Image Selection Buffering for Target Intactness Detection
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Solution Overview
Problem
Image capturing devices face challenges in capturing desirable images due to time lags between intent and capture, leading to unwanted objects obstructing the target, resulting in inefficient storage usage as users take multiple shots and retain undesired images.
Innovation Solution
An image selecting method and device that captures a sequence of images, stores them in a buffer, detects intactness information of the target region using a target-intactness detection component, and selects images based on this information to exclude obstructed shots, optimizing storage by automatically removing undesirable images.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If multiple candidate photographs are captured to ensure at least one desirable image, then the probability of obtaining a useful image increases, but the storage space occupied by undesired images increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary evaluation of captured images by detecting intactness information before final storage decisions are made. This allows the system to identify and retain only high-quality images while discarding poor ones, resolving the contradiction between ensuring image quality and minimizing storage space usage.
2Ease of operation
If the user waits to review and delete undesirable images later, then storage space is wasted temporarily, but the user avoids the effort of immediate image review
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically performs image quality evaluation and selection without requiring user intervention. By detecting intactness information and autonomously determining which images to retain, the system eliminates the need for manual review while also optimizing storage space by keeping only desirable images.
3Speed
If the image capturing device captures images quickly without delay, then the capture speed increases, but the likelihood of capturing obstructed images increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements feedback by detecting intactness information from captured images and using this information to evaluate image quality. This feedback mechanism allows the system to maintain high capture speed while ensuring that only images meeting quality criteria are retained, resolving the contradiction between speed and reliability.
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AI summary
The invention is related to a method, a device, and a machine readable medium for image capture and selection. One of the disclosed embodiments of the invention is specifically related to an image selecting method performed by an image capturing device for selecting at least one image from a sequence of captured images. The method includes storing a plurality of the captured images in a buffer, wherein each of the buffered images has an interested region supposed to encompass an interested target; detecting intactness information describing intactness of the interested target as encompassed in the interested regions of a plurality of the buffered images; and selecting at least one of the buffered images based on the detected intactness information, wherein intactness indicating whether or to what extent the interested target encompassed in the interested region.