Image Processing Apparatus for Consistent Metallic Texture
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing decoration processing techniques fail to accurately adjust texture and illumination information according to the size of a target region, leading to inconsistent metallic texture representation.
Innovation Solution
An image processing apparatus and method that sets a region for decoration processing, acquires and processes texture and illumination data to match the region size, generating decoration data for appropriate application, ensuring consistent metallic texture across varying object sizes.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Manufacturing precision
If texture information and illumination information are combined to represent metallic texture, then the realism of metallic reflectivity is improved, but the consistency of texture representation across different region sizes deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies dynamics by making the decoration processing adaptive to different region sizes. The system dynamically adjusts the decoration data generation based on the size of the target region, ensuring that metallic texture representation remains consistent whether applied to small or large areas. This resolves the contradiction by enabling the system to maintain manufacturing precision across varying scales through size-dependent processing parameters.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent changes parameters based on region size to maintain texture consistency. By adjusting processing parameters according to the target region dimensions, the system ensures that the combined texture and illumination information produces consistent metallic reflectivity effects across different scales. This parameter adaptation resolves the contradiction between achieving realistic metallic texture and maintaining consistency across varying region sizes.
2Ease of manufacture
If decoration processing is applied to regions of different sizes using fixed processing parameters, then the processing simplicity is maintained, but the visual quality and realism of metallic texture deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system transitions from static fixed parameters to dynamic size-adaptive parameters. The decoration processing automatically adjusts its parameters based on the detected region size, maintaining both ease of manufacture through automation and high metallic texture quality. This dynamic adaptation eliminates the need for manual parameter adjustment while ensuring consistent visual quality across different scales.
3Adaptability or versatility
If texture data and illumination data are processed separately, then the processing flexibility is improved, but the processing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the separate processing of texture data and illumination data into a unified decoration data generation process. By combining these processing streams and integrating them through a common size-adaptive framework, the system maintains the flexibility benefits of separate processing while reducing overall complexity through unified parameter management and coordinated processing steps.
Data Source
AI summary
The texture data acquired by the first acquisition unit is processed so as to accord with a size of the region set by the setting unit, and the illumination data acquired by the second acquisition unit is processed so as to accord with the size of the region set by the setting unit. The decoration data is generated from the texture data processed by the first processing unit and the illumination data processed by the second processing unit, and the decoration data is applied to the region set by the setting unit are comprised.