JPS63116265A - Simulation device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To change only an operation-action rule to change the function of an operation panel by providing the titled device with an operation storing means for data indicating the operation of plural states, an inference means for selecting the data and a changing means for changing the data. CONSTITUTION:An operation-action storage device 4 stores data consisting of pairs of operations for the operation panel and actions for changing the states of the operation panel at the time of executing the operations. In case of changing the function of the operation panel, the function of a Vp button in the rule 02 of the storage device 4 is changed by adding '+1' to a display area LED in a display device 1. In order to change the contents of the LED so as to be '99' as a maximum value, only a rule 05 may be added. The rule 02 is used until a sheet number storing area CNT in a work storage device 2 indicates '99' during the period of adding the contents of the LED up to '99'. When the contents of the LED reach '99', the rule 05 is selected because its condition coincides with the contents. Since an execution part executes no operation, the contents of the LED are not increased '99', the change of the operation panel can be changed only by changing the operation-action rule.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to a simulation device for examining the operability of an operation panel.

[Conventional technology]

Conventionally, the operability of the operation panel of a copying machine or the like has been investigated by making a prototype of the copying machine itself. However, repeating prototypes over and over again due to poor operability was costly and time consuming.

In order to solve the above problems, attempts have been made to simulate the operation panel using a general-purpose language such as an assembler language.

[Problem that the invention seeks to solve]

However, there are also problems here, as programming and coding work is performed to realize the simulation, which requires a considerable amount of software technical ability, and the creation of the software takes a great deal of time. When the functions of the simulation software change, it is necessary to change the simulation software, but it is difficult to understand the program in general, and modification of one part affects others, making it difficult to modify. It is.

[Means for solving problems]

In order to solve this problem, the present invention provides an action storage means that stores data indicating the actions to be performed in response to each of a plurality of states, and an appropriate one of the data indicating the action of the action storage means based on the state. and a changing means for changing data indicating the operation of the operation storage means.

〔Example〕

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 shows an outline of one embodiment of the operation panel simulation device of the present invention.

In FIG. 1, 1 is a display device for displaying stored contents, input data, processing results, etc., 2 is a working memory device, 3 is a pointing device for moving a cursor displayed on the display device 1, and 4 is an operation device. working memory, 5
is a reasoning device. 6 is used to input various commands and numerical data. Or a control program according to the flowchart in FIG. 8 in a read-only memory,
Contains other control programs. □ The display device 1 has the shape of an operation panel, as shown in FIG. Here, the LED corresponds to an indicator on the operation panel that indicates the number of copies. The working memory device 2, as shown in FIG. 3, temporarily stores the state of the operation panel and the like.

Here, the CNT stores numerical data to be displayed on the LED of the display device 1 in the sheet number storage area.

The pointing device 3 is used to perform operations on the operation panel. Examples include touch sensors, mice, etc. As shown in FIG. 4, the operation-action storage device 4 stores data consisting of pairs of operations on the operation panel and actions for changing the state of the operation panel when the operations are performed. .

The inference device 5 controls all of these.

FIG. 5 shows a specific example of simulation of the operation panel simulation device. At the start of the system, character data 5TART is stored in the working memory 2 as shown at 51. The inference device 5 stores the contents of the working memory device 2 as the operation-action memory device 4.
Since the condition part of rule 01 shown in FIG. 5
When the Vp button is pressed as shown at 3, the contents of the working memory 2 change as shown at 54. Here again, the inference device 5 fetches the rule 02 in FIG.
change the content of

As a result, the screen changes to a brush 56 on the display surface of the display device 1.

In other words, the details of the reasoning device 5 are shown in FIG. 6.The reasoning device 5 includes a comparator 50, a rule selector 51, an executor 52, and a stop. The comparator 50 compares the data in the working memory device 2 and the operation-action memory device 4 and outputs rules that match the conditions.If the number of rules is zero, the stop device 53
A signal is sent to stop the inference. If the number of rules is not zero, the 8 rules are sent to the rule selector 51.
Among the plurality of rules, the degree of matching of the conditions in the comparator is counted, and the rule with the largest number is selected as the most likely rule.

