Ordered Setting-Value Replication for Information Apparatus Systems

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing systems fail to prevent unintended setting values when replicating settings from one apparatus to another, leading to potential errors and mismatches.

Innovation Solution

An information processing system that includes processors to manage setting information by replicating values in a specific order, enforcing operative associations and prohibitions between setting items, and recording the setting order to ensure accurate replication.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If setting values are replicated without considering setting order, then replication speed is improved, but setting accuracy deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvereplication speedVSAvoidsetting accuracy

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The system records the setting order of multiple setting items before replication occurs. This preliminary recording of order information enables the replication process to maintain accuracy by following the recorded sequence, thus resolving the contradiction between speed and precision.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces a setting order parameter that changes the replication process from a simultaneous or arbitrary sequence to a specific ordered sequence. By incorporating this new parameter (setting order) into the replication process, the system achieves both efficiency and accuracy.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #35Parameter changes

2Reliability

If all setting items are replicated, then completeness is improved, but complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvesetting completenessVSAvoidreplication complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system divides the replication process into discrete steps based on the recorded setting order. Each setting item is replicated sequentially in its specific order rather than all at once, which segments the complex task into manageable units while maintaining completeness.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system uses the recorded setting order as feedback information to guide the replication process. By referring to the pre-recorded order, the system ensures that all setting items are replicated in the correct sequence without requiring complex real-time decision-making, thus reducing operational complexity.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

3Manufacturing precision

If setting order is recorded for all items, then setting accuracy is improved, but data volume increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvesetting accuracyVSAvoiddata volume

Core Design Contradiction:

Manufacturing precisionVSQuantity of substance

Solution Approach 1:

The system records setting order information selectively for setting items that have actual setting values, rather than uniformly for all items. This local application of order recording maintains accuracy for relevant settings while minimizing unnecessary data storage for items without settings.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #3Local quality

Data Source

PatentEP4625134A1Information processing system and information apparatus system

Publication Date: 2025.10.01 FUJIFILM BUSINESS INNOVATION CORP

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AI summary

An information processing system includes one or plural processors configured to: acquire setting information including plural setting items and a setting order of the plural setting items; and replicate setting values in order from the setting item having a lowest setting order.