JPH10333652A - Display method and display controller for display device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a display method and a display controller for a display device by using the display device to inform workers in the working time of a present time zone without turning their attention from original jobs. SOLUTION: A CPU 123 stores a present time output from a timer 125 in a RAM 124 and reads out contents set in a time zone setting part 126. If a separation time coinciding with the stored present time is set in the time zone setting part 126, which time zone of plural time zones includes the present time is judged to read out contents preset in a display configuration information setting part 127 in relation to the proper time zone. In accordance with the readout set contents, instructions are given to define the actual display configuration of a display device 13 as a display configuration corresponding to display configuration information preset in relation to the corresponding time zone. In accordance with the instructions, a display processing part 14 perform display processing for the display device 13 in association with the change of the display configuration.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a display method and a display control device for a display device, and more particularly to a display method and a display control device for a display device that is used alternately by a plurality of workers.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in a workplace where it is necessary to maintain continuous work for 24 hours, a shift work system in which workers are changed every predetermined time has been adopted. If you use your computer in a workplace that employs this type of shift,
Often, different workers use the same computer alternately. A remote monitoring system will be described below as an example of the prior art on the premise of employing the shift work system.

FIG. 6 is a block diagram showing a schematic configuration of an example of a conventional remote monitoring system. In FIG. 6A, reference numeral 71 denotes a building terminal device which is installed in a building to be monitored (not shown) and detects the presence or absence of an abnormality in equipment of the building, and is constituted by, for example, a computer. 1
0 is a monitoring computer that monitors the building to be monitored based on a signal transmitted from the building terminal device 71 via the communication line, 13 is a display device that displays information processed by the monitoring computer 10, It is installed in the monitoring center 12. Reference numeral 72 denotes a business office terminal installed in a business office (not shown) which is a base for managing a building to be monitored.
In FIG. 6B, reference numeral 73 denotes a maintenance person assigned to a predetermined number of persons in the sales office, 74 denotes a portable computer which is carried by the maintenance person 73 and used for information management regarding maintenance, and 75 is a portable computer which is carried by the maintenance person 73. It is a pager that is contacted by the monitoring center and the office to which it belongs.

When an abnormality occurs in equipment installed in a building to be monitored, for example, an elevator, the building terminal 7
The monitoring center 12 detects this abnormality and sends preset data of the building, such as a maintenance contractor number, a building code, and details of the abnormality, via a communication line such as a telephone line.
Report to. The monitoring computer 10 of the monitoring center 12, which has received the notification from the building terminal device 71, causes the display device 13 to display a message urging the dispatch of the maintenance staff 73 to the building. An operator (not shown) constantly monitors the monitoring center 12 and, when the message prompting the dispatch of the maintenance staff 73 displayed on the display device 13 is confirmed as described above, the corresponding building belongs to the sales office belonging to the business range. For example, the user is dispatched to the building using a facsimile or the like to send an instruction to remove the abnormality. At the business office receiving this instruction, for example, the maintenance person 73 who is out for maintenance and inspection calls the maintenance person 73 by a pager 75 carried, and informs him that he / she is to go to the corresponding building to remove the abnormality. . Upon receiving the notification, the maintenance staff 73 immediately goes to the corresponding building and starts work for removing the abnormality of the equipment.

In the case of the above-described remote monitoring system, it is necessary to maintain the monitoring work in the monitoring center 12 continuously for 24 hours so that any abnormality of the equipment installed in the building to be monitored can be dealt with immediately. There is.
For this reason, a shift work system is employed in which a worker working as an operator changes every predetermined time. For example, 1
In the case of a shift work system in which workers are changed every two hours, the first shift is from 8:00 am to 8:00 pm, and the second shift is from 8:00 pm to 8:00 am the next day. In each of the time zones, different operators will perform the above-described treatment.

