Real-Time Preview Image Processing with Gesture Storage
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing image processing apparatuses with real-time preview functions face difficulties in setting postprocessing details without impairing the real-time preview advantage, as users must input gestures during the image display period, which can be cumbersome and extend preview time.
Innovation Solution
An image processing apparatus with an image reader, preview image generator, real-time preview controller, input unit, specific information storage, and preview controllers that allow users to input operations on preview images during real-time preview, storing information for subsequent display modes, enabling separate and differentiated displays post-preview, allowing for operations like deleting, rotating, and scaling.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If the time period during which each image is displayed in the real-time preview is extended to allow gesture input for postprocessing settings, then the ease of operation improves, but the preview time increases and the real-time preview advantage is impaired
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the preview display into two distinct modes: real-time preview mode for quick visualization and postprocessing setting mode for detailed configuration. By dividing the functionality and timing of these operations, users can perform gesture inputs without extending the real-time preview duration, thus resolving the contradiction between ease of operation and preview time efficiency
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary actions by automatically executing postprocessing settings during the real-time preview based on detected gestures, without requiring users to manually configure each setting. This preliminary automatic execution eliminates the need for extended interaction time while maintaining ease of operation through intuitive gesture recognition
2Adaptability or versatility
If gesture input is required during real-time preview for postprocessing settings, then the adaptability improves, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a universal gesture recognition system that handles multiple postprocessing settings (rotation, scaling, deletion, etc.) through a single unified interface. This multi-functional approach enhances adaptability without proportionally increasing device complexity, as the same gesture recognition mechanism serves multiple configuration purposes
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AI summary
When an input unit receives a predetermined operation on a preview image during execution of a real-time preview, an image processing apparatus stores information that specifies the preview image for which the predetermined operation has been received, in a specific information storage unit. The image processing apparatus executes a first preview display of displaying a preview image for which the predetermined operation has been received or a preview image for which the predetermined operation has not been received among preview images of a job after completion of the real-time preview, based on the information stored in the specific information storage unit.