JPH03252808A - Information input controller - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To facilitate the operating way and to simplify the constitution of an information input controller by erasing an window once displayed and then displaying it again with operation of only an information input means. CONSTITUTION:Various types of information are inputted with prescribed operations carried out on an input tablet 20, and an window is shown at a display part 7 in response to the prescribed operation of an information input part 11. Then the displayed window is erased when the part 11 touches a prescribed area of the tablet 20. The erased window is displayed again when the prescribed conditions are satisfied. Thus the displayed window is erased temporarily and then displayed again as necessary with prescribed operations of the part 11. In such a way, the operating ways including the temporary erasion of the displayed window, etc., can be facilitated. Furthermore the constitution is simplified for an information input controller since no exclusive button is required.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to an information input control device such as a palmtop computer suitable for displaying a window on a display section.

[Summary of the invention]

The present invention relates to an information input control device such as a palmtop computer that is suitable for displaying a window on a display unit, in which a window that has been displayed can be erased and displayed again simply by operating the information input unit. This structure facilitates this type of operation and simplifies the device.

[Conventional technology]

When an icon (picture that is used as a substitute for text) displayed on the display is selected, a window is displayed on the display that enlarges the contents of the icon (for example, a drawing plate, a type input plate). Devices that can be used include palmtop computers and devices that combine a mouse and keyboard.

Furthermore, since the window is generally displayed overlapping the displayed content, for example, characters input while creating a sentence may be hidden by the window (print input plate).

Therefore, if you want to see the hidden characters, you need to erase the window once.

Therefore, conventional methods for temporarily erasing a window include, for example, in devices that use a mouse, the window is erased and redisplayed by operating a dedicated button on the mouse or keyboard; A button display area for erasing is provided, and when the mouse cursor is moved to that area and the mouse is clicked, the window will be erased, and an icon corresponding to the erased window will be displayed on the display, while the mouse cursor will not appear on that icon. The method used is to redisplay the image by moving it and clicking the mouse.

[Problem to be solved by the invention]

However, the method of providing a dedicated button on a mouse, keyboard, or the like has the problem of complicating the device.

Furthermore, the method of moving the mouse cursor is cumbersome to operate.

The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned conventional problems.
The purpose is to provide an information input control device that has a simple configuration and that allows easy operations for erasing and redisplaying windows.

[Means to solve the problem]

In order to achieve the above object, the information input control device according to the present invention comprises: an information input section (11) into which various information is input by performing predetermined operations on the input tablet (20); (11) responds to a predetermined operation.
) on which the window (4) is displayed; and the information input section (11) on the input tablet) (20
window erasing means for erasing the displayed window (4) in response to contact with a predetermined area (-2) of the window (4); and when a predetermined condition is satisfied, the erased window (4) A window redisplay means for displaying the window again;

[Effect]

In the information input control device according to the present invention, in response to a predetermined operation of the information input unit, the displayed window is temporarily erased, and is displayed again when necessary.

〔Example〕

Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the information input control device according to the present invention will be described based on the drawings.

In FIG. 1, a palmtop computer (1) to which the present invention is applied has a main body casing (3) in which the main electrical components etc. are housed, and a main body casing (3) connected to the main body casing (3) via a hinge (9). It has a connected display part casing (5).

In this case, a flexible board, etc. is built into the hinge (9) (not shown), and power, various signals, etc. are transmitted from the main body casing (3) side to the display part casing (5) side. Transmitted via flexible circuit board.

The main body casing (3) is provided with a recess (3a), and the recess (3a) has an input pen (information input means) (11) and one end connected to the input pen (11). The code (13) is stored.

The other end of the cord (13) has a connecting terminal (13) connected to a terminal (15) provided on the side surface of the display section (15).
a) is provided, and the input pen (11) is electrically connected to the palmtop computer (1) via these connection terminals (13a) and terminals (15).

That is, the display part casing (5) is provided with a display part (7) that receives power from a liquid crystal or the like, and the front side of the display panel provided in this display part (7) receives power from a transparent touch sensor or the like. An input tablet (20) is provided.

When the input pen (11) is moved on the surface of the tablet (20) with the connection terminal (13a) connected to the terminal (15), the pen tip of the input pen (11> and the tablet) (20) changes, and the amount of change is detected and output from the connection terminal (13a).

In addition, the pen tip of the human pen (11) is
), the coordinates of the pen tip are detected, and a cross-shaped marker, for example, is displayed on the display (7) at the position where the pen tip faces the tablet (20). be done.

On the other hand, the main casing (3) has a power switch (10).
and a TC card socket (17) into which an IC card such as ROM or RAM is loaded, as well as an expansion socket (23) for connection with external equipment.
is provided.

