Electronic Price Tag Bitmap Automation via Server Conversion
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing methods for editing electronic price tag bitmap images are inefficient and prone to human error, requiring significant time and manpower due to manual pixel editing, which affects the quality of the edited image.
Innovation Solution
A method that involves obtaining basic information from a user, converting it into bitmap data, and delivering it to an electronic price tag for display, thereby bypassing manual editing and using a server and gateway to efficiently update the image content.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If manual bitmap editing is used, then image editing flexibility is improved, but time cost and manpower resources increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces manual mechanical bitmap editing with an automated system that converts text content into bitmap data through software processing. The server automatically generates bitmap images from text parameters without requiring manual pixel-by-pixel editing, thus substituting human manual operations with automated computational processes.
Solution Approach 2:
The system enables self-service by allowing the electronic price tag to automatically generate and update its own display content. The tag can receive text information and automatically convert it into bitmap format for display, without requiring external manual editing intervention for each update.
2Adaptability or versatility
If manual bitmap editing is used, then image customization is improved, but human operation errors increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces manual editing operations with automated software-based bitmap generation. The system uses programmed algorithms to convert text into bitmap data, eliminating human errors while maintaining customization capabilities through programmable parameters for font, size, color, and layout.
Solution Approach 2:
The system incorporates feedback mechanisms where the server receives display requirements from the electronic price tag, processes the text into appropriate bitmap format, and verifies the conversion results. This closed-loop process ensures accuracy and allows for error correction through automated validation.
3Manufacturing precision
If high resolution bitmap display is used, then image quality is improved, but data processing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by pre-defining text parameters (font type, size, color, layout) that the server uses to generate bitmap data. This preparation of parameters before conversion simplifies the processing complexity, as the system only needs to map predefined parameters to bitmap pixels rather than handling complex image editing operations.
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AI summary
An electronic price tag display method and an electronic price tag display system, a server and a computer readable storage medium. The method is applied to the server, and includes: obtaining basic information of data to be displayed in an image; converting the basic information into bitmap data; and delivering the bitmap data to an electronic price tag in order that the electronic price tag displays the content of the data to be displayed. By implementing the method, the process of manually editing bitmap data by the user is abandoned, the manpower resource and the time cost are saved, the efficiency of display control of the electronic price tag is improved, and the condition that the editing result is affected by human operation error is avoided simultaneously.