JP2000250679A - Information display method and recording medium recording information display program - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To effectively grasp the setting situations of lower rank hierarchies by adding an individual symbol to the item that is selected in every hierarchy and displaying the symbol of the item selected in an optional hierarchy and also the symbol of a selected item that is set in a lower hierarchy. SOLUTION: The selection items 8-13 which can be selected by a user are shown as the information that is included in a title, and the user selects the items 8-13 via an input device. These items 8-13 include no lower hierarchy data, and the selection items 12 and 13 include the lower hierarchy data. The items 8-13 show the alternative setting examples which are executed by the icons 18 and 19. In regard to the items 12 and 13, the icons 14 and 15 showing the relative selection items are displayed at the left of the names of items 12 and 13 together with the icons 16 and 17 displayed at the right of the item names to show the setting situations of the lower hierarchies.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an information display method, and particularly to an information display method for efficiently displaying information of each layer when information to be displayed is assembled in a hierarchical structure. Available.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art An apparatus and a method for efficiently displaying information having a hierarchical structure are disclosed in JP-A-9-214905. Hereinafter, the prior art disclosed in the publication will be outlined. First, as a structure in which information is hierarchically assembled, there is a structure as shown in FIG. In FIG. 5, for the plurality of selection items of the first hierarchy, there are a plurality of selection items as the second hierarchy, which are connected to the third hierarchy and the fourth hierarchy. FIG. 6 shows a mode when information having such a hierarchical structure is displayed on a screen (hereinafter, referred to as a menu), and the menu includes two areas X1 and X2. Then, the information of the Nth hierarchy is displayed in the area X1, and the information of the (N + 1) th hierarchy is displayed in the area X2. Here, the area X is designated by the cursor 100K1.
When an arbitrary selection item of the Nth hierarchy displayed in 1 is selected, information of the (N + 1) th hierarchy below the selected selection item of the Nth hierarchy is displayed in the area X2. As described above, by displaying information of a plurality of layers on the screen at the same time, it is possible to easily move between the layers.

[0003]

However, in the above-mentioned prior art, since the lower layer information of only the selection item selected by the cursor is displayed, the lower layer information of other selection items cannot be confirmed. In other words, a plurality of N-th
There is a problem that the information of the (N + 1) th layer, which is the lower layer of each of the selection items of the layer, cannot be checked at the same time. In addition, there is a problem that, although the next lower hierarchy can be displayed, the lower hierarchy cannot be displayed at the same time. The present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and provides an information display method that solves at least one of the above problems.

[0004]

Means for Solving the Problems The present invention has the following method to solve the above-mentioned problems. That is, an information display method in which selection items are hierarchically assembled and displayed,
An individual symbol is attached to each selection item selected in each hierarchy, and at least a selection item symbol in an arbitrary hierarchy displays a symbol of the selection item and a symbol of a selection item set in a lower hierarchy. I did it. Here, it is preferable that the symbol is obtained by symbolizing the content of the selection item. Further, when the selection content of an arbitrary selection item is related to the setting of another selection item, the selection content of the arbitrary selection item is changed in conjunction with the setting of the other selection item.

