Workflow Setting Control for User-Configurable Image Processing
Find Innovative SolutionsGenerate Solutions
Solution Overview
Problem
Existing image processing systems lack the ability for users to set customizable values for workflow settings, limiting flexibility and user control over image processing operations.
Innovation Solution
An image processing system that allows users to designate system-settable values as user-settable values through a user interface, enabling user control over workflow settings, and a workflow utilization device that displays these user-settable values.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If the system provides fixed system-settable values for workflow settings, then the system maintains control and reliability, but user flexibility and adaptability are limited
Solution Approach 1:
The system dynamically transitions from static system-settable values to dynamic user-settable values. The management device designates specific system-settable values as user-settable values, allowing users to modify workflow settings while maintaining system control over designated parameters. This dynamic allocation resolves the contradiction by enabling user flexibility in designated areas while preserving system control elsewhere.
Solution Approach 2:
Different parts of the system have different levels of user controllability. The system identifies specific workflow settings (local areas) that can be user-settable while other settings remain system-controlled. This local differentiation allows user flexibility in specific domains without compromising overall system reliability and control.
2Ease of operation
If the system allows users to set any workflow parameters, then user control and adaptability improve, but system reliability and control are reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The system dynamically assigns user-settable status to specific system-settable values based on management device designation. Users can control designated workflow parameters while the system maintains control over other critical settings, ensuring reliability is preserved in system-controlled areas while ease of operation improves in user-controlled areas.
Solution Approach 2:
The system applies different control qualities to different workflow settings. Certain parameters are designated as user-settable with appropriate control characteristics, while other parameters maintain system-controlled reliability characteristics. This local differentiation allows users to control specific aspects without compromising overall system reliability.
3Adaptability or versatility
If the system provides comprehensive workflow customization options, then adaptability improves, but the number of system-settable values to manage increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system dynamically manages the settable values by designating which system-settable values become user-settable values. This dynamic designation allows comprehensive customization options to be available while the system maintains an organized, manageable structure for tracking and controlling which values are user-modifiable versus system-controlled.
Data Source
AI summary
An image processing system includes a first communication device, a first operation device, and a first control device that acts as an image processing device. The first communication device communicates via a network with an image reading apparatus having a scanner. The image processing device executes a workflow, with respect to an image read by the scanner. Upon receipt through the first operation device, of a designation by a predetermined manager, of a system-settable value that a user of the image processing system is permitted to set, out of the system-settable values that can be set for setting items related to the workflow, the image processing device sets the designated system-settable value, as a user-settable value.