Stitching Multi-Page Continuous Images for Seamless Panning
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Solution Overview
Problem
Electronic devices struggle to display continuous images across multiple pages seamlessly, resulting in a disjointed user experience due to the inability to view and navigate multiple pages simultaneously without interruptions.
Innovation Solution
A system and method that determines if multiple pages contain a continuous image and associates them in a shared context, allowing alignment and stitching without borders, enabling users to view and pan through the image as a whole.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If multiple pages are displayed separately with borders and margins, then each page can be displayed individually, but the continuous image appears disjointed and interrupts user viewing
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple separate page displays into a unified continuous viewing context. By detecting that images on adjacent pages form a continuous image and removing borders and margins, the system combines what were previously separate display elements into a seamless visual experience, allowing users to view the entire continuous image without interruptions.
2Shape
If pages are displayed with traditional borders and margins, then layout structure is maintained, but the continuous image cannot be viewed as a whole
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a dynamic display system that adapts based on image content analysis. The system dynamically detects whether adjacent pages contain continuous images and adjusts the display accordingly—removing borders and margins when continuity is detected, while maintaining traditional layouts when images are not continuous. This dynamic adaptation allows the system to optimize for image continuity without permanently increasing complexity.
3Loss of information
If users navigate through multiple pages sequentially, then each page can be viewed in detail, but the overall continuous image context is lost
Solution Approach 1:
The patent adds a new dimension to page navigation by creating a hierarchical viewing structure. Users can view pages in the traditional sequential manner for detailed examination, or switch to a unified view that displays the entire continuous image across multiple pages simultaneously. This additional viewing dimension allows users to preserve both detailed page-level inspection and overall context without compromising navigation convenience.
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AI summary
Devices, systems and methods are disclosed for determining if an image is displayed using multiple pages of content and loading and displaying the multiple pages in a single context. Bordering pixels may be compared between a first page and a second page to determine if the pixels match above a threshold. If they match above a threshold, the first page and the second page may be aligned, stitched together and displayed in a shared context, allowing a user to pan and zoom between the first page and the second page without interruption, margins, page breaks or the like. The first page and/or the second page may be compared to additional pages of content and each of the additional pages of content is included in the shared context if matching above the threshold.