Function-Specific Setting History Display for Job Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users face difficulty in finding and applying desired combinations of setting values for next jobs due to the display of all functions' history buttons on a single screen, leading to increased time and effort in identifying the correct settings.
Innovation Solution
An information processing apparatus with a display device, operation device, and control device that displays icons of functions in one region and corresponding history buttons in another, allowing users to select and apply setting values for specific functions through touch gestures, thereby narrowing the range of displayed settings and improving user-friendliness.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If all functions' history buttons are displayed on a single screen, then users can access all previous setting combinations, but users face difficulty in finding and applying desired combinations, increasing time and effort
Solution Approach 1:
The display screen is divided into multiple regions: a first region displaying function icons and a second region displaying history buttons. This segmentation allows users to see only relevant setting combinations for currently selected functions, reducing visual clutter and making it easier to find desired settings while maintaining access to all functions through the first region.
Solution Approach 2:
The interface transitions from a single-dimension flat list of all history buttons to a two-dimensional layout with function icons in the first region and corresponding history buttons in the second region. This dimensional change organizes information spatially, allowing users to quickly locate relevant settings by function rather than searching through all historical combinations.
2Loss of information
If all history buttons are displayed on one screen, then complete history is visible, but user effort and time to identify correct settings increases
Solution Approach 1:
The history buttons are segmented and displayed in the second region corresponding to specific functions in the first region. This segmentation preserves complete history information while organizing it by function, allowing users to quickly identify correct settings without searching through all historical data, thus reducing time loss.
Solution Approach 2:
The first region displaying function icons acts as an intermediary that mediates between the complete history and the user. By selecting a function in the first region, users can indirectly access only the relevant history buttons in the second region, reducing the time needed to identify correct settings while maintaining access to complete history.
3Adaptability or versatility
If all functions are displayed together, then comprehensive access is provided, but relevance of displayed settings to current function is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The display is segmented into function-specific groups, where history buttons in the second region correspond to functions in the first region. This segmentation ensures that only relevant setting combinations are displayed for each function, maintaining information relevance while providing comprehensive access to all functions through the organized layout.
Solution Approach 2:
Different regions of the display have different qualities: the first region provides comprehensive function access while the second region provides function-specific relevant settings. This local quality differentiation ensures that users see only relevant settings for their current function selection, preventing information overload while maintaining comprehensive accessibility.
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AI summary
An information processing apparatus includes a display device, an operation device, a storage device, and a control device. The storage device stores combinations of setting values set in respective jobs previously executed in relation to each of a plurality of functions. The control device allows the display device to display at least one of respective first images representing the functions in a first region of a display area, reads out the combination of setting values satisfying a predetermined condition from the storage device, allows the display device to display a second image showing the read combination of setting values in a second region of the display area, and, upon acceptance of a touch gesture on the second image through a touch panel of the operation device, executes, according to the combination of setting values shown by the second image, a job related to the function associated with the second image.