Template Selection Using Common Imaging Location Area
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional techniques for creating album templates do not effectively consider the sense of unity throughout an album, particularly when images from multiple locations are used, leading to a lack of uniformity in template selection based on shooting locations.
Innovation Solution
An information processing apparatus that evaluates and selects templates based on imaging locations of images, using metadata such as GPS coordinates to recommend templates that maintain a consistent theme and scale throughout the album, ensuring uniformity by associating each image with appropriate templates.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If a template is selected based on the shooting location of a single image, then the template is suitable for that specific image, but the sense of unity through the entirety of the album deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the shooting location information of multiple images by calculating a common area (intersection) of all shooting locations. This combined location information is then used to select a single template that represents the entire album, ensuring both individual image suitability and overall album unity.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a universal template selection mechanism that works for albums containing images from different locations. By using the common area of all shooting locations, a single template can universally represent diverse images while maintaining thematic consistency throughout the album.
2Adaptability or versatility
If templates are selected individually for each image based on shooting location, then each image has an appropriate template, but the album lacks overall uniformity when images are from different countries
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by using the common area of shooting locations to determine the appropriate level of geographical specificity for the template. When images are from the same city, local templates are used; when from different countries, broader regional templates are selected, maintaining appropriate local relevance while ensuring overall album consistency.
3Productivity
If the conventional technique is used to create templates for multiple images, then individual templates can be generated quickly, but the sense of unity through the album deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent performs preliminary action by calculating the common area of all shooting locations before template selection. This pre-processing step ensures that the template selection is based on comprehensive location information, maintaining album unity while still enabling efficient automated template assignment.
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AI summary
An information processing apparatus recommends a template having a sense of unity through an entirety to each image when a user creates an album. The information processing apparatus includes a selection unit configured to select a template for arranging any one of the plurality of images based on imaging locations of a plurality of images to be used in the album, and an arranging unit configured to arrange the plurality of images to the plurality of templates selected by the selection unit, respectively.