Terminal Apparatus Hysteresis Information Analysis

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current terminal apparatuses and systems lack efficient mechanisms for editing and managing display areas with multiple images corresponding to functions, particularly in distributed environments, where hysteresis in processing and user operations are not effectively communicated or analyzed.

Innovation Solution

A terminal apparatus and communication system that includes an editor for editing display areas, a generator for creating hysteresis information, and transmitters/receivers for transmitting and receiving display and hysteresis information between terminal apparatuses, allowing for the editing and analysis of user operations across multiple terminals.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If display area information is transmitted between terminal apparatuses for collaborative editing, then collaboration efficiency is improved, but network communication overhead and processing time increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecollaboration efficiencyVSAvoidprocessing time
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts only the essential display area information (coordinates, size, function identifiers) needed for collaboration, transmitting minimal data packets between terminal apparatuses. This selective extraction reduces communication overhead while maintaining collaboration efficiency, avoiding transmission of unnecessary image data or processing details.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary encoding and organization of display area information before transmission, preparing data in an optimized format that reduces processing time at receiving endpoints. Display area parameters are structured in advance with necessary metadata, enabling faster integration into the collaborative editing workflow.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Measurement precision

If hysteresis information is generated and transmitted to analyze user operations, then operation analysis capability is improved, but data transmission load and system complexity increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveoperation analysis capabilityVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements feedback loops where hysteresis information about user operations is transmitted back to originating terminal apparatuses and the server. This feedback enables analysis of operation patterns, detection of anomalies, and optimization of collaborative editing workflows, improving measurement precision while maintaining manageable system complexity through structured feedback mechanisms.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The server acts as an intermediary that receives, processes, and analyzes hysteresis information from multiple terminal apparatuses. This central mediation simplifies the system architecture by consolidating complex analysis functions at the server level, reducing the processing burden on individual terminal devices while maintaining comprehensive operation analysis capability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Adaptability or versatility

If multiple terminal apparatuses share and edit display area information, then collaboration versatility is improved, but information synchronization accuracy decreases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecollaboration versatilityVSAvoidsynchronization accuracy
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent uses copying mechanisms where display area information is replicated across terminal apparatuses in a controlled manner. Each terminal receives accurate copies of display area data from the server, ensuring synchronization accuracy while enabling multiple users to work with identical information bases. Version control and timestamp mechanisms maintain copy integrity during collaborative editing.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

Solution Approach 2:

The system maintains equipotentiality by ensuring all terminal apparatuses operate from the same reference state regarding display area information. The server synchronizes all terminals to a common version of the display layout, ensuring that collaboration versatility is achieved without sacrificing synchronization accuracy, as all participants work from an equi-potential information baseline.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #12Equipotentiality

Data Source

PatentUS10979518B2Terminal apparatus and analysis system
Publication Date: 2021.04.13 FUJIFILM BUSINESS INNOVATION CORP
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AI summary

An editor edits an arrangement of a plurality of pictograms in a display area, the pictograms corresponding to functions to be executed. A generator generates hysteresis information indicating a hysteresis of the edit. A first transmitter transmits display area information indicating the display area to other terminal apparatus. A receiver receives hysteresis information indicating a hysteresis of processing relating to the display area indicated by the display area information, the processing being performed in the other terminal apparatus. A display unit correlates and display the hysteresis information generated by the generator and the hysteresis information received by the receiver. A second transmitter transmits the hysteresis information generated by the generator and the hysteresis information received by the receiver to a terminal apparatus which has transmitted the display area information to the own apparatus.