Group Image Sharing by Region Segmentation for Targeted Viewing
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Solution Overview
Problem
In group chats, users face inefficiency when sharing text contents as they need to individually search through shared images to identify the specific content intended for them, leading to prolonged viewing times.
Innovation Solution
An image sharing method that divides an image into multiple regions, generating separate images or image data based on these regions, and sends them to specific contacts within a group, accompanied by contact identifiers, allowing direct display of intended content without extensive searching.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If a user shares a picture containing multiple text contents with multiple contacts in a group chat, then all contacts can receive the picture, but each contact must manually search through the picture to find their intended content, leading to increased time consumption and reduced efficiency
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the original picture into multiple sub-images, each corresponding to a specific text content region. Each sub-image is then associated with specific contact identifiers, allowing the server to distribute only the relevant sub-images to the intended contacts. This segmentation eliminates the need for contacts to manually search through the entire picture, directly resolving the time consumption issue while maintaining sharing efficiency.
2Loss of time
If the system sends different sub-images to different contacts based on region identification, then viewing efficiency is improved, but the complexity of the image processing and distribution system increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by pre-processing the original picture to identify text content regions and generate corresponding sub-images before distribution. The system pre-associates each sub-image with relevant contact identifiers and stores this mapping in advance. When a sharing request occurs, the server simply queries the pre-established mapping and distributes the appropriate sub-images, significantly reducing the complexity of real-time processing while maintaining high viewing efficiency.
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AI summary
An image sharing method includes: in a case that an interface of a target group is displayed, receiving a first input for an identifier of a target image in the interface of the target group; in response to the first input, sending an image download request to a server of the target group, where the image download request is used to request download of the target image, and the image download request includes an identifier of a target contact corresponding to the first electronic device; and receiving a first image sent by the server, and displaying the first image. The first image is an image sent by the server to the first electronic device based on the identifier of the target contact and target image data; and the target image data is sent by a second electronic device to the server.