Image Processing Apparatus Automatic Word Meaning Display
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users of image processing apparatuses, such as MFPs, face inefficiency as they often need to repeatedly search for the meaning of previously learned words while viewing documents, leading to cumbersome operations.
Innovation Solution
An image processing apparatus that records search records of keywords, associated texts, and URLs, allowing it to detect and display the meanings of matching words within documents without requiring users to perform new searches, by utilizing a Web browser to transmit keywords, record search data, and create display data showing relevant text or URLs.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If users repeatedly search for the meaning of previously learned words using a search site, then they can obtain word meanings, but user operation becomes troublesome and inefficient
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary action by recording search results and word meanings in advance during initial searches. When users encounter the same words again in documents, the pre-recorded information is automatically retrieved and displayed, eliminating the need for repetitive searches and improving operational convenience while maintaining information availability
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements feedback by detecting keywords in documents that match previously searched terms and automatically displaying their meanings. This feedback mechanism informs users of relevant information without requiring active search initiation, thereby reducing operational burden while maintaining access to needed information
2Loss of information
If the system provides a list of available documents about different documents, then document references are provided, but it cannot resolve the inconvenience of repeated word searches
Solution Approach 1:
The system uses keywords as intermediaries to connect documents with their referenced word meanings. By detecting keywords in documents that match previously searched terms, the system mediates between the document content and the stored search results, automatically presenting relevant information and thereby improving user efficiency without compromising document reference functionality
Data Source
AI summary
A search site on a network performs information search by a keyword. When a Web page is selected among those detected by the information search, the keyword, a text in the selected Web page and the Web page's address are interconnected and recorded as one search record in a recording device. And then, it is judged whether or not there exist in one or more then one document, any words that match any keywords included in the search records recorded in the recording device. If there exists a word that matches a keyword, the display data to display the document with just a part of the text as least and/or the Web page's address included in the same search record as the keyword, is created, and a job is executed using the display data.