Gloss Control Plane Preview for Surface Effect Compatibility
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional image forming technologies face challenges in providing a preview display that accurately represents the actual print result, especially when the device configuration of a printer cannot achieve the desired surface effect, leading to discrepancies between the preview and the final print.
Innovation Solution
A display processing apparatus and method that includes a receiving unit for designation information, a gloss-control plane generating unit, an obtaining unit for device configuration information, a replacing unit to adjust surface effects based on available printer capabilities, and a preview image generating unit to estimate the print result, ensuring a preview that closely resembles the actual print outcome.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If a preview display is generated based on the user's designated surface effect, then the preview shows the desired surface effect, but the preview does not match the actual print result when the printer cannot achieve the desired surface effect
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary replacement of surface effect types before generating the preview image. The obtaining unit acquires replacement information about available surface effects, and the replacing unit substitutes unavailable surface effects with available alternatives in advance. This preliminary action ensures the preview accurately reflects what the printer can actually produce, resolving the contradiction between showing desired effects and matching actual capabilities.
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes the parameter of surface effect type from the user's designated value to an available alternative value. By modifying this parameter based on device configuration, the system ensures the preview displays a surface effect that the printer can actually achieve, thereby improving preview accuracy while maintaining adaptability to different device configurations.
2Reliability
If the preview display shows the designated surface effect, then user expectation is met, but the actual print result differs when the printer lacks the required surface effect capability
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs automatic replacement of surface effects without requiring user intervention. The obtaining unit and replacing unit work autonomously to substitute unavailable surface effects with available alternatives, ensuring preview-reprint consistency while maintaining ease of operation. The user simply designates their desired surface effect, and the system handles the adaptation to device capabilities automatically.
3Adaptability or versatility
If multiple surface effect types are supported, then user choice is increased, but the complexity of matching device capabilities increases
Solution Approach 1:
The replacing unit acts as an intermediary between the user's surface effect designation and the printer's actual capabilities. It automatically mediates the mismatch by substituting unavailable surface effects with available alternatives, thereby supporting surface effect variety while reducing configuration matching complexity. The intermediary handles the complexity internally, presenting a simplified interface to the user.
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AI summary
A display processing apparatus includes a gloss-control plane generating unit configured to generate gloss-control plane data for specifying a type of a surface effect applied to a recording medium and an area in a recording medium to which the surface effect is applied; an obtaining unit configured to obtain replacement information that is used to replace a type of the surface effect that is not available in a device configuration with a type of the surface effect that is available in the device configuration; a replacing unit configured to replace the type of the surface effect designated by the designation information with the type of the available surface effect using the replacement information obtained by the obtaining unit; and a preview image generating unit configured to generate a preview image based on the gloss-control plane data having an area to which the available surface effect is to be applied.