Electronic Pen Ink Amount Calculation for Study Volume Visualization
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing methods fail to effectively visualize and quantify the volume of study or work using electronic pens, making it difficult to assess motivation and productivity in educational and professional settings.
Innovation Solution
An ink amount calculation method that acquires and processes coordinate information from electronic pen operations to calculate the ink amount, allowing for visualization of study or work volume, and includes a system with user devices and server devices that store and analyze this data to restrict input when a predetermined ink amount is reached.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If electronic pen operations are tracked and processed to calculate ink amount, then visualization of study or work volume is enabled, but system complexity increases due to data acquisition and processing requirements
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts coordinate information from ink data generated by electronic pen operations. By separating the coordinate extraction function from the overall system, the complexity is localized to a specific processing step while enabling volume visualization through calculated ink amounts based on trajectory coordinates.
2Productivity
If coordinate information is extracted and processed to calculate ink amount, then measurable metric for motivation is provided, but data processing time and computational resources increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system calculates ink amount based on coordinate information from stroke data as operations occur, rather than processing all data at once. This preliminary calculation approach provides measurable metrics in real-time for motivation purposes while reducing overall processing time by distributing computation across the operation timeline.
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AI summary
Provided is an ink amount calculation method performed by a processor of a computer. The method includes acquiring coordinate information related to stroke data generated according to an operation of an electronic pen, and calculating, based on the coordinate information, an ink amount related to an amount of the operation of the electronic pen.