Touch Panel Imaging Device Sorts Images by Slide Direction
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Solution Overview
Problem
Photographers face difficulties in organizing and sorting captured images, especially when the images are taken over several days, as they struggle to remember the subjects, locations, or reasons for capturing them, leading to cumbersome manual folder specification and increased complexity with large image collections.
Innovation Solution
An imaging device and method that includes a monitor screen with a touch panel, allowing for touch operations and movement detection during review display, which determines the type of operation performed and executes specific processing such as sorting, deleting, or changing file attributes based on predefined tables and user inputs.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If manual sorting of captured images is performed by replaying them one at a time, then images can be sorted into separate folders by subject, but the operation becomes cumbersome and time-consuming especially when several days have elapsed since capture
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs automatic subject analysis and folder assignment immediately when the image is captured, before the user needs to sort the images. This preliminary automatic sorting eliminates the need for time-consuming manual replay and sorting of images days later, while maintaining accurate subject-based organization.
Solution Approach 2:
The imaging device automatically analyzes the captured image content, identifies the subject, and assigns the image to the appropriate folder without requiring user intervention. The system serves itself by performing the sorting function automatically based on image analysis, freeing the user from manual sorting tasks.
2Quantity of substance
If the number of stored images is increased, then more images can be saved, but the operation to specify folders becomes more complicated
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically determines the appropriate folder for each image based on subject analysis, eliminating the need for users to manually specify folders even when dealing with large numbers of images. This self-service approach maintains simple operations regardless of the quantity of stored images.
Solution Approach 2:
The folder specification function is extracted from the user's manual task and transferred to the system's automatic analysis function. The system extracts the subject information from the image and uses it to determine folder assignment, removing the complex folder specification operation from the user's workflow.
3Ease of operation
If automatic sorting by pre-registered subjects is implemented, then folder assignment is simplified, but the system requires pre-registration of photographic subjects
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs automatic subject analysis and folder assignment without requiring users to pre-register subjects. The imaging device itself serves the sorting function by analyzing image content and autonomously determining appropriate folders, eliminating the need for manual subject registration while maintaining ease of operation.
Data Source
AI summary
In the present invention, a control section determines the type of a touch operation performed on a touch panel during review display that is performed in a display section (monitor screen) for a predetermined amount of time after an image is captured by an imaging section, and performs type-specific processing according to the determined type on the image being review displayed. For example, when a slide operation is performed as a touch operation on the touch panel, the control section determines the slide direction as the type of the operation and performs type-specific processing based on the slide direction (direction-specific processing).