Image Processing Device Upload Instruction Maintenance
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Solution Overview
Problem
Image forming apparatuses face inefficiencies in uploading scan data due to lengthy processing times and potential data loss from reset operations, especially when multiple documents need to be uploaded, leading to incomplete data transmission and loss of scan data if the upload instruction is not input promptly.
Innovation Solution
An image processing device with a display control unit, receiving unit, instruction maintaining unit, and reading and transmission executing unit that allows for advanced control over scan and upload processes, enabling the maintenance of upload instructions and execution of scan data transmission even before the scan data generation and transmission file creation are complete, and allowing background processing to prevent data loss.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If the upload instruction is disabled until scan data generation and transmission file creation are completed, then complete scan data can be uploaded, but the upload operation cannot be performed promptly and user productivity is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by starting scan data generation and transmission file creation immediately when the upload instruction is received, without disabling the upload button. The upload instruction is maintained and executed after processing completes, allowing users to initiate uploads without waiting for processing to finish while ensuring complete data transmission.
2Productivity
If the upload instruction is enabled immediately after scanning, then user operation speed is improved, but incomplete scan data may be uploaded
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements feedback by maintaining the upload instruction in a pending state and automatically executing it after scan data generation and transmission file creation are completed. The display control unit provides visual feedback about processing status, allowing users to see when uploads are in progress and when they will be executed, ensuring complete data transmission while maintaining operational efficiency.
3Extent of automation
If the image forming apparatus performs reset operation after preset period, then system maintenance is automated, but scan data may be deleted without being uploaded
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary action by maintaining upload instructions even after reset operations. When the apparatus resets, any pending upload instructions are preserved and automatically executed after the reset completes, ensuring that scan data is uploaded before being potentially deleted by the reset operation, thus preventing data loss while maintaining automated system maintenance.
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AI summary
An image processing device includes a display control unit that displays any one of plural processing screen data including screen data provided by a server device on a display unit and executes an instructed process according to a display screen data, a receiving unit that receives, on the screen data provided by the server device, displayed on the display unit, a read instruction of causing an image reading unit to read a document image and a transmission instruction for storing image data corresponding to the read document image in the server device, an instruction maintaining unit that maintains the transmission instruction received by the receiving unit, and a reading and transmission executing unit that executes reading of the document image based on the read instruction and executes the transmission instruction maintained in the instruction maintaining unit with respect to the image data obtained by the reading after the reading is completed.