Print Job Settings Interface for Abnormality Detection Control

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing systems face errors due to separate screens for setting abnormality detection and process actions in printed materials, leading to decreased productivity.

Innovation Solution

An information processing system that integrates settings for abnormality detection and process actions on a single screen, allowing for unified control of color density fluctuation and misalignment corrections, with options to continue, stop, or wait for user input, and adjustable threshold values.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If settings for abnormality detection and process actions are accepted on different screens, then the system can separate configuration tasks, but setting errors occur more frequently

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesetting accuracyVSAvoidnumber of screens
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines the abnormality detection setting screen and the process action setting screen into a single integrated screen. This allows users to configure both the detection parameters and the corresponding process actions together, ensuring consistency between the two settings and preventing configuration errors that would occur if they were separated across multiple screens.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

2Reliability

If multiple settings are accepted on a single screen, then setting consistency is improved, but the screen complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesetting consistencyVSAvoidoperational simplicity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The integrated screen is divided into distinct functional sections: an abnormality detection setting area for configuring detection parameters, and a process action setting area for defining actions to take when abnormalities are detected. This segmentation allows users to navigate and configure each aspect separately within the unified interface, maintaining consistency while preserving operational simplicity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

3Measurement precision

If comprehensive abnormality detection settings are implemented, then detection accuracy is improved, but processing time increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveabnormality detection accuracyVSAvoidprocessing time
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system allows users to selectively enable only the abnormality detection items that are necessary for each specific printing job, rather than requiring all possible detection types to be active simultaneously. This partial action approach maintains detection accuracy for relevant parameters while reducing unnecessary processing overhead and saving time.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #16Partial or excessive action

Data Source

PatentEP4653998A1Information processing system, program, and information processing method
Publication Date: 2025.11.26 FUJIFILM BUSINESS INNOVATION CORP
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AI summary

An information processing system includes a processor configured to accept a setting of whether or not to detect a specific type of abnormality in a printed material output from a printing apparatus and a setting of a process in a case where the specific type of abnormality is detected in the printed material on an identical screen.