Display Control Apparatus for Exaggerated Label Image Changes
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users in label printing systems face difficulties in visually identifying changes in printing images due to alterations in setting values, especially when changes are small or occur in narrow display regions, making it hard to determine how changes in margin lengths, label lengths, or character decorations are reflected in the printing image.
Innovation Solution
A display control apparatus and method that exaggerates changes in the printing image when setting values are altered, allowing users to clearly see the impact of changes in the preview display region, with threshold values determining when changes are displayed normally or exaggeratedly, ensuring users can easily understand how alterations affect the printing image.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If the display region is made narrow or the label length is made long, then the printing system can handle more compact or extended printing scenarios, but the user cannot easily confirm changes in the printing image due to reduced visual scale
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a magnification dimension to the display system. When the display region is narrow or label length is long, the system automatically magnifies the printing image in the display region, allowing users to see detailed changes even in compact or extended printing scenarios. This resolves the contradiction by adding a magnification dimension that compensates for the reduced visual scale.
Solution Approach 2:
The system dynamically changes the magnification parameter of the printing image based on display region size and label length. When the display region is narrow or label length is long, the magnification parameter is increased to ensure changes are visible. This parameter adjustment resolves the contradiction between adaptability to different display scenarios and the ability to detect changes.
2Manufacturing precision
If the margin length or label length is altered by a few millimeters, then the printing precision is improved, but the user may not be aware of the change in the printing image
Solution Approach 1:
The system adds a magnification dimension to highlight small changes in margin length or label length. By magnifying the printing image in the display region, even millimeter-level changes become visually apparent, preventing information loss about precision adjustments while maintaining high printing precision.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent uses color changes to highlight modified portions of the printing image. When margin length or label length is altered, the changed regions are displayed with different colors or shading, making subtle precision changes immediately visible to users and preventing loss of information about the modifications.
3Productivity
If the font size is made small or the display region is narrowed, then the printing layout efficiency is improved, but the user cannot easily confirm character decoration changes
Solution Approach 1:
The system introduces magnification as an additional display dimension. When font size is small or display region is narrow, the printing image is magnified in the display region, allowing users to see character decoration changes clearly without reducing layout efficiency. The magnification is applied selectively to the display representation, not the actual print output.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent employs color changes to highlight character decoration modifications. When font size is small or display region is narrow, changed character regions are displayed with distinct colors or shading, making decoration changes visible even at small sizes while maintaining printing layout efficiency.
4Measurement precision
If the printing image is displayed at actual size, then the accuracy of the printing representation is improved, but the user cannot easily see changes in narrow display regions or with long label lengths
Solution Approach 1:
The system adds a magnification dimension that allows the printing image to be displayed at an enlarged scale in the display region. This resolves the contradiction by providing both actual-size representation for accuracy and magnified display for ease of change confirmation, with the magnification applied selectively based on display region size and label length.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements dynamic magnification that adjusts based on display region size and label length. The magnification level is not fixed but dynamically changes to optimize both representation accuracy and change visibility. This dynamic adjustment resolves the contradiction between maintaining accuracy and enabling easy change confirmation.
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AI summary
A display control apparatus exaggeratedly displays a change in a printing image based on an alteration in a setting value of an editing item, on a display, when editing results of printing data on an editing screen are displayed on the display as the printing image and the setting value of the editing item of the printing data is altered.