JP2012216198A - Command output device and execution environment providing system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a command output device and an execution environment providing system capable of making an information terminal operated by a second OS behave in the same way as a computer which executes software calling an API executed on a first OS.SOLUTION: A command output device 200 includes: a storage part 230 for beforehand storing a first interface executed by a procedure output device 100 on a first OS, and a second interface executed by an information terminal 300 on a second OS in order to make the information terminal 300 behave in the same way as the procedure output device 100 the behavior of which is generated by the execution of the first interface, with linking to each other; a receiving part 210 for receiving the first interface from the procedure output device 100; a control part 220 for referring to the storage part 230 and selecting the second interface corresponding to the first interface; and an output part 240 for making the information terminal 300 execute the second interface selected by the control part 220.

Description

  The present invention relates to an instruction output device for outputting computer software instructions and an execution environment providing system.

  Non-Patent Document 1 discloses a development environment in which computer software can be developed using a graphical user interface (GUI).

  With this development environment, a developer (designer) has an interface (Application Program Interface, API) for calling a function provided by a Windows (registered trademark) operating system (Windows (registered trademark) Operating System (OS)). You can develop software to call.

“Vvvv”, [online], [Search February 1, 2011], Internet <URL: http://vvvv.org>

  However, an API for calling a function provided by the Windows (registered trademark) operating system is different from an API for calling a function provided by the Linux (registered trademark, the same applies hereinafter) operating system. . For this reason, the development environment disclosed in Non-Patent Document 1 has a problem that an information terminal (electronic device) operated by a Linux operating system cannot be operated.

  The present invention has been made in view of the above points, and an information terminal operating by the second operating system performs the same operation as that of a computer executing software that calls an API executed on the first operating system. It is an object of the present invention to provide an instruction output device and an execution environment providing system that can be configured as described above.

  The present invention has been made to solve the above-described problem, and the first interface executed by the first device on the first operating system of the first device, and the first interface being executed. A second interface executed by the second device on the second operating system of the second device in order to cause the second device to perform the same operation as the operation of the first device. And a storage unit that stores in advance, a reception unit that receives the first interface from the first device, and a control unit that refers to the storage unit and selects the second interface associated with the first interface And an output unit that causes the second device to execute the second interface selected by the control unit. A.

  In addition, the present invention executes a first device that transmits a first interface that is executed on a first operating system of the own device, and a second interface that is executed on a second operating system of the own device. A first device executed by the first device on a first operating system of the first device, and an operation of the first device due to the execution of the first interface A storage unit that associates and stores the second interface executed by the second device on the second operating system of the second device in order to cause the second device to perform the same operation; A receiving unit that receives the first interface from the first device, and the storage unit, with reference to the first interface. A command output device comprising: a control unit that selects the associated second interface; and an output unit that causes the second device to execute the second interface selected by the control unit. This is an execution environment providing system.

  According to the present invention, the instruction output device can cause the information terminal operating by the second operating system to perform the same operation as that of the computer executing the software that calls the API executed on the first operating system. .

It is a block diagram showing the structure of the execution environment provision system in one Embodiment of this invention. It is a figure showing the text file of the XML format in which the example of the procedure information in one Embodiment of this invention was described. It is the table data which matches a 1st interface and a 2nd interface in one Embodiment of this invention.

  An embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. The procedure output device converts a procedure for calling an API in a Windows (registered trademark; the same applies hereinafter) operating system (hereinafter referred to as “Windows OS”) into an XML (Extensible Markup Language) format, and the converted result is a text file. To output. This API is, for example, an API such as DirectX (registered trademark, the same applies below), Direct3D (registered trademark, the same applies below).

  The command output device receives the above text file, and converts the API such as DirectX and Direct3D described in the received text file into an API executed on the Linux operating system (hereinafter referred to as “Linux OS”). Convert and output the converted API. This API is, for example, an API such as OpenGL (registered trademark, the same applies hereinafter) (Open Graphics Library), OpenAL (Open Audio Library), and the like.

  The information terminal (electronic device) executes the API converted by the command output device on the Linux OS. The information terminal can display an image or vibrate the housing of the information terminal, for example, according to the API converted by the command output device.

