Communication Device Capability Verification for Image Processing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Communication devices often transmit image processing instructions to image processing apparatuses without ensuring compatibility with the apparatus's capabilities, leading to suboptimal performance, such as forcing monochrome printing on devices capable of color printing.
Innovation Solution
A communication device determines its configurable range of setting values and compares it with the apparatus's capabilities before transmitting instructions, restricting transmission if they do not match, ensuring that the image processing apparatus operates within its capabilities.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If the communication device transmits image processing instructions without checking capability compatibility, then the ease of operation is improved, but the image processing apparatus may be caused to perform operations exceeding its capabilities, leading to suboptimal performance
Solution Approach 1:
The communication device performs capability verification and determines the second configurable range before transmitting image processing instructions. This preliminary action ensures that the image processing apparatus receives only compatible instructions, preventing suboptimal performance while maintaining ease of operation for the user.
2Productivity
If the communication device checks capability compatibility before transmitting instructions, then the productivity is improved, but the device complexity increases due to additional verification processes
Solution Approach 1:
The image processing apparatus transmits its capability information (second configurable range) back to the communication device. The communication device uses this feedback to determine whether to transmit image processing instructions, creating a simple yet effective verification mechanism that improves productivity without excessive complexity.
3Reliability
If the communication device restricts transmission based on capability matching, then the reliability is improved, but the adaptability decreases as the device must conform to apparatus limitations
Solution Approach 1:
The communication device dynamically adjusts its behavior based on the received capability information. When the second configurable range indicates full compatibility, the device transmits instructions normally. When incompatibility is detected, the device restricts transmission. This dynamic approach ensures reliability while maintaining adaptability to different apparatus capabilities.
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AI summary
A communication device including a processor configured to, when executing processor-executable instructions stored in a storage unit, perform determining a first configurable range including setting values stored in the storage unit, acquiring, from an image processing apparatus via a communication unit, a second configurable range including setting values for image processing executable by the image processing apparatus, determining whether the first configurable range is equal to the second configurable range, when determining that the first configurable range is equal to the second configurable range, transmitting an image processing instruction to perform an image processing operation according to the setting values of the first configurable range stored in the storage unit, to the image processing apparatus via the communication unit, and when determining that the first configurable range is different from the second configurable range, restricting transmission of the image processing instruction to the image processing apparatus.