If there are still multiple rules, the one with the smallest rule number is selected. The data of the execution unit of the selected rule is sent to the executor and executed. The execution result is stored in the working storage device 2, and the comparator 50 is activated again.

A case in which the function of the operation panel is changed will be explained. It functions as the Vp button in Rule 02 in Figure 4, but the maximum value is 9.
In order to change it to 9, it is only necessary to add rule 05 as shown in FIG. Rule 02 is used until the LED reaches 99, that is, until the sheet number storage area CNT shows 99, but when the LED reaches 99, rule 05 is selected because it matches the conditions better. Since the execution unit does nothing, the LED does not increase beyond 99. In this way, changing the function of the operation panel only requires changing the operation-action rules.

Next, the control for updating the contents of the operation-effect storage device 4 will be explained with reference to the flowchart of FIG.

First, in step S1, the contents of the operation-effect storage device 4 are displayed on the display device 1.

Then, in step S2, it is determined whether there is an instruction to change the contents of the operation-effect storage device 4 from the keyboard 6, and if the determination result indicates that the contents of the operation-effect storage device 4 are to be changed, the process proceeds to step S3; If so, the process moves to step S6.

In step S3, the pointing device 3 selects the changed rule number from among the contents of the displayed operation-effect storage device 4.
receive instructions from Then, in step S4, the condition part and execution part corresponding to the rule number to be changed instructed in step S3 are deleted, and in step S5, input is made from the keyboard 6 to the condition part and execution part of the operation-effect storage device 4, and step The process moves to S12.

If there is no instruction to change the operation/effect storage device 4, the process moves from step S2 to step S6, where it is determined whether or not there is an instruction from the keyboard 6 to erase the contents of the operation/effect storage device 4, and that instruction is executed. If there is, step S
7. If there is none, proceed to step S9.

In step S7, an instruction of the rule number to be erased is received by the pointing device.

Then, in step S8, the condition part and execution part of the rule number instructed in step S7 are deleted. Then, the process moves to step S12.

In step S9, it is determined whether or not there is an instruction from the keyboard 6 to add the 4 contents of the operation-effect storage device 4. If there is an instruction, the process moves to step S10, and if not, the process moves to step S12.

Then, in step SIO, a rule number to be added is input from the keyboard 6, and in step 811, desired data is input from the keyboard 6 to the condition section and execution section, and the process moves to step S12.

In step S12, it is determined whether there has been an instruction from the keyboard 6 to end the change of the contents of the operation-effect storage device 4. If not, the process returns to step S1, and if so, the process is terminated.

As described above, the present invention divides the simulation of the operation panel into operation-action rules and reasoning for interpreting and executing the rules, so that even if the function of the operation panel changes, the operation-action rules can be separated. All you have to do is change the rules,
This has the effect of allowing simulations to be performed in a short time and at low cost.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing an overview of an embodiment of the operation panel simulation device of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating the display of the shape of the operation panel on the display device, and FIG. 3 is a diagram showing data in the working memory device. FIG. 4 is a diagram explaining the data of the operation-action storage device, FIG. 5 is a diagram explaining the operation of the operation panel/simulation device, FIG. 6 is a diagram explaining the inference device, and FIG. The figure is a diagram illustrating changes in data in the operation-action storage device in response to changes in the functions of the operation panel. FIG. 8 is a flowchart showing a control procedure for updating the contents of the operation-effect storage device. 1... Display device, 2... Working memory device 3.
. . . pointing device, 4 . . . operation-action memory device, 5 . . . inference device.

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] 1) Storage means for storing states; Action storage means for storing data indicating actions to be performed in response to each of a plurality of states; an inference means for inferring to select an appropriate one from data indicating an action stored in the storage means; an operation means for performing an action indicated by the data selected by the inference means; A simulation device comprising: changing means for changing data indicating an action to be performed.