Meeting Server Rendering Data Segmentation for Multi-Site Legibility

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing remote meeting systems face challenges in displaying all handwriting data from multiple sites in a single screen, as it often requires manual scrolling and page navigation, leading to inefficiencies and illegibility due to reduced character sizes.

Innovation Solution

The system employs a meeting server that receives rendering data from multiple apparatuses, writes it into a renderable area, and moves or scales the data to fit within the display area of a particular apparatus, ensuring all data is displayed legibly in one screen.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Quantity of substance

If all handwriting data from multiple sites is displayed in a single screen, then information completeness is improved, but character size and readability deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveamount of handwriting data displayedVSAvoidcharacter size and readability
Core Design Contradiction:
Quantity of substanceVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The display area is divided into multiple regions, with each region showing handwriting data from a different site. This segmentation allows all handwriting data to be displayed simultaneously without reducing character size, as each segment maintains its own display space and readability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

2Quantity of substance

If manual scrolling and page navigation are used to display all handwriting data, then information completeness is improved, but operation complexity and time consumption increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveamount of handwriting data displayedVSAvoidoperation complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Quantity of substanceVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

Multiple display pages are merged into a single comprehensive display screen that shows all handwriting data from multiple sites simultaneously. This eliminates the need for manual scrolling and page navigation, as all information is accessible in one view without requiring user interaction to navigate between pages.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

3Quantity of substance

If rendering data from multiple apparatuses is collected and processed, then information completeness is improved, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveamount of handwriting data displayedVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Quantity of substanceVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The meeting server acts as an intermediary that receives rendering data from multiple apparatuses, processes it, and transmits the consolidated data to the display apparatus. This intermediary approach simplifies the overall system architecture by centralizing the data collection and processing functions, rather than requiring direct peer-to-peer communication between all apparatuses.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentUS20250199744A1Information processing apparatus and information display method
Publication Date: 2025.06.19 RICOH CO LTD
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AI summary

An information processing apparatus includes circuitry that receives a plurality of rendering data items rendered in respective display areas displayed on a plurality of apparatuses, and writes the received plurality of rendering data items in a renderable area. The renderable area includes the display areas of the plurality of apparatuses. The circuitry further moves at least part of the plurality of rendering data items written in the renderable area into an area corresponding to the display area of a particular apparatus of the plurality of apparatuses to arrange the plurality of rendering data items of the plurality of apparatuses in the area. The circuitry further transmits, to the particular apparatus, the plurality of rendering data items of the plurality of apparatuses arranged in the area.