Photographing Template Database for Group Photo Composition

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Solution Overview

Problem

When taking group photos, individuals often lack creativity, resulting in dull and unvitality, as people typically stand in rows with simple gestures, which affects the photographing effect.

Innovation Solution

A photographing template database is established that stores various templates corresponding to different numbers and genders of individuals, allowing users to select a suitable template based on the group composition, providing recommendations for positioning and angle to enhance the photographing effect.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If traditional row formation and simple gestures are used for group photos, then the photographing process is simple and easy to operate, but the photographing effect becomes dull and lacks vitality

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvephotographing operation simplicityVSAvoidphotographing effect quality
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary action by pre-establishing a photographing template database containing multiple templates with different formations, gestures, and compositions before actual photographing. When users need to take group photos, they can directly select from these pre-prepared templates rather than creating formations from scratch, thus improving both operation ease and photographing effect quality simultaneously

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Adaptability or versatility

If users create photographing templates manually without automation, then the template customization is flexible and adaptable, but the time consumption and operational complexity increase significantly

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetemplate customization flexibilityVSAvoidtemplate preparation time
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements self-service by enabling automatic recognition of character features (such as gender, age, appearance characteristics) and automated generation of appropriate photographing templates. The system automatically matches templates to group compositions based on recognized features, providing flexible customization without requiring manual intervention, thus reducing time consumption while maintaining adaptability

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system applies parameter changes by automatically adjusting template parameters (formation patterns, gesture styles, positioning) based on recognized character features such as gender ratios, age distribution, and group size. This automated parameter adjustment maintains template adaptability to different group compositions while significantly reducing the time and effort required for manual template creation

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentUS10979624B2Methods and devices for establishing photographing template database and providing photographing recommendation information
Publication Date: 2021.04.13 ALIBABA GROUP HOLDING LTD
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AI summary

Embodiments of the disclosure provide methods and devices for establishing a photographing template database and providing photographing recommendation information. The method includes: acquiring a number of subject characters and/or gender information; sending a request for acquiring a photographing template to a server, the request carrying the number of subject characters and/or gender information, so that the server performs a matching operation on the number of subject characters and/or gender information and description information of each photographing templates in a template database to acquire a matched target photographing template, wherein the template database contains a plurality of photographing templates and corresponding description information, and the description information of the photographing templates and the photographing templates contain a corresponds to number of characters and/or gender information; and providing photographing recommendation information to a user, according to the matched target photographing template returned by the server.