JP2006195681A - Monitoring device - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a monitoring device which enhances convenience of a human-machine interface in monitoring equipment to be monitored such as a plant. <P>SOLUTION: In the monitoring device which displays symbols corresponding to each part to be monitored of the equipment to be monitored having a plurality of parts to be monitored on a monitoring screen and displays monitoring information of each part to be monitored when the symbols are specified by the mouse cursor of a mouse, the mouse has a scroll function, a plurality of monitoring items for monitoring each part to be monitored and pieces of information for every monitoring item are assigned as scroll information of each symbol, and when the mouse cursor is adjusted to a desired symbol position and clicked there, the pop-up display of a list of the plurality of monitoring items corresponding to a desired symbol is carried out (steps S1 to S6). Next, scroll display of the pieces of information for every monitoring item is carried out in accordance with each monitoring item which is displayed as pop-up is carried out in accordance with the signal of the scroll function of the mouse (steps S7 to S10). <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to a monitoring device for monitoring a plant or the like, and in particular, improves the convenience of a human machine interface in monitoring a monitored part such as a plant.

  In a conventional monitoring control system, an operator needs to perform monitoring by combining a plurality of touch operations on a screen and a mouse click operation in order to monitor a plant (see, for example, Patent Document 1).

JP 2000-2222028 A

  In the conventional monitoring control system, the number of symbols displayed on the monitoring screen is increasing due to recent technological advances. In the conventional human machine interface, the soundness and failure state of the plant are confirmed by a combination of multiple touch operations and mouse click operations. There is a problem that it is necessary to perform a touch operation or a mouse click operation, which may cause an error.

  The present invention has been made to solve the above-described problems, and an object thereof is to provide a monitoring device that improves the operability of the screen and reduces the plant monitoring work of the operator.

  The present invention displays a symbol corresponding to each monitored unit of a monitored device having a plurality of monitored units on a monitoring screen, and designates each monitored item by designating the symbol with a mouse cursor that can be operated on the monitoring screen. In the monitoring device for displaying the monitoring information of each unit, the mouse has a scroll function, and each monitoring unit monitors each monitoring unit as monitoring information of each monitored unit and information for each monitoring item is a symbol. Signals are distributed from means for allocating as scroll information, means for pop-up displaying a list of a plurality of monitoring items corresponding to a desired symbol when the mouse cursor is positioned at a desired symbol position and clicked, and a scroll function of the mouse. Scrolls the information for each monitoring item corresponding to each monitoring item popped up according to the signal of the scroll function. It is obtained by a means for displaying.

  The monitoring device of the present invention displays a symbol corresponding to each monitored unit of the monitored device having a plurality of monitored units on the monitoring screen, and designates the symbol by a mouse cursor that can be operated on the monitoring screen. In the monitoring device that displays the monitoring information of each monitored unit, the mouse has a scroll function, and a plurality of monitoring items and information for each monitoring item for monitoring each monitored unit as monitoring information of each monitored unit, As a scroll information of each symbol, a means for pop-up displaying a list of a plurality of monitoring items corresponding to the desired symbol when the mouse cursor is clicked on the desired symbol position, and a signal is sent from the mouse scroll function. When delivered, information for each monitoring item corresponding to each monitoring item popped up according to the scroll function signal Because and means for scrolling the display, by performing the scroll operation, and improve the operability of the screen, to reduce monitoring activities of the operator.