First, the configuration of the execution environment providing system will be described.
FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the execution environment providing system. The procedure output device 100 includes a control unit 110, a transmission unit 120, a display unit 130, a display unit 140, a storage unit 150, and an operation unit (not shown). The procedure output device 100 is connected to the vibration unit 160.

The procedure output device 100 includes, for example, the development environment (vvvv) disclosed in Non-Patent Document 1 described above.
The display unit 130 displays a graphical user interface (GUI) based on control by the control unit 110. For example, the display unit 130 displays a tree-structured GUI in which quadrangular shapes representing nodes (functions) are connected by lines. By operating this GUI, the developer (designer) can graphically design the operation of the information terminal 300 (for example, the display pattern of the image displayed on the information terminal, the vibration pattern of the casing of the information terminal, etc.). it can.
The operation unit (not shown) receives a GUI operation input and outputs a signal corresponding to the received GUI operation to the control unit 110.

  The storage unit 150 stores in advance a signal corresponding to the GUI operation and a DirectX and Direct3D API (hereinafter referred to as “first interface”) in association with each other. In addition, the storage unit 150 stores the image display pattern on the display unit 140 in association with the first interface in advance. In addition, the storage unit 150 stores the vibration pattern of the vibration unit 160 and the first interface in advance in association with each other. The storage unit 150 can additionally store the vibration pattern of the vibration unit 160.

Examples of the vibration pattern stored in the storage unit 150 include the following vibration patterns.
1. Vibration pattern related to a person (1-1) Vibration pattern generated in a person when walking or running (1-2) Vibration pattern of a human voice Vibration patterns related to vehicles (2-1) Vibration generated in the vehicle body (for example, the body of a light car, sports car, bus, conventional train, Shinkansen or steam locomotive) at constant speed, acceleration or deceleration Pattern (2-2) Vibration pattern generated in the aircraft (for example, helicopter, airplane or airship aircraft) at constant speed, acceleration or deceleration. Vibration patterns related to animals (3-1) Vibration patterns generated in animals (for example, large dogs, small dogs, cats, various birds, various insects) during walking or running (3-2) Animal calls 3. Vibration pattern Vibration pattern related to object surface properties (4-1) Vibration pattern according to surface roughness (for example, smooth surface, rough surface) of object surface

  These vibration patterns may be obtained by actual measurement in advance or may be artificially created in advance. For example, a recording device (not shown) records an animal call in advance. The storage unit 150 stores in advance a vibration pattern of animal calls recorded in advance by the recording device. Thereby, the developer (designer) can feel the vibration related to the animal from the sense of touch by the vibration of the vibration unit 160.

  Further, for example, a tactile recording / reproducing system (not shown) may actually measure in advance a vibration pattern related to the property of the surface of the object (observed object). The tactile recording / reproducing system includes a vibration detection unit (not shown) that detects vibration and a recording device (not shown) that records a vibration pattern.

  Here, the vibration detection unit detects a vibration pattern of a probe tracing the surface of an object (observed object). The recording device records the detected vibration pattern. The storage unit 150 stores in advance the vibration pattern recorded by the recording device. As a result, the developer (designer) can feel the vibration related to the property of the object surface from the sense of touch by the vibration of the vibration unit 160.

  A signal corresponding to a GUI operation is input to the control unit 110 from an operation unit (not shown). The control unit 110 is a central processing unit and executes a first interface on the Windows OS. For example, the control unit 110 refers to the storage unit 150 using the first interface corresponding to the signal corresponding to the GUI operation as a search key, and outputs information representing an image display pattern determined by the first interface to the display unit 140. .

Further, for example, the control unit 110 refers to the storage unit 150 using the first interface corresponding to the signal corresponding to the GUI operation as a search key, and transmits information representing the vibration pattern to the vibration unit 160 according to the first interface. Output.
In addition, for example, the control unit 110 refers to the storage unit 150 using a signal corresponding to the GUI operation as a search key, and outputs information representing the first interface corresponding to the signal corresponding to the GUI operation to the transmission unit 120. .

