533 Lonely Pixel II

1. Question

Given a picture consisting of black and white pixels, and a positive integer N, find the number of black pixels located at some specific row R and column C that align with all the following rules:

  1. Row R and column C both contain exactly N black pixels.

  2. For all rows that have a black pixel at column C, they should be exactly the same as row R

The picture is represented by a 2D char array consisting of 'B' and 'W', which means black and white pixels respectively.

Example:

Input:

[['W', 'B', 'W', 'B', 'B', 'W'],    
 ['W', 'B', 'W', 'B', 'B', 'W'],    
 ['W', 'B', 'W', 'B', 'B', 'W'],    
 ['W', 'W', 'B', 'W', 'B', 'W']] 

N = 3

Output: 6

Explanation: All the bold 'B' are the black pixels we need (all 'B's at column 1 and 3).
        0    1    2    3    4    5         column index                                            
0    [['W', 'B', 'W', 'B', 'B', 'W'],    
1     ['W', 'B', 'W', 'B', 'B', 'W'],    
2     ['W', 'B', 'W', 'B', 'B', 'W'],    
3     ['W', 'W', 'B', 'W', 'B', 'W']]    
row index

Take 'B' at row R = 0 and column C = 1 as an example:
Rule 1, row R = 0 and column C = 1 both have exactly N = 3 black pixels. 
Rule 2, the rows have black pixel at column C = 1 are row 0, row 1 and row 2. They are exactly the same as row R = 0.

Note:

  1. The range of width and height of the input 2D array is [1,200].

2. Implementation

(1) Hash Table

思路: 这道题让我们找到有多少个黑色pixel它们所处的位置满足以下两个条件:

1.黑色pixel所在的行和列的黑色pixel个数都是N,这个和lonely pixel 1类似

2.在第i列包含黑色pixel的所有行中,它们都必须是一样的。这里的一样指的是行里的pixel的排列是一样的。

因为第二个条件的存在,所以我们必须用一个方法表示行的排列,这里可以利用每行的pixel排列作为key,然后放在一个hashmap里。当我们将所有行的排列都转成string的key放在hashmap后, 再遍历这个map,由于题目的要求, 只有当map.get(key) 等于 N时,我们才继续查看每列中的黑色pixel的个数是否为N以及当前列的pixel是否为黑色pixel,如果是的话 count 加N. 由于我们只关心黑色pixel个数为N的行,所以在getRowKey(), 如果当前行的黑色pixel个数不为N,我们直接返回empty string

(2) 简洁版

3. Time & Space Complexity

Hash Table: 时间复杂度O(mn), 空间复杂度O(m + n)

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