JP2006268863A - Display board system - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a display board system with which it is not necessary to operate a keyboard and a mouse and even an operator unskilled in personal computer operation can display a number of display contents on a display board via a communication line such as the Internet, can select various contents with the similar sense to switching television channels and can perform display switching. <P>SOLUTION: In the display board system comprising an information terminal connected to a communication line and the display board connected to the information terminal for displaying various kinds of content information, the display board system includes a display screen switching means using a remote controller. For the display screen switching means, a signal based on an operating key of the remote controller and screen position information based on the keyboard or the mouse are stored in an associated manner and when any associated screen position information is selected by operating the remote controller, a desired screen is displayed. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a display board system that is connected to a communication line such as the Internet or an intranet and displays various display contents, and in particular, desired display contents can be selected by selecting display contents classified arbitrarily by operation of a remote controller or the like. This is a technology related to a display board system to be displayed.

  As shown in FIG. 8, in the conventional information display system, the keyboard 3 and the mouse 4 connected to the terminal (personal computer) 82 are operated to connect to the Internet, display the content on the display 81, and switch the content. It was. Since this operation is performed while viewing the screen of the display 81, the keyboard 3 and the mouse 4 have to be arranged in the vicinity of the display 1. In addition, an operator who is not familiar with the operation of the terminal (computer) needs to remember how to handle and move the keyboard and mouse.

  In addition, regarding a general television receiver, in a television receiver having a function of simultaneously displaying a plurality of broadcast wave broadcast images on a screen, the received image display arrangement and the tuning button arrangement position on the operation surface are the same. There is a known document (Patent Document 1) related to the receiving system.

Japanese Utility Model Publication No. 05-63163

However, since the conventional system shown in FIG. 8 requires keyboard and mouse operations, it takes time for an operator unfamiliar with the operation of the personal computer, and it is possible to secure a place for arranging the keyboard and mouse. In the case of a display terminal for visitors such as a large display board installed in a store etc., it is necessary to place a keyboard and mouse at a position that can be seen from the display surface, and it is not suitable for a display board for visitors There was a problem that.
Further, the above-mentioned Patent Document 1 is a general television receiver, which can select only broadcast waves and does not go through a communication line such as the Internet. However, there is a problem that it is not suitable for a display board because it cannot be selected in consideration of the classification and the detailed classification.

  Therefore, the present invention has been made in view of the above-described conventional problems, and does not require operation of a keyboard and a mouse, and even an operator unfamiliar with personal computer operation can display a large amount of display content via a communication line such as the Internet. An object of the present invention is to provide a display board system that can be displayed on a board, and can select various contents and perform display switching with the same feeling as switching television channels.

  In order to solve the above conventional problems, the invention described in claim 1 is a display board system connected to a communication line. The storage means has a data table for storing arbitrary homepage addresses in advance classified according to arbitrary types. Storage means for storing a display format corresponding to each arbitrary type in a display screen format, and an operation unit having a switch means corresponding to the display screen format corresponding to the display format, and the display screen format An arbitrary section of the arbitrary type is selected by input of a corresponding switch means, and a list of the arbitrary page addresses or web information in the section is displayed.

  In order to solve the above conventional problems, the invention according to claim 2 is the display board system according to claim 1, wherein the page addresses displayed in the list are the same as the display screen format corresponding to the display format. The display screen format is such that arbitrary web information is accessed by the input of the switch means and the web information is displayed.

  In order to solve the above-mentioned conventional problems, the invention described in claim 3 is a display board system comprising an information terminal connected to a communication line and a display board connected to the information terminal for displaying various contents information. The display board system includes a display screen switching means by a remote controller, and the display screen switching means stores a signal based on an operation key of the remote controller and screen position information by a keyboard or a mouse in association with each other. A desired screen is displayed by selecting the associated screen position information.

