Scannable Thumbnail Merging Code with Image for Digital Access
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Solution Overview
Problem
There is a challenge in organizing and associating tangible printed keepsakes with digital media, such as images, videos, and documents, as printed keepsakes cannot support all types of media and introduce space and resource constraints, making it difficult to efficiently link digital media with printed keepsakes.
Innovation Solution
A system and method for generating a scannable thumbnail that includes a unique code, such as a QR code, which is merged with a thumbnail image, allowing users to access digital media when scanned by a computing device, enabling the integration of digital media with printed keepsakes.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If digital media is stored separately from printed keepsakes, then all types of media can be supported without space constraints, but it becomes difficult to efficiently associate and access digital media with printed keepsakes
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces scannable thumbnails as an intermediary element that bridges printed keepsakes and digital media. These thumbnails contain encoded information (such as QR codes or barcodes) that serve as mediators, enabling computing devices to automatically retrieve and associate digital media with corresponding printed materials through scanning, thus solving the association efficiency problem while maintaining separate storage
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates visual copies of digital media in the form of thumbnails that are printed alongside or integrated with keepsakes. These thumbnail copies contain embedded scannable codes that replicate the access function of the full digital media, allowing users to access complete digital content through the printed thumbnail without storing the actual digital files in the physical keepsake
2Ease of operation
If digital media is embedded in printed keepsakes, then association is direct and simple, but space constraints and resource limitations are introduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the actual digital media files from the printed keepsake structure, retaining only the essential access mechanism (scannable thumbnail with encoded information). This extraction allows the keepsake to remain physically compact while maintaining direct association capability, as the full digital media is stored externally in cloud or digital repositories rather than embedded in the physical object
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements a nested structure where scannable thumbnails are embedded within or alongside printed keepsakes, which in turn link to externally stored digital media. This nested arrangement allows multiple layers of information storage at different scales - the physical keepsake contains compact thumbnail references, which point to larger digital media files stored elsewhere, effectively nesting small physical elements within a larger digital storage system
Data Source
AI summary
Scannable thumbnails for identifying data objects stored on a database. A method includes identifying a data collection comprising one or more data objects stored on a database and receiving a thumbnail selection to represent the data collection, wherein the thumbnail selection comprises one or more of an image from the data collection, a graphic, or text. The method includes generating a scannable code associated with the data collection merging the scannable code with the thumbnail selection to generate a scannable thumbnail.