Printing System Image Display with Segmented Ends
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Solution Overview
Problem
Printing systems struggle to effectively display digital images with extreme aspect ratios, as they often only show a part of the image, hiding crucial information like legends or title blocks, and fail to provide an intuitive visualization of the image's full extent.
Innovation Solution
The system determines and displays both ends of the digital image on the user interface screen, with the remaining part either suppressed or compressed, allowing for an intuitive visualization of the image's entirety, and includes features like dragging and zooming to adjust the displayed sections while maintaining their total size.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If the whole digital image is displayed on the user interface screen, then the complete image information is visible, but the details are not visible due to the extreme aspect ratio
Solution Approach 1:
The digital image is divided into multiple sections (first section, second section, and intermediate section) along its longitudinal direction. The first and second sections are displayed at their original sizes at opposite ends of the screen, while the intermediate section is compressed or suppressed. This segmentation allows both complete information visibility and detail preservation simultaneously.
2Measurement precision
If only a part of the digital image is displayed, then the details are visible, but crucial information like legends or title blocks may be missed
Solution Approach 1:
The image is segmented such that the first section contains one end of the image and the second section contains the other end, both displayed at original size. This ensures that crucial information located at image ends (such as legends or title blocks) is always visible while maintaining detail quality.
3Area of stationary object
If only a part of the digital image is displayed, then the screen space is efficiently used, but the user does not have the impression that the image has an extreme aspect ratio
Solution Approach 1:
The solution uses spatial arrangement in a different dimension by placing the first and second sections at opposite ends of the screen. This dimensional arrangement preserves the user's perception of the extreme aspect ratio while efficiently utilizing screen space, as the sections are distributed across the available display area rather than compressed into a single location.
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AI summary
A method of displaying a digital image having a high aspect ratio on a user interface screen connected to a control unit of a printing system includes the steps of determining a first part of the digital image, which part includes one end of the digital image in a longitudinal direction; determining a second part of the digital image, which part includes the other end of the digital image in the longitudinal direction; displaying the first part and the second part simultaneously on the user interface screen; and further displaying the remaining part of the digital image in a suppressed manner or a compressed manner in-between the first part and the second part at the user interface screen. A printing system includes a control unit, which includes a memory unit for storing a digital image, and a user interface screen for displaying the digital image, the control unit being configured to execute the method.