[0006]

The operator's monitoring work at the monitoring center described above is a core work of the remote monitoring system, and the operator at work must concentrate all his or her ability and consciousness only on the monitoring work. Is required. Therefore, when designing and constructing a monitoring room to engage in such monitoring work, external information that is unrelated to the original monitoring work, such as human voices and vehicle noise, is used so that operators can easily concentrate on monitoring work. Various measures are taken to prevent such inflow into the room. As a result, the monitoring room is almost isolated from the outside, and the information obtained in this monitoring room is only related to the monitoring work, so that the operators working in this monitoring room tend to concentrate on the monitoring work only. Is arranged. The rooms designed and built with such considerations are not limited to the monitoring room of the remote monitoring system.For example, the communication room of large vessels, the operation control room of the military center in other countries, etc. are almost isolated from the outside. In general, it is designed and built so that

[0007] By the way, in the monitoring room of the remote monitoring system designed and built as described above, information actively provided to the working operator is information directly related to the original monitoring work, for example, monitoring. It is limited to information related to abnormalities of equipment installed in the target building and its recovery. Therefore, when the operator at work, for example, wants to know the remaining time until the expiration of his or her working hours, the current time is checked by visually checking the clock provided in the monitoring room, and the checked current time and The remaining time, which is the difference from the expiration time of a known working time zone, is determined by mental arithmetic, and there is a problem that it is quite troublesome. In particular, if an operator who has a personal schedule in the monitoring room after the work hours has finished working in the monitoring room, the above-mentioned current time confirmation and mental calculation of the remaining time, which are unrelated to the original monitoring work, are performed. However, there is a problem that the concentration of the consciousness on the original monitoring work may be neglected.

Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to solve the above-mentioned problems and to provide a display device which enables a worker working indoors to know the current time zone without deviating from his or her original work. A display method and a display control device are provided.

[0009]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a display method of a display device according to the present invention, which is installed in a predetermined room and is operated by a worker who works in the room. In a display method of a display device for displaying video information including predetermined characters on a screen of a display device to be used,
While dividing a day into a plurality of time zones, a plurality of display mode information, which is a display mode of the video information, is set in advance in relation to each of the time zones, and the actual display mode of the display device is A display mode corresponding to the display mode information corresponding to a time zone including the current time among a plurality of time zones. This allows workers who are working indoors to know the current time zone without distracting from the original work, simply by checking the display form of the video information displayed on the screen of the display device. it can.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the first aspect, each of the plurality of pieces of display form information has at least one attribute of a background color and a character color on a screen of the display device. They are set to be different from each other. This allows workers working indoors to check the background color or text color of the video information displayed on the screen of the display device, and change the current time zone without deviating from their original work. You can know intuitively.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, in any one of the first and second aspects, a delimiter time for dividing the plurality of adjacent time zones from each other is defined as:
The shift time is a break of the working hours of the worker determined in advance based on a predetermined shift work system. This allows workers who are working indoors to check the display format of the video information displayed on the screen of the display device and change their current time zone without deviating from their original duties. It is possible to know whether it is a time zone.

The display control device for a display device according to the present invention according to claim 8 is provided on a screen of a display device installed in a predetermined room and used by a worker who works in the room. In a display control device of a display device that displays video information including characters of the following, a timer for obtaining and outputting the current time, and a delimiter time for dividing one day into a plurality of time zones, corresponding to each of the time zones A preset time zone setting unit, and a display mode information that is a display mode of the video information, a display mode information setting unit that sets a plurality of settings in advance in relation to each of the time zones set in the time zone setting unit. A time zone determining unit that determines which of the plurality of time zones the current time output from the timer is included in the time zone setting unit, and the display mode information Based on the setting content of the setting unit and the determination result by the time zone determination unit, the display mode information set in relation to the time zone including the current time is specified, and the actual display mode of the display device is specified. A display mode command unit for giving a command to set a display mode corresponding to the specified display mode information, and performing a display process for displaying the video information on a screen of the display device according to a command from the display mode command unit. And a display processing unit. This allows workers who are working indoors to know the current time zone without distracting from the original work, simply by checking the display form of the video information displayed on the screen of the display device. it can.

According to a ninth aspect of the present invention, in the ninth aspect of the present invention, each of the plurality of pieces of display form information has at least one attribute of a background color and a character color on a screen of the display device. This is set in the display mode information setting unit so as to be different from each other. This allows workers working indoors to check the background color or text color of the video information displayed on the screen of the display device, and change the current time zone without deviating from their original work. You can know intuitively.