Embodiment 1 FIG.
Embodiments of the present invention will be described below. 1 to 3 are diagrams showing the structure of the monitoring screen of the monitoring apparatus according to the first embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 4 is a diagram showing the monitoring information allocated to each symbol of the monitoring apparatus according to the first embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing the configuration of the scroll monitoring information management table, and FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing the algorithm of the monitoring apparatus according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

  In FIG. 1, each monitoring unit such as a plant as a monitored device, such as a valve or a control device A, is displayed as a symbol 20, 21, 22, 23 in a simplified path diagram. 1. The monitoring screen 1 includes a mouse cursor 3 that can be operated on the monitoring screen 1 and a plurality of monitoring items 4a, 4b, 4c, and 4d for monitoring each monitored unit as monitoring information of each monitored unit. Is displayed in a pop-up menu window 4 and an information window 5b in which information is displayed for each monitoring item 4a, 4b, 4c, 4d (in this case, since it is information corresponding to the monitoring item 4b, the information window 5b Is displayed. Although not shown, it is assumed that the mouse has a scroll function in addition to the left and right buttons.

  Each symbol 20, 21, 22, 23 is assigned monitoring information as shown in FIG. The configuration of the scroll monitoring information management table of the allocated monitoring information will be described. First, as the mode information 11 of the monitoring device, a flag indicating whether or not the operation mode of the monitoring device of the symbol has a scroll function is shown. Next, as the monitoring state 12 of the monitoring device, a flag indicating whether or not the symbol is being monitored by a scroll operation is shown. Next, as the number 13 of scroll monitoring functions, the number of items monitored by the symbol in the scroll operation, that is, the number of monitoring items is shown.

  For example, in the case of the symbol 21 in FIG. 1, four items of “current value”, “operation history”, “alarm”, and “maintenance information” are the number of items as the monitoring items 4a, 4b, 4c, and 4d. Next, as the current scroll monitoring function number 14, the number of the scroll monitoring function currently selected for the symbol is shown. For example, in the state of FIG. 1, the monitoring item 4b is indicated as the number. Next, as the scroll monitoring function 15, monitoring information of the monitoring function monitored by the scroll function, that is, information for each monitoring item is stored.

  Next, the operation and display method on the monitoring screen 1 of the monitoring device in the first embodiment will be described with reference to the drawings. First, as shown in FIG. 2, on the monitoring screen 1, the monitored portion of the monitored device is displayed as a symbol, for example, symbols 20, 21, 22, and 23 in a simplified route diagram. Furthermore, as shown in FIG. 4, a plurality of monitoring items and information for each monitoring item are allocated as scroll information to each symbol as monitoring information. When a mouse operation is performed as shown in FIG. 2, a mouse operation input is received (step S1 in FIG. 5).

  Next, as shown in FIG. 3, the mouse cursor 3 is moved by operating the mouse, and the mouse cursor 3 is moved onto the symbol 21. The operator operates, for example, clicking the left button of the mouse while the mouse cursor 3 is on the symbol 21. Then, it is determined whether or not there is a symbol at the mouse cursor position (step S2 in FIG. 5). Next, if it is determined that the mouse cursor position is not on the symbol, the process ends. Here, it is determined that there is a symbol at the mouse cursor position. Next, it is determined whether or not the operation mode of the mode information 11 (FIG. 4) of the monitoring device of the symbol allocation information is the scroll monitoring mode (step S3 in FIG. 5).

  Next, when not in the scroll monitoring mode, another monitoring operation is executed (step S11 in FIG. 5). Here, since the scroll monitoring mode is selected, it is next determined whether or not the current monitoring operation is being performed by the monitoring state 12 of the monitoring device of the scroll monitoring information management table in FIG. 4 (step S4 in FIG. 5). Here, since the scroll operation is not monitored yet, it is next determined whether or not the mouse input is ButtonPress (step S5 in FIG. 5). Next, when it is determined that the mouse input is not ButtonPress, the process is terminated. In this case, for example, the left button of the mouse is clicked and it is determined that the mouse input is ButtonPress, so that a menu window 4 composed of monitoring items 4a, 4b, 4c, and 4d is popped up as shown in FIG. (Step S6 in FIG. 5). Next, a flag is set in the monitoring state 12 of the monitoring device in the scroll monitoring information management table of FIG. 4 of the symbol, and the monitoring is set by the scroll operation (step S7 in FIG. 5). Then, the process is temporarily terminated.

