JP2001201371A - Measuring instrument - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To easily allow storage in a condition to be simply processed another device, without conducting troublesome work such as photographing for a display image. SOLUTION: When a specified key 22a of an operation part 22 is operated under a condition where an analytical result in a measuring part 21 is displayed in a display 24, an image file of a prescribed form corresponding to the display image is automatically generated by an image file preparing means 25, and the image file is stored, by an image file storing means 25, in a mobile storage medium 10 equipped in a reader 27.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a technique for saving the contents of a display image on a display device of a measuring device, and making the saved display image later usable by another device.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Various measuring devices are provided with a display device for displaying the measurement results and the like. The measuring device for displaying the measurement results in coordinates and graphs uses a display device capable of displaying images. Have been.

[0003]

However, in a conventional measuring device having a display device capable of displaying an image as described above, when an image displayed on the display device is to be used later, the display screen is changed. Take a picture with a digital camera etc.
There is only a method of using image data output from a digital camera, and very complicated work is required.

[0004] It is an object of the present invention to solve this problem and to provide a measuring apparatus which can easily store a display image of the measuring apparatus and can easily process the image by another apparatus.

[0005]

In order to achieve the above object, a measuring apparatus according to the present invention comprises a measuring section (21), an operating section (22) including a specific key, and a display device ( 24); display control means (23) for creating display data necessary for displaying the measurement result of the measurement unit on the display device and outputting the display data to the display device; and writing data to a movable storage medium. Writing means capable of writing (25)
Image file creating means (26) for, when the specific key is operated, generating an image file of a predetermined format corresponding to a display image of the display device based on display data created by the display control means; And an image file storage unit (27) for storing the image file generated by the image file generation unit in the storage medium.

[0006]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 shows a configuration of a measuring device 20 according to the embodiment.

The measuring device 20 includes a measuring unit 21, an operation unit 22, a display control device 23, a display device 24, and a reading device 2.
5, an image file creating means 26 and an image file storing means 27.

The measuring section 21 performs, for example, various analysis processes on an input signal based on measurement parameters set in advance by an operating section 22 having a plurality of keys including a specific key 22a, and numerical values representing characteristics of the input data signal. Ask for data.

The numerical data obtained by the measuring unit 21 is output to the display control unit 23 together with the measurement parameters set from the operating unit 22. The display control device 23 stores character data such as characters and symbols in advance in a character ROM 2 in which the data is stored in association with the character code.
3a, a character RAM 23b for storing character codes such as characters and symbols displayed on the display device 24, and a plurality of graphic RAMs 23c for storing graphic data such as lines and points to be displayed on the display device 24, respectively. When the measurement results are displayed as a graph, a character code such as a unit of the graph or a scale value is written as display data at an address corresponding to a display position of the character RAM 23b, and graphic data such as a graph and coordinate axes generated from the measurement unit 21 is written. Is written as display data at an address corresponding to the display position of the graphic RAM 23c.

The display device 24 is of a liquid crystal type (which may be a CRT type) capable of displaying images in color, and includes an LCD controller 24a and an LCD panel 24b.

The LCD controller 24a reads the character code written in the character RAM 23b of the display controller 23, reads out the display data of the character corresponding to this code from the character ROM 23a, and reads the graphic data written in each graphic RAM 23c. The LCD panel 24b reads out the data and superimposes the data on the display data.
And outputs a signal for driving.

The LCD panel 24b receives a signal from the LCD controller 24a and displays a measurement result screen.

The reading device 25 constitutes the writing device of this embodiment, and is a storage medium 10 (eg, floppy disk, optical disk, magneto-optical disk, IC card, etc.) which is movable and readable and writable by other devices such as a personal computer. ) To read and write information to
When the storage medium 10 is the above-mentioned disk, the drive device and the interface are included. When the storage medium 10 is a card type, the connection connector and the interface are included.

The image file creating means 26 includes an operation unit 22
When the specific key 22a is operated, the display control device 23
Of the display device 24 based on the display data created by
An image file of a predetermined format corresponding to the image displayed on the D panel 24b is generated.