  The display unit 140 displays an image based on information representing the image display pattern input from the control unit 110. For example, the display unit 140 displays the letter “A” surrounded by a circle at the center of the screen. In addition, the display unit 140 displays the character “B” on the upper left of the screen. The display unit 140 displays the character “D” on the upper right of the screen. Further, the display unit 140 displays the character “C” at the lower right of the screen.

The vibration unit 160 vibrates the casing of the vibration unit 160 based on information representing the vibration pattern input from the control unit 110.
The transmission unit 120 transmits a text file in which procedure information including information representing the first interface and character information input from the control unit 110 is described to the command output device 200. This text file is, for example, an XML format text file. FIG. 2 shows an XML format text file in which an example of procedure information is described. In this text file, in FIG. 2, information representing the first interface for displaying the character information “A”, “B”, “C”, and “D” is represented by tags. Furthermore, in this text file, in FIG. 2, information representing the first interface for vibrating the vibration unit is represented by tags.

Returning to FIG. 1, the description of the configuration of the execution environment providing system will be continued.
The command output device 200 includes a receiving unit 210, a control unit 220, a storage unit 230, and an output unit 240. The receiving unit 210 receives procedure information including information representing the first interface and character information, and outputs the procedure information to the control unit 220.

  The storage unit 230 stores table data that associates OpenGL and OpenAL APIs (hereinafter referred to as “second interface”) with the first interface. Here, the storage unit 230 includes a first interface executed by the control unit 110 on the Windows OS included in the procedure output device 100, and a second interface executed by the information terminal 300 on the Linux OS included in the information terminal 300. Are stored in advance in association with each other. The second interface is a command for causing the information terminal 300 to execute the same operation as that of the procedure output device 100 when the first interface is executed by the procedure output device 100.

  FIG. 3 shows table data that associates the first interface with the second interface. It is assumed that “API1” that is one of the second interfaces corresponds to “display” that is one of the first interfaces. By executing “API1” of the second interface on the Linux OS, images such as characters are displayed on the screen of the information terminal 300 in a predetermined display pattern.

  In addition, “API2 and API3” that are two of the second interfaces correspond to “vibration” that is one of the first interfaces. By executing “API2 and API3” of the second interface on the Linux OS, vibration is generated in the information terminal 300.

Returning to FIG. 1, the description of the configuration of the execution environment providing system will be continued.
Procedure information including information representing the first interface and character information is input from the receiving unit 210 to the control unit 220. The control unit 220 is a central processing unit, and outputs character information “A”, “B”, “C”, and “D” (see FIG. 2) included in the input procedure information to the output unit 240. In addition, the control unit 220 refers to the storage unit 230 and outputs information representing the second interface associated with information representing the first interface included in the input procedure information to the output unit 240.

  The output unit 240 outputs information representing the second interface input from the control unit 220 to the information terminal 300. Further, the output unit 240 outputs the character information “A”, “B”, “C”, and “D” input from the control unit 220 to the information terminal 300 as a command.

  The information terminal 300 includes a control unit 320, a storage unit 330, a display unit 340, and a vibration unit 350. The storage unit 330 stores programs in units of addresses. In addition, the storage unit 330 stores the vibration pattern of the vibration unit 350 in advance in association with the second interface. Here, the storage unit 330 may store the same vibration pattern as the vibration pattern stored in the storage unit 150 of the procedure output device 100. The storage unit 330 can additionally store the vibration pattern of the vibration unit 350.

  The control unit 320 acquires information representing the second interface and character information from the output unit 240 of the command output device 200. The controller 320 is a central processing unit and executes the second interface on the Linux OS. That is, the control unit 320 refers to the storage unit 330 according to the input information representing the second interface, acquires (calls) the second interface (program) from the storage unit 330, and acquires the acquired second interface. Execute. For example, the control unit 320 outputs information representing an image display pattern corresponding to the information representing the input second interface to the display unit 340. Further, the control unit 320 outputs information representing a vibration pattern corresponding to the input information representing the second interface to the vibration unit 350.

