Screen Information Color Conversion for Unchangeable Objects

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current information processing apparatuses cannot accurately display objects from acquired screen information in their original colors, especially when color conversion is applied to the entire screen, which can alter corporate logos, gray scales, and photographs, leading to loss of meaning and reduced convenience.

Innovation Solution

An information processing apparatus with a screen processing unit that changes screen information based on user-set display attributes, a determination unit to identify unchangeable object attributes, and a conversion unit to perform color conversion only on specified objects, ensuring they are displayed in their original colors.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If color conversion is applied to the entire display screen, then users with impaired vision can better perceive the display content, but objects such as corporate logos, photographs, and color adjustment tables lose their original meaning and appearance

Engineering Contradiction:
ImproveAccessibility for users with impaired visionVSAvoidOriginal color meaning of objects
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The display screen is segmented into multiple regions: a first region containing objects that should maintain their original colors (corporate logos, photographs, color adjustment tables) and a second region containing other display content. Color conversion is applied only to the second region while the first region retains its original colors, thus resolving the contradiction between accessibility and information preservation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

Different quality treatments are applied to different parts of the display screen. The first region (objects requiring original color preservation) receives no color conversion treatment, while the second region (other content) receives color conversion treatment. This local differentiation allows simultaneous achievement of accessibility improvement and information preservation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

2Adaptability or versatility

If color conversion is applied to all objects on the screen, then the display can be adapted for different viewing conditions, but objects with fixed color requirements cannot be displayed accurately

Engineering Contradiction:
ImproveDisplay adaptability for different conditionsVSAvoidColor accuracy of specific objects
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The display content is divided into segmented regions with different color treatment requirements. The first region contains objects requiring precise color representation, while the second region contains content that can tolerate color conversion. This segmentation enables the system to maintain color accuracy for specific objects while achieving adaptability for other content.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

Different color conversion qualities are applied locally to different regions. The first region maintains high color fidelity (no conversion), while the second region undergoes color conversion for adaptability. This local quality differentiation resolves the contradiction between overall adaptability and local color precision.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Data Source

PatentUS9043713B2Information processing apparatus for displaying screen information acquired from an outside device in a designated color
Publication Date: 2015.05.26 CANON KK
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AI summary

An information processing apparatus configured to display a user interface on a display unit according to screen information acquired from an outside device changes the screen information according to a display attribute set by a user, and if setting of a display attribute of an object included in the screen information is unchangeable, color conversion processing of a specified object included in the screen information is performed and the screen information obtained by executing conversion processing according to the display attribute set by the user with respect to the screen information including the object which has undergone the color conversion processing is displayed.