Image Album Layout Time-Series Arrangement
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing album creation methods struggle to maintain the actual time-series order of images when the time-series of images in a model album differs from those in the candidate images, resulting in incorrectly arranged photos in the final album layout.
Innovation Solution
A computer-readable storage medium with a program that acquires candidate images, selects similar images based on analysis results, and arranges them in a layout that reflects the capturing times, ensuring the album is created in the correct time-series order.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If an album is created by automatically arranging candidate images in the same layout order as a model album, then the album creation efficiency is improved, but the photos may be arranged in an order different from the actual time-series
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary analysis of both model images and candidate images to extract time-series information before arrangement. By pre-processing and identifying capturing times of candidate images, the system prepares the necessary temporal data in advance, enabling subsequent arrangement to follow actual time-series order while maintaining automatic layout efficiency.
Solution Approach 2:
The arrangement order is made dynamic by adapting it to the actual time-series of candidate images rather than rigidly following the model album's fixed order. The system flexibly adjusts the arrangement sequence based on captured time information from candidate images, allowing the layout to dynamically reflect the true chronological order of photos.
2Ease of operation
If the layout order follows the model album structure, then the album creation process is simplified, but the chronological coherence of the final album is compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The system copies the layout structure and template from the model album, preserving the simplified arrangement process. However, it selectively adapts the content ordering by replacing the model's fixed sequence with the actual time-series of candidate images, thus maintaining both structural simplicity and chronological accuracy.
Solution Approach 2:
The system applies different qualities to different aspects of album creation: it maintains the fixed template structure from the model album for layout simplicity, while simultaneously applying dynamic time-series ordering to the photo arrangement within that structure. This local differentiation resolves the contradiction between process simplicity and chronological coherence.
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AI summary
An object of the present disclosure is to create an album layout in accordance with the actual time-series in a case the time-series of the images used in the model album and the time-series of the candidate images used in the album to be created are different. One embodiment of the present invention is a non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing a program for causing a computer to function as: an acquisition unit configured to acquire a plurality of candidate image; and a selection unit configured to select, based on analysis results of each of a plurality of model images used in a model album and analysis results of each of the candidate images, similar images each of which has a degree of similarity to any one of the model images higher than a predetermined value, from among the plurality of candidate images.