Image Trimming with User-Defined Points of Interest
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional image trimming methods automatically fit images into predetermined slots without allowing users to customize the trimmed areas based on their desired composition, limiting flexibility and creativity.
Innovation Solution
An information processing method that allows users to designate a point of interest in an image and apply predetermined composition patterns to determine trimmed areas, enabling selection and arrangement of these areas within an album slot, ensuring the point of interest is positioned as desired.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If automatic trimming is performed to fit images into predetermined slots using fixed determination methods, then the operation is simple and fast, but the user cannot achieve desired composition and the trimming areas are not customized
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the trimming process into multiple independent components: (1) user designates points of interest in the image, (2) multiple predetermined patterns are applied to generate different trimmed area options, (3) user selects desired trimmed areas from displayed options, and (4) selected areas are arranged in album slots. This segmentation allows both automated processing and user customization, resolving the contradiction between operational simplicity and trimming adaptability.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple predetermined patterns are applied to determine trimmed areas based on user-designated points of interest, then customization and aesthetic appeal are enhanced, but the processing time and complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by pre-defining multiple predetermined patterns (such as rule of thirds, golden ratio, center composition) that encode common aesthetic composition rules. When the user designates points of interest, these pre-established patterns are automatically applied to generate trimmed area options, eliminating the need for complex real-time composition algorithms and reducing processing complexity while maintaining high customization capability.
3Adaptability or versatility
If multiple trimmed area options are displayed and presented to the user for selection, then the user can achieve desired composition, but the time required for selection and processing increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses copying by generating thumbnail previews of multiple trimmed area options based on the predetermined patterns applied to the user-designated points of interest. These visual copies allow users to quickly compare and select desired compositions without waiting for full-resolution processing of each option, significantly reducing selection time while maintaining full user control over the trimming outcome.
Data Source
AI summary
The album creation application of the present disclosure displays image data, to which trimming is performed, and a template, which includes a slot in which the image data is arranged, so that a slot and image data to be arranged in the slot are selected by use of an input device. Position information of a point of interest in the image to be arranged in the slot is obtained. Composition patterns applicable to the image with designation of the point of interest are presented to the user, and the composition pattern to be applied, which is selected by the user from among the presented composition patterns, is obtained. Trimming is performed based on the point of interest and the selected composition pattern selected. The trimmed images are listed, so that multiple trimmed images are presented to the user as trimming proposals.