Image Search Thumbnail Switching for Preserving Image Association
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Solution Overview
Problem
Image search results lack association between images, leading to a suboptimal user experience.
Innovation Solution
An electronic device analyzes web pages to extract and correlate images based on text summaries, image quality, and aesthetic features, creating an index file that displays images in collections on the search result page, allowing for switching between thumbnails and providing detailed views.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If images are displayed in a tiled manner on the search result page, then the display capacity is improved, but the association between images is lost
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments images into different display components: a first view component displaying a first thumbnail and a second view component displaying a second thumbnail. This segmentation allows the system to maintain association information between images while providing adequate display capacity through multiple view components.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements a nested structure where the second thumbnail is displayed within or alongside the first view component. When the user views the first thumbnail, the second thumbnail (from the same web page) is automatically displayed in the second view component, creating a nested relationship that preserves image associations while maximizing display efficiency.
2Adaptability or versatility
If all images from multiple web pages are displayed, then the search coverage is improved, but the image association and storytelling are lost
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by treating images from the same web page differently from images from different web pages. Images from the same web page are displayed together in associated view components to maintain their storytelling relationship, while images from different web pages are displayed separately, ensuring that association is preserved locally for related images while maintaining broad search coverage globally.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent uses the web page as an intermediary to determine image associations. By identifying that two thumbnails originate from the same web page, the system automatically displays them in associated view components, using the web page context as a mediator to restore image associations that would otherwise be lost in a tiled display.
3Measurement precision
If the electronic device analyzes and extracts images from web pages to maintain associations, then the image relevance is improved, but the processing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by pre-analyzing web pages to extract and identify images that belong together. The system proactively determines which images come from the same web page and stores this association information, so that when images are displayed on the search result page, the associations are already established and can be quickly retrieved without complex real-time processing.
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AI summary
An image search method includes an electronic device that receives a search instruction, where the search instruction indicates the electronic device to search for an index term. The electronic device displays a search result page for the index term, where the search result page includes a first view component, and a first thumbnail is displayed in the first view component. The electronic device switches the first thumbnail displayed in the first view component to a second thumbnail when receiving an image switching instruction for the first view component, where both an original image corresponding to the first thumbnail and an original image corresponding to the second thumbnail are from a first web page.