Further, the invention according to claim 10 of the present invention provides:
In any one of the eighth and ninth aspects, the time zone is a work time zone of the worker determined in advance based on a predetermined shift work system. This allows workers working indoors to check the display form of the video information displayed on the screen of the display device,
It is possible to know whether or not the current time zone is one's own working time zone without deviating from the original work.

[0015]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Embodiments of a display method of a display device and a display control device according to the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of a display control device for a display device according to the present invention. In the figure, 10a
Is a display control device included in a monitoring computer that monitors a building to be monitored based on a signal transmitted from a building terminal device (not shown) via a communication line. The display control device 10a includes various data , An input unit 11 for inputting instructions and the like, a control unit 12, which is a main processing unit, a display device 13 for displaying characters and graphics, and a process for displaying video information on the display device 13 according to instructions from the control unit 12. The display processing unit 14 is provided. The control unit 12 includes an input / output interface 121 for mediating control of an input from the input unit 11 and an output to the display processing unit 14, and a ROM (read only) for storing programs describing various processing procedures in the control unit 12. Memory) 122, this ROM 1
CPU 123 that executes various controls and calculations in accordance with the programs stored in 22; RAM (random access memory) 124 that stores results obtained by the various controls and calculations by CPU 123; and timer 125 that obtains and outputs the current time In addition, a time zone setting unit 126 presetting a delimiter time for dividing a day into a plurality of time zones in correspondence with each of these time zones, a display mode information which is a display mode of video information, and a time zone setting unit. A plurality of display mode information setting units 127 are set in advance in association with each of the time zones set in 126. Here, the CPU 12
3 operates as a time zone determination unit that determines which of a plurality of time zones preset in the time zone setting unit 126 the current time output from the timer 125 includes, 121 specifies the display mode information set in relation to the time zone including the current time based on the setting contents of the display mode information setting unit 127 and the determination result by the CPU 123, and the actual display mode of the display device 13. Operates as a display mode command unit that issues a command to set a display mode corresponding to the specified display mode information. Further, the display control device 10a is installed in a monitoring room that is isolated from the outside so that the operator at work can easily concentrate on monitoring work.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of the contents set in the time zone setting section 126 and the display mode information setting section 127 in FIG. In FIG. 2A, the time zone setting unit 126
Is a separation time column 126a for storing a separation time that divides a work time zone of a worker, that is, an operator who performs the monitoring work of the display device 13 described above, and a work for storing an identification name for identifying the work time zone. Time zone column 12
6b. The working hours mentioned above are 1
Multiple time zones divided into days, and
And a two-shift work system including the second working time zone. In the first row Va1 corresponding to the first working time zone, the time “6:00” is set in the delimited time column 126a and the working time zone column 1 is set.
26b stores the identifier "A", and the second row Va2 corresponding to the second working time zone stores the time "18:00" in the delimited time column 126a and the working time zone. The identifier "B" is stored in the column 126b.

On the other hand, in FIG. 2B, a display form information setting section 127 includes a work time band column 127a for storing the above-mentioned identification name for identifying the work time band, and display form information which is a display form of video information. Is stored in association with this working time zone. Then, in the first row Vb1 corresponding to the first working hours,
The identifier “A” is stored in the work time zone column 127a, and the background color “white” and the character color “black” are stored in the display form column 127b, respectively, and the second work time zone corresponding to the second work time zone is stored. In the row Vb2, the identification name "B" is stored in the work time zone column 127a, and the background color "blue" and the character color "white" are stored in the display form column 127b. As described above, the value of each break time stored in the break time column 126a is determined in advance based on the two shift work system in which the first and second working hours are included in one day. It is a shift time which is a break of the working hours of the assigned worker, and when the shift time has arrived, the above-mentioned operator shifts the work.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of information displayed on the display device 13 in FIG. 1, and shows a screen image of the display device 13. In the figure, a screen image is a column for displaying a number in the screen image, a column b for displaying a customer number and a building code, a column c for displaying a customer name and details of an abnormality,
A column d that displays the office in charge of the building where the abnormality was reported, the receptionist who received the report of the abnormal data from the monitoring center at the office, and the dispatcher who was dispatched in response to the report of the abnormal data (maintenance) E) to display the time of the occurrence of the abnormality from a building terminal device (not shown) and the presence or absence of recovery of the abnormality, and the response after the abnormality data is reported from the monitoring center to the sales office. And a column h displaying the name of the operator in charge of the monitoring center that is in charge of handling the above-mentioned abnormality alert. Further, the g column further shows a sign indicating that a report of abnormal data has been received from the monitoring center at the business office and a g1 column displaying the time, and indicates that a maintenance worker has been dispatched to deal with the report of the abnormal data. A g2 column indicating a sign and its time, a g3 indicating a sign indicating that this maintenance person has arrived at the site and started rescue of a person who was abnormally involved, and a g3 indicating the time.
Column, a g4 column that indicates that all the measures related to the notification of the abnormal data have been completed, and a time that indicates the time.

