Mobile Terminal Automatic Image Enlargement Display

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current mobile terminals lack the functionality to automatically enlarge objects or people in photographs, making it difficult for users to select desired images as the existing systems do not provide automatic enlargement or display of enlarged images, leading to user inconvenience.

Innovation Solution

A mobile terminal equipped with a camera and controller that can photograph images and automatically enlarge specific areas, displaying both the original and enlarged images simultaneously on the screen, allowing users to easily select desired images by receiving an enlargement photography input and adjusting the magnification accordingly.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If the terminal provides functions of simultaneously photographing a plurality of images, then the user can select desired images from multiple shots, but the user still has difficulty selecting desired images when objects or people are too small in the images

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveimage selection capabilityVSAvoidimage selection convenience
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent creates an enlarged copy of the photographed image and displays it alongside the original. This copying approach allows users to view an enlarged version of the captured scene without altering the original photograph, enabling easier identification of small objects or people while preserving the ability to select from multiple original images.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

Solution Approach 2:

The patent adds a new dimension to image viewing by displaying both the original image and an enlarged version simultaneously on the screen. This dimensional addition (showing multiple scales of the same image at once) helps users identify small subjects in the photograph by comparing them against the enlarged view, thereby improving selection convenience.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

2Ease of operation

If the terminal automatically enlarges people or objects on images, then users can easily save desired images, but the terminal lacks the function to automatically enlarge and display enlarged images

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveimage saving easeVSAvoidenlargement function complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements automatic enlargement functionality that operates without requiring manual user intervention. The terminal automatically detects and enlarges people or objects in the photographed images, then displays these enlarged versions alongside the originals. This self-service approach simplifies the user's task of identifying and selecting desired images while the system handles the complex enlargement and display coordination automatically.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Data Source

PatentUS10516829B2Mobile terminal and method for controlling same
Publication Date: 2019.12.24 LG ELECTRONICS INC
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AI summary

The present invention relates to a mobile terminal which can be implemented by allowing a user to use the terminal more conveniently, and a method for controlling the same. The present invention may comprise a camera, a display, and a control unit which enlarges a partial region of an original image photographed by the camera at a predetermined magnification and displays the original image and the enlarged image simultaneously on the display, wherein the control unit, upon receiving a magnification photographing input from a user input unit, can activate the camera for photographing, enlarge a partial region of the original image photographed by the camera at a predetermined magnification and display the original image and the enlarged image simultaneously on the display.