Poster Generation Apparatus Balancing Impression and Quality

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing methods for generating posters fail to effectively balance the user's intended degree of impression and quality, often resulting in posters that either approximate the target impression at the expense of quality or achieve desired quality but not the intended impression.

Innovation Solution

An information processing apparatus and method that allow users to designate both a target impression and a target quality for a poster. The apparatus generates multiple pieces of poster data based on these targets, calculates evaluation values for each piece based on differences between the targets and the actual impression and quality, and selects the poster with the highest evaluation value.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If a poster is generated with consideration given only to approximating the target impression, then the degree of impression is improved, but the quality of the poster deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedegree of impressionVSAvoidquality of poster
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the evaluation of poster generation into two independent dimensions: impression evaluation and quality evaluation. The impression evaluation module assesses how well the poster reflects the target impression, while the quality evaluation module assesses design quality metrics. This segmentation allows both aspects to be optimized independently and combined through weighted scoring, resolving the contradiction between achieving target impression and maintaining poster quality.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces multiple evaluation parameters including impression similarity score, quality score, and their weighted combination. By changing the parameter space to include both impression and quality dimensions with adjustable weights, the system can generate posters that balance both requirements. The evaluation value calculation uses these parameters to produce a comprehensive score that reflects both target impression approximation and quality maintenance.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

2Measurement precision

If a poster uses many expressions that enhance the degree of dynamism, then the degree of impression is improved, but the balance of the design is lost and the quality of the poster deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedegree of dynamismVSAvoiddesign balance
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements feedback mechanisms where the generated poster is evaluated by both impression evaluation and quality evaluation modules. The quality evaluation module provides feedback on design balance and other quality metrics, while the impression evaluation module provides feedback on dynamism. This feedback loop allows the system to adjust and optimize the balance between dynamism and design quality, preventing the deterioration of design balance when enhancing dynamism.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS20250078360A1Information processing apparatus, method of controlling the same, and storage medium
Publication Date: 2025.03.06 CANON KK
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AI summary

An information processing apparatus receives, from a user, a designation of a target impression of a poster to be generated, receives, from a user, a designation of a target quality of the poster to be generated, and generates one or more pieces of poster data based on at least the target impression. The information processing apparatus calculates an evaluation value based on first information indicating a difference between the target impression and a degree of impression of each of the one or more pieces of poster data and second information indicating a difference between the target quality and a quality of each of the one or more pieces of poster data, and selects, from the one or more pieces of poster data, a poster for which the evaluation value has an evaluation higher than a predetermined evaluation.