Color Balance Adjustment via Support Program Preview
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Solution Overview
Problem
OS-standard general-purpose printing programs lack a color adjustment function, leading to difficulties in achieving desired color tones in printed images.
Innovation Solution
An auxiliary program that provides a color adjustment preview process, allowing users to modify color balance settings before printing, integrated with OS-standard general-purpose printing programs.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If OS-standard general-purpose printing program is used, then printing function is provided without vendor driver, but color adjustment function is missing
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a support program as an intermediary component that bridges the OS-standard general-purpose printing program and the printer. This support program provides the color adjustment functionality that is missing in the standard printing program, while maintaining compatibility with the OS-standard interface. The support program receives print data from the general-purpose printing program, applies color balance adjustments, and then sends the processed data to the printer, thus resolving the contradiction between maintaining standard compatibility and adding color adjustment capability.
2Ease of operation
If preview process is added to display image before printing, then color adjustment is enabled, but processing time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements the preview process as a preliminary action that occurs before the actual printing operation. The support program generates a preview image by applying color balance adjustments to the print data and displays it to the user for verification. Only after the user confirms satisfaction with the preview does the system proceed to the actual printing. This preliminary preview step enables color adjustment capability while the processing time is incurred only once, before the more time-consuming printing operation.
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AI summary
An information processing device has an operating system including a general-purpose printing program. In a case that a print instruction to execute a printing of a target image on a printing device is issued from an application program to the general-purpose printing program and intermediate data representing the target image is received, a computer of the information processing device performs, according to a support program corresponding to the printing device, a preview process of displaying a preview image of the target image, and a settings modification process of, while the preview image is displayed, receiving a modification of a setting value for a parameter related to color balance. In a case that the setting value is modified in the settings modification process, the computer performs, according to the support program, a print control process of causing the printing device to print the target image according to the modified setting value.