RAW Moving Image Export Automation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Users face inefficiencies in re-exporting and changing development parameters for multiple RAW moving images, particularly when there are many developed images or diverse development parameter combinations, making it difficult to specify and re-process desired images.

Innovation Solution

An information processing apparatus with a setting unit for export processing, an export unit for developing RAW moving images, a first selecting unit for user-selected images, and a second selecting unit for automatically identifying matching parameter RAW moving images, allowing collective re-export processing with different parameters.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If a user manually specifies multiple RAW moving images for re-export processing, then the user can control which images to re-process, but the operation becomes extremely time-consuming and complex when there are many developed images or diverse development parameter combinations

Engineering Contradiction:
ImproveEase of specifying multiple RAW moving imagesVSAvoidTime required to specify and re-export multiple images
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system automatically identifies and selects RAW moving images that match the specified development parameters without requiring manual user specification. The export management unit performs self-service by autonomously querying the database for images matching the re-export conditions and presenting them to the user, thereby eliminating the time-consuming manual selection process while maintaining operational control.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system provides feedback to the user by displaying the list of automatically identified RAW moving images that match the re-export parameters. This feedback mechanism allows the user to review and confirm the selected images before proceeding with re-export, ensuring accuracy while significantly reducing the time required compared to manual specification.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Adaptability or versatility

If the system stores and manages multiple development results with diverse development parameters, then the user can access various processed versions, but the complexity of managing and retrieving specific images increases significantly

Engineering Contradiction:
ImproveAbility to handle diverse development parameter combinationsVSAvoidComplexity of managing and retrieving images with diverse parameters
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The export management unit acts as an intermediary between the user and the database of development results. It receives re-export conditions from the user, queries the database using these conditions, and retrieves the matching RAW moving images. This intermediary layer simplifies the user interface while maintaining the system's ability to handle diverse development parameters through structured database queries.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system manages diverse development parameters by storing them in a structured database format, allowing efficient retrieval based on parameter matching. When a user specifies re-export conditions, the system changes the query parameters to match the desired development settings, enabling versatile image retrieval without increasing operational complexity for the user.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentUS11044436B2Information processing apparatus
Publication Date: 2021.06.22 CANON KK
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AI summary

An information processing apparatus includes: a setting unit configured to set a parameter; an export unit configured to perform export processing of a RAW moving image using the set parameter; a first selecting unit configured to select at least one of RAW moving images on which export processing is performed, in accordance with a user operation; and a second selecting unit configured to automatically select, from RAW moving images not selected by the first selecting unit, a RAW moving image whose a parameter used for export processing matches that of a RAW moving image selected by the first selecting unit, wherein the export unit collectively performs re-export processing which uses a parameter different from the parameter used for the export processing, on the RAW moving image selected by the first selecting unit and the RAW moving image selected by the second selecting unit.