Conditional Image Selection for Measurement Data Visibility
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional information providing systems reduce visibility by displaying unnecessary images alongside measurement data, making it difficult for administrators to efficiently obtain necessary information.
Innovation Solution
An information providing apparatus that selects and merges only relevant image data with measurement data based on predefined triggers, such as tag numbers, group numbers, time, external signals, and alarm levels, to create a display purpose data file, which is then displayed on a terminal device, optimizing the number and content of images shown.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If all captured images are displayed on a single screen alongside measurement data, then complete information is provided, but data visibility is reduced and it becomes difficult to efficiently obtain necessary information
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts and displays only the necessary images related to alarm occurrences from the set of all captured images. The image display unit selectively shows images corresponding to alarm events rather than all images, thereby maintaining information completeness for relevant events while improving data visibility by removing unnecessary images from the display.
2Reliability
If multiple images are displayed on a single screen, then comprehensive monitoring is achieved, but the screen becomes difficult to view and information acquisition efficiency decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The system extracts and displays only images associated with alarm occurrences rather than all captured images. This selective display approach maintains monitoring comprehensiveness for critical events while significantly improving information acquisition efficiency by reducing the number of images administrators need to review.
Solution Approach 2:
The image display is dynamically adjusted based on alarm conditions. When alarms occur, the system automatically displays relevant images; when no alarms occur, unnecessary images are not displayed. This dynamic approach ensures comprehensive monitoring when needed while maintaining high information acquisition efficiency during normal operations.
3Device complexity
If all measurement results and images are merged into a single file, then data management is simplified, but file size increases and processing efficiency decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts and merges only the necessary images related to alarm occurrences with measurement data into the single file, rather than merging all captured images. This approach simplifies data management by maintaining a unified file structure while reducing processing time by excluding unnecessary image data from the merge operation.
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AI summary
A server 10 according to an embodiment includes a selection unit 11 and a display control unit 13. The selection unit 11 selects, when a condition that is set in advance is satisfied, one or more pieces of image data that are associated with the condition from among a plurality of pieces of image data. The display control unit 13 simultaneously displays, when the condition is satisfied, the measurement data that has been measured by a measurement instrument and the image data that has been selected by the selection unit 11 on a single screen.