Image Processing Destination Book Protocol Filtering
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users face difficulties in identifying and avoiding transmission errors when a transmission protocol is disabled, leading to time-consuming reselection of active protocols and potential inability to register necessary destinations due to inactive protocol registrations.
Innovation Solution
An image processing apparatus and method that prevents the registration of destinations corresponding to disabled transmission protocols by making them non-selectable and ensuring only enabled protocols are displayed for selection, thereby avoiding transmission errors and allowing for correct destination registration.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If destinations corresponding to disabled transmission protocols are registered in the destination book, then the destination book contains complete destination information, but users cannot identify which destinations cannot be used and transmission errors occur
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies visual differentiation by displaying disabled transmission protocols in a distinct manner from enabled protocols. Specifically, disabled protocols are displayed in a non-selectable state (e.g., grayed out or with different color coding) so users can immediately identify which destinations cannot be used, preventing transmission errors while maintaining complete destination information in the destination book.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary control mechanism that mediates between the destination book (which stores all destinations) and the user selection interface. The control unit acts as an intermediary by filtering and presenting destinations based on their protocol status, allowing users to see all destinations but only select from enabled protocols, thus preventing erroneous selections while preserving complete destination information.
2Adaptability or versatility
If destinations corresponding to disabled transmission protocols are registered in the destination book, then all possible destinations are available, but the limited number of destination slots is wasted on unusable destinations
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts disabled destinations from the selectable destination list while maintaining them in the destination book for record-keeping purposes. When a transmission protocol is disabled, corresponding destinations are removed from the active selection pool but remain stored in the destination book, preventing slot waste while maintaining destination information integrity.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements dynamic destination availability based on protocol status. Destinations are not statically fixed as selectable or non-selectable but dynamically adjusted according to the enabled/disabled state of their associated transmission protocols. This allows the system to adapt destination availability in real-time based on security settings and protocol status.
3Reliability
If users manually reselect destinations after transmission errors, then correct destinations can be chosen, but significant time is lost in the reselection process
Solution Approach 1:
The patent performs preliminary filtering of destinations based on protocol enabled status before the user attempts selection. By pre-configuring the destination book to exclude or visually mark disabled protocols, the system prevents transmission errors before they occur, eliminating the need for time-consuming manual reselection and ensuring only valid destinations are presented to users.
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AI summary
There is the problem that a usr cannot notice that image data has not been transmitted until the image data has been attempted to transmit and resulted in a failure. Therefore a method is disclosed which includes inputting user information in form of a password or identifcation, setting folder information, ie destination details, for the image data, registering the set destination, and performing control so as not to register folder information corresponding to a transmission protocol set to be disable from among a plurality of transmission protocols.