Electronic Device Metadata for Virtual-Space Image Identification
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing technologies struggle to effectively manage and distinguish between images captured in virtual spaces and real spaces, as well as augmented reality spaces, leading to difficulties in identification and organization.
Innovation Solution
An electronic device equipped with processors and circuitry that acquires and records information unique to virtual or augmented reality spaces, adding metadata to captured images to facilitate identification and management.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Device complexity
If images from virtual spaces and real spaces are stored together without distinction, then storage management is simplified, but image identification and organization become difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by adding specific metadata attributes to images based on their capture location. Images from virtual spaces receive different metadata (e.g., virtual space coordinates, virtual camera information) compared to images from real spaces (e.g., GPS location, real camera information). This allows the storage system to maintain a unified structure while incorporating distinguishing characteristics at the local level, enabling both simplified storage management and effective image identification through metadata filtering and sorting.
2Difficulty of detecting and measuring
If metadata is added to distinguish virtual and real space images, then image identification improves, but data processing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements preliminary action by attaching metadata to images at the moment of capture. The camera function automatically determines whether the captured image is from a virtual or real space and pre-attaches the appropriate metadata (such as virtual space coordinates or real space GPS information) before storage. This preliminary metadata attachment eliminates the need for complex post-processing to distinguish image types, as the differentiation information is already embedded in the image data structure when it is stored.
3Quantity of substance
If unified storage is used for all images, then storage efficiency is improved, but ease of operation for searching and organizing images decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies universality by creating a unified storage structure that can accommodate both virtual and real space images through a common image storage framework. The storage system uses a universal image data structure that can handle different image types, with optional metadata fields for virtual space information (coordinates, virtual camera parameters) and real space information (GPS location, timestamp). This multi-functional storage design maintains storage efficiency while enabling users to search and organize images by space type through metadata filtering, achieving both unified storage and differentiated access.
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AI summary
An electronic device according to the present invention includes one or more processors and/or circuitry configured to execute acquisition processing of acquiring information unique to a virtual space, and control processing of performing control to record the information unique to the virtual space when performing control to record an image of the virtual space.