Image Creation Functionality Integration for Content Sharing

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional content sharing services are inefficient and time-consuming due to manual image search and lack of modifiable image formats, forcing users to recreate images for modification, which can introduce errors and lose valuable information.

Innovation Solution

Integrating content creation and sharing by providing image creation functionality with images, allowing users to leverage data like layers, semantic labels, and depth maps for continued modification and efficiently searching for similar images based on creation data.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If images are provided as final formatted forms (bitmap, jpeg), then images are ready for immediate use, but users cannot modify images without deconstruction which introduces errors and loses information

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvereadiness for useVSAvoidmodifiability
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The image creation functionality data is preserved and packaged with the image content during the creation process, preparing the image for future modification without requiring deconstruction. This preliminary preservation of creation data enables users to later modify images while maintaining accuracy and avoiding information loss.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Device complexity

If manual keyword search is used to locate images, then simple search functionality is maintained, but the process is inefficient and time consuming

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesearch functionality simplicityVSAvoidimage location efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
Device complexityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The search system transitions from simple keyword matching to multi-parameter search using image creation functionality data including color palettes, semantic labels, and other creation attributes. This allows users to search for similar images based on multiple characteristics simultaneously, dramatically improving search efficiency and accuracy while maintaining system accessibility.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Ease of operation

If users manually navigate through images to locate consistent images, then comprehensive browsing is possible, but the process is time consuming and frustrating

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvebrowsing capabilityVSAvoidtime to locate images
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The manual mechanical browsing process is replaced with an automated image search system that uses image creation functionality data to automatically locate and retrieve similar images based on user-defined criteria. This substitution eliminates the need for manual navigation through image galleries while maintaining the ability to comprehensively search and locate relevant images.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

4Quantity of substance

If image creation functionality is not preserved, then file size is reduced and distribution is simpler, but creative professionals must recreate functionality which is inefficient

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvefile sizeVSAvoidrecreation efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
Quantity of substanceVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The image creation functionality data is extracted and packaged separately from the final image content, allowing the image to be distributed in a compact format while the creation data is preserved in a separate, efficient structure. This extraction approach minimizes the impact on file size while enabling users to access and reuse the creation functionality without recreating it from scratch.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Data Source

PatentUS10249061B2Integration of content creation and sharing
Publication Date: 2019.04.02 ADOBE INC
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AI summary

Content creation and sharing integration techniques and systems are described. In one or more implementations, techniques are described in which modifiable versions of content (e.g., images) are created and shared via a content sharing service such that image creation functionality used to create the images is preserved to permit continued creation using this functionality. In one or more additional implementations, image creation functionality employed by a creative professional to create content is leveraged to locate similar images from a content sharing service.