JPH064485A - Calender display method for compact electronic equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To display a calender even at the display part of the compact electronic equipment requiring only a small display area by respectively using two adjacent display areas as a pair for displaying the respective dates of a calender and inhibiting the use of the display area for forming spaces for partitioning the respective dates. CONSTITUTION:The calender is displayed at the display part 6 of the compact electronic equipment respectively and independently arranged with plural dot matrix type display areas 6a provided with display dots 6b capable of displaying one character in a prescribed gap with each other. The two adjacent display areas 6a are respectively used for displaying the respective dates of the calender as a pair. Then, the numeric data of the tens digit of the each date is displayed on the right side in the left display area 6a of a pair and the numeric data of the units digit of the each date is displayed on the left side in the right display area 6a of the pair. Since the display areas 6a are not used to form the spaces for partitioning the respective dates, the dates for one week can be displayed in the 14-digit display areas 6a.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention mainly relates to a plurality of dot matrix type display areas each having a display dot capable of displaying one character in a portable small electronic device such as an electronic memo, which are independent from each other at predetermined intervals. The present invention relates to a method of displaying a calendar on the display section arranged in the.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in the case of displaying a calendar on a display unit provided in an electronic device, as shown in FIG. 6, a display dot (1a) is a full dot type in which dot dots are arranged in a dot-matrix pattern over the entire display screen. The display section (1) is used, and the calendar is displayed in the display section (1) by arbitrarily arranging the numbers of the dates in the seven-day schedule.

[0003]

By the way, in a small portable electronic device such as an electronic memo, as shown in FIG. 7, a plurality of dots having 5 × 5 display dots (2b) capable of displaying one character. Matrix type display area (2a)
In many cases, the display units (2) are arranged independently of each other at predetermined intervals. When trying to display a calendar on this display unit (2), two adjacent display areas (2a) are used as one set to display each date of the seven-day table, and a space for separating each date. One display area (2
Since a) is left blank, at least 20 display areas (2a) are required to display one week as shown in the figure, and 60 lines are required if three lines are displayed as shown in the figure. It requires many display areas (2a). It is impossible to provide the display unit (2) having such a large number of display areas (2a) on the portable small electronic device such as the electronic memo described above. Therefore, a plurality of independent display areas (2
There is no small electronic device having a display section (2) classified in a) that can be displayed by a calendar.

Therefore, it is a technical object of the present invention to provide a method of displaying a calendar on a display section of a small electronic device which is divided into a plurality of independent display areas.

[0005]

According to the present invention, as a technical means for achieving the above object, a calendar is displayed in a small electronic device by the following method. That is, a method of displaying a calendar on a display unit of a small electronic device in which a plurality of dot matrix type display areas having display dots capable of displaying one character are arranged independently of each other at a predetermined interval, The two display areas are used as one set to display each day of the seven-day table, and the numeric data of 10 digits of each date is displayed right-justified in the display area on the left side of one set, Further, it is characterized in that the numeral data of one digit of each date is displayed in the display area on the right side of the set in a left-justified manner.

[0006]

[Advantages] Two adjacent display areas are used as a set to display each date of the seven-day table, and the display area is not used to form a space for separating each date. Since the area is sufficient, it is possible to display the calendar even on a small-area display unit of a small electronic device.

Nevertheless, a space for separating the dates can be provided as follows. For example, if the display area is composed of 4 dots in the row direction, it takes 3 dots in the row direction to display the numbers, and 1 is displayed on either side.
Since the dot is vacant, by using this vacant dot, the digit of 1 digit on the right side of the front or left side of two adjacent dates is displayed left-justified and the 1 on the right side of the display area is displayed.
Dot is empty, and 10 on the left side of the date on the back or right side
Several characters in the right column are displayed right-justified, and 1 on the left side of the display area
Since the dots are empty, a blank space is formed by the sum of the total of 2 dots and the gap between the display areas, and the two dates can be clearly separated and confirmed.

[0008]

Preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 shows a block configuration of a small electronic device to which the present invention is applied. A central processing unit (3) controls the entire device, and key input data from a keyboard is detected by a key matrix (8) and input. Then, signal processing is performed based on a program and various font data stored in advance in the ROM (4), the processing result is temporarily stored in the RAM (5), and the LCD display section is displayed via the LCD drive circuit (7). (6) is drive-controlled and displayed. Further, the RAM (5) is used for data memory and control, and has a system area (5a) having a register for storing a flag used for device control and used for internal calculation and the like. It is roughly divided into a user area (5b) for storing data such as memos and telephone numbers registered by the user.