In addition, a power source (4
0) is stored.

Furthermore, a microphone (
30) is provided, and this microphone (30)
Audio signals input from the main body casing (3) are recorded (solid-state recording) or played back by operating a group of switches (27) provided on the side surface of the main body casing (3).

That is, when the recording switch (17a) is turned on, recording starts, and when the playback switch (17b) is turned on, playback is started and sound is emitted from the speaker (25).

When the stop switch (17c) is turned on, recording or playback is stopped, and the volume adjustment switch (17d) allows adjustment of the volume during playback.

FIG. 2 shows a system block diagram showing the main electrical components (100) of the palmtop computer (1).
2) The overall operation is controlled by a control unit mainly consisting of a program ROM (104) and a working RAM (106).

That is, in the CPU (102), -c V -RAM (
116) Display data is written, and the display data is displayed on the display unit (7) by the display controller (114) controlled by the CPU (102).

In addition, the CPU (1,02) uses an input tablet (
20), the output signal of the input pen (11) is taken in through the tablet interface (11B), the output signal (audio signal) of the microphone (30) is taken in through the solid-state recording processing section (120), and the A/ The D-converted audio signal is stored in a backup RAM (108) provided with a power source (110).

In addition, power is also supplied from the power supply (110) to the timer ciio, and the timer (111) calculates the number of clocks obtained from the crystal oscillator (112), and records the date and time data at that point. is output.

In addition, the CPU (102) is connected to the dialer circuit (122).
When data, for example a telephone number, is supplied, a voice signal corresponding to a dual tone is transmitted to the telephone line.

Then, the audio signal stored in the backup RAM (108) is converted into an analog signal by the solid-state recording processing unit (120), or the dual tone generated by the dialer circuit (122) is sent to the mixer (124). ) is output (sound is emitted) from the speaker (25).

Furthermore, a power switch (10) or a switch group (2
Each output of 7) is taken into the CPU (102) via the power supply (40) and switch interface (i24), and the outputs of the IC card socket (17) and expansion socket (23) are , respectively an IC card interface (126) and an expansion interface (
125) to the CPU (102).

With the above configuration, for example, characters can be manually written on the display section (7
), when the power switch (10) is first turned on, various icon groups (50) etc. are displayed on the display section (7), as can be understood from FIG.

Therefore, when the input pen (11) is brought into contact with the display area (50a) of the icon "cuff", the display of the icon (50a) changes to a shaded state, and for example, the connection image (Φ) is displayed. .

Next, the display area of the character input ancon “Kudge” (50
When the input pen (11) is brought into contact with the input pen (11) and the human pen (11) is moved (dragged) onto the image (Φ) in this state, as can be understood from FIG.
A window (4) (type plate) in which the contents of b) are enlarged is displayed superimposed on the image (Φ), and the icon "Katsuji" is deleted.

In this state, the character input area (%1.
), for example, by handwriting kana characters with the input pen (11) and performing a predetermined operation with the input pen (11>), the kana characters are converted into kanji and written on the image (Φ).

Next, the processing procedure carried out by the CPU (102) when the window (4) is temporarily erased and then displayed again will be explained with reference to the flowcharts of FIGS. 5 to 7.

In FIG. 5, the input pen (11) is connected to the tablet (20).
) is abutted on (pen down) and (step (Sl)
YES), the coordinates of the pen down position are imported, and if the coordinates are within the erase (hide) area (step (S2), step (S3) YES), the coordinates of the current contact position are imported. and stored in the RAM (106), and on the condition that the input pen (11> is separated from the tablet (20) at the stored coordinate position (pen up) (step (S4), step (S6)
YES), the hide area (-) is made black, and a loop counter (not shown) is set to the value 100 (step (S?)).

(S8)).

In this case, in this embodiment, if the input pen (11) is moved down to the hide area (-2) only once, the window (hitter) remains until the operation shown in FIG. 6 (pen down to a specific area) is performed. ) will continue to be erased, but if the pen is down twice, it will be automatically redisplayed after 5 seconds (predetermined time), so if the pen is down for a certain period of time, that is, the loop counter changes from the value 100 to the value O. A determination is made as to whether it is once or twice within the time it takes for the event to occur.

Therefore, it is preferable to use a timer instead of the loop counter (for interrupt processing, etc.), and the set value of the loop counter can be selected as appropriate depending on the state of use.

When the loop counter is set in step (S8),
On the condition that the pen is not down (step (S)
ll) NO), the value 1 is sequentially subtracted from the loop counter (step (512)), and when the loop counter reaches the value O (step (310) YES), the pen down is 1.
Since the window (4) is erased only once (step (513)), the erasure continues until the process of FIG. 6 is performed.

