Document Processing Apparatus Purpose-Driven Content Assignment

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing document processing methods often result in documents with insufficient content, failing to achieve their intended purpose due to lack of appropriate layout frames and forgotten information during the creation process.

Innovation Solution

A document processing apparatus that receives purpose information, extracts relevant item definition and item value information, and assigns these values to predetermined areas in a document, ensuring the content aligns with the document's purpose through a processor-based system that includes a purpose information reception unit, posting item setting unit, content acquisition unit, layout setting unit, and document creation unit.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If templates with predetermined layout frames are used for document creation, then document creation efficiency is improved, but the document may lack necessary content to achieve its purpose

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedocument creation efficiencyVSAvoidnecessary content
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary action by automatically determining required posting items based on the document's purpose before the actual document creation process. The determination unit extracts purpose information from the input document and proactively identifies necessary posting items, ensuring that all required content is prepared in advance according to the document's intended purpose, thus preventing information loss while maintaining efficiency

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements feedback by using the determined posting items to guide the document creation process. The posting item registration unit receives input data and registers it in association with the determined posting items, creating a feedback loop where the purpose-driven item determination continuously guides content selection and placement, ensuring the final document contains all necessary information to achieve its purpose

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Manufacturing precision

If manual selection of contents from a list is performed for each layout frame, then content accuracy is improved, but the document creation process becomes time-consuming

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent accuracyVSAvoiddocument creation time
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system applies self-service by automatically determining posting items based on document purpose without requiring manual intervention for each selection. The determination unit autonomously analyzes the input document's purpose and identifies necessary posting items, while the registration unit automatically associates input data with these items, enabling the system to serve itself in the content selection process while maintaining accuracy

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system changes parameters by transforming the manual selection process into an automated purpose-based determination process. Instead of manually selecting contents from lists, the system changes the approach to automatically determining posting items based on extracted purpose information, fundamentally changing the operational parameters from manual iteration to automated analysis while maintaining content accuracy

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentUS11966692B2Document processing apparatus, document processing system, and non-transitory computer readable medium storing program
Publication Date: 2024.04.23 FUJIFILM BUSINESS INNOVATION CORP
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AI summary

A document processing apparatus includes a processor configured to receive purpose information indicating a purpose of creating a document, extract item definition information corresponding to the purpose indicated by the received purpose information from item definition information stored in a memory for the item definition information in which one or more items to be posted in the document are defined in correspondence with the purpose of creating the document, extract an item value corresponding to each item defined in the extracted item definition information from item information stored in a memory for the item information including the item value of each item, and assign the extracted item value in each predetermined area of the document to create the document.