Icon Description Mode for Imaging Device Displays
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users of imaging devices face difficulties in understanding the meaning of displayed icon images, especially when multiple icons are shown on a single screen, leading to decreased user-friendliness and reduced utilization of the name display function.
Innovation Solution
Implementing a normal mode display process for icon images based on operation status, with an icon description mode activated upon user input, allowing users to select and view descriptions for displayed icons, facilitating easier understanding of the device's operation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If the name of each icon image is constantly displayed on the icon image in the display unit, then the user can know what the displayed icon image means, but this display mode is very troublesome for the user who concentrates on the photographing with the imaging apparatus
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a dynamic display system where icon names are not constantly displayed but appear on demand. When the user touches or selects an icon, its name is displayed temporarily. This dynamic approach allows the system to adapt to different user needs: users can obtain icon information when needed without being bothered by constant display during normal photographing operations.
Solution Approach 2:
The system provides icon information through user-initiated interaction rather than automatic constant display. The user serves themselves by touching or selecting icons to view their names, eliminating the need for continuous system-provided information display. This self-service mechanism reduces unnecessary visual clutter during photographing while still providing access to icon meanings when required.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the number of functions of the imaging apparatus is increased, then the device functionality is improved, but the number of kinds of icon images displayed in the display unit is increased making it not desirable to constantly display the names of multiple icon images on one screen
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the icon name information from constant display and makes it available only when requested. Instead of displaying all icon names simultaneously on screen, the system stores icon name data and displays only the specific icon name that the user selects or touches. This extraction approach maintains full device functionality with multiple icons while avoiding the complexity of constantly displaying multiple icon names.
3Ease of operation
If the name display function is turned off to avoid constant display of icon names, then the screen clutter is reduced, but the user-friendliness guide function is lost
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a feedback mechanism where the system responds to user interaction by displaying icon names. When the user touches or selects an icon, the system provides feedback by showing the icon's name. This feedback loop maintains screen clarity during normal operation while providing icon meaning information when the user actively seeks it through interaction, thus preserving user-friendliness without constant display.
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AI summary
An image processing apparatus includes an operation receiving unit; and a control unit configured to perform a normal mode display process of displaying icon images of kinds corresponding to an operation status of the apparatus in a display unit and an icon description display process of displaying an icon selection image for selecting an icon image that is being displayed in the display unit upon reception of an operation input to activate an icon description mode by the operation receiving unit during the normal mode display process in the display unit and displaying a description image for an icon image selected upon reception of an operation input by the operation receiving unit while the icon selection image is being displayed in the display unit.