Mobile Terminal Splice Mode Display Partitioning

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Solution Overview

Problem

Mobile terminals lack a function to automatically recommend and combine preview images with splice images during photography, limiting user creativity and functionality in image editing and sharing.

Innovation Solution

A mobile terminal with a controller that executes a splice mode, partitioning the display to output a preview image region and a splice region, recommending splice images based on the preview image's outline, color, category, and location, allowing users to pan, rotate, and adjust the images for creative combinations.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If a mobile terminal provides only basic filtering and zooming functions during photography, then the device complexity remains low, but the user creativity and functionality in image editing are limited

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveimage editing functionalityVSAvoidsoftware function complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The display screen is divided into multiple regions including a first display region for preview images and a second display region for splice images. This segmentation allows simultaneous viewing and comparison of original and edited images, enabling users to perform creative editing operations while maintaining a clear workflow organization.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent transitions from traditional sequential image editing to a multi-dimensional display approach where preview and splice images coexist on the same screen. This spatial dimensionality change allows users to interact with multiple images simultaneously, enhancing creativity without requiring complex external devices.

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

2Ease of operation

If a mobile terminal provides only post-photography editing functions, then the processing power required during shooting is low, but the user cannot view and adjust splice images in real-time

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvereal-time image preview and adjustmentVSAvoidprocessing energy during photography
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary processing by generating splice images and displaying them in a second display region during the photography process. This allows users to preview and adjust splice images in real-time before finalizing the shot, enabling immediate creative decisions without requiring intensive post-processing computations.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The display system acts as an intermediary between the camera capture and final image processing. By showing both preview and splice images simultaneously on the display screen, it mediates the user's creative process, allowing real-time adjustments while deferring heavy processing until after the shooting is complete.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Area of stationary object

If the display shows only a single preview image, then the display area per image is maximized, but the user cannot easily compare and combine multiple images

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedisplay area for image comparisonVSAvoidimage comparison and combination
Core Design Contradiction:
Area of stationary objectVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The display screen is segmented into multiple distinct regions: a first display region for preview images and a second display region for splice images. This segmentation enables simultaneous display of multiple images with adequate spacing, allowing users to compare and combine them effectively while maintaining sufficient display area for each image.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system displays more than one image simultaneously on the screen, showing both preview and splice images in different regions. This excessive action of displaying multiple images goes beyond traditional single-image display, enabling direct visual comparison and facilitating creative combination operations.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #16Partial or excessive action

Data Source

PatentUS10965881B2Mobile terminal capable of executing splice mode for displaying preview image region and splice region and controlling method thereof
Publication Date: 2021.03.30 LG ELECTRONICS INC
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AI summary

Disclosed are a mobile terminal and controlling method thereof. The present invention includes a sensing unit, a camera, a display unit, and a controller configured to launch a camera application, wherein the controller is further configured to execute a splice mode on the camera application, wherein the splice mode is a mode for outputting a preview image region and a splice region to the display unit by partitioning, and wherein the controller is further configured to output a preview image currently shot through the camera to the preview image region and recommend a splice image outputted to the splice region based on the outputted preview image.