Automated Image Layout Based on Processing Content

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing methods for creating commercial image products, such as photo books and postcards, fail to effectively reflect users' feelings and emotions, as they either require manual layout adjustments or lack the ability to analyze and utilize processed images that hold personal significance.

Innovation Solution

An apparatus and method that includes a processed image judging unit, content of processing judging unit, and arrangement and size determination unit to automatically assess and arrange processed images based on their content and emotional significance, ensuring user feelings are reflected in the final product.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If manual layout adjustment is required to reflect user intention, then the user's feelings can be reflected in the image used commercial goods, but the operation complexity and time consumption increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveaccuracy of reflecting user feelingsVSAvoidoperation simplicity

Core Design Contradiction:

Measurement precisionVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs self-service by automatically analyzing image characteristics and determining optimal layout arrangements without requiring manual user intervention. The processed image judging unit autonomously identifies images with user feelings and the arrangement and size determination unit automatically configures their display parameters, eliminating the need for manual layout adjustment while still reflecting user intentions.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The patent replaces the mechanical manual layout adjustment process with an automated image processing system. The processed image judging unit and arrangement and size determination unit use computational algorithms to analyze image characteristics and determine layout parameters, substituting human manual operations with automated mechanical/electronic processing systems.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

2Productivity

If automatic album creation is performed without considering processed images, then the creation efficiency increases, but the user's feelings about the images are not reflected

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecreation efficiencyVSAvoidaccuracy of reflecting user feelings

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary action by pre-analyzing and judging processed images before the actual layout creation process. The processed image judging unit identifies images with user feelings in advance, and the arrangement and size determination unit pre-determines their optimal display parameters, allowing the subsequent layout generation to proceed automatically while preserving user feelings.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements feedback by using the judgment results of the processed image judging unit to guide the arrangement and size determination unit. The feedback loop ensures that images identified as having user feelings are automatically given appropriate prominence and arrangement in the final layout, maintaining both automation and emotional accuracy.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

3Extent of automation

If image analysis is performed to judge image content and layout, then the layout can be automated, but the user's feelings about the image are not appropriately reflected

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveautomation levelVSAvoidaccuracy of reflecting user feelings

Core Design Contradiction:

Extent of automationVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies local quality by differentiating the treatment of different images based on their characteristics. The processed image judging unit identifies specific images with user feelings, and the arrangement and size determination unit applies specialized layout rules to these particular images while using different rules for other images, thereby automating the overall process while preserving emotional accuracy for important images.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #3Local quality

Data Source

PatentUS9324013B2Image used commercial goods creating apparatus, image used commercial goods creating method, and non-transitory computer readable recording medium

Publication Date: 2016.04.26 FUJIFILM CORP

AI summary

An image used commercial goods creating apparatus and an image used commercial goods creating method that automatically create desired image used commercial goods using a processed image which a user has strong feelings about. Whether an image is a processed image obtained by processing an original image is judged. The content of processing of the image which is judged to be the processed image is judged. At least one of the arrangement and size of the processed image in image used commercial goods is determined on the basis of the content of processing of the processed image. The processed image is laid out on the basis of the determined at least one of the arrangement and size of the processed image to create the image used commercial goods.