  The display unit 340 displays an image based on information representing an image display pattern corresponding to the second interface. For example, the display unit 140 displays the letter “A” surrounded by a circle at the center of the screen. In addition, the display unit 140 displays the character “B” on the upper left of the screen. The display unit 140 displays the character “D” on the upper right of the screen. Further, the display unit 140 displays the character “C” at the lower right of the screen. As a result, the same image as the image displayed on the display unit 140 of the procedure output device 100 is displayed on the display unit 340.

  The vibration part 350 vibrates the housing | casing of the information terminal 300 based on the information showing the vibration pattern according to a 2nd interface. Thereby, the vibration part 350 can vibrate with the same vibration pattern as the vibration pattern of the vibration part 160 connected to the procedure output device 100. For example, the user can feel vibration related to a person, vibration related to a vehicle, vibration related to an animal, and vibration related to the property of an object surface from the sense of touch by the vibration of the vibration unit 350.

As described above, the instruction output device 200 includes the procedure output device 100 based on the execution of the API such as DirectX executed by the procedure output device 100 on the Windows OS included in the procedure output device 100 and the API such as DirectX. In order to cause the information terminal 300 to perform the same operation as the operation, a storage unit 230 that stores in advance an API such as OpenGL executed by the information terminal 300 on the Linux OS included in the information terminal 300, DirectX, etc. The receiving unit 210 that receives the API from the procedure output device 100, the storage unit 230, the control unit 220 that selects an API such as OpenGL associated with the API such as DirectX, and the OpenGL selected by the control unit 220 An output unit 240 that outputs an API such as That.
With this configuration, the storage unit includes an API such as DirectX for executing the function (node) described in the procedure information output by the procedure output device, an API such as OpenGL for executing the function of the information terminal, Are stored in association with each other, so that the instruction output device performs the same operation as that of the computer that executes the software that calls the API executed on the first operating system, by the second operating system. It can be made to be a terminal. Further, a developer (designer) can develop computer software for causing the information terminal to function by operating a familiar development environment (for example, the development environment disclosed in Non-Patent Document 1).

In addition, the execution environment providing system executes a procedure output device 100 that transmits an API such as DirectX that is executed on the Windows OS that the device itself has, and an API such as OpenGL that is executed on the Linux OS that the device itself has. An operation similar to the operation of the procedure output apparatus 100 by executing the API such as DirectX executed by the procedure output apparatus 100 on the Windows OS of the information terminal 300 and the procedure output apparatus 100 and the API such as DirectX. In order for the information terminal 300 to be executed, an API such as OpenGL executed by the information terminal 300 on the Linux OS included in the information terminal 300 is associated with the storage unit 230 and stored in advance, and an API such as DirectX is stored in the procedure output device. 100 receiving unit 210 and storage unit 230 The command output includes: a control unit 220 that selects an API such as OpenGL associated with an API such as DirectX; and an output unit 240 that causes the information terminal 300 to execute an API such as OpenGL selected by the control unit 220. An apparatus.
With this configuration, the instruction output device causes the information terminal to execute the selected API such as OpenGL, so that the execution environment providing system can execute the software that calls the API executed on the first operating system. The information terminal operated by the second operating system can be operated in the same manner as in FIG.

The execution environment providing system includes a vibration unit 160 connected to the procedure output device 100 and a vibration unit 350 connected to the information terminal 300, and the procedure output device 100 executes an API such as DirectX. Thus, the vibration unit 160 is vibrated, and the information terminal 300 vibrates the vibration unit 350 by executing an API such as OpenGL.
With this configuration, the execution environment providing system includes the vibration unit connected to the procedure output device and the vibration unit connected to the information terminal. Thus, the API executed on the first operating system can be changed. A vibration operation similar to that of a computer that executes software to be called can be caused to be performed by an information terminal operated by the second operating system. Further, a developer (designer) can develop computer software for vibrating an information terminal by operating a familiar development environment (for example, the development environment disclosed in Non-Patent Document 1).

Further, the procedure output device 100 vibrates the vibration unit 160 based on a vibration pattern related to a person, a vibration pattern related to a vehicle, a vibration pattern related to an animal, and a vibration pattern related to the property of an object surface. .
As a result, the developer (designer) can feel vibrations related to humans, vibrations related to vehicles, vibrations related to animals, and vibrations related to the properties of the object surface from the sense of touch by the vibration of the vibration unit 160. Can do.

