Printed-Matter Inspection Display With Dummy Page Alignment
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing inspection systems fail to accurately display inspection results for only some pages in a job, leading to difficulty in specifying pages with OK or not OK results in actual print outputs due to differing page configurations and counts between inspection targets and actual print outputs.
Innovation Solution
A printed-matter inspection system that compares scanned images with reference images for inspection targets and displays dummy pages for non-inspection targets, using icons to indicate non-target pages, ensuring consistent page configuration in the display.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If only inspection target pages are displayed in the inspection results, then the inspection efficiency is improved by reducing the amount of displayed information, but the correspondence between inspection results and actual print outputs becomes unclear due to different page configurations
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a visual copy representation of the actual print output by displaying dummy pages for non-inspection target pages. This copy maintains the same page configuration and structure as the actual output, allowing users to easily correlate inspection results with the corresponding physical pages while still showing only inspected pages' actual image data.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces dummy pages as an intermediary element between the inspection results and actual print outputs. These dummy pages serve as placeholders that preserve the page layout and configuration information, enabling users to trace inspection results back to the correct physical pages without displaying all actual printed content.
2Reliability
If all pages in the job are inspected, then the inspection completeness is improved, but the time consumption increases due to inspecting unnecessary pages
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the inspection process into two parts: actual inspection of only target pages and visual representation of all pages through dummy pages. This segmentation allows the inspection system to focus computational resources on inspecting only necessary pages while still providing complete page-by-page inspection results through the dummy page representations.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent applies partial inspection action by actually inspecting only the target pages (less than all pages), while compensating with excessive visual representation through dummy pages that represent all pages including non-inspection targets. This ensures users have complete information about all pages without the time cost of inspecting every page.
3Adaptability or versatility
If the page configuration in inspection results differs from actual print outputs, then the inspection system can focus on inspection targets, but users cannot easily specify which pages have OK or not OK results
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by displaying actual scanned images only for inspection target pages while using dummy pages for non-target pages. This creates different display qualities for different parts of the inspection results, allowing the system to maintain flexibility in selecting inspection targets while ensuring easy page specification through consistent visual representation.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
Enables easy identification of inspection results for both inspection and non-inspection target pages, maintaining accurate correspondence with actual print outputs.
Implementation Method 1
a scanned image, which is obtained through scanning of the printed matter
Data Source
AI summary
An inspection result displaying system acquires a scanned image of a page, which is an inspection target, from among a plurality of pages included in a printed material and acquires a dummy page corresponding to a page, which is not an inspection target, from among the plurality of pages of the printed material. The system displays the scanned image when displaying an inspection result of the page which is an inspection target and displays the dummy page when displaying an inspection result of the page which is not an inspection target.