Image Tag Ranking and Dissociation via Device Tilt

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Solution Overview

Problem

Users face difficulties in handling, prioritizing, and editing multiple tags associated with digital images due to their cumbersome nature, necessitating a more user-friendly approach for organizing and managing image tags.

Innovation Solution

An electronic device method and apparatus that displays image tags with relative ranking values, allowing users to select and dissociate tags based on these rankings using user input commands, such as tilting or shaking the device, to simplify tag handling and editing.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If multiple tags are associated with an image for organization purposes, then image organization capability is improved, but tag handling complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveimage organization capabilityVSAvoidtag handling complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system automatically ranks tags based on their relevance to the image content, eliminating the need for users to manually prioritize tags. The tagging system serves itself by autonomously determining tag importance through image analysis and metadata evaluation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

Tags are assigned numerical ranking values that quantify their relevance to the image. This parameter transformation converts qualitative tag importance into a measurable metric, enabling automated sorting and selection of tags based on their ranked values.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

2Loss of information

If multiple tags are assigned to an image for content description, then image information completeness is improved, but user operation difficulty increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveimage information completenessVSAvoiduser operation difficulty
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system extracts and separates the function of tag prioritization from manual user operations. By automatically identifying and ranking the most relevant tags, the system removes the burden of evaluating and prioritizing multiple tags from the user, retaining only essential information interaction.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The system provides visual feedback by displaying tags in ranked order, allowing users to quickly assess tag relevance without manual evaluation. This feedback mechanism guides user decisions on which tags to keep or remove based on their displayed rankings.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

3Adaptability or versatility

If manual tag selection and editing is implemented, then tag customization flexibility is improved, but time consumption increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetag customization flexibilityVSAvoidtime consumption
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary tag ranking and evaluation automatically before user interaction. By pre-processing tags to determine their relevance and importance, the system prepares the tag list in an optimized state, reducing the time users need to spend on tag selection and editing.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS9471600B2Electronic device and method for handling tags
Publication Date: 2016.10.18 TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
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AI summary

A method in an electronic device (100) for handling tags associated with an acquired digital image. The method includes displaying the image and the associated tags. The tags are have been assigned relative ranking values and are selected based on the relative ranking values. A selected tag is dissociated from the image by means of the electronic device detecting a user command instructing the device to dissociate a tag from the image.