Remote Operation Screen Synthesizable Area Segmentation
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Solution Overview
Problem
In remote operation systems for image forming apparatuses, additional images such as web browsing screens can obscure hardware key images, making it difficult to perform reliable remote operations.
Innovation Solution
The system generates and transmits synthesizable area information to define areas on the remote operation screen where additional images can be synthesized without overlapping with hardware key images, allowing for the creation of a secondary screen that displays additional images without hiding the hardware key images, ensuring the hardware key can be reliably operated.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If an additional image is synthesized into a given area of the remote operation screen, then the functionality and information display are improved, but the hardware key image may be hidden behind the additional image making remote operation difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The remote operation screen is divided into multiple regions: a first region displaying the additional image and a second region displaying the hardware key image. This spatial segmentation ensures that the additional image does not overlap with or hide the hardware key image, allowing both functionality enhancement and maintained operability.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a dimensional solution by creating a second display region below the first region. This vertical dimensionality change allows the additional image to be displayed without interfering with the hardware key image's visibility and accessibility in the second region.
2Loss of information
If an additional image is synthesized into the remote operation screen, then the information display is enhanced, but the hardware key image may be obscured making it hard to perform remote operation
Solution Approach 1:
The display screen is segmented into a first region for additional images and a second region for hardware key images. This segmentation prevents information loss while ensuring the hardware key image remains visible and accessible, maintaining operation reliability.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent uses a spatial intermediary structure (the second display region) that acts as a buffer between the additional image display area and the hardware key image area, preventing obscuration while allowing both to coexist on the same screen.
3Loss of information
If the remote operation screen displays both touch panel image and hardware key image, then the representation of the image forming apparatus is accurate, but additional images may hide the hardware key image
Solution Approach 1:
The screen is divided into distinct regions: the first region displays additional images while the second region displays the hardware key image. This segmentation maintains accurate representation of the image forming apparatus while ensuring the hardware key remains accessible for operation.
Solution Approach 2:
Different regions of the display screen have different functional qualities: the first region is optimized for additional information display while the second region is optimized for hardware key image display and operation. This local differentiation ensures both representation accuracy and operability.
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AI summary
A remote operation system comprises an image forming apparatus and a remote operation apparatus. The image forming apparatus has an operation input part including a touch panel and a hardware key and a transmission part for transmitting synthesizable area information indicating a synthesizable area in a candidate screen (first screen) of the remote operation screen to the remote operation apparatus. The first screen is a screen including a touch panel area and a hardware key area, and the synthesizable area is defined in the synthesizable area information as an area not including a hardware key image. The remote operation apparatus generates a second screen by synthesizing an additional image to be added to the first screen into the synthesizable area of the first screen on the basis of the synthesizable area information and displays the second screen on the display part as the remote operation screen.