Theme Icon Generation via Logo Segmentation and Template Fusion

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Solution Overview

Problem

Third-party applications like HUAWEI LEARNING and VMALL lack theme icons, resulting in inconsistent display styles when system themes are changed, as they use original app icons without corresponding theme icons, leading to overlap traces and style differences in theme icons.

Innovation Solution

A method to automatically convert application icons into theme icons by segmenting the logo graphic from the opaque region, adjusting its size, and fusing it with a theme template, ensuring no overlap trace and consistent style, involving binarization processing, image segmentation, interpolation algorithms, color gradient, and projection processing.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of manufacture

If the original application icon is directly superimposed on a background layer to generate the theme icon, then the generation process is simple, but the theme icon has an obvious overlap trace and different theme icons have different styles

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetheme icon generation processVSAvoidtheme icon style consistency
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of manufactureVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the application icon into multiple components: transparent region, opaque region, icon background, and logo graphic. By separating the logo graphic from the background layer and processing them independently, the method eliminates overlap traces and ensures consistent theme styling across all icons.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent extracts the logo graphic from the opaque region of the application icon. This extracted logo is then fused with a theme template to generate the theme icon, while the background layer is handled separately, preventing overlap traces and ensuring style consistency.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

2Ease of operation

If third-party applications use original app icons without corresponding theme icons, then the implementation is straightforward, but the display style of the entire interface cannot be consistent

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetheme icon implementationVSAvoidinterface display style consistency
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSStability of the object's composition

Solution Approach 1:

The patent creates a universal theme icon generation method that works for both system applications and third-party applications. By automatically generating theme icons from any application icon through standardized processing (segmentation, logo extraction, template fusion), the system ensures consistent display style across all applications without requiring separate implementation for each app.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

3Manufacturing precision

If the application icon is automatically converted into a theme icon by segmenting and fusing, then the theme icon has no overlap trace and consistent style, but the generation process becomes complex

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetheme icon style consistencyVSAvoidtheme icon generation process
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements an automatic theme icon generation system that performs segmentation, logo extraction, size adjustment, and template fusion without manual intervention. The system self-services the entire process by automatically analyzing the application icon structure, extracting necessary components, and generating the final theme icon, reducing the perceived complexity for users.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The patent prepares theme templates in advance with predefined styles and structures. By having these templates ready before the icon generation process, the system can quickly fuse extracted logos with appropriate templates, simplifying the overall process while maintaining high style consistency and eliminating overlap traces.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS12112405B2Theme icon generation method and apparatus, and computer device
Publication Date: 2024.10.08 PETAL CLOUD TECH CO LTD
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AI summary

A theme icon generation method includes obtaining an application icon, where the application icon includes a transparent region and an opaque region, and the opaque region includes an icon background and a first logo graphic; segmenting a first logo graphic from the opaque region; adjusting a size of the first logo graphic to generate a second logo graphic; and fusing the second logo graphic with a theme template to generate a theme icon.