Image Layout Unit Background Foreground Slot Overlap
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing image processing methods fail to effectively lay out background and foreground images in a way that avoids incongruity, as parts of the background image can be hidden by foreground images, leading to an unsatisfactory user experience.
Innovation Solution
An image processing apparatus and method that acquires and arranges images within determined templates, specifically using a layout unit to place identical images in both background and foreground slots when the template design allows for overlap, ensuring seamless integration and user satisfaction.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a foreground image is placed over a background image in a template layout, then the template design flexibility is improved, but the background image completeness deteriorates as parts of it become hidden
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies the copying principle by placing an identical copy of the background image into the foreground slot. This ensures that the visual information of the background image is fully preserved and displayed, even when a foreground image is present in the template layout, thereby resolving the contradiction between template flexibility and background image completeness
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements nesting by placing the foreground image within the background image area. The background image serves as the base layer, and the foreground image (or its identical copy) is nested within the same spatial region, allowing both layers to coexist without losing background information
2Loss of information
If the center of the background image is moved to avoid hiding, then the background image visibility is improved, but the layout coherence deteriorates as the image position becomes misaligned
Solution Approach 1:
Instead of moving the background image center which would disrupt layout coherence, the patent creates an identical copy of the background image for the foreground slot. This copying approach maintains the original background image position and alignment while ensuring complete visibility, thus resolving the contradiction between visibility and layout coherence
Solution Approach 2:
The patent uses an identical copy of the background image, ensuring homogeneity between the background and foreground slots. This homogeneous approach maintains visual consistency and layout coherence while preventing any part of the background image from being hidden
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AI summary
An image processing apparatus includes at least one processor causing the image processing apparatus to act as an acquisition unit configured to acquire a plurality of images, a determination unit configured to determine a template on which one or more images selected from the plurality of images are arranged, and a layout unit configured to arrange the selected one or more images in slots within the determined template. In a case when the determined template includes a background slot and a foreground slot that overlaps a part of the background slot, the layout unit arranges, into the background slot, one image out of the selected one or more images and also arranges, into the foreground slot, the one image.