Privacy Protection Image Generation via User-Selected Backgrounds
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing image processing systems fail to adequately protect privacy regions in generated privacy protection images, as they may include human body regions unintentionally, leading to incomplete concealment.
Innovation Solution
An image processing apparatus that identifies protection regions, allows user selection of background images, and combines a protection image with the identified region to generate a privacy protection image, ensuring accurate concealment of sensitive areas.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If automatic background image generation based on human body detection is used, then processing speed is improved, but privacy protection reliability deteriorates when detection fails
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a user-selectable background image as an intermediary solution between automatic detection and manual processing. When automatic human body detection fails or produces incorrect results, users can manually select from stored background images to ensure proper privacy protection, thus resolving the reliability issue without sacrificing processing efficiency
2Reliability
If user manual selection of background images is implemented, then privacy protection reliability is improved, but processing speed deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system dynamically adjusts the background image selection method based on detection confidence and user preferences. It combines automatic detection with manual selection capabilities, allowing the processing mode to switch between fast automatic processing and reliable manual processing, thus balancing speed and reliability
3Ease of operation
If simple concealment process is used, then ease of operation is improved, but privacy protection completeness deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements feedback mechanisms where the concealment process is continuously evaluated and adjusted. By comparing the generated privacy protection image with the original image and user requirements, the system can identify and correct incomplete concealment regions, ensuring comprehensive privacy protection while maintaining ease of operation
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AI summary
An image processing apparatus includes an identifying unit configured to identify a protection region for protecting privacy, a setting unit configured to set, as an image to be used as a background image, an image selected from existing images based on a user operation, and an image combining unit configured to combine a protection image with the protection region identified by the identifying unit and included in the background image set by the setting unit to generate a privacy protection image.