Speech Setting Assistance for MFP Parameter Verification
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users face difficulties in confirming whether correct setting values are set for Multi Function Peripheral (MFP) jobs, especially when reference setting values are not stored for all parameters, leading to potential errors in job execution.
Innovation Solution
A speech setting system that includes a job execution device and a speech setting assistance device, where the latter determines parameters based on speech information and outputs them in an order defined by their relative positional relationship on the setting screen, allowing users to confirm settings both visually and audibly.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If setting values are displayed only on a setting screen, then the user can visually confirm the settings, but the user may overlook information and fail to confirm correctness reliably
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces speech output as an intermediary channel between the setting system and the user. The speech output unit converts setting parameter values into spoken form, providing an additional sensory channel (auditory) for confirmation beyond the visual display. This mediator ensures that users can reliably confirm settings through hearing, preventing oversight that occurs with visual-only confirmation.
2Reliability
If reference setting values are not stored for all parameters, then the system can handle diverse parameter types, but the user cannot confirm whether correct setting values are set
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a feedback mechanism where the speech output unit provides immediate auditory feedback about the actual setting values that will be used for job execution. By speaking back the determined parameter values in the same order they appear on the setting screen, the system allows users to verify correctness without needing pre-stored reference values, thus maintaining versatility while ensuring reliability.
3Productivity
If parameters are output by speech in arbitrary order, then the system can process parameters efficiently, but the user cannot easily correlate speech output with the setting screen layout
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by pre-establishing a correspondence between the setting screen's parameter arrangement and the speech output sequence. The speech output unit is configured to output parameters in the same order they are arranged on the setting screen (left-to-right, top-to-bottom). This preliminary ordering allows users to mentally map speech to visual position without requiring complex processing during verification.
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AI summary
A speech setting system includes a job execution device that is capable of executing a job, and a speech setting assistance device that assists generation of the job to be executed by the job execution device based on speech information obtained from a speech, wherein the job execution device includes a first hardware processor, the first hardware processor is configured to execute the job in accordance with a parameter set for each of a plurality of setting items, and display a setting screen in which a plurality of the parameters respectively corresponding to the plurality of setting items are arranged, the speech setting assistance device includes a second hardware processor, and the second hardware processor is configured to determine the parameter corresponding to each of the plurality of setting items based on the speech information, and output speech output information for outputting the determined parameter corresponding to each of the plurality of setting items by speech in accordance with an output order that is defined based on a relative positional relationship among the plurality of the parameters arranged in the setting screen.