Information Processing System Script Execution Control

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing information processing systems lack the ability to suppress the execution of sequences before the arrangement of a target is processed, leading to potential delays and errors in tasks such as printing, as they only record user input operations without considering the arrangement of the target.

Innovation Solution

An information processing system that records both user input operation information and sensing information about the target's arrangement, allowing for chronological execution of scripts and providing notifications to ensure proper arrangement before proceeding, thereby preventing premature execution and reducing errors.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If only user input operation information is recorded as a series of sequences, then the system can automatically execute processing tasks, but the execution may occur before the target is properly arranged, causing delays and errors

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveautomation efficiencyVSAvoidexecution accuracy
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary sensing of the target arrangement state before executing the automated processing sequence. The sensing information is recorded alongside input operation information, and the system checks whether the target is properly arranged before proceeding with execution, preventing premature operation

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system introduces feedback by continuously monitoring the arrangement state of the target through sensors during script execution. When the sensed arrangement state does not match the expected state, the system notifies the user and suspends automatic execution, allowing real-time verification and correction

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Reliability

If sensing information about target arrangement is recorded in the series of sequences, then premature execution is prevented, but the system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveexecution accuracyVSAvoidsystem structure
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The information processing apparatus integrates multiple functions into a single system: it records both input operation information and sensing information, manages script execution, monitors target arrangement states, and provides user notifications. This multi-functional integration avoids the need for separate dedicated systems for each function

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The sensing information acts as an intermediary between the target arrangement state and the script execution control. Rather than directly controlling execution based on complex sensor data, the system uses the sensed arrangement information as a intermediary check point to determine whether to proceed with automated operations

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentUS20240305731A1Information processing system, non-transitory computer readable medium storing information processing program, and information processing method
Publication Date: 2024.09.12 FUJIFILM BUSINESS INNOVATION CORP
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AI summary

The information processing system includes at least one processor, in which the processor is configured to: acquire a recording instruction to record a series of sequences for automatically executing plural input operations, which are performed by a user, for processing of a target to be processed; and then record input operation information, which is given by the user to an information processing apparatus, and sensing information, which is obtained by a sensor that senses information about arrangement of the target to be processed, in the series of sequences capable of execution in a chronological order.