Voice Setting Order Control for Image Processors
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Solution Overview
Problem
In image forming devices capable of voice operation, users face difficulties in setting multiple parameters simultaneously due to combination inhibition issues, where changing one setting value can prevent the execution of desired changes across multiple settings, leading to incomplete or incorrect settings.
Innovation Solution
A process condition setting system with an instruction receiving unit, a setting order control unit, and a setting changing unit that reorders setting changes to avoid combination inhibition by prioritizing changes based on predefined priorities, ensuring that all instructed changes are executed without errors.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If multiple setting items are changed individually by voice input, then each setting can be controlled precisely, but the operation becomes repetitive and time-consuming
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple setting items into a single voice input command. The voice recognition unit processes one voice input containing instructions for multiple settings (e.g., color, file format, resolution) and generates recognition data for all settings simultaneously, eliminating the need for repeated individual voice inputs.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary analysis of the voice input to identify all intended setting changes before execution. The voice recognition unit analyzes the complete voice command, determines all setting items to be changed, and prepares the recognition data in advance, allowing batch processing of multiple settings in one operation.
2Productivity
If multiple setting values are changed by one voice input, then operation efficiency is improved, but combination inhibition causes some changes to be blocked
Solution Approach 1:
The setting change determination unit performs preliminary determination of the setting change order before execution. It analyzes the voice recognition data, identifies all intended setting changes, determines the priority order of these settings, and checks for combination inhibition in advance. This allows the system to plan the execution sequence to avoid blocking any intended changes.
Solution Approach 2:
The system dynamically adjusts the setting change execution order based on combination inhibition relationships. Instead of using a fixed predetermined order, the system determines the optimal execution sequence by analyzing the interactions between setting items, ensuring that settings are changed in an order that prevents combination inhibition from blocking any intended changes.
3Device complexity
If setting changes are executed in predetermined order, then the control logic is simple, but combination inhibition blocks desired setting changes
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary determination of the setting change order by analyzing the voice recognition data and identifying combination inhibition relationships before execution. This preliminary analysis allows the system to determine an optimized execution order that prevents combination inhibition, improving the success rate of setting changes without significantly increasing control logic complexity.
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AI summary
An object of the present invention is to suppress occurrence of a combination inhibition error when an instruction of changing setting values of a plurality of setting items is given by a voice operation. An image processing device according to one aspect of the present invention has: an instruction receiving unit receiving a change instruction by a voice operation, for set setting values of a plurality of setting items; a setting order control unit, in the case where combination inhibition occurs by changing the set setting values of the plurality of setting items in a setting order based on the change instruction, changing the setting order of changing the set setting values to a setting order in which the combination inhibition does not occur; and a setting changing unit changing the set setting values of the plurality of setting items in the changed setting order.