Setting Device for Optical Information Reading Spatial Comparison
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing optical information reading devices primarily focus on confirming changes in data over time, making it difficult to compare code images across different processes on a spatial axis, which is crucial for traceability in manufacturing and distribution settings.
Innovation Solution
A setting device connected to multiple optical information reading devices via a network that allows for the comparison of code images by displaying read data from various devices side by side or sequentially, enabling users to assess changes on a spatial axis, with features like matching levels and decoding times for effective traceability.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If optical information reading devices are used to capture code images in different processes, then traceability is improved, but it becomes difficult to compare code images across different processes on a spatial axis
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a spatial axis dimension to the data display system. Instead of only arranging read data in the time axis direction, the system now displays code images from multiple optical information reading devices side by side along a spatial axis, enabling simultaneous comparison across different processes while maintaining traceability functionality
2Ease of operation
If read data is arranged only in the time axis direction, then temporal changes are easy to confirm, but spatial comparison across different devices becomes difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The patent adds a spatial axis dimension to the existing time axis display system. Read data is now arranged in both time axis direction (for temporal changes) and spatial axis direction (for cross-device comparison), allowing users to confirm both temporal trends and spatial relationships simultaneously without losing either type of information
3Reliability
If multiple optical information reading devices are deployed across different processes, then traceability is enhanced, but the complexity of managing and comparing data from multiple devices increases
Solution Approach 1:
The setting device is designed with multi-functionality to manage multiple optical information reading devices. It can display code images from any selected device, compare images across devices, and provide consistent user interface operations regardless of the number or configuration of connected devices, thereby reducing data management complexity while maintaining enhanced traceability
Solution Approach 2:
The setting device acts as an intermediary between multiple optical information reading devices and the user. It centralizes the collection, storage, and display of code images from various devices, providing a unified interface that simplifies data management and comparison operations while enabling comprehensive traceability across all connected devices
Data Source
AI summary
Read data of a plurality of optical information reading devices can be compared on a spatial axis. A setting device includes: a communication part for communicating with each of the optical information reading devices; a display part that displays a list of pieces of read data, conveyor, of any one of a plurality of optical information reading devices; an input part that receives an input for selection of any one piece of read data from the list of pieces of read data displayed on the display part; and a control part that acquires a code image having the read data selected by the input part from another optical information reading device connected to the network, and performs comparison display, on the display part, of a plurality of the code images respectively acquired by different ones of the plurality of optical information reading devices.