  Next, the scroll function of the mouse is executed and a mask operation input is received (step S1 in FIG. 5). Next, it is determined whether or not there is a symbol at the mouse cursor position (step S2 in FIG. 5). Here, it is determined that there is a symbol at the mouse cursor position. Next, it is determined whether or not the operation mode of the mode information 11 (FIG. 4) of the monitoring device of the symbol allocation information is the scroll monitoring mode (step S3 in FIG. 5). Here, since it is the scroll monitoring mode, it is next determined in the monitoring state 12 of the monitoring device of the scroll monitoring information management table of FIG. 4 whether or not monitoring is currently being performed by the scroll operation (step S5 of FIG. 5).

  Here, in the previous operation, since the flag is set in the monitoring state 12 of the monitoring device of the scroll monitoring information management table of FIG. 4, it is determined that the current scrolling operation is monitoring. Next, it is determined whether or not the mouse input is a scroll signal (step S8 in FIG. 5). Next, if it is not a scroll signal, the process is terminated. Here, it is determined that the signal is a scroll signal, and in accordance with the scroll signal, the scroll monitoring menu is selected, and the color of the cell of the selected scroll monitoring menu is activated (step S9 in FIG. 5). Next, an information window of the newly selected scroll monitoring menu is displayed as a pop-up (step S10 in FIG. 5).

  With this operation, as shown in FIG. 1, the monitoring item of the monitoring information of the desired symbol 21 is popped up as the menu window 4, and when the scroll function of the mouse is started, for example, the menu in the menu window 4 is monitored. One of the items, here the monitoring item 4b of the operation history is highlighted (active), and the information of the highlighted monitoring item 4b is popped up as an information window 5b. Then, after the operator confirms the contents of the information window 5b, the above operation is repeated by selecting the monitoring item of another menu in the menu window 4 by scrolling the mouse again. Next, information related to each monitoring item of the newly selected menu is displayed in the information window 5b.

  According to the monitoring apparatus of the first embodiment configured as described above, the symbol for displaying the monitored unit, the operating status, maintenance information, and operation history of the monitored unit allocated in association with the symbol. The monitoring information such as can be continuously confirmed for each monitoring item by a scroll operation from the mouse, so that the work related to the monitoring operation can be reduced.

Embodiment 2. FIG.
In the first embodiment, the scroll operation for each symbol has been described. In the second embodiment of the present application, a case will be described in which the symbols displayed in the screen are interlocked by the scroll operation. FIG. 6 is a diagram showing the configuration of the monitoring screen of the monitoring apparatus according to the second embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 7 is the scroll monitoring information of the monitoring information allocated to each symbol of the monitoring apparatus according to the second embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 8 is a diagram showing the configuration of the management table, FIG. 8 is a diagram showing the configuration of the symbol management table in the monitoring device according to the second embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 9 is the algorithm of the monitoring device according to the second embodiment of the present invention. It is a flowchart.

  In the figure, the same parts as those in the first embodiment are denoted by the same reference numerals, and the description thereof is omitted. As shown in FIG. 6, extended items 4e and 4f as a menu for moving to another symbol, such as return (symbol 2) and next (symbol 3), are added to the menu window 40 and applied. As shown in FIG. 7, threshold value information for switching cells (indicating monitoring items or extended items) by scrolling operation is registered as the scroll movement threshold value 16 in the scroll monitoring information management table. Next, information on a threshold value for switching symbols by scroll operation is registered as the symbol switching threshold value 17. Thus, by providing the threshold value 16 for scroll movement and the threshold value 17 for symbol switching, it is possible to determine which state is cell movement or symbol movement according to the scrolling speed.

  As shown in FIG. 8, a symbol management table is registered as a means for setting the symbol monitoring order. In this symbol management table, information on the number of symbols monitored by scroll monitoring is registered as the number 21 of symbols monitored by scroll monitoring. Next, information on the number of the currently monitored symbol is registered as the number 22 of the currently monitored symbol. Next, symbol information to be monitored by the scroll function is registered as the symbol 23.

