Workflow Creation Device Selection Filtering
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users face inconvenience when creating a workflow for image data processing due to the inability to make desired settings, as selecting an inappropriate device forces them to restart the workflow selection process, wasting time and effort.
Innovation Solution
An application program that searches for connected devices, receives and extracts devices capable of performing specific image data processing settings, and allows users to select the appropriate device for workflow creation, ensuring only compatible devices are displayed for the desired settings.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If a device is preliminarily selected before setting processing parameters, then device selection is simplified, but users cannot make desired settings and must restart the workflow creation process
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary extraction of devices capable of performing the workflow processing with the received settings before the user makes device selection. This preliminary action filters the device list to show only compatible devices, preventing the need to restart the workflow creation process while maintaining ease of operation.
Solution Approach 2:
The system provides feedback to the user by displaying only those devices from the searched devices that are capable of performing the workflow processing with the received settings. This feedback mechanism guides the user to make appropriate device selections without wasting time on incompatible devices.
2Adaptability or versatility
If all connected devices are displayed for selection, then user choice is maximized, but incompatible devices cause workflow creation failures
Solution Approach 1:
The system extracts from the list of searched devices only those devices that are capable of performing the workflow processing with the received settings. This extraction process removes incompatible devices from the selection list, ensuring reliability while maintaining adaptability within the constraints of the settings.
Solution Approach 2:
The system applies different quality criteria to different devices in the selection list based on their capability to perform the specific workflow processing. Each device is evaluated against the received settings, and only devices meeting the local quality requirements are displayed, ensuring workflow creation success.
Data Source
AI summary
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium stores an application program for creating a workflow including processing for at least one image data. The application program includes instructions readable by a computer of an information processing apparatus. The instructions, when executed by the computer, cause the information processing apparatus to: perform a search for devices connected to the information processing apparatus; receive a setting of processing of a workflow through an operation interface of the information processing apparatus; perform extraction of, from among the devices found by the search, devices capable of performing the processing of the workflow with the received setting; receive, through the operation interface, selection of a device to perform the processing of the workflow from among the devices extracted by the extraction; and create the workflow including the selected device and the received setting of the processing of the workflow.