Information Processing Apparatus for Automatic Image Setting Matching

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional imaging systems require users to manually select and display suitable images for setting processes, which is cumbersome and inefficient, especially when multiple setting processes are involved.

Innovation Solution

An information processing apparatus that acquires images from an imaging apparatus, displays setting menus, and identifies optimal image settings for each menu, generating control commands to match the image settings, thereby automating the display of suitable images for each setting process.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If a user manually selects and displays suitable images for setting processes, then the correct image can be displayed for each setting menu, but the operation becomes troublesome and time-consuming

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveimage setting accuracyVSAvoiduser operation complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Measurement precisionVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs self-service by automatically identifying and displaying the suitable image for the selected setting menu without requiring manual user intervention. The information processing apparatus autonomously matches the setting menu with the appropriate image based on stored correspondence relationships, eliminating the need for users to manually search and select images.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary action by pre-storing the correspondence relationships between setting menus and suitable images. This pre-established mapping allows the system to quickly retrieve and display the appropriate image when a setting menu is selected, avoiding the need for users to manually search through multiple images during the setting process.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

2Adaptability or versatility

If multiple setting processes are provided with their respective suitable images, then each setting can be optimized, but the system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvesetting process flexibilityVSAvoidsystem structure complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system applies segmentation by dividing the image management into distinct segments corresponding to different setting processes. Each setting menu has its own associated suitable image stored in a structured manner, allowing the system to handle multiple setting processes independently while maintaining overall system organization through this segmented approach.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentUS20230199304A1Information processing apparatus, information processing method, imaging apparatus, control method, and storage medium

Publication Date: 2023.06.22 CANON KK

AI summary

An information processing apparatus acquires an image transmitted from an imaging apparatus, causes a display to display setting menus of a plurality of setting processes of different types and the image, and identifies, in a case where a certain setting menu is selected from among the setting menus of the plurality of setting processes, an image setting corresponding to the certain setting menu based on respective image settings associated with the setting menus of the plurality of setting processes, wherein a control command to cause an image setting of the imaging apparatus to match the identified image setting is generated and the control command is transmitted to the imaging apparatus.