  Next, an operation and a display method on the monitoring screen 1 of the monitoring device according to the second embodiment will be described with reference to the drawings. First, as in the first embodiment, the monitored portion of the monitored device is displayed on the monitoring screen 1 as a symbol, for example, with each symbol 20, 21, 22, 23 as a simplified path diagram. Furthermore, as shown in FIG. 7, each symbol has a plurality of monitoring items, information for each monitoring item, and extended items 4e and 4f for movement between symbols, as in the first embodiment. Each is assigned as scroll information. Further, as shown in FIG. 8, a symbol management table for setting a monitoring order between symbols is registered.

  Then, the operations from step S1 to step S7 in FIG. 9 are performed as in the first embodiment, and a pop-up menu window 40 is displayed as shown in FIG. At this time, the extended items 4e and 4f are also displayed. Next, the operations from step S1 to step S8 in FIG. 9 are performed again as in the first embodiment. Next, whether or not the scroll signal is within the threshold value is determined based on the information about the threshold value 16 for scroll movement and the threshold value 17 for symbol switching in the symbol management table (step S12 in FIG. 9). Next, if the scroll signal reaches the symbol switching threshold value 17, the mouse cursor is moved from the current symbol to the next symbol in the monitoring order in accordance with the symbol monitoring order in the symbol management table (FIG. 9). Step S15).

  If it is determined in step S8 in FIG. 9 that the mouse input is not a scroll signal, it is next determined whether or not the mouse input is the right ButtonPress (step S13 in FIG. 9). Next, when it is determined that the mouse input is not the right ButtonPress, the operation ends. If it is determined that, for example, the right button of the mouse is clicked and the mouse input is the right ButtonPress, it is next determined whether or not the selected cell is a moving cell (step S14 in FIG. 9). . Next, if it is determined that the cell is not a moving cell, the process is terminated. If it is determined that the cell is a moving cell, that is, if it is the extended items 4e and 4f, and it is determined that the return or the next is selected, next, depending on the symbol monitoring order in the symbol management table The mouse cursor is moved from the current symbol to the next symbol in the monitoring order (step S15 in FIG. 9).

  The monitoring apparatus of the second embodiment configured as described above has the same effect as that of the first embodiment. In addition, when the scroll signal exceeding the threshold is received, the right button of the mouse is clicked. In such a case, it is possible to move the mouse cursor to the next symbol, and the operation becomes simple and erroneous operations can be reduced. It should be noted that the left and right mouse buttons can be set to either one, and the present invention is not limited to the above case.

Embodiment 3 FIG.
In each of the above embodiments, the click on the mouse is used as a trigger for starting the scroll operation, but in the third embodiment of the present application, a filter layer for monitoring the mouse cursor position is applied on the screen so that monitoring can be performed more easily. Add a function to manage the movement area of the mouse cursor. FIG. 10 is a diagram showing the configuration of the screen of the monitoring device according to the third embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 11 is a diagram showing the configuration of the symbol management table in the monitoring device according to the third embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. It is a flowchart which shows the algorithm of the monitoring apparatus of Embodiment 3 of invention.

  In the figure, the same parts as those in the above embodiments are denoted by the same reference numerals, and description thereof is omitted. As shown in FIG. 10, when a filter layer for treating mouse input is provided in the upper layer of the monitoring screen 1, and the mouse cursor 3 enters the filter layer, the same case as the left mouse click in each of the above embodiments The operation areas 70, 71, 72, and 73 are provided for the symbols 20, 21, 22, and 23, respectively. As shown in FIG. 12, information on the number of operation areas of each symbol is registered in the symbol management table as the number 24 of mouse cursor management areas. Next, as the area information 25, the area information of each operation area is registered such as the X axis, the X coordinate of the Y axis, and the Y coordinate.

