Terminal Posture Locking During Image Generation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing image processing systems face usability issues when displaying image data on a terminal device that can rotate, as unintended changes in the device's posture during data processing lead to incomplete display processes and increased waiting times, affecting user friendliness and efficiency.

Innovation Solution

An information processing terminal device equipped with an acquiring unit, detecting unit, generating unit, and displaying unit that acquires image data, detects the device's posture, generates display image data based on the detected posture, and displays it on a display unit, ensuring that the posture is fixed until the generation is complete, preventing mid-process changes from initiating new display processes.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If the system continuously monitors posture changes during image data generation, then the display can be updated according to the latest posture, but the processing time increases and user input may be delayed

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveadaptability to posture changesVSAvoidprocessing time
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system records the posture at the start of image data generation as a reference posture and continues to use this reference for the entire generation process, rather than continuously updating during processing. This preliminary action approach allows the system to maintain adaptability to posture changes while avoiding the time penalty of continuous monitoring and recalculation during the generation process.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Manufacturing precision

If the system processes large amounts of image data, then the display quality improves, but the time required for processing and display increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedisplay qualityVSAvoidprocessing time
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system determines the reference posture before image data generation begins and fixes this posture for the entire processing duration. This allows the system to process large amounts of image data without interruption from posture changes, maintaining high display quality while minimizing processing time by avoiding repeated coordinate conversions.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

3Ease of operation

If the system allows posture changes during image data generation, then the device is more responsive to user needs, but the processing may be interrupted or delayed

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveresponsiveness to user inputVSAvoidprocessing completion
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system records the reference posture at the beginning of image data generation and maintains this reference throughout the process, allowing the device to remain physically responsive to user input while ensuring that the image processing completes reliably without interruption from posture changes. The reference posture is applied after processing completes, not during.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS11106857B2Computer readable recording medium, information processing terminal device, and control method of information processing terminal device
Publication Date: 2021.08.31 BROTHER KOGYO KK
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AI summary

An information processing terminal device includes: an acquiring unit acquiring image data; a detecting unit detecting a posture of the information processing terminal device; a generating unit generating display image data based on the image data acquired in the acquiring unit according to the posture of the terminal device detected by the detecting unit; and a displaying unit displaying the display image data generated by the generating unit on a display unit. If the posture of the terminal device is changed, the generating unit generates the display image data according to the changed posture of the terminal device. If the posture of the terminal device is changed during the generation of the image data by the generating unit, the generating unit does not generate the display image data according to the changed posture of the terminal device, until the generation of the display image data is completed.