Template-Based Print Layout for Accurate Image Arrangement

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing image arrangement systems on printouts often result in arrangements that differ from the user's intention, lacking a systematic approach to align images with predefined regions and sizes, leading to suboptimal output.

Innovation Solution

An information processing system that includes a processor to acquire template information with assigned identifiers, associate it with a folder for image data, and generate a print job based on this information and preset rules, ensuring images are arranged according to user-defined layouts and sizes.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If automatic image arrangement is performed without considering user intention, then processing speed is improved, but arrangement accuracy deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveprocessing speedVSAvoidarrangement accuracy

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by pre-defining multiple candidate arrangement patterns and storing them before the actual printing process. When images need to be arranged, the system selects from these pre-prepared patterns based on simple criteria rather than performing complex real-time optimization, thus achieving both speed and accuracy.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system enables self-service by automatically selecting appropriate arrangement patterns based on predefined rules and stored candidate patterns. The system serves itself by matching image characteristics with suitable pre-defined patterns without requiring manual user intervention, thereby maintaining high processing speed while ensuring arrangement accuracy reflects user intentions.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

2Manufacturing precision

If multiple arrangement patterns are pre-defined and stored, then arrangement accuracy is improved, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvearrangement accuracyVSAvoidsystem complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Manufacturing precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments the arrangement problem by dividing it into multiple independent candidate patterns, each optimized for specific scenarios. Instead of creating one complex adaptive system, the problem is broken down into several simple, pre-defined patterns that can be independently stored and selected based on the situation.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system uses parameter changes by varying the arrangement patterns based on different image characteristics and printing requirements. Multiple pre-defined patterns with different parameters (layout, orientation, spacing) are stored, and the appropriate pattern is selected by changing parameters based on the specific case, avoiding the need for a single complex adaptive mechanism.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentUS20250348255A1Information processing system, non-transitory computer readable medium storing program, and information processing method

Publication Date: 2025.11.13 FUJIFILM BUSINESS INNOVATION CORP

AI summary

An information processing system includes: a processor configured to: acquire template information including at least information related to plural regions on a printout, in which an image is to be arranged and to which different identifiers are respectively assigned; store the template information in association with a folder for storing image data; and in a case where the image data is stored in the folder, generate a print job of arranging an image corresponding to the stored image data on the printout, based on the template information associated with the folder and a preset rule.