Image Content Search via Altered Scene Characteristics
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current image content search methods are inefficient and non-intuitive, as users must manually browse through large collections of images to find specific or related content, lacking a direct way to filter or locate images based on altered characteristics of real scenes.
Innovation Solution
A method that allows users to alter a recording of a real scene in an image content item, determining altered characteristics, and then identifies and indicates other image content items with matching or related altered characteristics, enabling efficient searching through image content.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If users manually browse through large collections of images, then they can access all image content items, but the search process becomes inefficient and time-consuming
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by automatically extracting and indexing characteristics from image content items before users need to search. Altered characteristics are determined in advance and stored as metadata, enabling rapid retrieval without requiring users to manually examine each image. This preliminary processing eliminates the need for manual browsing through large collections.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary search mechanism that mediates between users and large image collections. Instead of users directly browsing through all images, the system uses altered characteristics as intermediaries to filter and locate relevant images. The search function acts as a mediator that translates user queries about altered characteristics into efficient database queries, returning only matching results.
2Ease of operation
If users manually browse through images, then they can find specific content, but the process lacks intuitiveness and direct filtering capability
Solution Approach 1:
The system changes the search parameters from manual image browsing to filtering by altered characteristics. Instead of requiring users to navigate through images sequentially, the system allows users to specify desired altered characteristics (such as modified attributes of real scenes) and automatically retrieves matching images. This parameter-based approach simplifies the search process while maintaining ease of operation.
3Quantity of substance
If the system stores all image content items for browsing, then complete search coverage is achieved, but the complexity of managing and searching the collection increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system extracts only the necessary information (altered characteristics) from the large collection of image content items and stores this extracted data as metadata. This extraction approach allows the system to maintain complete search coverage of all images while reducing the complexity of searching, as users can directly query the extracted characteristics rather than examining the full image data.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent segments the search process into distinct components: image content items are segmented into identifiable characteristics, and the search function operates on these segmented characteristics. This segmentation allows the system to manage large collections efficiently by treating images as collections of searchable attributes rather than monolithic data, reducing overall system complexity.
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AI summary
A method, an apparatus and computer program code is provided. The method comprises: responding to user input by making at least one alteration to a recording of a real scene in a first image content item; determining at least one altered characteristic of the recording of the real scene; determining whether one or more further image content items, different from the first image content item, have a recording of a real scene comprising the at least one determined altered characteristic; and causing at least one further image content item, having a recording of a real scene comprising the at least one determined altered characteristic, to be indicated to a user.