Aggregate Board Virtual Screen Rendering With Reference Unit Boards
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Solution Overview
Problem
When the positions or types of components on a unit board are changed, detailed images of all unit boards in an aggregate board need to be regenerated, leading to a time delay before a changed virtual screen is displayed.
Innovation Solution
An image processing device that uses a reference unit board to generate detailed images and simplified images for non-reference unit boards, allowing for the display of a virtual screen with reduced complexity and faster rendering.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If detailed images are generated for all unit boards, then display completeness is improved, but processing time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides unit boards into two categories: reference unit boards (first subset) and non-reference unit boards (second subset). Detailed images are generated only for reference unit boards, while non-reference unit boards use simplified images. This segmentation reduces the total number of detailed images that need to be regenerated when component configurations change, thereby reducing processing time while maintaining display completeness through the representative reference boards.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates simplified images for non-reference unit boards that replicate the basic structural information without the full detail of component-level information. These simplified images serve as efficient copies that convey essential board layout information without requiring full regeneration when component positions or types change, thus reducing processing time while preserving sufficient visual information.
2Measurement precision
If detailed images are generated for all unit boards, then image detail is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies different image quality levels to different regions of the aggregate board. Reference unit boards receive detailed images with full component information, while non-reference unit boards receive simplified images. This local differentiation optimizes processing complexity by focusing detailed rendering only where necessary (reference boards) while using simpler representations elsewhere, thereby reducing overall device complexity without sacrificing essential image detail.
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AI summary
The image processing device displays, on a display, a virtual screen obtained by viewing, from above, an aggregate board in which multiple unit boards having a common component configuration are arranged. A control section of the image processing device uses one unit board at a predetermined position among the multiple unit boards as a reference unit board, generates a detailed image in which respective components are arranged on the unit board based on positional information of all components to be mounted on the unit boards, for the reference unit board, generates a simplified image obtained by simplifying the unit board, for a non-reference unit board other than the reference unit board among the multiple unit boards, and displays a simple virtual screen displaying the detailed image at a position of the reference unit board and the simplified image at a position of the non-reference unit board as the virtual screen.