Image Search Overlay for Facility Profile Navigation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current image sharing services fail to effectively guide users interested in restaurants or facilities from search results to the corresponding business profile pages, instead directing them to the profile pages of individual users who uploaded the images.
Innovation Solution
An image search apparatus and method that overlays operation images on personally photographed images associated with business accounts, allowing users to directly access the profile pages of facilities when these images are selected, thereby facilitating easy navigation to business account profiles.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If users click on personally photographed images in search results, then they can view the images, but they are directed to the profile page of the individual user who uploaded the image instead of the facility profile page
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a facility identification marker as an intermediary element overlaid on personally photographed images. This marker acts as a mediator that bridges the gap between the image and the facility profile, enabling users to access facility information without losing the contextual benefit of viewing personally photographed images. The marker contains encoded facility identification information that redirects users to the correct facility profile when activated.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary action by pre-overlaying facility identification markers on personally photographed images during the image upload or processing stage. This ensures that when users view search results, the navigation path to facility profiles is already prepared and accessible, eliminating the need for users to manually search for facility information after clicking images.
2Reliability
If the system directs users to user profile pages when they click personally photographed images, then user ownership is recognized, but users cannot efficiently access facility profile pages
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the navigation function by separating the image viewing function from the facility access function. The facility identification marker is segmented as a distinct interactive element overlaid on the image, allowing users to access facility profiles directly without navigating through user profile pages. This segmentation preserves image ownership attribution while providing efficient facility access.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent adds another dimension to the image by overlaying the facility identification marker on top of the personally photographed image. This dimensional addition creates a layered structure where the image maintains its primary function of displaying visual content and attributing ownership, while the overlay marker provides the additional function of facilitating facility profile access.
Data Source
AI summary
An image search apparatus includes a search processing unit, a first display processing unit, and a second display processing unit. The search processing unit extracts one or more images that meet a search condition, from a plurality of images associated with user accounts. The first display processing unit displays, as a result of search, the one or more images extracted by the search processing unit. The second display processing unit displays a predetermined specific page when, among the one or more images displayed as the result of search, a personally photographed image is operated, the personally photographed image being an image associated with a first-type user account and photographed at a facility corresponding to a second-type user account that is different from the first-type user account, the specific page corresponding to the second-type user account.