Document Storage Location Feedback for Accurate Folder Selection

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing image classification and storage systems struggle to determine appropriate storage locations for scanned documents, as they only present storage location candidates without ensuring their suitability.

Innovation Solution

An information processing apparatus and method that determines a storage location candidate based on document content analysis, displays feature information of existing data in that location, and stores the data upon user confirmation.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If only storage location candidate information is presented to users, then the system operation is simple and fast, but the user cannot determine whether the storage location is appropriate

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvestorage location appropriatenessVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system presents feature information about stored data in the candidate storage location to the user, enabling the user to verify whether the storage location is appropriate. This feedback mechanism allows users to make informed decisions about data storage without requiring complex automated verification systems.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Reliability

If feature information analysis is added to storage location presentation, then storage location appropriateness is improved, but processing time and system complexity increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvestorage location accuracyVSAvoidprocessing time
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system pre-analyzes and stores feature information about data already stored in each location. When a user requests storage location suggestions, this pre-computed feature information is quickly retrieved and presented, avoiding the need to perform analysis at the moment of storage decision, thus reducing processing time.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

3Reliability

If manual confirmation is required for storage location, then storage accuracy is improved, but user operation time increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedata storage accuracyVSAvoiduser operation convenience
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system displays feature information about the candidate storage location to help users quickly assess appropriateness. This informed feedback enables users to make accurate storage decisions with minimal effort, balancing storage accuracy with operational convenience.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS20260012550A1Information processing apparatus, system, non-transitory recording medium, and method
Publication Date: 2026.01.08 RICOH CO LTD
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AI summary

An information processing apparatus includes circuitry to determine, based on contents of data received from a terminal apparatus, a storage location candidate of the data among a plurality of storage locations, cause the terminal apparatus to display, on a display, information indicating the storage location candidate and feature information obtained by analyzing stored data having been stored in the storage location candidate, and cause the data to be stored in the storage location candidate, in response to an operation performed on the terminal apparatus for instructing to store the data in the storage location candidate.