The example of the screen image of the display device 13 in FIG. 3 corresponds to the abnormality of “elevator confinement” occurring in the building A and the abnormality of “air conditioning equipment failure” occurring in the building B, respectively. That is, the information regarding the abnormality of “elevator confinement” occurring in the building A is displayed in the row indicated by the symbol α in FIG. 3, and the display contents are the number “1” (column a) and the customer number “11- 123 "and building code" 1221-5556 "(column b), customer name" A building "and abnormality description" elevator confinement "(column c), sales office" Chiba / 1
Section 2 (d column), Recipient "Receiver A" and Dispatched person "Dispatched A" (E column), Alarm time "13:09", and presence / absence of recovery "(No)" (F column) , The corresponding progress “(unsupported)” (g
Column), and the name of the operator in charge is "Arakida" (column h). Further, information relating to the abnormality of “air-conditioning equipment failure” occurring in Building B is displayed in a row indicated by reference numeral β in FIG. 3, and the display contents include a number “2” (column a) and a customer number “41”. -033 ”and building code“ 1301-5786 ”(b), customer name“ B Building ”and error description“ air conditioner failure ”(c
Column), sales office “Kanda / 2 section 1 team” (column d), recipient “recipient B” and dispatched person “dispatch B” (column e), alarm time “13:04”, and presence / absence of recovery “(No)” (f column), progress of response “(unsupported)” (g column), and operator name “(none)” (h column). Here, an example of the screen image displayed on the display device 13 for only two customers of the building A and the building B is shown, but actually, the same screen image as described above is simultaneously displayed for three or more customers. Sometimes. In addition, in the h column, the operator name in charge is displayed only for abnormalities of a category having a high importance.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing the flow of a display control process by the display control device of FIG. 1 and 4, the CPU 123 stores the current time output from the timer 125 in the RAM 124 (Step S).
At the same time as 1), the contents preset in the time zone setting section 126 are read (step S2). And RA
It is determined whether or not a delimiter time that matches the current time stored in M124 has been set in the time zone setting unit 126 in advance (step S3), and a delimiter time that matches the current time is set in the time zone setting unit 126. If not (step S3 = No), the process returns to step S1. The processing of steps S1 to S3 is repeatedly executed at, for example, 30 second intervals. On the other hand, when a delimiter time that matches the current time has been set in the time zone setting unit 126 (step S3 =
Yes), it is determined which of the plurality of time zones preset in the time zone setting unit 126 is included in the current time (step S4), and the display mode is determined in advance in relation to the corresponding time zone. The contents set in the information setting section 127 are read (step S5). Then, based on the read setting contents, a command is given to set the actual display mode of the display device 13 to a display mode corresponding to the display mode information set in advance in relation to the corresponding time zone (step S6). In accordance with this command, the display processing unit 14 performs a display process of the display device 13 with a change in the display mode (step S7), and then returns to the first step S1.

