Manuscript Image Scaling for Blank Area Expansion
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Solution Overview
Problem
Manuscript images often lack sufficient blank areas to accommodate additional images, leading to overlap issues, particularly with large text-based images like Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) marks required for security purposes.
Innovation Solution
An information processing apparatus that reduces the image area of the manuscript image, excluding blank areas, to ensure the additional image fits within the available space, using a processor to calculate and apply appropriate reduction ratios for both the manuscript and additional images.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Area of stationary object
If only the additional image is reduced to fit in the blank area, then the additional image size is reduced, but the image area of the manuscript image overlaps the additional image
Solution Approach 1:
The patent changes the scaling parameter of the manuscript image (not just the additional image) to create sufficient non-overlapping space. By scaling the entire manuscript image including its blank areas, the system ensures the additional image can be placed without overlap while maintaining proper proportions.
2Loss of information
If the additional image includes a large number of texts (e.g., CUI mark), then the additional image size increases, but it becomes difficult to fit in the blank area without overlap
Solution Approach 1:
The patent scales the manuscript image to adjust the available blank area size, allowing large text-based additional images like CUI marks to be accommodated without reducing the text content or causing overlap. This maintains information completeness while adapting to space constraints.
3Area of stationary object
If the manuscript image is scaled to increase blank area, then the blank area increases, but the overall image size increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies selective scaling only to portions of the manuscript image that contain blank areas, rather than uniformly scaling the entire image. This creates additional blank space for the additional image while minimizing the increase in overall image area, applying the action only where needed.
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AI summary
An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to acquire a manuscript image and an additional image added to the manuscript image, and reduce an image area other than a blank area in the manuscript image so that the additional image fits in the blank area of the manuscript image.