Content Creation Assist Device for Intuitive Design Request

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Solution Overview

Problem

In the field of publishing and commercial printing, small or medium-sized companies face challenges in finding professional resources or companies to create high-quality documents due to financial constraints, and existing cloud computing solutions do not provide an intuitive way for users to express their design requirements effectively, leading to unsatisfied results.

Innovation Solution

A content creation assist device and method that utilizes a product history database to associate past designs with request information, allowing users to input partial request information, select relevant past products, and supplement remaining request items based on the selected samples, enabling intuitive communication of design requirements to designers.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If users directly input complete design requirements, then design accuracy is improved, but ease of operation deteriorates because users lack professional knowledge to express requirements effectively

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedesign requirement accuracyVSAvoiduser input difficulty
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system pre-prepares sample design requests with common design requirements and parameters already filled in. Users can directly select from these pre-prepared samples without having to manually input all design parameters, thus maintaining accuracy while improving ease of operation

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system creates copies of existing design requests as selectable samples. Users can copy requirements from similar past designs rather than creating new specifications from scratch, which simplifies the input process while maintaining professional accuracy

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

2Manufacturing precision

If professional designers are hired, then design quality is improved, but cost increases making it inaccessible to small companies

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedesign qualityVSAvoidservice cost
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSQuantity of substance

Solution Approach 1:

The system enables users to self-serve by selecting from pre-prepared design samples and automatically generating design requests. This eliminates the need to hire expensive professional designers while still achieving professional-quality design specifications through the curated samples

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system changes the parameter of design accessibility by transforming complex professional design parameters into simple selectable samples. This allows small companies to access professional design capabilities at a fraction of the cost

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Quantity of substance

If cloud computing is used for on-demand design services, then cost is reduced, but service completeness deteriorates because not all design requirements can be met

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveservice costVSAvoiddesign requirement coverage
Core Design Contradiction:
Quantity of substanceVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The system pre-prepares comprehensive design samples covering various design scenarios and requirements. By anticipating common design needs and preparing samples in advance, the system can handle diverse design requests through cloud computing without requiring expensive custom professional services for each case

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS8959081B2Content creation assist device, content creation assist method, and non-transitory computer readable recording medium storing content creation assist program
Publication Date: 2015.02.17 RICOH CO LTD
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AI summary

Disclosed is a content creation assist device including a product history database that associates and stores first designs and information regarding first requests for requesting to create the corresponding first design as product history information; a first input unit that receives a partial input of second request information for requesting to create a second design; a selection unit that selects plural samples products that have been produced in a past, based on the partially input second request information and the product history information; a second input unit that indicates the selected plural samples, and makes a user select one sample among the plural samples; and a request information supplement unit that sets remaining items of the partially input second request information by using the information regarding the first request corresponding to the selected sample.