Image Browsing Status Control for Album Transmission
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing methods for generating layout information for image albums often result in low user satisfaction due to the transmission of unbrowsed images, requiring users to perform cumbersome operations to prevent such transmissions.
Innovation Solution
A control method for an image processing apparatus that displays a message indicating unbrowsed images and only transmits layout information after user confirmation, distinguishing between layout and non-layout images based on browsing status.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If layout information is transmitted without checking image browsing status, then transmission efficiency is improved, but user satisfaction deteriorates due to low-quality output results
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary checking of image browsing status before transmission. The control unit determines whether each image has been browsed by the user before allowing transmission, preventing unbrowsed images from being transmitted without requiring users to manually check each image first.
2Loss of information
If a message is displayed for every unbrowsed image, then complete information is provided, but operation complexity increases due to troublesome user operations
Solution Approach 1:
The system extracts and identifies only the layout images from the plurality of images, separating them from non-layout images. The message display unit then displays messages only for the extracted layout images that have not been browsed, rather than showing messages for all images, thus reducing unnecessary user operations while maintaining information completeness.
Solution Approach 2:
The system applies different treatment to different types of images: layout images receive browsing status checking and message display, while non-layout images do not. This localized quality approach ensures that messages are displayed only where necessary (for layout images) rather than uniformly for all images, improving ease of operation.
3Manufacturing precision
If layout images are distinguished from non-layout images, then transmission accuracy is improved, but processing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary classification of images into layout images and non-layout images before the transmission process. The control unit determines the type of each image in advance, storing this information so that subsequent transmission decisions can be made quickly based on pre-established categories rather than complex real-time analysis.
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AI summary
As a solution to problems, provided is a control method including a display step of not executing display processing for displaying, on a display unit, a message indicating that there is an image that is not browsed when a non-layout image in a plurality of images indicated by layout information is not browsed and a layout image in the plurality of images indicated by the layout information is browsed, and executing the display processing when the layout image in the plurality of images indicated by the layout information is not browsed.