Image Capturing Device Sequential Display Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current image capturing devices struggle to effectively display wide-angle view images on narrow-angle view devices, making it difficult for users to identify the location and context of captured images.
Innovation Solution
An image capturing device and system that captures and displays a wide-angle view image by receiving and processing images from another device, allowing sequential display of a narrow-angle view image and a similar area from a wider-angle view image, with similarity threshold control.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Area of moving object
If a wide-angle view image is captured and displayed on a narrow-angle view device, then the angle of view is improved, but the image quality and recognition accuracy deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides the wide-angle view image into multiple regions and selectively extracts areas with high similarity to the narrow-angle view image. This segmentation approach allows the system to focus on relevant portions of the wide-angle image while maintaining image quality and recognition accuracy, rather than displaying the entire distorted wide-angle image.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent applies different processing qualities to different regions of the image. Areas with high similarity to the narrow-angle view image are maintained with high quality for accurate recognition, while other areas can be processed differently. This ensures that critical recognition areas maintain their quality even when displaying wide-angle content on narrow-angle devices.
2Loss of information
If the entire wide-angle view image is displayed, then the context information is improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts only the necessary portions of the wide-angle view image that have high similarity to the narrow-angle view image. By extracting only the relevant areas rather than processing and displaying the entire wide-angle image, the system maintains context information while significantly reducing processing complexity and computational requirements.
Solution Approach 2:
Instead of processing the entire wide-angle image, the patent applies partial action by focusing only on specific areas that meet the similarity threshold. This partial processing approach provides sufficient context information for user understanding while avoiding the excessive computational burden of processing the complete wide-angle image.
3Measurement precision
If image similarity threshold is increased, then the image recognition accuracy is improved, but the quantity of displayed information decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent dynamically adjusts the similarity threshold parameter to balance between recognition accuracy and information quantity. By optimizing this parameter, the system can achieve sufficient image recognition accuracy while maintaining an adequate quantity of displayed information, rather than using a fixed high threshold that would overly restrict the displayed content.
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AI summary
An image capturing device includes: an imaging device to capture a first image; and circuitry to receive a second image from another image capturing device, the second image being captured with the another image capturing device and having an angle of view wider than that of the first image, and control a display to sequentially display the first image, and an image of an area of the second image that is similar to the first image, the image similar to the first image having the degree of similarity to the first image that is equal to or greater than a threshold.