Image Processing Apparatus Proactive Error Avoidance via History Analysis
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing image processing systems cannot prevent errors from occurring in the first place, as they only perform reboot recovery after an error has occurred, without any proactive measures.
Innovation Solution
An image processing apparatus and method that utilize instruction history and operation state history information to execute error avoidance operations before sending instructions that previously caused errors, by analyzing patterns in instruction sequences and executing error avoidance strategies such as standby, suspension, screen transition, or reboot.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If reboot recovery is performed after error occurrence, then system reliability is partially restored, but error prevention capability is lost and downtime cannot be avoided
Solution Approach 1:
The control section performs preliminary actions by analyzing instruction history and operation state history before executing instructions that previously caused errors. When a problematic pattern is detected, error avoidance operations are executed proactively to prevent error occurrence, rather than waiting for the error to happen and then performing reboot recovery. This transforms the system from reactive to proactive error handling.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements feedback mechanisms by continuously monitoring operation states and comparing them against historical error patterns. The control section uses feedback from instruction history information and operation state history information stored in the storing section to make real-time decisions about whether to execute error avoidance operations, creating a closed-loop control system that learns from past errors.
2Reliability
If error avoidance operations are executed based on history information, then error prevention capability is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The control section performs self-service by autonomously analyzing its own instruction history and operation state history to identify error patterns. The system serves itself by automatically generating error avoidance strategies without requiring external intervention or complex external monitoring systems, thereby improving error prevention while minimizing the addition of external complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The control section is designed with multi-functionality, serving both as the primary controller for normal operations and as an error analysis system that processes history information. The storing section also serves dual purposes by storing both operational data and error pattern data. This universal design avoids adding dedicated separate systems, thus limiting complexity increase.
3Measurement precision
If instruction history and operation state history are stored and analyzed, then error detection accuracy is improved, but information processing load increases
Solution Approach 1:
The control section extracts only the essential and relevant features from the instruction history and operation state history that are necessary for error pattern recognition. Rather than processing all raw data, the system identifies and extracts key parameters and patterns that indicate potential errors, thereby improving detection accuracy while minimizing the processing load by focusing only on critical information.
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AI summary
An image processing apparatus includes a processing section and a control section configured to instruct operation of the processing section. The control section executes, before sending, to the processing section, a first instruction corresponding to an instruction that caused an error in the past, an error avoidance operation based on instruction history information and operation state history information acquired from a storing section that stores the instruction history information and the operation state history information, the instruction history information indicating an instruction given to the processing section by the control section, the operation state history information indicating an operation state of the processing section caused by the instruction.