JPH06105248A - Electronic equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To obtain the electronic equipment in which an initial position of a cursor is highly possibly located at a required location for the user by providing a storage means storing continuously the cursor position on a display screen. CONSTITUTION:A microcomputer 6 outputs an RGB signal representing a television operation menu and a cursor. A CRT 10 displays a picture represented by a received RGB signal, e.g. a menu for television control together with a cursor 20. The microcomputer 6 stores the position of the cursor displayed on the CRT 10 to a nonvolatile memory 12. Since the nonvolatile memory 12 stores continuously the position of the cursor even when a power supply is interrupted, the microcomputer 6 reads the content of the nonvolatile memory 12 when power is restored later and displays the cursor 20 together with the menu on the CRT 10, then the position of the cursor 20 is a position just before the power supply interruption. Thus, the revision of the user for the cursor position is possibly less and the operability of the user is improved.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an electronic device such as a television receiver for displaying a cursor.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Some conventional television receivers are
A menu showing various operations is displayed on the display screen, and the user positions the cursor at the position of the required operation to make an operation instruction.

[0003]

In the above-mentioned prior art, the initial position of the cursor is fixed at a fixed position.
Therefore, the user had to move the cursor to the required position each time.

The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and an object thereof is to provide an electronic device in which the initial position of the cursor is likely to be the position required by the user.

[0005]

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided an electronic apparatus, wherein storage means for permanently storing a cursor position on a display screen (for example, non-volatile memory 12 in FIG. 1) and storage means. It is characterized by comprising a control means (for example, the microcomputer 6 in FIG. 1) for reading out the cursor position that is displayed and displaying the cursor at this position.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, the electronic device is characterized in that the storage means stores the position of the cursor when the menu is displayed.

According to another aspect of the electronic device of the present invention, the display screen is a screen for operating a television receiver.

[0008]

In the electronic device having the structure of claim 1, the cursor position on the display screen is permanently stored, and the cursor position is read out in a predetermined process after the power is turned on, and the cursor position is read at this position. The cursor is displayed. Therefore, since the initial position of the cursor is the last position of the previous processing, there is a high possibility that it is the position required by the user.

In the electronic device having the structure of the second aspect, the position of the cursor at the time of displaying the menu is permanently stored, and for example, at the time of displaying the menu after the power is turned on thereafter, the position of the cursor is read and this position is read. A cursor is displayed at. Therefore, since the initial position of the cursor in the menu display is the last position of the previous menu display, there is a high possibility that it is the position required by the user.

According to another aspect of the electronic device of the present invention, the cursor position on the television receiver operating screen is permanently stored, and for example, when the television receiver operating screen is displayed after the power is turned on thereafter, The cursor position is read and the cursor is displayed at this position. Therefore, since the initial position of the cursor on the television receiver operating screen is the last position of the previous television receiver operating screen, there is a high possibility that it is the position required by the user.

[0011]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS FIG. 1 shows the configuration of an embodiment in which the present invention is applied to a television receiver. When the user operates the commander 2, the commander 2 emits an infrared ray indicating a command corresponding thereto, for example, an infrared ray indicating a cursor movement command, the infrared ray is received by the light receiving unit 4, and the instruction issued from the commander 2 is input to the microcomputer 6. Microcomputer 6
Outputs an RGB signal indicating a television operation menu and a cursor. The video processor 8 includes a video signal from a tuner or a VTR (video tape recorder), and an RGB signal from the microcomputer 6.
Upon receiving the signal, an RGB signal indicating an image represented by one of them or an image obtained by combining the two is supplied to the CRT 10. The CRT 10 displays an image indicated by the received RGB signal, for example, a television operation menu as shown in FIG. 2 together with the cursor 20.

The microcomputer 6 stores the position of the cursor 20 displayed on the CRT 10 in the non-volatile memory 12. Since the non-volatile memory 12 permanently stores the position of the cursor 20 even when the power is turned off, the power is turned on later, and the microcomputer 6 reads the contents of the non-volatile memory 12 and displays it on the CRT 10. When the cursor 20 is displayed together with the menu, the position of the cursor 20 is the position immediately before the power is turned off.

FIG. 3 shows an operation example of the embodiment shown in FIG.
First, the microcomputer 6 determines whether the operation is the menu display mode (step S1), and if not, performs other processing (step S2). In the menu display mode, when the microcomputer 6 receives a start command from the commander 2 or the like (YES in step S3), it reads the position of the cursor 20 from the non-volatile memory 12 and places the cursor 20 together with the menu on the CRT 10 at that position. Display on top. Since the position of the cursor 20 is the position at the time of the previous menu display, the possibility of the user changing the cursor position is small, and the operability for the user is improved.

Although the above embodiment relates to a television receiver, the present invention is not limited to this.
It can be applied to various devices that display a cursor.

[0015]

According to the electronic device of the first aspect, the cursor position on the display screen is permanently stored, the cursor position is read, and the cursor is displayed at that position. Is the last position of the previous processing, so there is a high possibility that it is the position required by the user, and the operability for the user is improved.

According to the electronic device of the second aspect, the position of the cursor when the menu is displayed is permanently stored, the cursor position is read, and the cursor is displayed at that position. Since the initial position of is the last position of the previous menu display, there is a high possibility that it will be the position required by the user, and the operability for the user in menu selection is improved.

According to the electronic apparatus of claim 3, the cursor position on the television receiver operation screen is permanently stored,
Since the cursor position is read out and the cursor is displayed at that position, the initial position of the cursor on the television receiver operation screen is the last position on the previous television receiver operation screen. It is more likely that the user is in the required position, and the operability of the television receiver by the user is improved.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of an embodiment in which the present invention is applied to a television receiver.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of a display screen of the CRT 10 of the embodiment shown in FIG.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing an operation example of the embodiment of FIG.

[Explanation of symbols]

 2 Commander 6 Microcomputer 10 CRT 12 Non-volatile memory 20 Cursor

 ─────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continuation of the front page (72) Inventor Kenichi Onuma 6-735 Kita-Shinagawa, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo Sony Corporation

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A storage unit for permanently storing a cursor position on a display screen, and reading out the cursor position stored in the storage unit,
An electronic device comprising: a control unit for displaying the cursor at this position. 2. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the storage means stores the position of the cursor when the menu is displayed. 3. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the display screen is a screen for operating a television receiver.