Image Editing System Predicting User Abandonment

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing image editing systems lack the ability to predict and prevent users from abandoning editing operations, leading to incomplete album or calendar creations, resulting in lost sales opportunities for service providers.

Innovation Solution

An image editing system that includes an image reception unit, a setting unit for determining the likelihood of user abandonment, an analysis unit to analyze image characteristics, and a prediction unit to forecast the likelihood of user abandonment, with a suppression unit to encourage users to continue editing by displaying motivational messages and offering incentives.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If the user performs editing operation on terminal device in store, then the user can access editing service, but the user may stop editing due to motivation decline or time constraints

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveaccessibility of editing serviceVSAvoidcompletion rate of editing operation

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by saving order information and editing progress before the user stops, and prepares to resume the operation automatically when the user returns. This ensures that no work is lost and the user can continue seamlessly, addressing the reliability issue of incomplete editing operations.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system provides feedback to the user about their editing progress and automatically manages the resumption of operations. By monitoring and managing the editing state, the system gives the user confidence that their work is preserved, encouraging them to return and complete the editing operation.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

2Ease of operation

If the user stops editing operation, then the user can take break or leave, but the editing operation is not finished and sales are lost

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveflexibility for user breakVSAvoidlost sales opportunity

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSLoss of energy

Solution Approach 1:

The system saves order information and editing progress in advance before the user stops working. This preliminary saving action ensures that when the user returns after a break, the system can automatically resume the editing operation without requiring the user to restart, thereby preventing loss of sales opportunities while maintaining user flexibility.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system automatically manages the saving and resumption of editing operations without requiring explicit user intervention. This self-service mechanism handles the interruption and resumption processes, allowing users to take breaks freely while the system preserves their work and readies it for continuation, thus preventing sales loss.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

3Adaptability or versatility

If the system saves order information for resumption, then the user can resume editing later, but the system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveability to resume operationVSAvoidsystem complexity for saving and resuming

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system integrates multiple functions including order reception, editing progress tracking, automatic saving, and resumption management into a single unified platform. By making the terminal device multi-functional, the system handles complexity internally while presenting a simple interface to users, thus enabling operation resumption without significantly increasing perceived system complexity.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

4Manufacturing precision

If the editing operation takes a lot of time, then the user can create quality album, but the user may stop editing due to time constraints

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvequality of album creationVSAvoidediting time duration

Core Design Contradiction:

Manufacturing precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary saving of editing progress at regular intervals or upon detecting user inactivity. This ensures that even if the user stops editing due to time constraints, the work completed so far is preserved. The user can then resume later without losing progress, allowing them to invest time gradually while maintaining the ability to create high-quality albums.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system maintains continuity of the editing operation by automatically preserving progress and enabling seamless resumption. This allows the editing process to continue across multiple sessions without interruption or loss, enabling users to invest time progressively while ensuring the final output maintains high quality through uninterrupted workflow.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #20Continuity of useful action

Data Source

PatentUS10636189B2Image editing system, image editing device, image editing method, and image editing program

Publication Date: 2020.04.28 FUJIFILM CORP

AI summary

In an image editing system, an album creation device includes a reception unit that receives a plurality of images from a user and an image analysis unit that analyzes characteristics of the plurality of images. An analysis device includes a leaving determination rule setting unit for which an initial determination rule for determining a degree of possibility that the user is to leave an editing operation of the user using the plurality of images received by the reception unit of the album creation device is set and a leaving prediction unit that predicts the degree of possibility of leaving from a determination result acquired by applying an analysis result of the image analysis unit to the initial determination rule.