Image Processing Apparatus Position Sequence Alignment
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing methods for editing or viewing multiple moving images captured by multiple cameras often result in images being misaligned, making it difficult for users to handle and navigate through the content effectively.
Innovation Solution
An image processing apparatus and method that utilizes position sequences to align and rearrange images based on camera positional relations, allowing for synchronized display and rearrangement of images captured by multiple cameras, enabling easier handling and navigation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If images are simply aligned without position sequence, then device complexity is reduced, but images captured at different locations become misaligned making user handling difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary sorting of images according to position sequences before display. The image processing apparatus sorts a plurality of images based on position information that identifies camera locations, creating an organized sequence in advance. This preliminary organization eliminates the need for complex real-time alignment operations during user interaction, thereby improving ease of operation without proportionally increasing device complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
Position information serves as an intermediary element between the raw image data and the user interface. The system introduces position sequences as a mediating structure that automatically organizes images according to camera locations. This intermediary layer handles the complexity of spatial relationships, presenting a simplified, logically ordered sequence to the user without requiring them to manage the underlying complexity.
2Ease of operation
If images are sorted by position sequence, then image alignment and user handling improve, but processing time and computational resources increase
Solution Approach 1:
The image processing apparatus performs sorting operations in advance, organizing images according to position sequences before they need to be displayed or edited. By pre-sorting images based on position information, the system avoids time-consuming alignment operations during user interaction, reducing the perceived processing time while maintaining proper image alignment.
Solution Approach 2:
The system creates an organized copy or representation of the image sequence based on position information. Rather than physically repositioning or extensively processing the original image data, the apparatus generates a sorted sequence structure that reflects the spatial relationships. This copying approach maintains image alignment benefits while minimizing computational overhead and processing time.
Data Source
AI summary
A method for processing image information has accessing position information associated with images, identifying a position sequence that provides a series of locations along a pathway corresponding to a subject, and displaying the images in an order of the position sequence. The position sequence is adjusted based on movement of the subject.