Printer Voice Tagging for Content Hierarchy Navigation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users face time-consuming and tedious navigation through traditional user interfaces to print additional related content, often leading to missed opportunities for printing desired content.
Innovation Solution
A system and method for navigation printing with a content hierarchy via voice tagging, where printed tags on documents allow users to initiate printing of related content using voice commands, leveraging a printer with voice recognition and processing capabilities to digitize and process verbal commands, and a computing device to retrieve and print associated content.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If traditional user interface navigation is used to print related content, then printing functionality is achieved, but user time and operational efficiency deteriorate due to tedious navigation
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces the mechanical interaction with traditional graphical user interfaces (clicking, scrolling, navigating menus) with a voice-based acoustic system. Users speak natural language commands like 'print the recipe' or 'print the article about climate change' directly to the printer, which uses voice recognition software to interpret and execute the printing request, eliminating the need for manual navigation through computing device interfaces.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces voice recognition software as an intermediary between the user and the printing system. This intermediary layer translates spoken commands into actionable printing instructions, bridging the gap between natural human communication and the technical printing process, thereby simplifying the interaction and improving efficiency.
2Ease of operation
If traditional user interface navigation is used to print related content, then printing functionality is achieved, but operational complexity increases due to multiple navigation steps
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces the mechanical interaction with traditional graphical user interfaces (clicking, scrolling, navigating menus) with a voice-based acoustic system. Users speak natural language commands like 'print the recipe' or 'print the article about climate change' directly to the printer, which uses voice recognition software to interpret and execute the printing request, eliminating the need for manual navigation through computing device interfaces.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent enables the printer to perform multiple functions: it can directly receive and interpret voice commands, identify related content based on those commands, and execute printing operations. This multi-functionality consolidates what previously required separate computing device operations into a single unified printing device, simplifying the overall system interaction.
3Ease of operation
If voice recognition is implemented in the printer, then ease of operation improves through natural voice commands, but device complexity increases due to additional processing components
Solution Approach 1:
The patent adds a new dimension of interaction by incorporating voice recognition capabilities into the printer. This acoustic dimension complements the traditional printing function, creating a multi-dimensional system that accepts both voice commands and standard printing operations, thereby enhancing ease of use without fundamentally altering the core printing mechanism.
Data Source
AI summary
A method includes receiving, via a microphone at a printer, a voice command based on a tag of an indexed document. The method further includes digitizing the voice command. The method further includes retrieving a supplemental document based on the digitized voice command. The method further includes printing the supplemental document at the printer.