Information Server Dynamic Image Selection for Search Relevance
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current information providing systems fail to allow users to easily determine if search results satisfy their input conditions, as they often display the same predetermined images regardless of the search criteria, making it difficult for users to visually assess the relevance of search results.
Innovation Solution
An information providing server that stores facility information along with associated images and text, allowing users to input search conditions and providing tailored image and text selections based on the search criteria, enabling the generation of search result guide data that includes relevant facility information and images, thus allowing users to easily determine the relevance of search results.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Device complexity
If a predetermined image is used regardless of search condition, then the system complexity is reduced, but the user cannot determine whether the search result satisfies their conditions
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies dynamics by making the image display adaptive rather than static. The image providing unit dynamically selects and provides images based on the search condition input by the user, allowing the system to adjust its behavior according to user needs while maintaining manageable complexity through automated processing.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent changes the parameter of image selection from fixed to variable. By associating multiple images with each facility and selecting appropriate images based on search conditions, the system transforms the image parameter from a static predetermined value to a dynamic value that changes according to user input, thereby preserving relevance information.
2Loss of information
If images related to search condition are provided, then the user can determine relevance, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by pre-associating multiple images with each facility in the database before the search occurs. This preparation work is done in advance, so when a user performs a search, the system can quickly retrieve and provide relevant images without complex real-time processing, thereby reducing the operational complexity while maintaining information relevance.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an image providing unit as an intermediary between the facility information and the user terminal. This intermediary component manages the association between facilities and their multiple images, and selectively provides appropriate images based on search conditions, thereby handling the complexity of image management in a structured way.
3Ease of operation
If the same image is displayed for all search results, then the system is simple to operate, but the user cannot visually assess search result relevance
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies universality by creating a multi-functional image providing system. The image providing unit serves multiple purposes: it stores multiple images per facility, selects appropriate images based on search conditions, and provides them to users. This universal approach maintains operational simplicity through automated processes while enabling precise visual assessment through condition-based image selection.
Data Source
AI summary
A search condition related to image and text stored in a first database is associated with the image and the text, and an information providing unit selects the image and the text associated with a received search condition from among images related to a facility associated with a facility information extracted by a search processing unit and the text describing the service provided at the facility, generates search result guide data in which the extracted facility information and the selected image and the selected text are included, and provides the search result guide data to a user terminal.