Touch Panel Display Control for Operation Reproduction
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Solution Overview
Problem
As image forming apparatuses with expanded functions become more complex, users face difficulties in understanding how to perform operations due to the increased variety of screens and processes, making it challenging to reproduce operations effectively using conventional methods.
Innovation Solution
An image forming apparatus with a touch panel and display unit that operates in both normal and reproduction modes, where the apparatus records and replays user interactions, allowing for controlled display transitions and animation effects to enhance the understanding of operation processes.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If conventional operation reproduction method is used, then operation can be reproduced, but user cannot effectively check how to perform operation due to fast screen transitions
Solution Approach 1:
The system dynamically adjusts the screen transition speed during reproduction mode. When a screen is displayed in reproduction mode, the transition speed is automatically slowed down compared to normal operation mode, allowing users to effectively check and understand the operation steps while maintaining efficient normal operation speed
2Ease of operation
If animation effect is applied during reproduction, then user can better understand operation flow, but processing time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies animation effects selectively and partially during reproduction mode rather than continuously. Animation effects are applied to specific screens or transition moments that benefit most from visual enhancement, rather than all screens uniformly, thus improving user understanding while minimizing additional processing time
Data Source
AI summary
An apparatus is provided with a display and a touch panel mounted on a display surface of the display. The apparatus includes a storage portion that stores, thereinto, data showing operation made on the touch panel in a normal mode; a determination portion that determines, in the normal mode, processing of displaying an operating screen on the display based on the operation made on the touch panel, and to determine, in the reproduction mode, the processing based on the data; and a control portion that performs, in the normal mode, the determined processing in a manner to end at a first timing, and, in a reproduction mode, if the determined processing corresponds to predetermined processing, the determined processing in a manner to end at a second timing which is later than the first timing.