Photography Guide Using Search Words for Composition

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current mobile phone photography guiding methods rely on image recognition technology, which has low accuracy for recognizing architecture, people, and vegetation, leading to poor user experience due to inaccuracies in composition scheme data and photographed objects.

Innovation Solution

A photography guiding method that allows users to enter search words describing picture features, enabling precise retrieval and display of reference pictures on the screen to guide composition photography, improving user experience by reducing the need for image recognition and enhancing user operation efficiency.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Extent of automation

If image recognition technology is used to generate composition data, then the system can automatically guide composition, but the recognition accuracy for architecture, people, and vegetation is low

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveautomatic composition guidanceVSAvoidrecognition accuracy
Core Design Contradiction:
Extent of automationVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces search words as an intermediary between the user and the image recognition system. Instead of directly relying on automated image recognition to identify objects, the system uses user-provided search words to retrieve reference pictures, thereby mediating the interaction and improving accuracy by combining automated retrieval with user input.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Ease of operation

If image recognition technology is used to obtain composition scheme data, then the system can provide composition guidance, but the difference between found composition scheme data and photographed object is large

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecomposition guidance provisionVSAvoidmatching accuracy between guidance and object
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements feedback by displaying multiple reference pictures retrieved based on search words, allowing users to select the most appropriate reference. This feedback mechanism enables users to verify and adjust the composition guidance, improving the matching accuracy between the guidance data and the actual photographed object.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

3Measurement precision

If search words are used to retrieve reference pictures, then the precision of composition guidance is improved, but the system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecomposition guidance precisionVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system achieves universality by making the search word input mechanism serve multiple functions: it acts as a search query, a composition guideline, and a retrieval key simultaneously. This multi-functionality reduces the need for separate complex modules, thereby improving precision without proportionally increasing system complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentEP3591961B1Photographing guide method, device and program
Publication Date: 2024.11.27 HUAWEI TECH CO LTD
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AI summary

Embodiments of this application provide a photography guiding method, a device, and a system, relate to the field of terminal technologies, so as to precisely search for a reference picture by using a search word, and accurately guide a user based on the reference picture to perform composition photographing, thereby improving user photographing experience. A specific solution includes: displaying, by a photographing device, a photographing screen; when detecting at least one search word entered by a user on the photographing screen, performing picture retrieval based on the search word, where the at least one search word is used to describe a feature of a to-be-photographed picture; and displaying, on the photographing screen, at least one reference picture in a retrieved picture, where the reference picture is used to guide the user to perform composition photographing. The embodiments of this application are used to guide the user to perform composition photographing.