objects, scenes, or entities in the displayed image and fetches related information from multiple sources, providing context enrichment as a self-service feature that maintains interface simplicity while delivering deep content.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

3Loss of information

If additional information sources are integrated into the gallery application, then context information can be provided, but the system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontext informationVSAvoidsystem architecture
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces an intermediary layer consisting of the machine learning engine and information aggregation module that sits between the image display function and multiple external information sources. This intermediary automatically processes images, identifies relevant context, retrieves information from diverse sources (social media, web, databases), and synthesizes results, thereby managing system complexity while enabling rich context integration.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentEP3182265B1Mobile terminal and method for controlling the same
Publication Date: 2020.06.03 LG ELECTRONICS INC
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AI summary

A mobile terminal and a method for controlling the same are disclosed. The present invention displays information associated with a first image and a second image on a touchscreen when sliding from the first image to the second image satisfies a predetermined condition while a plurality of images is displayed in a sliding manner by executing a gallery application.