That is, the display control device 23 controls the character RA
The updating of the contents of the M23b and the graphic RAM 23c is temporarily stopped, and the character RAM 23b
In addition to reading out the display data stored in the graphic RAM 23c and referring to the character data in the character ROM 23a, the LCD panel 24b
And generates an image file in a bitmap format, a GIF format, or the like, corresponding to the image of the entire screen displayed in.

The image file storage means 27 stores the image file generated by the image file creation means 26 in the storage medium 10 via the reading device 25.

In the measuring device 20 configured as described above,
The analysis result of the measurement unit 21 is displayed on the LCD panel 2 of the display device 24.
4b, the specific key 2 of the operation unit 22 is displayed.
When the user operates 2a, an image file in a bitmap format or a GIF format corresponding to the display image is automatically generated by the image file creating means 26 and stored in the storage medium 10.

The storage medium 10 is stored in a measuring device 20
If it is removed from, for example, loaded into a reading device of a personal computer and the image file is opened by an image display program, the display screen of the measurement result of the measuring device 10 can be viewed on the monitor screen of the personal computer. The image file can be printed and used by a printing program, or the image file can be transmitted to another computer by a communication program.

As described above, the measuring device 20 of the embodiment is
By simply operating the specific key 22a of the operation unit 22, an image file corresponding to a display image such as a measurement result is automatically created and stored in the movable storage medium 10, so that it is complicated. The display image can be saved easily and in a state where it can be easily processed by another device, without taking any image of the display image.

In the above description, the storage medium 10 loaded in the reading device 25 is used only for storing display images. However, as in the measuring device 40 shown in FIG. A measurement data storage unit 41 for storing and storing numerical data and measurement parameters of the measurement results in a file format in the storage medium 10; and reading out the numerical data and measurement parameters from the storage medium 10 loaded in the reading device 25, It is also possible to provide a re-display means 42 for outputting the measurement result image to the image 23 and re-displaying the image of the measurement result.

Also, as in a measuring device 45 shown in FIG.
The measurement parameter read from the storage medium 10 is
Measurement parameter setting means 46 may be provided which is input to the display control device 1 and the display control device 23 to perform measurement under the same conditions again.

If the measurement data storage means 41 stores the measurement data and the measurement parameters in the storage medium 10 when the specific key 22a of the operation section 22 is operated, once the specific key 22a is operated. In the operation,
Automatic saving of image files, measurement data and measurement parameters is possible.

[0023]

As described above, in the measuring apparatus of the present invention, when the specific key of the operating section is operated while the analysis result of the measuring section is displayed on the display device, this display is performed by the image file creating means. An image file of a predetermined format corresponding to an image is automatically generated, and the image file is stored in a movable storage medium by an image file storage unit.

For this reason, it is possible to save the image easily and in a state where it can be easily processed by another device without performing any complicated operation such as photographing the display image.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a modification of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing a modification of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 20, 40, 45 Measuring device 21 Measuring unit 22 Operating unit 22a Specific key 23 Display control device 23a Character ROM 23b Character RAM 23c, 23d Graphic RAM 24 Display device 24a LCD controller 24b LCD panel 25 Reading device 26 Image file creation means 27 Image File storage means 41 Measurement data storage means 42 Redisplay means 46 Measurement parameter setting means

[Procedure amendment]

[Submission date] April 12, 2000 (2004.1.
2)

[Procedure amendment 1]

[Document name to be amended] Drawing

[Correction target item name] All figures

[Correction method] Change

[Correction contents]

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Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A measurement unit (21), an operation unit (22) including a specific key, a display device (24) capable of displaying an image, and a display unit for displaying a measurement result of the measurement unit on the display device. Display control means (23) for creating necessary display data and outputting it to the display device; writing means (25) for writing data to a movable storage medium; and when the specific key is operated An image file creating means (26) for creating an image file of a predetermined format corresponding to a display image of the display device based on the display data created by the display control means, and an image file created by the image file creating means. A measuring device comprising: an image file storage unit (27) for storing an image file in the storage medium.