Image Album System Using Low-Quality Samples
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing image album creation methods require users to edit and transmit high-resolution images, leading to increased time and communication costs, and require users to input image identification numbers manually, making the process cumbersome and time-consuming.
Innovation Solution
An image album creating system that receives low-quality images and associated information, selects images for the album based on analysis, and generates album samples for user selection, reducing communication traffic by only transmitting necessary original images and processed images.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Manufacturing precision
If users transmit all original high-resolution images to the server for album creation, then the image quality in the final album is improved, but communication traffic and transmission time increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the image processing workflow into two phases: first, the server creates album samples using low-resolution images; second, only selected original high-resolution images are transmitted to the user's terminal for final album generation. This segmentation reduces communication traffic while maintaining image quality in the final product.
Solution Approach 2:
The server performs preliminary actions by creating album samples using low-resolution images before the user transmits original high-resolution images. This preliminary sample creation allows the user to preview and select desired layouts without having to transmit all original images upfront, thereby reducing communication traffic.
2Measurement precision
If users manually input identification numbers of images to be printed one by one, then precise image selection is achieved, but user workload and time consumption increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables self-service by automatically generating album samples based on low-resolution images and user-selected templates. The server autonomously performs image selection and layout creation without requiring manual input of identification numbers by the user, thus reducing workload while maintaining selection precision through interactive sample review.
Solution Approach 2:
The server creates copies of the desired album layout using low-resolution images to generate preview samples. Users can review these copied samples and select their preferred designs without manually specifying each image, reducing the operational burden while preserving selection accuracy.
3Manufacturing precision
If the system requires users to edit images before album creation, then customization and quality control are improved, but time consumption and operational complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The server creates preview copies of the album using low-resolution images and automatically applies template-based layouts. Users can review these copied samples and make simple selections without performing complex image editing operations, thus reducing time consumption while maintaining quality control through template design.
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes the operational parameters from manual image editing to template selection and sample review. By transforming the workflow from active editing to passive selection based on pre-generated samples, the system reduces time consumption while maintaining quality control through the template design process.
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AI summary
There is provided an image album creating system for creating an image album by receiving high image-quality images used for creating the image album after creating an image album sample by using low image-quality images, having a low image-quality image receiving section for receiving the low image-quality images of original images whose image quality has been lowered by an orderer of the image album from an image album orderer's apparatus, an image information receiving section for receiving image information concerning the original image that can be specified from the original image or in capturing the original image and cannot be specified from the low image-quality image by correlating with each one of the low image-quality images received by the low image-quality image receiving section, an image selecting section for selecting the low image-quality image to be allocated to the image album out of the low image-quality images received by the low image-quality image receiving section by analyzing the low image-quality image and the image information and a selected image notifying section for notifying the orderer of the image album of the low image-quality image selected by the image selecting section.