  Next, the operation and display method on the monitoring screen 1 of the monitoring device in the third embodiment will be described with reference to the drawings. First, as in the third embodiment, the monitored portion of the monitored device is displayed on the monitoring screen 1 as a symbol, for example, the symbols 20, 21, 22, and 23 are displayed in a simplified route diagram. Further, as in the above embodiments, each symbol is assigned with a plurality of monitoring items as monitoring information, information for each monitoring item, and extension items for movement between symbols as scroll information. Furthermore, as shown in FIG. 11, area information corresponding to the operation area of each symbol is allocated. Similarly to the above embodiments, when a mouse operation is performed, a mouse operation input is received (step S1 in FIG. 12).

  Next, it is determined whether or not the position of the mouse cursor is in any region, that is, in the operation area, based on the region information 25 of the symbol management table in FIG. 11 (step S16 in FIG. 12). Next, if it is determined that the operation area is on any one of the operation areas, it is next determined whether or not the operation mode of the mode information of the monitoring device for the allocation information of the symbol is the scroll monitoring mode (FIG. 12). Step S3).

  Next, since it is in the scroll monitoring mode, it is next determined in the monitoring state of the monitoring device of the scroll monitoring information management table whether or not the current scroll operation is being monitored (step S4 in FIG. 5). Here, since the scroll operation is not being monitored, the mouse cursor is moved to the position of the symbol corresponding to the operation area (step S18 in FIG. 12). Since this movement determines that the left mouse button in each of the above embodiments has been clicked, a menu window composed of a plurality of monitoring items is popped up (step S19 in FIG. 12). . Next, a flag is set in the monitoring state of the monitoring device in the scroll monitoring information management table of the symbol, and the monitoring state is set by the scroll operation (step S20 in FIG. 12). Next, the same operation as in each of the above embodiments is performed.

  The monitoring apparatus of the third embodiment configured as described above has the same effects as those of the above-described embodiments, and can easily move the mouse cursor without having to move the mouse cursor over the symbol. Since the symbol can be moved onto a desired symbol, the operation becomes simple and erroneous operations can be reduced.

Embodiment 4 FIG.
In each of the above-described embodiments, the mouse cursor is moved by a mouse operation. However, in Embodiment 4 of the present application, a keyboard signal and a symbol are associated with each other based on a monitoring information base. A case where the monitoring operation can be started will be described. FIG. 13 is a diagram showing the configuration of the scroll monitoring information management table in the monitoring device according to Embodiment 4 of the present invention, and FIG. 14 is a diagram showing the configuration of the symbol management table in the monitoring device according to Embodiment 4 of the present invention. is there.

  In the figure, the same parts as those in the above embodiments are denoted by the same reference numerals, and description thereof is omitted. As shown in FIG. 13, in the scroll monitoring information management table, information on a keyboard input signal that becomes a trigger for moving the mouse cursor to the first monitoring symbol is registered as the signal 18 of the monitoring start key. As shown in FIG. 14, as the means for setting the symbol monitoring order, the symbol management table registers the information of the symbol number that first points the mouse cursor on the screen as the first symbol number 26. For example, a Home key that is a button key of a keyboard as a means having a plurality of button keys that can be input to the monitoring screen is assigned to the monitoring start input.

  Next, an operation and a display method on the monitoring screen of the monitoring device according to the fourth embodiment will be described with reference to the drawings. First, the same operation as in each of the above embodiments is performed to display a menu window and an information window. Separately, for example, by pressing the Home key of the keyboard, the signal 18 of the monitoring start key in the scroll monitoring information management table of FIG. 13 is confirmed. Then, based on the information of the first symbol number 26 in the symbol management table of FIG. 14, the mouse cursor moves to the monitoring start symbol. Monitoring from the first symbol in the monitoring order can be performed.

