Editing Device Rotating Input Area for Label Visibility
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing printing systems reduce font size as the number of characters increases, leading to decreased visibility of text on print labels.
Innovation Solution
An editing device that rotates and enlarges the input area image on a display unit to accommodate characters, ensuring they fit without reducing font size, thereby maintaining visibility even with increased character count.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If the font size is reduced to accommodate more characters in the input area, then the number of characters that can be printed increases, but the visibility of each character decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent rotates the input area image by 90 degrees to change the arrangement direction of characters from the width direction to the longitudinal direction of the printing medium. This dimensional change allows characters to be arranged along the length of the medium rather than compressed across its width, enabling more characters to be accommodated without reducing font size, thus maintaining character visibility while increasing the quantity of printable characters.
2Quantity of substance
If the input area size is increased to accommodate more characters, then the number of characters that can be printed increases, but the layout efficiency decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent dynamically rotates the input area image based on the arrangement direction of characters. When characters are arranged in the width direction, the system rotates the input area image by 90 degrees to align with the longitudinal direction. This dynamic adjustment optimizes space utilization automatically without requiring complex manual layout configuration, thereby increasing character capacity while maintaining layout simplicity.
3Ease of operation
If the characters are arranged in the width direction of the printing medium, then the layout is simple, but the number of characters that can be printed is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transitions the character arrangement from the width direction to the longitudinal direction by rotating the input area image. This allows the system to utilize the full length of the printing medium for character arrangement, significantly increasing the number of printable characters while maintaining operational simplicity through automatic rotation based on character arrangement direction.
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AI summary
A controller of an editing device executes overlapping an input area image on a medium image indicating the printing medium, displaying the medium image and the input area image in a direction in which a width direction of the printing medium and an arrangement direction of the characters coincide with each other, determining whether the characters fit in the input area, when it is determined that the characters do not fit in the input area in the determining, rotating the input area image so that the arrangement direction of the characters in the input area coincides with a longitudinal direction of the printing medium, increasing a size of the input area image in the arrangement direction so that the characters fit in the input area, and displaying the input area image increased in size and the characters arranged in the input area.