Image Processing Device Digest Generation with Selective Association
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing image capturing devices generate digest moving images that include unwanted moving images even after users sort and delete still images, as the associated moving images are not properly removed during the sorting process.
Innovation Solution
An information-processing device and method that record still images and moving images on a recording medium, allowing users to sort still images based on conditions, select desired images, and generate a combined moving image by associating and combining moving images captured before or after the still images, ensuring only relevant moving images are included in the digest.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If moving images are automatically combined to generate digest moving images, then processing efficiency is improved, but unwanted moving images remain in the digest even after still images are sorted and deleted
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by recording association information between still images and moving images during the image capturing process. This pre-established linkage allows the system to automatically identify and include only the moving images corresponding to selected still images when generating the digest, preventing unwanted moving images from being included while maintaining efficient automated processing.
2Quantity of substance
If all recorded moving images are combined to generate digest moving images, then completeness of content is improved, but the digest includes unwanted images captured before or after the still image recording period
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies local quality by selectively including moving images based on their temporal relationship with the still image recording period. Only moving images captured within a predetermined time range before or after the still image recording are included in the digest, while moving images captured outside this range are excluded. This selective inclusion maintains content completeness for relevant periods while removing unwanted images.
3Ease of operation
If the system automatically combines moving images without user selection, then operation simplicity is improved, but users cannot control which moving images are included in the digest
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements feedback by allowing users to select specific still images from the recorded still images, and then automatically generating the digest moving image based on the selected still images and their associated moving images. This feedback mechanism gives users control over the digest content while maintaining the simplicity of automated processing, as users only need to make high-level selections rather than manually controlling each moving image inclusion.
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AI summary
An information-processing device includes one or more memories and one or more processors in communication with the one or more memories that are configured to record still images, moving images, and information about the moving images in association with the still images on a recording medium sort the still images based on whether a predetermined condition is satisfied, select a still image according to a user instruction from among still images that are sorted out, in the sorting, as not satisfying the predetermined condition, obtain information about a moving image in association with a still image that is sorted out, in the sorting, as satisfying the predetermined condition and a moving image in association with the selected still image, obtain, based on the information, the moving images, and generate a single combined moving image by combining a plurality of the moving images.