  The monitoring apparatus according to the fourth embodiment configured as described above has the same effects as those of the above-described embodiments, and can easily move the mouse cursor onto a predetermined symbol only by a button operation. Therefore, the operation becomes simple and erroneous operations can be reduced. In the fourth embodiment, an example is shown in which a desired button key of a plurality of button keys is defined as a movement key for moving to the first symbol position in the monitoring order using the Home key as a predetermined symbol. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and a moving key for moving to a predetermined symbol, for example, the last symbol in the monitoring order, the middle symbol in the monitoring order, or the like is set as a predetermined button key, as in the fourth embodiment. It can be carried out.

It is a figure which shows the structure of the monitoring screen of the monitoring apparatus of Embodiment 1 of this invention. It is a figure which shows the structure of the monitoring screen of the monitoring apparatus of Embodiment 1 of this invention. It is a figure which shows the structure of the monitoring screen of the monitoring apparatus of Embodiment 1 of this invention. It is the figure which showed the structure of the scroll monitoring information management table in the monitoring apparatus of Embodiment 1 of this invention. It is a flowchart which shows the algorithm of the monitoring apparatus of Embodiment 1 of this invention. It is a figure which shows the structure of the screen of the monitoring apparatus of Embodiment 2 of this invention. It is the figure which showed the structure of the scroll monitoring information management table in the monitoring apparatus of Embodiment 2 of this invention. It is the figure which showed the structure of the symbol management table in the monitoring apparatus of Embodiment 2 of this invention. It is a flowchart which shows the algorithm of the monitoring apparatus of Embodiment 2 of this invention. It is a figure which shows the structure of the screen of the monitoring apparatus of Embodiment 3 of this invention. It is the figure which showed the structure of the symbol management table in the monitoring apparatus of Embodiment 3 of this invention. It is a flowchart which shows the algorithm of the monitoring apparatus of Embodiment 3 of this invention. It is the figure which showed the structure of the scroll monitoring information management table in the monitoring apparatus of Embodiment 4 of this invention. It is the figure which showed the structure of the symbol management table in the monitoring apparatus of Embodiment 4 of this invention.

Explanation of symbols

1 monitoring screen, 3 mouse cursor, 4,40 menu window,
4a, 4b, 4c, 4d Monitoring item, 4e, 4f Extended item, 5b Information window,
20, 21, 22, 23, 24 symbols,
70, 71, 72, 73, 74 Operation area.

Claims (4)

When a symbol corresponding to each monitored unit of a monitored device having a plurality of monitored units is displayed on a monitoring screen and the symbol is designated by a mouse cursor of a mouse operable on the monitoring screen, each monitored unit In the monitoring device for displaying monitoring information of each unit, the mouse has a scroll function, and monitoring information for each monitored unit is a plurality of monitoring items for monitoring each monitored unit and information for each monitoring item And a means for popping up a list of the plurality of monitoring items corresponding to the desired symbol when the mouse cursor is clicked on the desired symbol position and clicked, When a signal is distributed from the scroll function of the mouse, the pop-up is displayed in accordance with the signal of the scroll function. Monitoring apparatus characterized by comprising a means for corresponding to each monitored item that was scrolled display information for each of the monitoring items. Based on the information on the monitoring order of each symbol by means for setting the monitoring order of each symbol and the scroll speed of the mouse exceeds a predetermined threshold value or by clicking the predetermined button of the mouse The monitoring apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising means for moving the mouse cursor from the desired symbol to another symbol. Means for setting an operation area on the monitoring screen for each symbol of the monitoring screen, and when the mouse cursor reaches any one of the operation areas with respect to the display of the monitoring screen, 3. A means for moving to a desired symbol position corresponding to an operation area and pop-up displaying a list of the plurality of monitoring items corresponding to the desired symbol. The monitoring device described. Means having a plurality of button keys that can be input to the monitoring screen; means for defining a movement key for moving to a predetermined symbol position to a desired button key of the plurality of button keys; and the movement key 4. The monitoring apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising means for moving the position of the mouse cursor above the predetermined symbol position in response to a press signal.

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