Graph Visualization for Agricultural Crop Data
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Solution Overview
Problem
In agriculture, visualizing multiple measurement items related to crop growth, such as sugar content and acid level, in a single graph becomes complex due to varying target values and tendencies, making it difficult to intuitively understand changes over time and determine optimal harvest dates.
Innovation Solution
An information processing apparatus that acquires measurement and reference information, converts measured values into display coordinates, and aligns target values on a graph, allowing for simultaneous display of multiple series data with an index indicating reference values, facilitating intuitive understanding of changes and decision-making.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If multiple measurement items with different target values are displayed in a single graph, then the quantity of information displayed is improved, but the ease of understanding the relationship between data and target values deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transforms the vertical axis parameter from absolute measured values to standardized scores (e.g., 0-100 scale) based on each item's target value. This parameter transformation allows multiple items with different units and target values to be displayed together while maintaining intuitive comparison, as each item's progress toward its target is represented on a common standardized scale.
2Ease of operation
If the widths and positions of normal ranges are aligned for multiple data series, then the ease of visual comparison is improved, but the ability to show relationship to individual reference values deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent converts each measurement item's value into a standardized score that reflects its relationship to its own target value. This transformation preserves the individual reference value relationship while enabling visual alignment and comparison across multiple items, as all items are expressed in terms of their progress toward各自的 target rather than absolute values.
Solution Approach 2:
The standardized score acts as an intermediary transformation that bridges the gap between items with different target values and units. By converting all items to a common score scale, the system enables visual alignment and comparison while the score itself encodes the relationship to each item's reference value, thus preserving both comparison ease and reference value information.
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AI summary
An information processing apparatus configured to display results of measurement for a plurality of items about an agricultural crop as a graph, acquires measurement information including an item for which the measurement is performed and a measured value obtained by the measurement, acquires information about a reference value set for each of the plurality of items, performs conversion of the measured value into a display coordinate value on a graph for each of the plurality of items to make reference values agree with each other on the graph, and displays a graph including a plurality of pieces of series data corresponding to the respective plurality of items and having display coordinate values converted by the conversion unit, and an index indicating the reference values for the plurality of items.