Image Processing Job History With Direct Setting Changes
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Solution Overview
Problem
The operation for specifying a set of setting data on jobs in image processing apparatuses has become complicated due to the increasing range of functions, requiring significant time and effort, especially when changing setting values in history buttons.
Innovation Solution
An image processing apparatus and job management program that allows displaying a job execution history with chronologically arranged setting data, enabling direct change instructions through a setting change window to generate and display new setting data on a different job without needing to navigate through separate function setting screens.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If the user wants to change setting values in history buttons, then the user needs to operate the history button to display a setting screen and then change the setting value on the setting screen, but this requires significant time and effort
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the setting change process by providing dedicated setting change windows for each setting item within the job execution history interface. Instead of requiring navigation to separate setting screens, each setting item can be modified directly in its own small window that appears within the history display, allowing users to change settings without leaving the current context.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent prepares setting change windows in advance within the job execution history interface, so that when users want to modify settings, the change windows are already available and ready for input. This eliminates the need to navigate to separate setting screens first, as all necessary setting change interfaces are pre-positioned in the history display area.
2Loss of information
If the display device displays a setting screen for a function associated with a history button, then the set of setting data can be displayed and modified, but the operating procedure becomes more complex
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the job execution history display with the setting change functionality by integrating setting change windows directly into the history interface. Instead of separating history viewing and setting modification into different screens, both functions are combined in one interface, allowing users to view and modify settings without navigating between screens.
Solution Approach 2:
The job execution history display serves multiple functions: it displays job execution history, shows setting data for each job, and provides setting change windows for modifying settings. This multi-functionality eliminates the need for separate setting screens, as the history display itself becomes a universal interface for both viewing and modifying job settings.
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AI summary
An image processing apparatus includes a controller, wherein the controller allows a display device to display a job execution history in which respective sets of setting data on a plurality of jobs are chronologically arranged, when a touch panel accepts a specification instruction for specifying the set of setting data on a job in the job execution history, the controller allows the display device to display a pop-up window for use in instructing a change in the set of setting data specified by the specification instruction, and when the touch panel accepts through the pop-up window a change instruction to change the specified set of setting data, the controller generates a set of setting data on a different job in which contents of the change instruction are reflected, and allows the set of setting data on the different job to be displayed in the job execution history.