Image Layout Editing Interface for Photo Book Automation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing photo book creation methods struggle to accurately reflect users' preferences in image layout, requiring manual editing even after automatic image selection and layout, as they fail to perfectly understand user intentions.
Innovation Solution
An image processing device and method that divides images into groups based on accessory information, analyzes each image, extracts and arranges images, and displays candidate images for user-driven editing, allowing easy selection, addition, and replacement within a dedicated editing interface.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Extent of automation
If automatic image selection and layout are performed in a sophisticated manner, then the automation level is improved, but the ability to reflect user preferences deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the image editing process into automatic layout generation and manual editing phases. The automatic layout handles initial image selection and arrangement, while the manual editing phase allows users to refine and adjust the layout according to their preferences. This segmentation enables both high automation and accurate preference reflection by assigning different tasks to appropriate processes.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements feedback mechanisms where users can view the automatically generated layout and provide corrections or adjustments. The system then uses this feedback to refine the final layout, ensuring it accurately reflects user preferences. This feedback loop resolves the contradiction by allowing sophisticated automation while maintaining reliability in preference reflection.
2Reliability
If manual image layout editing is required, then user preference reflection is improved, but the ease of operation deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent performs preliminary action by automatically selecting and arranging images before the user begins editing. This preliminary automatic layout generation handles the complex tasks of image selection and initial arrangement, leaving the user with a ready-to-edit layout that requires minimal manual intervention. This significantly improves ease of operation while maintaining the ability to reflect user preferences through targeted editing.
Solution Approach 2:
The system provides self-service functionality where the automatic layout generation handles the bulk of the work, and users only need to make minor adjustments. The system serves itself by performing the complex automatic selection and arrangement, reducing the user's workload to simple editing operations. This self-service approach maintains ease of operation while ensuring preference reflection through the editing phase.
3Quantity of substance
If all images are displayed for editing, then the completeness of image options is improved, but the device complexity deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts and separates the automatically generated layout from the full set of candidate images. Instead of displaying all images in a complex manner, the system extracts the automatically selected images for the layout and presents them in a simplified editing interface. This extraction approach maintains completeness of image options while reducing interface complexity by focusing only on the relevant images for editing.
Data Source
AI summary
The image processing device divides images into groups, generates image analysis information of the images, extracts a predetermined number of images from each group based on the image analysis information and arranges the images extracted from each group on a corresponding page of a photo book. The image display section displays an image editing area for displaying images arranged on a page to be edited and a candidate image display area for displaying candidate images included in a group corresponding to the page to be edited and being usable for editing the image, and the image editing section uses the candidate images displayed in the candidate image display area to edit the image layout on the page to be edited based on the user's instruction.