Display Control UI With Future Outcome Projection

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Solution Overview

Problem

Users often struggle to make informed decisions about services due to the inability to visualize the predicted outcomes of their choices.

Innovation Solution

An apparatus and system that receives condition information from users, selects appropriate forms meeting those conditions, and displays a user interface with future projection information to assist in decision-making.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of information

If service information is provided to users, then users can access service options, but users cannot see predicted outcomes and make informed decisions

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveoutcome informationVSAvoiddecision-making ability
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary calculations to determine predicted outcomes before the user makes a decision. The outcome determination unit calculates what the result would be if the user followed the suggested operation, allowing the user to see consequences before acting.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system provides feedback by displaying predicted outcomes to the user. The outcome display unit shows the calculated results, creating a feedback loop that informs the user about potential consequences of their decisions.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Loss of information

If the system calculates and displays predicted outcomes, then users can make informed decisions, but the system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveoutcome informationVSAvoidsystem structure
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The determination unit serves multiple functions: it determines both the suggested operation and the predicted outcome. This multi-functionality reduces the need for separate dedicated components for each function.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The outcome determination unit acts as an intermediary between the operation information and the user. It processes the operation information and translates it into predicted outcomes that the user can understand and use for decision-making.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentUS12541288B2Apparatus, system, and method of controlling display
Publication Date: 2026.02.03 RICOH CO LTD
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AI summary

An apparatus, system, and method, each of which: receives, from a user, condition information indicating a condition for determining a service to be provided to the user; selects, from among a plurality of forms of the user, one or more particular forms that meet the condition for determining a service, as a form to be used for applying the service; and controls a display to display a user interface, the user interface including future projection information of the user after provision of the service based on information on the particular forms.