Mobile Device Camera-Based Wireless Device Selection
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional techniques for mobile devices to connect with image forming apparatuses via wireless communication often result in unintended transmission to apparatuses behind the user, making the process inconvenient.
Innovation Solution
A mobile device system that uses a camera to specify partial images of candidate devices within a taken image, utilizing location and direction information to accurately select the intended device for communication, allowing for precise wireless communication setup.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If GPS-based automatic device selection is used, then communication setup is simplified, but transmission accuracy to intended device deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a camera as an intermediary tool between the user and the wireless devices. The camera captures images of devices, and image recognition technology automatically identifies and selects the intended device from the captured image, eliminating manual input of device identifiers while ensuring accurate selection through visual confirmation.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces the manual mechanical process of typing device identifiers or selecting from text-based lists with an optical system. The camera-based image capture and recognition system automatically identifies devices visually, substituting manual input operations with automated optical recognition, thereby simplifying user interaction while improving accuracy.
2Measurement precision
If manual identification input is required, then device selection accuracy improves, but operation complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs automatic device identification and selection without requiring user input of device identifiers. The camera captures the device, the system automatically recognizes and identifies the intended device from the image, and completes the selection process autonomously, eliminating complex manual operations while maintaining high accuracy.
Solution Approach 2:
Instead of requiring users to manually input device identifiers, the system creates a visual copy of the device through camera imaging. This image copy serves as the basis for automatic recognition and identification, replacing manual text input with visual documentation that the system processes automatically.
Data Source
AI summary
A computer-readable recording device may store a computer program including instructions for causing a computer of a mobile device to operate as: (1) an image specifying module that specifies a plurality of partial images corresponding to a plurality of candidate devices within a taken image that is displayed by a display unit provided in the mobile device, and (2) a communication controlling module that controls a communication unit configured to communicate using a wireless network such that the communication unit communicates with a candidate device corresponding to the partial image, in a case where an operation unit configured to receive an operation on the mobile device by a user receives a selection of the partial image.