Stacked Image Preview for Multi-Page Document Navigation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional image processing apparatuses require users to manually turn pages to find specific images within a multi-page document, making it cumbersome and inefficient to navigate and check the overall structure of the image processing results.
Innovation Solution
An image processing apparatus that generates and displays a finished image as a stack with a page structure, allowing users to quickly move to a specified page using a touch panel, thereby simplifying the navigation and checking process.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If conventional preview display techniques are used to show processed images, then users can check the result of image processes, but users must turn pages one by one to find specific images in multi-page documents, making navigation cumbersome and inefficient
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transitions from displaying one page at a time (2D sequential viewing) to displaying multiple pages simultaneously in a stacked layout (3D spatial arrangement). The thumbnail images are arranged vertically to represent different pages, allowing users to see the overall document structure and navigate to any page instantly by touching the corresponding thumbnail, eliminating the need for sequential page turning.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent divides the multi-page document into individual thumbnail images, each representing a separate page. These thumbnails are displayed as discrete, selectable units in the stacked preview. Users can independently select and navigate to any specific thumbnail without having to view intermediate pages, enabling direct access to any section of the document.
2Loss of information
If conventional single-page preview is displayed, then the display device shows processed image results, but the overall page structure of multi-page images cannot be visually understood
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple individual page previews into a single stacked preview display. Instead of showing separate preview screens for each page, all page thumbnails are combined into one unified visual structure that displays the entire document hierarchy at a glance, allowing users to understand the overall page structure without switching between multiple views.
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AI summary
A finished-image generating unit generates a finished image showing a result of a process performed on a target image according to various function setting items. A finished-image display unit, when the target image extends to a plurality of pages, forms the finished image in a stack, and displays the stacked finished image on a display unit with a page structure image that shows an overall page structure of the stacked finished image. A page moving unit, when one of the pages constituting the page structure image is specified via an operating unit, executes a page moving from a page currently displayed on the display unit to the specified page.