  In order to solve the above-mentioned conventional problems, the invention according to claim 4 is the display board system according to claim 3, wherein a content registration memory for arbitrarily classifying and storing related content information in advance is stored. And a list of arbitrarily registered contents or corresponding web information is displayed with reference to the contents registration memory when the remote control operation is performed.

  According to the present invention, it is not necessary to operate the keyboard and mouse, and even an operator unfamiliar with computer operation can display a large amount of display content on the display board via a communication line such as the Internet. Provided is a display board system capable of selecting various contents and performing display switching with the same feeling as switching channels.

  Further, according to the present invention, by associating the signal by the operation key of the remote controller with the screen position information, the selection operation equivalent to the mouse screen positioning can be performed only by the remote control operation, and further arbitrarily related in advance. Provided is a display board system in which content information is registered so that the content information can be displayed on the screen as an easy-to-see classification and desired content information can be displayed by remote control operation.

Embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.
FIG. 2 is a system configuration diagram of the display board system according to the embodiment of the present invention. A terminal 2 (personal computer) connected to a communication line such as the Internet or an intranet, the terminal 2 includes a keyboard 3, a mouse 4, and a remote control light receiving unit 5, and a display 1 (display) that is a display board body Board). Further, the remote control light receiving unit is provided with a remote control 6 for transmitting optical data such as infrared rays, and a display operation on the display board is performed by key operation of the remote control. The remote control light receiving unit 5 may be provided in either the terminal 2 or the display 1.

  FIG. 1 is a block configuration diagram relating to a terminal of a display board system according to an embodiment of the present invention. As remote control signal receiving unit 11 for receiving a signal from the remote control, reception signal analyzing unit 12 for analyzing the remote control signal, mouse control unit 13 for controlling the keyboard and mouse, and data associating the remote control signal with mouse control A key information file 10 to be stored, a display control unit 15 connected to a display unit of a display board, a WAN transmission / reception unit 14 connected to a communication line such as the Internet or an intranet, and contents storing data displayed on the display The registration memory 16 and a main control unit 17 that controls these units are configured. Details will be described later.

  FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a key arrangement of the remote controller according to the embodiment of the present invention. For example, in the case of this remote control, operation keys are provided with selection channels “1” to “9” and “0”, “menu”, and “power”, and by pressing any key, A signal is transmitted from the infrared light transmitting section and received by the remote control signal receiving section in FIG.

  FIG. 5 shows a key information file according to the embodiment of the present invention, and is a data memory showing correspondence between signals generated by key operations on the remote controller and mouse cursor positions. The infrared signal transmitted by the operation of the remote controller 6 is received by the remote controller signal receiver 11, and the received signal analyzer 11 analyzes the received signal by referring to the key information file for the received signal. The cursor position of the mouse is specified and sent to the display control unit 15.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a mouse cursor position on the display of the display board according to the embodiment of the present invention. In this example, when the screen size is 640 dots × 480 dots (rows × columns), the screen is divided into three equal parts vertically and horizontally for a total of nine screen divisions.
Here, the address of screen (1) in FIG. 6 is (106 rows, 80 columns), the address of screen (2) is (318 rows, 80 columns),..., And the address of screen (9) is (530 rows, 400 columns), addresses corresponding to the numbers of the respective screens are set and stored in the key information file shown in FIG.

The number of divided screens matches the channel of the remote control (operation keys “1” to “9”), and the desired operation key of the remote control is pressed to transmit predetermined infrared signal data, and the remote control signal receiving unit 11 When the key information file 10 is received, the key information file 10 is referred to. Then, the received signal analysis unit 12 analyzes the pressed operation key (signal based on) so that the mouse is clicked on the mouse control unit 13 at the position of the mouse cursor point corresponding to the number of the operation key. Output.
For example, when the remote control key “1” is pressed, the point (106 rows, 80 columns) corresponding to the pressed key “1” is extracted from the key information file 10 and is sent to the mouse control unit 13 as shown in FIG. It is recognized that the mouse click is pressed at the position of the screen (1) shown in FIG.

