Image Editing Interface for Electronic Product Design
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current electronic product design systems are limited in flexibility, as users can only add, modify, and position text and images within pre-designed templates, without the ability to simultaneously view and modify image cropping or scaling effects within the design context, leading to inefficiencies and unmet customer demands for more advanced editing capabilities.
Innovation Solution
A computer-implemented method and system that allows users to select and customize image containers in electronic product designs, displaying both the base image and its cropped portion within the design context, enabling simultaneous viewing and editing of image placement, scaling, and cropping without leaving the editing interface.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If Crop tools are opened in a separate window to allow image cropping modification, then the user can modify cropping boundaries, but the user cannot simultaneously view the base image and the product design template displaying the cropped portion
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the previously separate Crop tool window with the main product design template display into a single integrated interface. The Crop tool is now displayed within the same window as the product design template, allowing users to simultaneously view and edit the cropped image portion while seeing its effect in the overall design context, eliminating the need to switch between separate windows
Solution Approach 2:
The patent overlays the Crop tool interface elements directly onto the image container within the product design template window. The cropping boundaries and controls are superimposed on the actual image area, creating a layered display that provides both the full design context and the detailed cropping editing capability in the same visual space
2Productivity
If pre-designed templates are used to reduce design time, then template creation is faster, but user flexibility to modify image content and cropping is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transforms the static, pre-designed template into a dynamic, editable structure. Users can dynamically adjust image containers, modify cropping boundaries, resize images, and reposition elements within the template after it has been selected, allowing the template to adapt to user-specific customization needs while maintaining the initial design framework
Solution Approach 2:
The patent divides the template into independently editable components, particularly the image containers. Each image container can be individually selected, modified, and customized without affecting other parts of the template, allowing users to flexibly adjust specific image portions while preserving the overall template structure and design
3Device complexity
If the Crop tool displays only the cropped portion without the base image context, then the cropping interface is simplified, but the user loses the ability to see the effect in the overall design
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines the Crop tool display with the overall product design template view into a single integrated window. The cropped image portion is displayed within the context of the complete design, allowing users to see both the detailed cropping area and its placement within the overall layout simultaneously, maintaining design context while enabling cropping edits
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AI summary
Electronic document design systems and methods allowing a user engaged in customizing an electronic product to select an image container and modify the placement, scaling, and displayed portion of an image associated with the image container. Upon user selection of an image container from the product design, an image pane is presented to the user which displays the base image associated with the selected image container and at least one active control on either or both of the image container and the image pane which allow the user to modify which portion of, and how the portion of, the base image appears in the electronic product design. The image editor tool is displayed simultaneously with the product design to allow the user to immediately see the resulting changes in the product design due to modifications, using the active control(s), of the placement or scaling of the selected image container or of the cropping of the base image or magnification of the portion of the base image appearing within the image container.