Cross-Vendor Scan Software for Read-Image Destination Setting
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Solution Overview
Problem
Standard drivers do not support the setting of a transmission destination for images read by scanning apparatuses, limiting the ability to transmit these images to desired locations.
Innovation Solution
A software program that is commonly usable across multiple image processing apparatuses from different manufacturers, enabling the display of a setting reception screen for selecting a transmission destination and facilitating the transmission of read images to the chosen destination.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a standard driver is used for scanning apparatuses, then compatibility across multiple vendors is improved, but the ability to set transmission destination is lost
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a transmission destination setting screen as an intermediary component between the standard driver and the scanning apparatus. This screen allows users to configure transmission destinations without requiring changes to the standard driver itself, thus maintaining compatibility while enabling transmission functionality.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent separates the transmission destination setting function from the standard driver by creating an independent setting screen and control mechanism. This segmentation allows the standard driver to remain universal while the transmission setting operates as a separate, configurable layer.
2Ease of operation
If model-specific scan driver is installed, then scanning function control is improved, but installation complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the transmission destination setting capability from the model-specific driver installation process. Instead of requiring users to install vendor-specific drivers to access transmission functions, the setting screen is provided as a separate, accessible component that works with the standard driver.
3Ease of manufacture
If standard driver is used, then ease of installation is improved, but transmission functionality is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent makes the standard driver universal by adding transmission destination setting capability through the setting screen. This allows the same standard driver to serve multiple functions: basic scanning control and transmission destination configuration, eliminating the need for separate model-specific drivers.
Data Source
AI summary
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program which is executed by a computer and is configured for supporting a software program that is commonly usable for a plurality of image processing apparatuses of respective manufacturers. The program causing the computer to execute: displaying, in a display, a setting reception screen through which setting of a transmission destination of a read image read by an image processing apparatus is received; and causing the image processing apparatus to transmit the read image to the transmission destination that has been received through the setting reception screen.