  In this example, the screen size is 640 dots × 480 dots and the screen is divided into nine. However, the contents of the key information file shown in FIG. 6 can be arbitrarily set according to the number of keys on the remote control or the number of screens to be divided. Can be determined. Further, when the pressed key is “power”, a power on / off operation of the display can be performed by the remote controller by transmitting a signal for turning on / off the power of the display via the display control unit 15.

FIG. 3 is a memory table diagram of the content registration memory according to the embodiment of the present invention. This memory table has pages “P1”, “P2”, “P3”... On the vertical axis, and channels “1” to “9” on the horizontal axis, and pages “P1” “P2” “P3”. Represents channels “(1)” to “(9)” displayed on one screen as one page.
For example, in the page “P1: menu 1” (row) and channel “1” (column), the upper “weather” is displayed at the position shown in the screen “1” in FIG. , “: P3” in the lower row indicates the link destination at the time of selection, and any page or specified web information (URL) is displayed when the channel is pressed (by selection). It becomes.

FIG. 7 is a transition diagram showing the display content switching operation according to the embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 7A is an example of a transition diagram when the channel “1” is selected, and FIG. ) Is an example of a transition diagram when the channel “(5)” is selected.
First, the terminal 2 is turned on, a predetermined operation is performed using the keyboard 3 and the mouse 4, and the page “P1” which is a preset screen is displayed. That is, the screen “P1” in FIG. 7A or the channel “1” to “9” of the page “P1” as shown in the screen “P1” in FIG. It is displayed on the screen.
Further, when the display board (display) is turned on, the screen “P1” is displayed on the display board display. Thereafter, the display can be switched not only by the operation of the keyboard 3 and the mouse 4, but also by the operation only by the remote controller.

Next, for example, as shown in FIG. 7A, when the channel “▲ 1 ▼” is selected (pressed) on the screen “P1” by operating the remote controller, the page “ Each channel “(1)” to “(9)” of “P3: Weather 1” is displayed as one screen (screen “P3”). In this display state, for example, screen transitions as shown in the following (1) to (3) can be made.
(1) When the channel “1” is selected, web information (URL), which is weather information related to Tokyo, is acquired via the WAN transmission / reception unit 14 and the URL is displayed on the screen (screen “weather in Tokyo”). The same operation state is also applied to the channels “(2)” to “(5)” and “(7)”, and URLs related to the weather in various places are displayed on the screen.
(2) When channel “{circle around (6)}” is selected, screen “P30” is displayed as a link destination. Next, for example, when channel “▲ 2 ▼” is selected, a URL related to weather information in the Tohoku Hokuriku region is displayed. For example, when channel “▲ 8 ▼” is selected, each channel “▲ 1 ▼” to “▲ 9” on page “P33” is displayed. "" Is displayed as one screen (screen "P33").
(3) When the channel “(9)” is selected, the screen “P1” is displayed as the link destination. That is, the screen returns to the menu screen “P1” which is the initial screen.

Further, for example, as shown in FIG. 7B, when the channel “5” is selected (pressed) on the screen “P1” by operating the remote controller, the screen “P7” is displayed as the link destination of the displayed “concert”. Is displayed. Further, when the channel “(7)” is selected, a URL related to “FFF”, which is concert information, is acquired via the WAN transmitting / receiving unit 14 and the URL is displayed on the screen.
When the “9” key is pressed on the menu screen (screen “P1”), “P2” which is the menu screen of the next page (each channel “1”) of the page “P2” in FIG. “(9)”) is displayed. Further, when the “9” key is pressed while the menu screen “P2” is displayed, the menu screen of the screen “P1” is returned.

  In order to indicate what the currently displayed screen is, it is possible to display the characters at the bottom of the page in FIG. 3 by pop-up display or window display. This can be achieved only by operating the remote controller, for example, by assigning a signal from the operation key “0” of the remote controller to the title display relating to the current page. For example, in the display state of the screen “P7” (that is, the page “P7: concert”), when the title display key “0” is pressed, the title “concert” is displayed on the screen “P7”. Is displayed.

