Image Processing Device Prioritizing High-Performance Camera Images
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing image sharing services often present users with images of poor quality or not desirable images, as they rely on specifying important event periods based on imaging apparatus operation data, which may not accurately reflect image quality or user preferences.
Innovation Solution
An image processing device and method that evaluates the performance of imaging apparatuses used by multiple users, prioritizing images from apparatuses with comparable or higher performance for presentation to users, ensuring higher quality and more desirable images are showcased.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If images are selected based on operation information of imaging apparatus (shutter operation frequency), then recommended images can be presented to users, but image quality and user desirability cannot be guaranteed
Solution Approach 1:
The patent changes the selection parameter from operation information (shutter frequency) to apparatus performance evaluation values. By evaluating imaging apparatus based on multiple parameters including optical system specifications, sensor characteristics, and processing capabilities, the system selects images from apparatus with equal or higher performance ratings, thereby ensuring image quality while maintaining automatic recommendation functionality.
2Adaptability or versatility
If all shared images are presented to users, then users can access diverse images, but users cannot easily identify high-quality or desirable images
Solution Approach 1:
The patent performs preliminary evaluation of imaging apparatus performance before image selection. By pre-establishing performance evaluation values for different apparatus and setting selection criteria (apparatus with equal or higher performance), the system filters and prioritizes high-quality images in advance. This preliminary action enables users to efficiently identify desirable images without manually assessing all shared images, maintaining diversity while improving quality identification.
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AI summary
Provided is an image processing device including at least one processor, in which the processor acquires a first performance evaluation value related to performance of a first imaging apparatus of a first user who is one of a plurality of users, acquires a second performance evaluation value related to performance of a second imaging apparatus of a second user different from the first user among the plurality of users, specifies an image of the second user corresponding to the second imaging apparatus having the second performance evaluation value, which is equal to or larger than the first performance evaluation value, from shared images which are limitedly shared by the plurality of users, and sets a presentation priority of a specific image, which is the specified image, to the first user to be higher than presentation priorities of other shared images.