Glyph Color Recommendation for Real-Time Image Visibility

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional techniques for enhancing object visibility in digital images, such as text, are inefficient, prone to errors, and result in visual inconsistencies due to manual configuration and lack of real-time operation, leading to high computing resource and power consumption.

Innovation Solution

A visibility color recommendation system that automatically generates color recommendations for objects within digital images, using color theory to ensure visibility and harmony without user intervention, by analyzing input and background palettes to determine complementary hues and adjust saturation and brightness.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If manual configuration techniques are used to enhance object visibility, then visibility can be improved, but the process is inefficient, prone to errors, and results in visual inconsistencies

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvevisibility consistencyVSAvoiddesign efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The system enables self-service by automatically analyzing the digital image background and selecting appropriate colors for glyphs without requiring manual user intervention. The color selection is performed autonomously based on visibility algorithms that evaluate contrast between the glyph and background, eliminating human error and inconsistency while maintaining high design efficiency

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system changes color parameters (hue, saturation, brightness) automatically based on the background analysis. By dynamically adjusting these color parameters according to the specific image context, the system ensures optimal visibility consistency without manual configuration, resolving the contradiction between reliability and productivity

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

2Reliability

If manual color configuration is performed, then visibility can be adjusted, but computing resources and power consumption increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvevisibility qualityVSAvoidpower consumption
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The system replaces the mechanical/manual process of color selection with an automated computational system. Instead of manual configuration, the system uses image analysis algorithms and color theory computations to automatically determine optimal glyph colors, reducing power consumption while maintaining or improving visibility quality through efficient automated processing

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

3Productivity

If automated color recommendation is implemented, then design efficiency improves, but complexity of color analysis increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedesign efficiencyVSAvoidcolor analysis complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The color analysis process is segmented into distinct functional modules: background analysis, color palette extraction, visibility evaluation, and color recommendation generation. This segmentation manages the complexity of color analysis by breaking it down into manageable steps, each handling a specific aspect of the problem, while enabling automated high-efficiency design

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentUS12555277B2Visibility color recommendation system
Publication Date: 2026.02.17 ADOBE INC
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AI summary

A visibility color recommendation system includes functionality operable to receive a user input defining a glyph to be displayed along with a digital image in a user interface. A color recommendation is generated, automatically and without user intervention, based on visibility of the glyph with respect to one or more colors of the digital image. The glyph is presented in the user interface as having a color from the digital image based on the color recommendation.