Further, in a state where the screen is not divided (for example, the screen “P7 URL“ FFF ”” in FIG. 7B), by pressing the “menu” key on the remote controller, the top screen “P1” is displayed. By returning, it is possible to switch between a plurality of menu screens.
By pressing a key on the remote control corresponding to the screen displayed in 9 divisions in this way, the web screen (URL) is acquired and displayed via a display screen that is a link destination registered in advance or the Internet. It will be something that can be made.

  As described above, in the present invention, by associating the operation key of the remote control with the screen position information by the mouse, the mouse positioning and the selection by clicking can be performed only by the remote control operation. Can be displayed on the screen as easy-to-see classification of content information, and desired content information can be displayed by remote control operation.

  In particular, when installing large display boards for customers, such as banks and securities companies, only the display 1 is installed at a position that is easy for the customer to see, a terminal (computer) 2 connected to the display, a keyboard 3. The mouse 4 can be placed in a position that cannot be seen by the customer, so that an orderly impression of the store can be given.

  In addition to being connected to the Internet and the intranet of a bank or securities company, it is possible to display the bank's or securities company's own content and to create a display screen with a commercial effect. it can.

  Therefore, in the display board system according to the present invention, a terminal (personal computer) and a large display device (plasma display, etc.) are connected via a wide area network (WAN) communication line including the Internet and an intranet, and screen operation of the large display device is performed. Is suitable for an information display device capable of easily switching display by remote control operation.

It is a block block diagram regarding the terminal of the display board system which is embodiment of this invention. 1 is a system configuration diagram of a display board system according to an embodiment of the present invention. It is a memory table figure of the content registration memory which is embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows the keyboard layout of the remote control which is embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows the key information file which is embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows the mouse cursor position on the display of the display board which is embodiment of this invention. It is a transition diagram showing the switching operation of the display content which is an embodiment of the present invention, (1) is an example of a transition diagram when channel “(1)” is selected, and (2) is channel “(5)”. It is an example of the transition diagram at the time of selecting. It is a system configuration | structure figure of the conventional information display system.

Explanation of symbols

  DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1, 81 ... Display (display board main body) 2, 82 ... Terminal (computer), 3 ... Keyboard, 4 ... Mouse, 5 ... Remote control light-receiving part, 6 ... Remote control, 10 ... Key information file, 12 ... Received signal analysis part , 13 ... Mouse control unit, 14 ... WAN transmission / reception unit, 15 ... Display control unit, 16 ... Content registration memory, 17 ... Main control unit

Claims (4)

In the display board system connected to the communication line,
Storage means having a data table for storing arbitrary homepage addresses in advance classified into arbitrary types;
Storage means for storing a display format according to the arbitrary type in a display screen format;
An operation unit having a switch means corresponding to a display screen format corresponding to the display format,
An arbitrary section of the arbitrary type is selected by an input of the switch means corresponding to the display screen format, and a list of the arbitrary page addresses or web information in the section is displayed. And display board system. The display board system according to claim 1,
The listed page addresses are in a display screen format similar to the display screen format corresponding to the display format,
A display board system, wherein arbitrary web information is accessed by the input of the switch means and the web information is displayed. In a display board system comprising an information terminal connected to a communication line and a display board connected to the information terminal for displaying various content information,
The display board system includes display screen switching means by a remote controller,
The display screen switching means stores a signal based on an operation key of the remote controller and screen position information by a keyboard or mouse in association with each other,
A display board system that displays a desired screen by selecting the associated screen position information by a remote control operation. The display board system according to claim 3, wherein
A content registration memory for arbitrarily classifying and storing related content information arbitrarily in advance;
A display board system for displaying a list of arbitrarily registered contents or corresponding web information with reference to the contents registration memory when the remote control operation is performed.

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