Unified Web Panel Interface for Multi-Device Electronic Apparatus Configuration
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing methods for setting multiple electronic apparatuses, such as MFPs, require users to navigate different user interfaces for each device, leading to inconvenience due to the need to understand and operate multiple dedicated interfaces.
Innovation Solution
An electronic apparatus setting device with a display, communicator, and hardware processor that displays Web panels for each apparatus, allowing users to operate one familiar interface while automatically setting other apparatuses with the same settings, using a controller to receive operations and prepare setting information for connected devices.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If dedicated user interfaces are provided for each electronic apparatus, then each apparatus can be set independently, but users must learn and operate multiple different interfaces increasing complexity
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies universality by providing a single unified user interface that can operate multiple different electronic apparatuses. The interface displays Web panels from different apparatuses (first MFP, second MFP, third MFP) and allows users to perform settings on any apparatus through the same interface, eliminating the need to learn multiple dedicated interfaces while maintaining independent setting capability for each device.
2Productivity
If settings are exported and imported via USB or network, then multiple apparatuses can be set efficiently, but individual settings still must be carried out for each apparatus
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies self-service by enabling the system to automatically apply settings across multiple apparatuses without requiring manual intervention for each device. When a user performs a setting operation on one apparatus (e.g., first MFP), the interface automatically displays and applies the same setting to other apparatuses (second MFP, third MFP), eliminating the need for users to manually repeat settings for each device while maintaining the ability to override individual settings if needed.
3Ease of operation
If a unified interface is used for all apparatuses, then ease of operation improves, but the interface must handle multiple different apparatus types increasing complexity
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies segmentation by displaying separate Web panels for each electronic apparatus within the unified interface. Each apparatus has its own dedicated Web panel (first Web panel for first MFP, second Web panel for second MFP, third Web panel for third MFP), allowing the interface to present customized settings for each device while maintaining a single unified entry point. This segmentation enables the interface to handle multiple apparatus types by displaying them as separate, manageable sections rather than requiring a completely different interface for each device.
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AI summary
Disclosed is an electronic apparatus setting device, including: a display; a communicator that communicates with a first electronic apparatus and a second electronic apparatus; a controller that receives an operation for the Web panel of the first electronic apparatus, and that receives an instruction for selecting the second electronic apparatus as an apparatus to be set; and a hardware processor that: sets the first electronic apparatus in accordance with a content of the operation; and prepares setting information for carrying out a setting of the second electronic apparatus with a content which is same as the content of the operation, in accordance with the content of the operation when the controller receives the instruction for selecting the second electronic apparatus as the apparatus to be set, wherein the hardware processor carries out the setting of the second electronic apparatus in accordance with the prepared setting information.