Information Processing Apparatus Sorted Data Display

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Solution Overview

Problem

Users face difficulties in sorting data correctly, as unsuitable data often ends up in sorted sets, requiring manual intervention to identify and reassign such data, which is cumbersome and inefficient.

Innovation Solution

An information processing apparatus displays sorted data in one region and unsuitable data in another on the same screen, allowing users to easily select and move unsuitable data into the correct sorted sets, with features like stray page corners and suspension buttons for managing misplaced or missing pages.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If data is sorted into sets automatically according to kind, then sorting efficiency is improved, but data accuracy deteriorates due to unsuitable data being misplaced in sorted sets

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvesorting efficiencyVSAvoiddata sorting accuracy

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The display screen is segmented into multiple regions: a first region displaying sorted sets and a second region displaying unsuitable data. This spatial segmentation allows users to simultaneously view both correctly sorted data and data requiring reassignment, enabling efficient identification and correction of misplaced data without losing the benefits of automated sorting.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

2Ease of manufacture

If sorted sets and unsuitable data are displayed on separate screens, then data organization is improved, but user operation complexity increases due to the need to switch between screens

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedata organizationVSAvoiduser operation simplicity

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of manufactureVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges the display of sorted sets and unsuitable data onto a single screen by creating multiple display regions. The first region shows sorted sets while the second region shows unsuitable data, allowing users to perform sorting verification and data reassignment operations without switching screens, thus maintaining data organization while simplifying user operation.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

3Manufacturing precision

If manual resorting of unsuitable data is required, then data accuracy is improved, but time consumption increases due to the troublesome resorting operation

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedata sorting accuracyVSAvoidtime for resorting operation

Core Design Contradiction:

Manufacturing precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary sorting automatically to create sorted sets, then presents unsuitable data in a separate region on the same screen. This preliminary action reduces the bulk of sorting work while enabling users to quickly identify and correct only the misplaced data items, significantly reducing the time required for manual intervention compared to complete manual sorting.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS11494368B2Information processing appratus and non-transitory computer readable medium

Publication Date: 2022.11.08 FUJIFILM BUSINESS INNOVATION CORP

AI summary

An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to cause a first region in which a sorted set, which is any of sets into which plural kinds of data have been sorted according to kind, is displayed and a second region in which data that is unsuitable for the sorted set is displayed to be displayed on an identical screen, receive selection of data displayed in the second region, and sort the received data into the sorted set displayed in the first region.