Mobile Terminal Image Grouping and Display Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users face difficulties in efficiently searching and comparing multiple similar images on mobile terminals, as they are typically displayed in chronological order, leading to inconvenience in finding specific images.
Innovation Solution
A mobile terminal system that groups subordinate images based on a reference image, allowing them to be displayed on a screen with determined positions, enabling easier selection and viewing, along with generating view history information to highlight interest levels.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If thumbnail images are displayed in chronological order, then the display method is simple, but it is difficult to check multiple associated images at a time and compare them efficiently
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments images into groups based on their association relationships (e.g., photos taken during the same event, images containing the same object). Each group is displayed separately with its own thumbnail strip, allowing users to compare related images together while maintaining organizational structure. This resolves the contradiction by creating meaningful segments rather than a single chronological sequence.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent adds a grouping dimension to the traditional chronological display. Instead of arranging thumbnails in a single one-dimensional chronological sequence, images are organized in a two-dimensional structure: groups (vertical dimension) and chronological order within each group (horizontal dimension). This allows associated images to be displayed together while preserving temporal information.
2Quantity of substance
If many thumbnail images are displayed at a time, then users can see more images, but it becomes harder to identify specific images and requires more operations to search
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by giving different visual characteristics to different parts of the thumbnail display. Thumbnails within the same group share visual properties (such as similar positioning, sizing, or highlighting) that distinguish them from other groups. This helps users quickly identify and select specific images by providing local visual cues rather than treating all thumbnails uniformly.
3Loss of information
If images are arranged in chronological order only, then the sorting method is simple, but users cannot quickly identify images viewed with interest
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements feedback mechanisms that track user interactions with images (such as viewing time, selection frequency, or explicit marking). This view history information is fed back into the display system, allowing frequently viewed or recently viewed images to be highlighted, positioned prominently, or grouped together. This resolves the contradiction by using feedback to preserve and utilize view history information without requiring complex manual tracking.
Data Source
AI summary
Provided is a mobile terminal including: a setting unit that is configured to set a reference image; an imaging unit that captures multiple subordinate images associated with the reference image that is set; a controller that brings the multiple captured subordinate images into a group based on the reference image and stores the group, and determines a display position on the reference image, of each of the subordinate images brought into the group, according to the preset reference; and a display unit, on whose entire screen the reference image is displayed and a graphic object corresponding to each of the subordinate images brought into the group is output to the determined display position, when a group image view mode is activated.