Image Processing Apparatus for Eliminating Visual Monotony
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Solution Overview
Problem
Image prints and views become visually monotonous due to the arrangement of similar images, which existing methods attempt to address by rearranging images but often result in undesired order changes.
Innovation Solution
An image processing apparatus and method that determines similarity between images and performs processing, such as cropping or image manipulation, to eliminate similarity, ensuring images are arranged in a visually appealing and user-desired order.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If similar images are arranged at positions apart from each other to prevent visual monotony, then visual appeal is improved, but the original arrangement order desired by the user is changed
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the image arrangement process into two independent stages: (1) determining similarity between images using image processing, and (2) adjusting arrangement positions based on similarity results. This segmentation allows the system to preserve the original arrangement order while applying visual adjustments only where similarity is detected, thus resolving the contradiction between improving visual appeal and preserving user-desired order.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent applies local quality by performing similarity-based arrangement adjustments only for specific image pairs that are determined to be similar, rather than reordering all images uniformly. The image processing unit selectively modifies the arrangement of similar images while leaving other images in their original positions, thus improving visual appeal locally without losing the overall arrangement order information.
2Ease of manufacture
If image arrangement is automatically adjusted to eliminate similarity, then visual monotony is reduced, but user control over arrangement is diminished
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements dynamics by making the arrangement adjustment system adaptable and controllable. The image processing unit dynamically adjusts arrangements based on similarity detection results, and the system can adapt to user preferences by allowing selective application of adjustments. This dynamic approach maintains user control while achieving visual diversity through automated similarity-based modifications.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent applies parameter changes by modifying arrangement parameters (positions, spacing) based on image similarity metrics. The system calculates similarity parameters between images and uses these to dynamically adjust arrangement parameters only where needed, thus reducing visual monotony while maintaining user control over the overall arrangement structure through selective parameter modification.
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AI summary
In order to prevent an image print and/or an image view from being visually monotonous, if it is determined that there is a similarity between similarity determination target images arranged in a specific area in an album, image processing is performed upon both or either of these similarity determination target images so as to eliminate the similarity between these similarity determination target images.