Idle Time Data Alteration in Multifunction Devices
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional multifunctional devices do not utilize idle time to further process electronic data stored in memory or queues, leading to inefficiencies and missed opportunities for improving image quality and user needs.
Innovation Solution
The system utilizes idle time in multifunctional devices to perform additional processing on electronic data, such as recompressing, enhancing image quality, and extracting metadata, through multiple processors and circuits like Auto Image Enhancement, OCR, and Mixed Raster Content Generation, allowing for improved productivity and user satisfaction.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If electronic data is stored in memory or queue for later transmission, then data can be buffered and transmitted when needed, but idle time is created during which the device is not productive
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs data alteration operations in advance during idle time periods. The controller detects when data is stored in memory or queue and automatically initiates alteration operations (such as format conversion, compression, or enhancement) before the data is needed for transmission, thus preparing the data ahead of time without impacting the transmission schedule.
Solution Approach 2:
The system eliminates idle time by continuously utilizing the device's processing capabilities. When data is stored in memory or queue, the device continues to perform useful work by altering the stored data, ensuring that no time is wasted and the device maintains continuous productive operation.
2Manufacturing precision
If additional processing operations are performed on electronic data, then image quality and data format can be improved, but processing time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs image enhancement and data alteration operations in advance during idle time periods. By detecting when data is stored in memory or queue, the controller automatically initiates processing operations that would otherwise extend the workflow, but now executes them beforehand when the device is not otherwise occupied, thus maintaining high image quality without extending the critical processing path.
3Adaptability or versatility
If data is stored in memory or queue before transmission, then data can be held for later use or printing, but the device creates idle time and does not utilize this period productively
Solution Approach 1:
The system maintains data storage flexibility while eliminating idle time by continuously performing useful operations. When data is stored in memory or queue, the controller detects this state and automatically initiates alteration operations, ensuring the device remains productive throughout what would otherwise be idle periods, thus maintaining both adaptability and continuous efficiency.
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AI summary
A multifunctional device that processes electronic data includes a processor that processes the electronic data, a memory that stores the electronic data, an alteration circuit that alters the structure of the electronic data and a controller that determines whether idle time exists when the electronic data is stored in the memory, and controls the alteration circuit to alter the electronic data when the controller determines that idle time exists. Moreover, a method of processing electronic data includes processing the electronic data, storing the electronic data, controlling the electronic data by determining whether idle time exists when the electronic data is stored and altering the electronic data when sufficient idle time exists.