Output Instruction Program With Segmented Setting Screen
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional methods require complex and time-consuming settings for output conditions on multiple devices like image forming apparatuses and content display terminals, leading to potential setting errors.
Innovation Solution
An output instruction program that displays a setting screen with a common area for shared settings and individual areas for each device type, allowing easy switching between common and individual settings using dedicated buttons, ensuring settings are applied correctly across all devices.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If separate settings are made for each device type (image forming apparatus and content display terminal), then device-specific output conditions can be properly configured, but the setting process becomes complicated and time-consuming
Solution Approach 1:
The setting screen is segmented into a common setting area for items common to multiple device types and individual setting areas for each device type. This segmentation allows users to efficiently configure common settings once for all devices while maintaining the ability to specify device-specific parameters when needed, thereby reducing overall setting complexity while ensuring accurate device-specific configuration.
Solution Approach 2:
The common setting area implements universality by allowing settings to be applied to multiple device types simultaneously. When a setting is made in the common area, it can be automatically applied to all connected devices of relevant types, eliminating redundant setting operations while maintaining compatibility with device-specific requirements through the individual setting areas.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple setting areas are provided for different device types, then device-specific parameters can be configured, but the number of setting items increases and may cause confusion
Solution Approach 1:
The setting screen is divided into a common setting area and individual setting areas for each device type. This segmentation organizes the large number of setting items into logical groups, allowing users to understand which settings apply universally and which are device-specific, thereby reducing confusion while maintaining comprehensive device compatibility.
Solution Approach 2:
Different areas of the setting screen have different qualities and functions: the common setting area handles universal parameters applicable to multiple devices, while individual setting areas handle device-specific parameters. This local differentiation allows the system to accommodate diverse device requirements without presenting all possible settings to the user simultaneously, reducing perceived complexity.
Data Source
AI summary
A computer readable recording medium storing an output instruction program for giving output instructions to multiple types of devices, wherein the output instruction program causes a computer to function as a control section which: displays an output setting screen divided into a common setting area for setting a common items common to the multiple types of devices, and an individual setting area for each device type for setting individual items set for each device type, when the output setting screen for setting an output conditions for the multiple types of devices is displayed on the display section; and, generates the output setting information which applies the output conditions set in the common setting area to all the device types, and applies the output conditions set in the individual setting area of each device type to the each device type.