Page Layout Style Search via Visual Feature Quantification
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional page layout design galleries provide limited browsing mechanisms, making it difficult for designers to find specific design styles, as keyword-based search methods are imprecise in describing design features that evoke emotions and aesthetics.
Innovation Solution
A system and method that analyze page layout designs to determine style scores based on design features, allowing users to search for similar designs by comparing these scores to preferred examples, enabling an example-based search mechanism for locating page layouts with desired styles.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If keyword-based search methods are used to search for page layout designs, then the search process is simple to implement, but the search precision is low because keywords cannot accurately describe design features that evoke emotions and aesthetics
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transforms the search mechanism from keyword-based text matching to a parameter-based visual feature comparison system. It extracts design parameters such as color schemes, typography, layout structures, and spacing from example page layouts, then compares these parameters quantitatively to search for similar designs. This parameter-based approach significantly improves search precision while maintaining manageable system complexity through automated feature extraction algorithms.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces the manual keyword-based search mechanism with an automated visual analysis system that uses image processing and pattern recognition algorithms. The system automatically extracts visual features from page layouts and performs similarity comparisons, substituting the mechanical keyword-matching process with intelligent visual computation that better captures design aesthetics and emotional qualities.
2Productivity
If designers browse page layout galleries page by page, then no additional analysis tools are needed, but the time required to find desired design styles is excessive
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements preliminary action by pre-processing and analyzing all page layout designs in the gallery before the search process begins. Visual features, design parameters, and style characteristics are extracted and stored in advance, creating an indexed database of design attributes. When a user performs a search, the system quickly queries this pre-analyzed data rather than analyzing designs in real-time, dramatically reducing search time and improving productivity.
3Ease of operation
If conventional browsing mechanisms are used in page layout galleries, then the interface is simple to navigate, but the ability to locate specific design styles is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements multi-functionality by combining multiple search and browsing capabilities within a single unified system. Users can perform example-based visual similarity search, parameter-based filtering, and traditional keyword search all through one interface. The system analyzes visual features, compares design parameters, and retrieves results based on multiple criteria simultaneously, providing versatile search functionality while maintaining interface simplicity through integrated controls.
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AI summary
Various embodiments of a system and methods for using design features to search for page layout designs are described. The document and image structures of a page layout design may be analyzed to determine design features which define the style of the page layout design. Dependent on the design features, style scores may be calculated for the page layout design. Page layout designs may be stored in a database in association with corresponding style scores. A user may indicate a desired page layout style by indicating example page layout designs which exhibit the desired style. Style scores for the example page layout designs may be compared to the style scores for page layout designs stored in the database. Dependent on the comparison, page layout designs stored in the database may be selected and displayed to the user.