Electronic Device Image Display Method

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Solution Overview

Problem

The process of displaying images with different characteristics on electronic devices, such as mobile phones, is cumbersome, affecting user experience as users need to switch between multiple images captured by different cameras, leading to a complex and inefficient viewing experience.

Innovation Solution

An image display method that allows an electronic device with multiple cameras to capture and display images with different characteristics simultaneously by splicing images from one or more secondary cameras into the primary image view, improving user experience by simplifying the process of viewing multiple image characteristics without the need for frequent user operations.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If the electronic device displays images captured by different cameras separately, then the user can view images with different characteristics, but the user needs to perform switching operations between images, making the process cumbersome

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveability to view images with different characteristicsVSAvoidoperation complexity for switching between images
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges multiple images captured by different cameras (main camera, telephoto camera, wide-angle camera) into a single composite display interface. The processing unit combines these images to show multiple viewfinders simultaneously, allowing users to view images with different characteristics without switching operations.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent segments the display interface into multiple regions, with each region showing a viewfinder from a different camera. The processing unit divides the composite image into multiple sub-images corresponding to different cameras, enabling simultaneous display of multiple image characteristics in one interface.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

2Adaptability or versatility

If the electronic device captures images using multiple cameras simultaneously, then images with different characteristics can be obtained, but the device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecapability to capture images with different characteristicsVSAvoidcomplexity of processing and displaying multiple images
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The processing unit performs multiple functions: it processes images from different cameras, determines viewfinder coverages, splices images together, and handles user interactions all within a single unified interface. This multi-functional approach manages device complexity by consolidating processing tasks.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent implements a nested structure where multiple camera images are embedded within a single composite display interface. The viewfinders from different cameras are nested within the same screen space, with each viewfinder occupying a specific region, allowing complex multi-camera functionality to be organized in a manageable hierarchical structure.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #7Nested doll (Nesting)

Data Source

PatentUS12126893B2Image display method and electronic device
Publication Date: 2024.10.22 HONOR DEVICE CO LTD
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AI summary

This application relates to the technical field of electronic devices, and provides an image display method and an electronic device. The solution includes: receiving, a first operation performed by a user on a first interface, where the first interface is a viewfinder interface for image capture by the electronic device, and the first interface includes a preview image; saving, in response to the first operation; displaying, the first image; receiving, a third operation, where the third operation is used for triggering the electronic device to display a first region image in a magnified first image, and the first region image includes a first target region image; and splicing, the second image to the first target region image for displaying in response to the third operation.