Multi-Subject Image Alignment for Coordinated Album Creation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional album creation techniques are limited by their reliance on supplementary information for a single person, failing to effectively utilize and align imaging data for multiple subjects, such as family members or friends, which restricts the creation of comprehensive and coordinated albums.
Innovation Solution
An electronic device and method that stores images of multiple subjects along with their supplementary information, enabling the extraction and alignment of images based on different imaging dates and times, allowing for the creation of albums that synchronize the time axes of multiple subjects, such as family members or friends, using a server-side system with image processing and facial recognition capabilities.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If album creation uses supplementary information for a single person, then the album creation process is simple, but the album cannot effectively coordinate multiple subjects like family members or friends
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the supplementary information into subject-specific time axes, allowing each subject (e.g., father, mother, child) to have their own temporal timeline. This segmentation enables independent processing of each subject's imaging data while maintaining the ability to coordinate them through the album creation system, resolving the contradiction between multi-subject coordination capability and information processing complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a new dimension of time axis alignment, transforming the traditional single-subject album creation into a multi-dimensional framework where multiple subjects' time axes are independently managed and then coordinated. This dimensional approach allows the system to handle multiple subjects without proportionally increasing processing complexity, as each subject's timeline can be processed independently before integration.
2Loss of information
If images are extracted based on different dates and times of imaging, then the album can capture events across different time periods, but the time axes of multiple subjects cannot be aligned
Solution Approach 1:
The patent performs preliminary action by extracting and organizing images for each subject according to their respective time axes before the final album creation. This preliminary organization ensures that all images are properly categorized and prepared, allowing subsequent alignment of multiple subjects' time axes without losing temporal information or coordination capability.
3Productivity
If the system stores and processes supplementary information for multiple subjects, then comprehensive album creation is enabled, but the processing time and computational resources increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the album creation process into independent subject-based processing units, where each subject's images and supplementary information are processed separately before integration. This segmentation enables parallel processing and reduces overall processing time, as the system can handle multiple subjects simultaneously without sequential dependency, thereby improving productivity while reducing time loss.
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AI summary
An electronic device includes: a storage unit that stores therein a plurality of images in which a first subject is imaged, and a plurality of images in which a second subject which is different from the first subject is imaged, and stores therein supplementary information about the first subject and the second subject including information about dates and times of imaging, and sites of imaging; and an extracting unit that extracts images whose dates and times of imaging are different from each other, and images imaged at a common site of imaging based on the supplementary information when extracting an image in which the first subject is imaged and an image in which the second subject is imaged. In the electronic device, when the first subject and the second subject are humans, the storage unit stores therein, as the supplementary information, birth dates of the first and second people.