FIG. 2 shows a front view of the small electronic device,
As shown in FIG. 4, the LCD display unit (6) has a dot matrix type display area (6a) for displaying one character, which is composed of 5 × 5 display dots (6b), and has a plurality of display areas. (6a) are arranged independently of each other at a predetermined interval. The key input parts will be described. Numerical keys (9a) for inputting numbers 0-9, alphabet input keys (9b) for inputting letters AZ, cursor movement key (9c). , A mode selection key (9d) and a data recall key (9e) for designating and displaying calendars and memos, respectively.

Next, a calendar display method according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG.
When the calendar display numerical data is loaded (step S
1) It is determined whether or not the fetched numerical data is numerical font data of the 10th digit of the date (step S).
2) If it is determined that the digit is 10, the display data of the right-aligned font is created from this number font data, and the created display data is temporarily stored in the display buffer (step S3). On the other hand, when it is determined that the captured numeric data is not the numeric font data of the 10th digit of the date, that is, the numeric font data of the 1st digit,
Left-justified font display data is created from the input numeric font data, and the created display data is temporarily stored in the display buffer (step S5). After that, until it is determined that the acquisition of all the data of the calendar is completed (step S4), the process jumps to step S1 and the same routine as described above is repeated. When it is determined that all the data of the calendar has been fetched and converted into the display data of the required font, the display data is displayed on the display unit (6) as shown in FIG.

As is apparent from this display example, two adjacent display areas (6a) are used as a set for displaying each day of each day of the seven-day table, and are used to separate each date. Since the display area (6a) is not used to form the space, it is possible to display for one week in the 14-digit display area (6a). Also, in FIG. 4, 14 digits 3
Although a line display example is shown, it is 1 compared to the display example of FIG.
Since the eight display areas (6a) can be reduced, it is possible to display the calendar even on a small-area display unit of a small electronic device. The date display can be changed by operating the cursor movement key (9c).

[0012] The space for separating the dates will be described by taking the display of both dates "20" and "21" as an example. The number "0" is displayed left-justified, the two dots on the right side of the display area (6a) are empty, and the number 10 "2" on the left side of the date "21" on the right side is displayed right-justified. Since 2 dots on the left side of the display area (6a) are empty, this total 4
A space, which is the sum of the dots and the space between the display areas (6a), is formed, and can be clearly seen by dividing it into two dates of "20" and "21". Further, since each two-digit number indicating the date is displayed in close proximity without leaving a bit, it is possible to clearly visually recognize that it is a two-digit number.

FIG. 5 is a flow chart of another embodiment of the present invention, in which display data of right-justified and left-justified character fonts for respective numbers are created and stored in advance. In step S7), it is judged whether or not the fetched numeral data is numeral font data of the tenth digit of the date (step S8), and if it is judged that the numeral digit is the tenth digit, then it corresponds to this numeral. The display data of the right-justified font is read and is temporarily stored in the display buffer (step S9). On the other hand, when it is determined that the imported numeric data is not the numeric font data of the 10th digit of the date, that is, the numeric font data of the 1st digit, the display data of the left-justified font corresponding to the input numeric is read. And temporarily store it in the display buffer (step S11). After that, until it is determined that the acquisition of all the data of the calendar is completed (step S10), the process jumps to step S7 and the same routine as described above is repeated. In this case as well, the display unit (6)
Is displayed as shown in FIG.

[0014]

As described above, according to the calendar display method for a small electronic device of the present invention, two adjacent display areas are used as one set to display each date in the seven-day table. Since a display area is not used to form a space for separating each date, a small display area is required, and a calendar can be displayed even in a small area display portion of a small electronic device.

In addition, the numeric data of 10 digits of each date is 2
Since it is displayed in the left display area of the pair of pieces in right alignment, and the numerical data of one digit of each date is displayed in the right display area of the pair of pieces in left alignment, The number of 1 digit on the right side of the date on the left of two adjacent dates is displayed left-justified, some dots are left on the right side of the display area, and the number of 10 digits on the left side of the date on the right side is displayed. Since some dots on the left side of the display area are displayed right-justified, a blank space is formed by the sum of the empty dots and the space between the display areas. Despite not using it, you can see the two dates clearly separated.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block configuration diagram of a small electronic device to which a calendar display method of the present invention can be applied.

FIG. 2 is a front view of the above small electronic device.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart of an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a display example of the above.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart of another embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a display example of a calendar on a full-dot type display unit.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a display example of a calendar on a display section divided into a plurality of display areas according to a conventional technique.

[Explanation of symbols]

 6 display area 6a display area 6b display dot

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A method of displaying a calendar on a display unit of a small electronic device, wherein a plurality of dot matrix type display areas having display dots capable of displaying one character are arranged independently of each other at predetermined intervals. Each two adjacent display areas are used as a set to display each day of the seven-day table, and the numeric data of 10 digits of each date is right-justified to the left display area of one set. Display,
A calendar display method in a small electronic device, wherein the digit data of one digit of each date is displayed left-justified in the display area on the right side of one set.