Further, the information terminal 300 vibrates the vibration unit 350 based on a vibration pattern related to a person, a vibration pattern related to a vehicle, a vibration pattern related to an animal, and a vibration pattern related to the properties of an object surface.
Accordingly, the user can feel vibrations related to humans, vibrations related to vehicles, vibrations related to animals, and vibrations related to the properties of the object surface from the sense of touch by the vibration of the vibration unit 350.

  The embodiment of the present invention has been described in detail with reference to the drawings. However, the specific configuration is not limited to this embodiment, and includes designs and the like that do not depart from the gist of the present invention.

  A program for realizing the instruction output device and execution environment providing system described above is recorded on a computer-readable recording medium, and the program recorded on the recording medium is read into the computer system and executed. Thus, the execution process may be performed. Here, the “computer system” may include an OS and hardware such as peripheral devices.

  Further, the “computer system” includes a homepage providing environment (or display environment) if a WWW system is used. The “computer-readable recording medium” means a flexible disk, a magneto-optical disk, a ROM, a writable nonvolatile memory such as a flash memory, a portable medium such as a CD-ROM, a hard disk built in a computer system, etc. This is a storage device.

Further, the “computer-readable recording medium” refers to a volatile memory (for example, DRAM (Dynamic) in a computer system serving as a server or a client when a program is transmitted via a network such as the Internet or a communication line such as a telephone line. Random Access Memory)) that holds a program for a certain period of time is also included.
The program may be transmitted from a computer system storing the program in a storage device or the like to another computer system via a transmission medium or by a transmission wave in the transmission medium. Here, the “transmission medium” for transmitting the program refers to a medium having a function of transmitting information, such as a network (communication network) such as the Internet or a communication line (communication line) such as a telephone line.
The program may be for realizing a part of the functions described above.
Furthermore, what can implement | achieve the function mentioned above in combination with the program already recorded on the computer system, and what is called a difference file (difference program) may be sufficient.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 100 ... Procedure output apparatus, 110 ... Control part, 120 ... Transmission part, 130 ... Display part, 140 ... Display part, 150 ... Memory | storage part, 160 ... Vibrating part, 200 ... Command output device, 210 ... Reception part, 220 ... Control 230, storage unit, 240 ... output unit, 300 ... information terminal, 320 ... control unit, 330 ... storage unit, 340 ... display unit, 340 ... vibration unit, 350 ... vibration unit

Claims (5)

A first interface executed by the first device on a first operating system of the first device, and an operation similar to the operation of the first device due to the execution of the first interface to the second device In order to do so, a storage unit that stores in advance a second interface that is executed by the second device on a second operating system of the second device;
A receiver for receiving the first interface from the first device;
A control unit that refers to the storage unit and selects the second interface associated with the first interface;
An output unit that causes the second device to execute the second interface selected by the control unit;
An instruction output device comprising: A first device for transmitting a first interface executed on a first operating system of the device;
A second device that executes a second interface executed on a second operating system of the device;
The first interface executed by the first device on the first operating system of the first device, and the same operation as the operation of the first device due to the execution of the first interface. A second storage unit configured to store the first interface in association with the second interface executed by the second device on a second operating system of the second device; A receiving unit that receives from the first device; a control unit that refers to the storage unit and selects the second interface associated with the first interface; and the second interface selected by the control unit An instruction output device having an output unit to be executed by the second device;
An execution environment providing system comprising: A first vibrator connected to the first device;
A second vibrator connected to the second device;
With
The first device vibrates the first vibration unit by executing the first interface,
The execution environment providing system according to claim 2, wherein the second device vibrates the second vibration unit by executing the second interface.   The first device vibrates the first vibration unit based on a vibration pattern related to a person, a vibration pattern related to a vehicle, a vibration pattern related to an animal, and a vibration pattern related to a property of an object surface. The execution environment providing system according to claim 3.   The second device vibrates the second vibration unit based on a vibration pattern related to a person, a vibration pattern related to a vehicle, a vibration pattern related to an animal, and a vibration pattern related to a property of an object surface. The execution environment providing system according to claim 3.

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