Image Design Correction That Preserves Distinctive Characteristics

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing design evaluation systems fail to maintain the distinctive characteristics of a design while adjusting it to suit a target audience and desired impression, often losing the designer's intended features during correction.

Innovation Solution

A system that analyzes design characteristic information, purpose, and feature values to suggest corrections that align with the desired impression while preserving the design's unique features, using a computer-readable recording medium and information processing device to output presentation information such as suggested corrections or design drafts.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If design evaluation is performed to adjust the design to suit the target audience and desired impression, then the design meets the intended purpose, but the distinctive characteristics of the design are lost

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedesign adaptabilityVSAvoidloss of design characteristics
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the design image into multiple regions, identifying important regions that contain distinctive characteristics and non-important regions that can be adjusted. This segmentation allows the system to apply corrections to non-important regions while preserving important regions, thus resolving the contradiction between adaptability and loss of design characteristics.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent applies different processing qualities to different regions of the design image. Important regions maintaining their original characteristics while non-important regions undergo corrections to meet the desired impression. This local quality approach enables selective adjustment that preserves distinctive features while achieving adaptability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

2Productivity

If automatic correction is applied to meet the desired impression, then the design meets the purpose, but the designer's intended features are lost

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedesign correction efficiencyVSAvoidloss of designer's intent
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The system provides feedback by identifying important regions based on the original design characteristics and using this information to guide the correction process. The feedback mechanism ensures that corrections are made only in appropriate regions, maintaining the designer's intent while improving productivity through automated correction.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary analysis of the design image to identify important regions before applying corrections. This preliminary action allows the system to plan corrections that respect the designer's intended features, preventing loss of information while maintaining high productivity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

3Reliability

If design characteristics are preserved, then the designer's intent is maintained, but the design may not meet the intended purpose

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedesign fidelityVSAvoiddesign adaptability
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

By segmenting the design into important and non-important regions, the system can preserve fidelity in important regions while applying adaptability corrections in non-important regions. This segmentation enables simultaneous achievement of both reliability and adaptability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system applies local quality by maintaining original characteristics in important regions while applying corrections in non-important regions. This localized approach allows the design to remain faithful to the designer's intent in critical areas while adapting to meet the intended purpose in appropriate areas.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Data Source

PatentUS20260011059A1Recording medium, information processing device, and information processing method
Publication Date: 2026.01.08 KONICA MINOLTA INC
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AI summary

A non-transitory computer readable recording medium stores a program that causes a computer to execute: receiving an input of design characteristic information on a design of an input image; receiving an input of a purpose for the input image; analyzing a feature value of the input image; determining, based on the design characteristic information, an analysis result in the analyzing, and the purpose, presentation information for bringing the design of the input image closer to a design meeting the purpose while maintaining the design characteristic information; and outputting the presentation information.