Image Selection Standard Creation for Photo Print Services
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current image processing technologies lack the ability to selectively recommend images with common characteristics for periodic selection from multiple images, failing to consider which images are preferable for users in services like photo print services.
Innovation Solution
An image processing apparatus and method that includes an image group input device, a selection standard creation device, and a notification control device to recommend images based on standards created from multiple image groups, such as similarity, theme, or common subjects, ensuring user-preferred image selection.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If images are selected periodically from captured images for photo print services, then the number of printed images can be controlled, but the selection of preferable images becomes difficult without a systematic standard
Solution Approach 1:
The system changes the parameters used for image selection by creating standards based on multiple factors including similarity to previously selected images, themes, and common subjects. This allows automated selection while maintaining user preference through multi-dimensional parameter evaluation rather than simple random or chronological selection
Solution Approach 2:
The system incorporates feedback mechanisms by comparing newly captured images against previously selected images and using the results to refine future selections. The selection standard creation device learns from past user choices and adjusts selection criteria to better match user preferences over time
2Measurement precision
If multiple image groups are analyzed to create selection standards, then image selection accuracy improves, but the processing complexity and time increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments the image analysis process into distinct functional modules: image group input devices for different time periods, a selection standard creation device that processes multiple image groups separately, and a notification control device that applies the created standards. This segmentation allows complex multi-group analysis to be performed in manageable stages, improving accuracy while controlling processing complexity through modular design
3Ease of operation
If images with common characteristics are selected periodically, then user preference is enhanced, but the variety of selected images may be reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies local quality by creating different selection standards for different image groups (e.g., different time periods, different capture devices). Each image group can be evaluated against standards tailored to its specific characteristics, allowing the system to maintain user preference through consistent thematic selection while preserving variety by adapting selection criteria to different local contexts and image groups
Data Source
AI summary
An image processing apparatus, an image processing method, and an image processing program capable of selecting an image having common characteristics with a previously selected image, and a recording medium storing the program are provided. In a case where an image of a child and a father captured together is included in common in a first image selected from a first image group and a second image selected from a second image group, a speech balloon 200 for notifying a user to select such an image IR1 from a target image group is displayed on a display panel 21 of a smartphone. In a case where the user selects the image IR1 of the child and the father captured together, common characteristics with a previously selected image are maintained.