[0005]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the drawings. First, a configuration example of the present invention is shown in FIG. In FIG. 1, reference numeral 5 denotes an input device, and a user designates a predetermined operation through the input device 5. Here, the input device 5 can be realized by a keyboard, a mouse, a remote controller, a voice input device, and the like. The operation information input by the input device 5 is input to the control unit 3 of the information management device 1.
The control unit 3 includes a menu display function unit 2 described below.
And the database unit 4. Therefore, the menu display function unit 2 constructs a menu and acquires necessary data from the database unit 4 in accordance with the instruction from the control unit 3 described above. The data is recorded in the database unit 4 in a hierarchical structure. Then, the menu is presented to the user through the output device 6. Here, the output device 6 can be realized by a display, a projector, a printer, or the like. Next, an example of presenting the menu according to the present invention will be described. Here, the description will be given taking a case where a menu is displayed on the display as an example. FIG.
Is an example of a menu screen displayed on the display as the output device 6. This may be displayed on the entire display range of the display or on a part thereof, and the size thereof can be arbitrarily set by the user. In FIG. 2, reference numeral 7 denotes the title of the menu screen. 8 to 13 are information included in the title and are shown as selection items that can be selected by the user. The user selects the above selection items 8 to 13 through the input device 5 in FIG.
Here, a case where a cursor is used as the selection means is shown, and the cursor is on the selection item 9. Further, among the selection items, 8 to 11 are selection items having no lower hierarchy data, and selection items 12 and 13 are selection items having lower hierarchy data. And selection item 8 ~
11 shows an example in the case of performing the alternative setting,
18 and 19 are icons for setting the alternative.
On the other hand, for the selection items 12 and 13, icons 14 and 15 representing the selection item are displayed to the left of the selection item name of the selection item, and icons 16 indicating the setting status of the lower hierarchy are displayed to the right of the selection item name. 17 is shown. Here, in this example, only the icon of the next lower layer is displayed, but the icon of the lower layer may be displayed at the same time as necessary. Furthermore, according to the setting status of other selection items,
When the content to be set of the selection item changes, the content to be set is changed as necessary. For example,
Selection item 8 “Automatic synchronization adjustment screen” is an item for setting whether to mask the screen during automatic adjustment.
The selection item 12 “screen at no signal” is an item for setting what screen is displayed when there is no signal. Here, when masking the screen during automatic adjustment, it is displayed at the time of no signal. As a result, the icon 18 on the left side of the setting item 8 changes in conjunction with the icon 16 indicating the information set in the setting item 12. As described above, the icons are associated with the respective selection items, and the information of the lower hierarchy is also displayed in the form of icons in the respective upper hierarchy. Next, a case where information of a lower hierarchy is changed will be described. FIG. 3 shows a state where the cursor for selecting the selection item is moved to the selection item 12 in FIG. In this case, selection item 12
A submenu screen 20 showing the contents of the lower hierarchy is newly displayed on the display, and when the user changes the selection items of the lower hierarchy as necessary, the lower hierarchy displayed in the upper hierarchy is displayed. Is changed to an icon corresponding to the selected item of the selected lower hierarchy. This is shown in FIG. For example, in FIG. 3, when the selection item 12 is selected, the icon 16 indicating the lower hierarchy information displays the icon 21 associated with the “initial setting screen” 26 of the lower selection item. It can be seen that the “initial setting screen” is set. Here, as shown in FIG. 4, when the lower selection item is changed to the “user setting screen” 27, the icon 16 is changed to the same icon as the icon 22 associated with the “user setting screen” 27 Is done. Further, as described above, the icon 18 which is one of the icons of the selection items of the “automatic synchronization adjustment screen” 8 is also changed in conjunction with the change of the icon 16.

[0006]

According to the present invention, the user can efficiently grasp the setting status of the lower hierarchy by presenting the selection item of the higher hierarchy with the information indicating the selection status of the lower hierarchy. be able to. In addition, by always presenting the information indicating the selection status of the lower hierarchy to the selection items of the upper hierarchy and presenting the information, the user can use the cursor to select the selection status of the lower hierarchy information. There is no need to select a selection item in a higher hierarchy, and the status of a lower hierarchy of a plurality of selection items can be checked at the same time. By presenting the information added as the information indicating the selection status of the lower hierarchy in the form of an icon, the content can be intuitively understood by the user, and
The area for display can be small. Therefore, the status of not only the next lower layer but also a plurality of layers can be simultaneously presented as icons. Furthermore, by associating the icon with each selection item, even when the content of the selection item is changed in conjunction with the content of another selection item, the icon can be easily changed simply by changing the icon. Can respond.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a first information display example of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a second information display example of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a third information display example of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a diagram for explaining a hierarchical structure of data.

FIG. 6 is a conventional information display example.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 information management device, 2 menu display function unit, 3 control unit, 4
Database part, 5 input devices, 6 output devices, 7 menu titles, 8-13 selection items, 14-19 icons, 2
0 submenu, 21-24 icons, 26-29 selection items, 100K1 cursor

Claims (4)

[Claims] An information display method for hierarchically assembling and displaying selection items, wherein each of the selection items selected in each hierarchy is provided with an individual symbol, and at least one of the selection items in an arbitrary hierarchy is provided. An information display method, wherein a symbol of the selected item and a symbol of the selected item set in a lower hierarchy are displayed. 2. The information display method according to claim 1, wherein the symbol is obtained by symbolizing the content of the selection item. 3. When the selected content of an arbitrary selection item is related to the setting of another selection item, the selection content of the arbitrary selection item is changed in conjunction with the setting of the other selection item. The information display method according to claim 1 or 2, wherein: 4. A computer for creating a table for displaying information in a part or the whole of a display area of a display device, wherein the table displays a plurality of selection items selected by an input device. A storage medium storing a program for displaying, as the selection item, a symbol that symbolizes the content of the selection item and a symbol that symbolizes the content of the selection item set in a lower hierarchy.