According to the processing of steps S1 to S7, for example, when the contents shown in FIG. 2 are set in the time zone setting unit 126 and the display mode information setting unit 127, the timer 125 outputs the contents. If the current time is "18:
00 ", and when the time zone including the current time is changed from the work time zone" B "to the work time zone" A ", the display form of the screen image shown on the display device 13 shown in FIG. 2 (b), the background color is switched from "white" and the character color "black" to the background color "blue" and the character color "white." Display control device 10a
The operator engaged in the monitoring operation by visually observing the display device 13 merely confirms that the display form of the screen image can be switched as described above, and does not deviate from the original monitoring operation to the current time zone. Can know whether or not it is his / her own working hours, and it is possible to prevent the concentration of the consciousness on the original monitoring work from being neglected for personal reasons.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing another example of the contents set in the time zone setting section 126 and the display mode information setting section 127 in FIG. In FIG. 5A, the working hours described above are determined in advance based on a three shift work system in which the first, second, and third working hours are included in one day. In the first row Va3 corresponding to the first working time zone, the time “6: 0” is added to the delimited time column 126a.
0 "in the working time zone column 126b,
In the second row Va4 corresponding to the second working hours, the time “14:00” is stored in the separating time column 126a, and the identification name “B” is stored in the working hours column 126b. Are stored, and the third row Va5 corresponding to the third working time zone includes the delimiter time column 126
The time “22:00” is assigned to “a”, and the working hours column 126 b
The identification name "C" is stored.

On the other hand, in FIG. 5B, the first row Vb3 corresponding to the first working time zone includes the
The identification name "A" is stored in the column 27a, the background color "brown" and the character color "green" are stored in the display form column 127b, and the second row Vb4 corresponding to the second working hours is stored in the second row Vb4. , The identifier “B” in the working hours column 127 a, the background color “light blue” and the character color “yellow” in the display format column 127 b,
In the third row Vb5 corresponding to the third working time zone, the identifier "C" is stored in the working time zone column 127a, and the background color "black" and the characters are displayed in the display mode column 127b. The color “white” is stored. As described above, the value of each break time stored in the break time column 126a is based on the three shift work system in which the first, second, and third working hours are included in one day. The shift time is a predetermined shift time interval of a worker's working time zone, and when the shift time has arrived, the above-described operator shifts the work.

As described above, the time zone setting section 126 in FIG.
In addition to the two shift work system and the three shift work system described above, it is possible to cope with a shift work system in which working hours are further subdivided by simply changing the contents set in the display form information setting unit 127. The delimiter time, which is the time, can be flexibly changed. In addition, the separation time does not necessarily have to coincide with the replacement time.For example, the time at which the management state of the monitored building changes from the daytime management state where traffic is free to the nighttime management state where traffic is prohibited is defined as the separation time. It may be. Further, the setting of the display mode is not limited to the setting based on the background color and the character color. For example, the display mode may be set so that the format of the screen image shown in FIG. .

[0026]

As described above in detail, according to the first aspect of the display method of the display device of the present invention, the worker who works indoors is displayed on the screen of the display device. By simply checking the display mode of the video information, the current time zone can be known without deviating from the original business.

According to the second aspect of the present invention, a worker working indoors can check the background color or character color of the video information displayed on the screen of the display device,
You can intuitively know the current time zone without distracting from the original business.

According to the third aspect of the present invention, a worker who is working indoors only needs to confirm the display form of the video information displayed on the screen of the display device, and is not conscious of the original work. The user can know whether or not the current time zone is his / her own work time zone without diverting.

According to the display control device of the display device of the present invention, the worker who works indoors can change the display form of the video information displayed on the screen of the display device. Just by checking, you can know the current time zone without distracting from the original work.

According to the ninth aspect of the present invention, a worker working indoors can check the background color or character color of the video information displayed on the screen of the display device,
You can intuitively know the current time zone without distracting from the original business.

According to the tenth aspect of the present invention, a worker who is working indoors only needs to confirm the display form of the video information displayed on the screen of the display device, and is conscious of the original work. The user can know whether or not the current time zone is his / her own work time zone without diverting.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing one embodiment of a display control device of a display device of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating an example of contents set in a time zone setting unit and a display mode information setting unit in FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating an example of information displayed on a display device in FIG. 1;

FIG. 4 is a flowchart illustrating a flow of a display control process performed by the display control device of FIG. 1;

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing another example of the contents set in the time zone setting unit and the display mode information setting unit in FIG. 1;

FIG. 6 is a block diagram showing a schematic configuration of an example of a conventional remote monitoring system.

