Object Adjustment Tool for Programmable Display Consistency

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional drawing software for programmable displays lacks the ability to automatically adjust setting information such as layout and color of objects across multiple screen data or project data, requiring manual intervention for alignment and correction.

Innovation Solution

An object adjustment tool that includes a setting-screen display unit, comparison processing unit, adjustment processing unit, and expanding unit to automatically compare and adjust setting information of objects across different screen data and project data, ensuring consistency and unity in object settings.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Manufacturing precision

If manual checking and correction of object settings is performed across multiple screen data, then positioning accuracy and color consistency are improved, but labor time and work hours increase significantly

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveobject positioning accuracyVSAvoidlabor time

Core Design Contradiction:

Manufacturing precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs automatic self-checking and self-correction of object settings across multiple screen data. The comparison processing unit automatically identifies discrepancies in object positions, sizes, and colors, and the adjustment processing unit automatically corrects them without requiring manual intervention, enabling the system to service itself

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The patent replaces the manual mechanical process of checking and correcting object settings with an automated information processing system. The comparison processing unit and adjustment processing unit use computational methods to substitute human operators, dramatically reducing labor time while maintaining or improving precision

Inventive Principle:

Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

2Productivity

If screen data is created by multiple creators or diverted from past data, then productivity increases, but consistency of object settings deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvescreen data creation speedVSAvoidobject setting consistency

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSStability of the object's composition

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements automatic feedback by comparing object settings across multiple screen data and project data. The comparison processing unit identifies inconsistencies in positions, sizes, and colors, and the adjustment processing unit automatically corrects them, providing continuous feedback to maintain consistency even when data is created by multiple creators or diverted from past data

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The adjustment tool is designed to work universally across different screen data and project data regardless of their origin. It can process and standardize objects from various sources (original creations, diverted data, multiple creators) using the same comparison and adjustment mechanisms, making the system multi-functional and source-agnostic

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

3Stability of the object's composition

If manual adjustment of object settings is performed across multiple project data, then unity of object layout is improved, but work efficiency deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvelayout unityVSAvoidwork efficiency

Core Design Contradiction:

Stability of the object's compositionVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The system automatically performs self-checking and self-correction of layout unity across multiple project data. The comparison processing unit identifies layout inconsistencies, and the adjustment processing unit automatically standardizes them, eliminating the need for manual intervention and dramatically improving work efficiency while maintaining layout unity

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Data Source

PatentUS10496264B2Object adjustment tool and object adjustment program

Publication Date: 2019.12.03 MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORP

AI summary

An object adjustment tool includes a comparison processing unit to determine whether setting information to be compared of adjustment reference object and setting information to be compared of adjustment target object coincide as a first determination, determine whether setting information to be adjusted of adjustment reference object and setting information to be adjusted of adjustment target object coincide as a second determination, and output determination results to a list, an adjustment processing unit to adjust, when the result of the first determination is a coincidence and the result of the second determination is not a coincidence, the setting information to be adjusted of the adjustment target object to coincide with the setting information to be adjusted of the adjustment reference object, and an expanding unit to overwrite screen data with the setting information to be adjusted of the adjusted adjustment target object.