Display Control Device for Print Processing Animation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current display methods for print processing, such as duplex and aggregate printing, struggle to effectively convey the finished state, leading to potential misprints due to difficulty in understanding the process, and require significant processing time when displaying multiple thumbnail images, which deteriorates efficiency.
Innovation Solution
A display control device that generates specific images for designated print processing and controls the display of these images as animations, optimizing the display by omitting intermediate steps and adjusting display time, allowing users to understand the process while maintaining efficiency.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If multiple thumbnail images are displayed to show the finished state of print processing, then users can understand the process better, but processing time increases significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the display process into two distinct parts: (1) displaying only the initial state image, and (2) displaying only the finished state image with processing information. This segmentation eliminates the need to display multiple intermediate thumbnail images, thereby reducing processing time while still providing users with complete understanding of the print processing process through the combination of initial state, finished state, and processing information.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent extracts and displays only the essential information needed for user understanding: the initial state image, the finished state image, and the processing information. By taking out only the critical elements and omitting redundant intermediate thumbnail images, the system achieves both fast processing and comprehensive information delivery.
2Loss of information
If current display methods are used to show print processing steps, then users can see the process, but it leads to potential misprints due to difficulty in understanding
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces processing information as an intermediary element that mediates between the initial state image and the finished state image. This processing information explicitly describes the transformation process, making the print processing steps clear and understandable, thereby eliminating ambiguity that could lead to misprints.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent employs visual differentiation (analogous to color changes) by displaying distinct images for different states (initial vs. finished) and using visual cues to highlight processing information. This visual distinction helps users clearly understand the transformation process and reduces the risk of misprints.
3Loss of information
If animation display is used to show print processing, then users can understand the process, but intermediate steps consume display time
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts and displays only the most important visual information: the initial state image and the finished state image. By taking out the intermediate animation steps and replacing them with concise processing information, the system maintains effective visualization while dramatically reducing display time.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent skips the time-consuming intermediate animation steps and directly presents the essential information: initial state, finished state, and processing description. This skipping approach rushes through the redundant intermediate visualizations while still conveying the complete processing information to users.
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AI summary
A display control device includes: an accepting unit that accepts part-designation information for designating plural parts to be printed included in data and processing-designation information for designating print processing that performs predetermined processing on every K parts of the plural parts, where K is an integer not less than 2; a generating unit that generates plural specific images for specifying contents of the plural respective parts designated by part-designation information accepted by the accepting unit; and a controller that, when the accepting unit accepts the processing-designation information, exerts control so that a process for performing an operation to select K specific images from the plural specific images generated by the generating unit and to change a state of the K specific images in accordance with the predetermined process in order while changing the K specific images to be selected is displayed on a display screen.