Image Display Device Template Selection for Portrait Landscape Layouts
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing image display devices often result in layouts that do not align with user intentions due to automatic calculations based on image aspect ratios and numbers, leading to inefficient arrangement of portrait and landscape format images.
Innovation Solution
An image display device that includes a storage unit for templates, a unit to set and select the number of images, and a decision unit to determine image orientations, allowing for the selection of appropriate templates for arranging images based on their formats, enabling user-intentional layout creation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If automatic calculation based on aspect ratios is used to determine layout, then arrangement efficiency is improved, but layout accuracy according to user intention deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system pre-provides multiple template patterns (first pattern for portrait images, second pattern for landscape images) before the actual arrangement process. Users can select the appropriate template based on their intentions, and the system automatically fills in the arrangement details. This preliminary preparation of organized options resolves the contradiction by combining pre-structured efficiency with user-specific accuracy.
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes the parameter of layout determination from purely automatic calculation-based to a hybrid approach where template pattern selection is influenced by image orientation parameters (portrait/landscape classification). This parameter change allows the system to maintain automatic processing efficiency while adapting to user intentions through template selection based on image characteristics.
2Device complexity
If a single template pattern is used for all images, then device complexity is reduced, but adaptability to different image orientations deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The template system is segmented into multiple distinct patterns (first template pattern for portrait images, second template pattern for landscape images) based on image orientation. Each segment handles a specific subset of images with matching orientations, which reduces the complexity of managing a single universal template while improving adaptability to different image types.
Solution Approach 2:
The template selection mechanism is designed to be universal in its ability to handle both portrait and landscape images through a single decision framework. The system determines image orientation and automatically selects the appropriate template pattern, making the overall system multi-functional without requiring complex manual configuration for each image type.
3Ease of operation
If automatic template selection is implemented, then ease of operation is improved, but control over specific arrangement intentions deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system incorporates feedback mechanisms where users can review the automatically generated arrangements and correct template selections if necessary. The decision-making process provides opportunities for user input and adjustment, ensuring that automatic operations align with user intentions while maintaining operational simplicity.
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AI summary
The image display device includes: a storage unit that stores a plurality of templates for image arrangement a setting unit that sets a number of arrangement subject images; an image selection unit that selects the arrangement subject images from among photographic images; a decision unit that makes a decision as to whether or not the orientations of the selected arrangement subject images are portrait format or landscape format; a template selection unit that selects a subject template from among the plurality of templates stored in the storage unit, on the basis of the number of images to be arranged and the decision result by the decision unit; a creation unit that creates an image for display by arranging the arrangement subject images in the image arrangement regions within the selected subject template; and a display control unit that displays the created image upon a display device.