HEIF File Generation with Automatic Image Selection

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Solution Overview

Problem

The existing High Efficiency Image File Format (HEIF) requires cumbersome editing and manual designation of image data for storage, making it inconvenient for users to include a group of image data matching their intentions in a single file.

Innovation Solution

An information processing apparatus that accepts user-designated storage conditions for image data and automatically generates an HEIF file, storing only image data that meets the specified criteria in the prescribed format, while excluding data that does not satisfy these conditions.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If manual editing is used to select image data for storage in HEIF format, then the file can include one or more image data, but the editing process becomes cumbersome and inconvenient

Engineering Contradiction:

ImproveAbility to include multiple image data in one fileVSAvoidConvenience of selecting and editing image data

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system automatically selects image data for storage based on predetermined conditions without requiring manual user intervention. The image processing apparatus autonomously determines which images to include in the HEIF file by evaluating conditions such as time intervals, image quality metrics, or user-defined criteria, thereby eliminating the cumbersome manual editing process while maintaining the ability to create multi-image files.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The invention introduces conditional parameters that automatically control image selection and storage. By setting parameters such as time intervals between captures, image quality thresholds, or other measurable criteria, the system dynamically determines which images should be stored in the HEIF file, transforming the manual selection process into an automated parameter-driven decision system.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #35Parameter changes

2Ease of operation

If automatic storage based on conditions is implemented, then user convenience is improved, but the device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

ImproveConvenience of automatic image selectionVSAvoidComplexity of condition evaluation system

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system establishes storage conditions and selection criteria in advance before the actual image storage process begins. By pre-defining the conditions under which images should be stored (such as time intervals, quality thresholds, or specific event triggers), the complex evaluation logic is prepared beforehand, simplifying the real-time operation and reducing the perceived complexity during actual use.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS11157546B2Information processing apparatus, control method, and storage medium

Publication Date: 2021.10.26 CANON KK

AI summary

An information processing apparatus that generates a file in a prescribed image file format is provided. The information processing apparatus accepts a designation of a storage condition to be satisfied by image data to be stored in the prescribed image file format, obtains image data, and generates the file such that one or more image data included in the obtained image data and satisfying the storage condition are stored in one of the prescribed image file format and such that image data included in the obtained image data and not satisfying the storage condition is not stored in the one of the prescribed image file format.