Image Processing Apparatus Wireless Setting Confirmation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Image processing devices without displays pose challenges for users in confirming processing content, as they must rely on external methods to verify the operations being performed, leading to inconvenience and potential errors.
Innovation Solution
An image processing apparatus equipped with a first communication unit for wireless communication with a portable terminal, a storage unit for storing identification and setting information, and a controller to transmit setting-related information upon successful communication, allowing users to confirm and modify processing settings through a connected mobile device.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If a recording medium is used to store processing information, then user operation is simplified, but the user cannot confirm the processing content without additional devices
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a portable terminal (smartphone, tablet) as an intermediary device between the image processing apparatus and the user. The terminal receives identification information from the apparatus and displays the corresponding processing content, allowing users to confirm settings without requiring the apparatus itself to have a display. This resolves the contradiction by enabling information confirmation through an external intermediary device while maintaining the simplified card-based operation.
2Device complexity
If the image processing apparatus does not have a display, then the device structure is simplified, but the user cannot confirm processing content
Solution Approach 1:
The patent makes the portable terminal serve multiple functions: it acts as both a display device for showing processing content and as a communication interface for receiving identification information. This multi-functionality allows the system to provide information confirmation capabilities without adding a display to the image processing apparatus, thereby maintaining simple device structure while resolving the information loss problem.
3Extent of automation
If setting information is stored in association with identification information, then processing can be executed automatically, but the user cannot verify the settings before execution
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a feedback mechanism where the image processing apparatus sends identification information to the portable terminal, which then displays the associated setting information to the user. This feedback loop allows users to verify settings before automatic execution, resolving the contradiction between automation and verification capability.
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AI summary
An image processing apparatus is configured to transmit setting related information to the portable terminal in response to performing one of receipt of identification information through a receiving unit and establishment of wireless communication with a portable terminal in a first communication method within a prescribed period of time from performing another of the receipt of the identification information through the receiving unit and the establishment of the wireless communication with the portable terminal in the first communication method. The setting related information is one of: setting information stored in a storage unit in association with identification information received through the receiving unit; and acquisition information used for acquiring the setting information stored in the storage unit in association with the identification information received through the receiving unit.