Scene Selection Screen Generation for Digital Cameras

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing digital cameras lack flexibility in preparing optimal scene selection screens for new shooting conditions, leading to a lack of correspondence between displayed images and associated shooting conditions, making it difficult for users to select appropriate scenes for optimal photography.

Innovation Solution

A scene selection screen device and system that includes a template storage section, input control section, scene selection screen setting section, and shooting condition adding section, allowing users to input and associate display elements with shooting conditions, and set a display order for scene selection screens without altering pre-existing orders.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If users can freely add and customize scene selection screens, then flexibility and adaptability improve, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveflexibility in preparing scene selection screensVSAvoidcomplexity of scene selection screen management

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system provides pre-configured templates containing display elements (sample images, notes, shooting condition parameters) that users can select and customize. This preliminary preparation of structured templates reduces the complexity of creating scene selection screens from scratch while maintaining flexibility.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

Users can copy existing scene selection screen configurations and modify them for new scenes. The system allows duplicating display elements, notes, and shooting conditions from one scene to another, reducing the effort and complexity of creating new custom scenes while maintaining adaptability.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #26Copying

2Ease of operation

If scene selection screens are customized with user-specific display elements, then ease of operation improves, but loss of information increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveease of grasping shooting conditionsVSAvoidcorrespondence between images and shooting conditions

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The system automatically generates and updates notes based on the shooting conditions associated with each scene. When shooting conditions are modified, the corresponding notes are automatically updated to reflect changes, ensuring information consistency while maintaining user-friendly customized displays.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The scene selection screen system serves multiple functions simultaneously: displaying customized sample images, showing shooting condition parameters, generating descriptive notes, and maintaining associations between all these elements. This multi-functionality ensures that customization does not lead to information loss.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

3Adaptability or versatility

If display elements are added individually to template areas, then adaptability improves, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecustomizability of display elementsVSAvoidcomplexity of template configuration

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The scene selection screen is divided into distinct template areas (sample image area, note area, shooting condition display area), each independently configurable. This segmentation allows users to customize individual areas without affecting the overall system complexity, as each area can be managed separately.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system allows users to modify parameters of display elements (such as text content, image selection, display order) within the template structure without changing the fundamental template framework. This enables high adaptability while maintaining manageable system complexity through parameter-based customization.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentUS7909700B2Scene selection screen generation device, scene selection screen adding system, method for generating scene selection screen, method for adding a scene selection screen, imaging device, and computer readable storage medium having recorded thereon a program

Publication Date: 2011.03.22 CASIO COMPUTER CO LTD

AI summary

On adding a newly selectable scene selection screen to an imaging device having a shooting condition setting section which sets the imaging device for a shooting condition, upon receiving a selection of any one of scene selection screens corresponding individually to shooting scenes, by reading out the selected shooting condition corresponding to the selected shooting scene, from a storage section that stores the shooting conditions individually in association with the shooting scenes, a template composed of separate areas on each of which to display a display element being different from other display elements to be displayed on other areas is prepared, each display element is input individually to each area, and the template, to which the display elements are input, is set as the scene selection screen to be added.