Icon Generation Method for Unified System Style
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Solution Overview
Problem
Inconsistent icon styles for third-party applications in graphical user interfaces lead to a disordered appearance, reducing user experience, as existing methods randomly select graphics that may not be related to the application content, resulting in aesthetically unpleasing and unpredictable final icons.
Innovation Solution
A method for icon generation that adjusts and processes original icons to ensure unified system style consistency by determining dominant hue, generating background color, applying it to a gradient template, cutting the icon, and combining with a foreground template, preserving the original content and aesthetics.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Stability of the object's composition
If random graphics are selected and merged with application icons to generate new icons, then global consistency in icon styles is achieved, but the merged icons may not be aesthetically pleasing and do not provide predictability for developers
Solution Approach 1:
The patent changes the parameters of icon generation by analyzing the original icon's color properties (RGB values, dominant hue) and using these parameters to generate a background color that matches the original icon's color scheme. This ensures both global consistency and aesthetic quality by making the icon generation process predictable and content-aware.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent applies local quality by generating a background color specifically tailored to each original icon based on its dominant hue and color saturation, rather than using a uniform random selection process. This localized approach ensures each icon maintains its aesthetic quality while contributing to global consistency.
2Adaptability or versatility
If various developers provide icons for third party applications, then application functionality is enhanced, but the icon styles are often inconsistent making the user interface look disorderly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a universal icon generation method that works for all third-party applications regardless of the original icon style. The system extracts color information from any original icon and generates a standardized background color format, making the icon generation process universally applicable while maintaining style consistency across different applications.
3Ease of manufacture
If limited graphics are built into operating systems and randomly selected for merging, then icon generation is simplified, but the selected graphics may not be related to the content of the applications resulting in poor aesthetic quality
Solution Approach 1:
The patent enables the icon generation system to serve itself by automatically extracting color information from the original icon and generating an appropriate background color without requiring manual selection or external graphic resources. This self-service approach maintains simplicity while significantly improving aesthetic quality and content relevance.
Data Source
AI summary
Disclosed is an icon generation method, comprising: adjusting an original icon to a preset size for a certain resolution environment; determining statistics for the color values of all pixels of the original icon and calculating a dominant hue of the original icon; generating a background color based on a hue angle of the dominant hue and preset values of color saturation and brightness; applying the background color to a preset color gradient template to generate an icon background; cutting the adjusted icon by using a preset icon edge cutting template; and combining the icon background, the cut icon, and a preset icon foreground template to generate a final icon. Through the disclosed solution, new icons complying with a unified system style can be generated, and content consistency of the new icons can be best ensured.