Note that in this embodiment, when the pen is down only once, the icon (50b) corresponding to the erased window (4) is displayed.
) is displayed in the standby area (50c) (step (S14)), the user can display the erased window (
The contents of (b) can be easily confirmed.

On the other hand, if the pen down is performed before the loop counter reaches the value 0 (step (311) YES), the coordinates of the pen down position are taken in (step (315)).
, if the coordinates are in the hide area (Ka2) (step (S16)), the window (4) is erased and a time counter (not shown) is set to the value 5 [seconds] (step (S17), step (318) ).

Note that the time counter can be set to an appropriate value (time) depending on the state of use and the like.

Further, if the pen down is not in the hide area (old) in step (S3), normal processing is performed (step (S9)).

Next, a redisplay process (redisplay means) in which the erased window (4) is displayed again will be explained.

When the window (4) is erased in step (S13), the CPU (102) goes into a standby state to perform the processing shown in FIG. (S20), Steve (
321) YES, step (S22) YES), the erased window (b) is displayed again (step (S22) YES), the erased window (b) is displayed again (step (S22) YES),
23) ).

Note that when the pen is brought down to another standby area (step (322) No), a process is performed in which a window corresponding to the icon displayed in the pen-down area is displayed (step (S24)).

On the other hand, when 5 seconds have elapsed since the window (e) was erased in step (S17), the CPU (102) is interrupted and the process shown in FIG. 7 is performed.

First, in step (S30), the content of the command is determined from the set time of the timer counter.

That is, the RAM (104) is provided with a timer set list storage area, and this area includes:
The time to be set and the requirements corresponding to the time (for example, redisplaying a window, alarm clock) are stored as bare data in a so-called list format.

Therefore, if the set time is 5 [seconds], it is determined that the command is to erase the window (B) (step (S30) YES), and the erased window (4) will be displayed again. (Step (S31))
.

In addition, if the set time is not the value 5 [seconds] (
Step (S30) No), processing for the alarm clock, etc. is performed (Step (S32)) As explained above, in this embodiment, the hide area (
-2) When the pen is down once, the window (b) is erased, and when the pen is down in the standby area (50c), the window (4) is redisplayed.

Furthermore, if the pen down is performed twice in the hide area (-2>) within a predetermined time, the window (4) is automatically redisplayed after disappearing for 5 seconds.

In other words, simply by touching or separating the input pen (11) from the tablet (20), the window (
b) is erased or redisplayed, this type of operation is facilitated, and there is no need to provide a dedicated button as in the past, simplifying the configuration of the palmtop computer (1).

Note that the process of erasing or redisplaying the window (e) includes, for example, the specific area (60) in FIGS. 3 and 4.
It is also preferable that when the pen is brought down once, all the displayed windows (there may be a plurality of windows) are erased, and when the pen is brought down once again, they are redisplayed.

In addition, on the type plate (window (4)),
A process is also preferred in which the type plate is erased for 3 seconds and then redisplayed automatically each time the pen is down in a particular button area (eg write button).

Furthermore, instead of erasing the entire window (e), it is also possible to perform processing such as changing its display area to a smaller or larger size, for example.

The present invention is also applicable to other information input control devices in which a mouse cursor is moved on a display unit such as a CRT.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As can be understood from the above explanation, the information input control device according to the present invention allows the previously displayed window to be erased or redisplayed simply by operating the information input unit. Since there is no need to provide a dedicated button as in the conventional case, the device can be simplified.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a palmtop computer in a preferred embodiment of the information manual control device according to the present invention, FIG. 2 is a system block diagram of the main electrical configuration of the palmtop computer, and FIGS. 3 and 4 FIG. 5 is a plan view showing the display contents of the display unit. Figures 6 and 7 show the CP of a palmtop computer.
FIG. 3 is a flowchart of a processing procedure performed in U. (1) is a palmtop computer (information input control device), (7) is a display unit, (11) is a human pen (information input unit), (20) is an input tablet, (102) is a CP
U, (104) is a program ROM, (106) is a working RAM, (4) is a window, and (-1) is a predetermined area (hide area). Agent Hidemori Matsukuma

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] 1. An information input section into which various information is input by performing a predetermined operation on an input tablet; and a window is displayed on a display section in response to the predetermined operation of the information input section. window display means for erasing the displayed window in response to the information input unit being brought into contact with a predetermined area of the input tablet; An information input control device comprising, in some cases, window redisplay means for displaying the erased window again. 2. The information input control device according to claim 1, wherein the predetermined condition is when a predetermined time has elapsed. 3. The information input control device according to claim 1, wherein the predetermined condition is when the information input unit is brought into contact with a specific area of the input tablet.