[Explanation of symbols]

 10a display control device 11 input unit 12 control unit 13 display device 14 display processing unit 121 input / output interface 122 ROM (read only memory) 123 CPU 124 RAM (random access memory) 125 timer 126 time zone setting unit 127 display mode information setting unit

 ──────────────────────────────────────────────────続 き Continuing on the front page (72) Inventor Masafumi Kadowaki 1-6-6 Kandanishikicho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan Inside the Hitachi Building System Co., Ltd. (72) Katsumi Yamaguchi 1-6-6 Kandanishikicho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Ltd. Company Hitachi Building Systems

Claims (14)

[Claims] 1. A display method for displaying video information including predetermined characters on a screen of a display device installed in a predetermined room and used by a worker who works in the room. Is divided into a plurality of time zones, and a plurality of display mode information, which is a display mode of the video information, is set in advance in relation to each of the time zones. A display method for a display device, wherein the display mode is a display mode corresponding to the display mode information corresponding to a time zone including a current time in a time zone. 2. The display according to claim 1, wherein each of the plurality of pieces of display form information is set so that at least one of a background color and a character color on the screen of the display device is different from each other. How to display the device. 3. The system according to claim 1, wherein the dividing time that divides the plurality of adjacent time zones from each other is a shift time that is a dividing of the working hours of the worker determined in advance based on a predetermined shift work system. 3. The method according to claim 1, wherein
The display method of the display device described in the above. 4. The display method for a display device according to claim 3, wherein the shift work system is a two shift work system in which the first and second working hours are included in one day. 5. The display method for a display device according to claim 4, wherein the first working time period is a daytime time period and the second working time period is a nighttime time period. 6. The shift work system in the first day
4. The display method for a display device according to claim 3, wherein a three-shift work system including second and third working hours is included. 7. The monitoring room according to claim 1, wherein the room is a monitoring room isolated from the outside, and the display device displays video information indicating a state of a predetermined monitoring target. A display method of the display device according to any one of the above. 8. A display control device for a display device installed in a predetermined room and displaying video information including predetermined characters on a screen of a display device used by a worker working in the room. A timer for obtaining and outputting a time; a time zone setting unit for setting a delimiter time for dividing a day into a plurality of time zones in advance corresponding to each of the time zones; and a display mode for displaying the video information. A plurality of display form information setting sections in which form information is set in advance in relation to each of the time zones set in the time zone setting section; and the current time output from the timer is previously set in the time zone setting section. A time zone determination unit that determines which time zone is included in the plurality of time zones that have been set; and a setting result of the display mode information setting unit and a determination result by the time zone determination unit. And specifying a display mode information set in relation to the time zone including the current time, and giving a command to set an actual display mode of the display device to a display mode corresponding to the specified display mode information. A display mode command unit for performing the display process, and a display processing unit for performing a display process for displaying the video information on a screen of the display device in accordance with a command from the display mode command unit. Control device. 9. The display form information setting section, wherein each of the plurality of display form information is set so that at least one of a background color and a character color on the screen of the display device is different from each other. A display control device for a display device according to claim 8. 10. The display control device for a display device according to claim 8, wherein the time period is a work time period of the worker predetermined based on a predetermined shift work system. 11. The shift work system may be set up in the first day.
11. The display control device for a display device according to claim 10, wherein a two-shift work system including a second shift time zone is included. 12. The display control device for a display device according to claim 11, wherein the first working time zone is a daytime time zone and the second working time zone is a nighttime time zone. 13. The display device according to claim 10, wherein the shift work system is a three shift work system in which first, second, and third working hours are included in one day. Display control device. 14. The monitoring room according to claim 8, wherein the room is a monitoring room isolated from the outside, and the display device displays video information indicating a state of a predetermined monitoring target. A display control device for the display device according to any one of the above.