Speech-Controlled Image Processing System with History Database
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Solution Overview
Problem
The increasing complexity of multifunctional image processing machines burdens users with numerous setting items, making it difficult to operate them effectively, especially when settings are not fixed or predictable, and requiring advance key assignment for speech UI usage.
Innovation Solution
An image processing system with a microphone, a history database for retaining setting values, and a mechanism to acquire and apply setting values based on recognized speech, allowing users to invoke settings without pre-assigning keys, thereby simplifying the operation process.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If the number of setting items is increased to provide more functionality, then the versatility of the apparatus is improved, but the ease of operation deteriorates due to user burden
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically retrieves and applies setting values from the history database based on speech recognition results, without requiring users to manually configure each setting item. This self-service mechanism reduces user burden while maintaining access to multiple functionality options.
Solution Approach 2:
Setting values are stored in advance in the history database during previous operations. When a user speaks a specific word, the system retrieves pre-stored settings automatically, eliminating the need for users to reconfigure settings each time and reducing operational complexity.
2Ease of operation
If advance key assignment is required for speech UI usage, then the ease of operation is improved for frequent tasks, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system extracts only the necessary setting values from the history database based on speech recognition results, rather than requiring pre-assignment of keys for all possible settings. This selective extraction simplifies the interface while maintaining functionality.
3Measurement precision
If all setting items must be uttered to communicate desired settings, then the precision of setting specification is improved, but the loss of time increases
Solution Approach 1:
Users only need to utter a specific word or partial information rather than all setting items. The system supplements this partial input by automatically retrieving additional setting values from the history database, achieving complete setting specification with minimal user input time.
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AI summary
There is provided an image processing system including: an image processing device; a microphone that is capable of acquiring speech; a retaining unit configured to retain, in a history database, setting values for image processing utilized in the past; an acquiring unit configured to acquire, based at least on that a specific word has been recognized in a result of speech recognition on speech acquired by the microphone, one or more setting values from the history database using an extraction condition corresponding to the specific word, and a setting unit configured to set up a new job to be executed by the image processing device based on the one or more setting values.