Digital Image Queue System for Multi-Repository Organization
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current digital image management solutions are either highly manual or lack flexibility, failing to effectively sort and organize digital images across multiple repositories while not filtering out unwanted images.
Innovation Solution
A method and system that connects to a digital-image-storage location service, allowing users to select and queue images for sorting, displaying them based on user input, and changing their storage location, enabling flexible organization and filtering of images across multiple repositories.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If manual sorting of digital images is performed using file-management applications, then users can organize images according to personal preferences, but the process becomes very manual intensive and time-consuming
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by automatically generating folders based on image metadata (capture time, location, events) before user review. This pre-organization reduces the manual effort required while maintaining user control over the final organization decisions.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary automated sorting system that acts as a mediator between completely manual sorting and fully automatic sorting. The system generates suggested folder structures and image groupings that users can review and adjust, combining automation efficiency with user preference flexibility.
2Ease of operation
If automated digital-image-library-management software is used to generate folders and group images, then the sorting process becomes easier, but the software does not filter out unusable or unwanted images and lacks user flexibility
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements dynamic organization where folder structures and image groupings are not fixed but can be adjusted by users. The automated system generates initial groupings based on metadata, but users can modify these groupings, create custom folders, and adjust the organization to match their personal preferences, making the system adaptable rather than rigid.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent incorporates feedback mechanisms where user interactions with automatically generated folders and image groupings are analyzed. The system learns from user modifications and adjustments, refining its automated sorting algorithms to better align with individual user preferences over time, thus maintaining both automation and flexibility.
3Ease of manufacture
If digital images are stored on a remote server and sorted using moments album generation, then storage is simplified, but digital images are not actually sorted or organized, only specific images are highlighted
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges cloud storage simplicity with local organization capability. While images are stored on remote servers, the system simultaneously generates and maintains organized folder structures both in the cloud and locally accessible, combining the benefits of simplified storage with actual sorting functionality. The moments album feature is supplemented with comprehensive folder-based organization.
Data Source
AI summary
Devices, systems, and methods obtain lists of image identifiers from multiple image repositories; organize the image identifiers in the lists of image identifiers into an image queue, thereby generating an image queue that includes image identifiers from multiple image repositories; and obtain a first image that is identified by a first image identifier in the queue, wherein the first image is obtained from a first image repository of the multiple image repositories. The devices, systems, and methods also add the first image to a display, obtain a first input from a user interface, remove the first image from the display, and change a storage location of the first image based on the first input. And the devices, systems, and methods obtain a second image that is identified by a second image identifier in the queue and add the second image from the image queue to the display.