Voice-Guided Print Image Generation for Accurate User Intent

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing voice-based printing systems often fail to accurately capture user intent due to free-form input, leading to inappropriate processing and printing outcomes.

Innovation Solution

An information processing device that utilizes AI servers to generate text and images based on voice input, ensuring appropriate format and content for printing, including a text generation AI server to create instructions for an image generation AI server to produce desired images.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If voice input is used for printing instructions, then user convenience is improved, but information accuracy and processing appropriateness deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser convenienceVSAvoidinformation accuracy
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces an AI server as an intermediary between the voice input and the printing processing. The AI server generates appropriate text instructions and image generation commands based on the voice input, ensuring that the information is accurately interpreted and formatted for the printing process. This intermediary component resolves the contradiction by maintaining user convenience through voice input while ensuring information accuracy through AI-based processing.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Ease of operation

If free-form voice input is allowed, then ease of operation is improved, but processing reliability deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveease of inputVSAvoidprocessing reliability
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements a feedback mechanism where the AI server processes the voice input, generates text instructions, and then generates images based on those instructions. The system can provide feedback to the user about the generated content and allow for corrections or adjustments. This feedback loop ensures that the processing is reliable while maintaining the ease of voice input, as users can correct any misunderstandings by the AI system.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

3Manufacturing precision

If AI-based text and image generation is introduced, then printing accuracy is improved, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveprinting accuracyVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the system into distinct functional components: a voice input interface, an AI server for text generation, and an image generation module. By dividing the system into these separate segments, each component can be optimized independently. The AI server handles the complex text and image generation tasks, while the local system maintains simpler voice input and printing functions. This segmentation reduces the perceived complexity at each level while achieving high printing accuracy through the specialized AI components.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentUS20260030469A1Information processing device, information processing method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing program
Publication Date: 2026.01.29 SEIKO EPSON CORP
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AI summary

An information processing device includes an instruction information acquisition unit configured to acquire print instruction information that includes designation of a drawing target and is input as voice by a user, a text request unit configured to transmit a text generation instruction generated based on the print instruction information to a text generation AI server, a text acquisition unit configured to acquire text from the text generation AI server, an image request unit configured to request, using the text, another server to transmit an image in which the drawing target is drawn, an image acquisition unit configured to acquire the image from the other server, and a print control unit configured to cause an image forming device to execute printing of the acquired image.