Image Feature Keyword Suggestions for Captioning

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Solution Overview

Problem

Users face challenges in efficiently adding captions or tags to digital images, especially when sharing them on social networking sites, as they often require manual typing and may not provide sufficient context or meaningful content.

Innovation Solution

A system that processes image data to identify features such as landmarks, people, and objects, generates keywords based on this data, and suggests these keywords to users for tagging or captioning, reducing the need for manual typing and enhancing the context of the posts.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If users manually type captions or tags for images, then they can provide precise and personalized content, but the process is time-consuming and inefficient

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvespeed of adding captions or tagsVSAvoidtime required for manual typing
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary action by automatically analyzing the image and generating keyword suggestions before the user needs to add captions or tags. The image analysis is performed in advance, and the generated keywords are ready for the user to select, eliminating the need for manual typing and significantly reducing the time required for the task.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Loss of information

If users manually type captions or tags, then they can control the content precisely, but the context and meaning of the post may be insufficient

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontext and meaning in postsVSAvoidease of adding captions or tags
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs self-service by automatically analyzing the image content and generating relevant keywords without requiring user input. The image analysis system independently identifies objects, scenes, and contextual information, then generates appropriate keywords that enrich the post with meaningful context, eliminating the need for users to manually provide this information.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system incorporates feedback by presenting generated keyword suggestions to the user for selection or modification. This feedback loop allows the user to review the automatically generated keywords and adjust them as needed, ensuring that the final post contains accurate and meaningful context while maintaining ease of operation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

3Ease of operation

If the system generates keywords automatically, then the amount of typing required is reduced, but the accuracy and relevance of keywords may be insufficient

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveamount of user typing requiredVSAvoidaccuracy of keyword generation
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The system uses feedback by presenting automatically generated keyword suggestions to the user for review and selection. This allows the user to verify the accuracy and relevance of the keywords, correcting any errors or improving relevance as needed, thus maintaining high measurement precision while reducing the amount of typing required.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary image analysis and keyword generation before the user needs to create the post. This preliminary action processes the image data in advance, generating accurate and relevant keywords that the user can then select or modify, ensuring high measurement precision without requiring extensive manual input.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS10091202B2Text suggestions for images
Publication Date: 2018.10.02 GOOGLE LLC
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AI summary

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for receiving image data corresponding to an image, processing the image data to identify one or more features within the image, generating one or more keywords based on each of the one or more features, transmitting the one or more keywords to a computing device for displaying a list of the one or more keywords to a user, receiving text, the text comprising at least one keyword of the one or more keywords, that at least one keyword having been selected by the user from the list, and transmitting the image and the text for display, the text being associated with the image.