Image Processing Apparatus Chat Server Avatar Destination
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing image processing systems for business chats lack an efficient mechanism to easily specify the sharing destination of image data, often relying on default images that do not allow users to designate intended recipients.
Innovation Solution
An image processing apparatus that communicates with a chat server, allowing users to read document images, generate image data, acquire avatar information for potential sharing destinations, and display a screen for designating sharing destinations, thereby enabling easy specification of image data sharing.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If a default image is set for the button to execute scan-to-chat, then the system can operate with minimal configuration, but the user cannot specify the sharing destination of image data
Solution Approach 1:
The system pre-acquires avatar information of users from the chat server before the scan-to-chat operation. This preliminary action allows the user to select from pre-fetched avatar images representing potential sharing destinations, eliminating the need for complex real-time selection mechanisms while enabling precise destination specification.
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses avatar images as visual representations (copies) of users instead of requiring direct user identification or complex profile displays. These avatar copies provide a simplified visual interface for users to identify and select sharing destinations, reducing the complexity of the specification process while maintaining ease of operation.
2Measurement precision
If avatar information is acquired from the chat server, then the user can accurately identify and select sharing destinations, but the system requires network communication and additional data processing
Solution Approach 1:
The chat server acts as an intermediary that provides avatar information in a standardized format. This intermediary approach allows accurate user identification without requiring the image processing apparatus to maintain complex user databases or authentication mechanisms, reducing local system complexity while ensuring precise destination identification.
Solution Approach 2:
The system transforms user identification parameters into visual avatar image parameters. Instead of working with complex user profiles or text-based identifiers, the system converts user information into visual avatar representations that are easily processable and displayable, simplifying the data processing requirements while maintaining accurate user identification.
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AI summary
An image processing apparatus having a mechanism capable of easily specifying a sharing destination of image data. In the image processing apparatus, An image of a document is read and image data is generated based on the image. Avatar information for displaying an avatar image three-dimensionally expressing a user who is a candidate for a sharing destination of the image data is acquired from the chat server. Control to display a screen for designating the sharing destination of the image data is performed. The image data to be shared with the user designated on the screen is transmitted to the chat server. The avatar image of the user who is the candidate for the sharing destination of the image data, which is an avatar image based on the acquired avatar information, is displayed on the screen in association with the user.