JP2007129356A - Display device - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a display device capable of displaying page numbers corresponding to the version of a manual to be used, even if the manual has been revised. <P>SOLUTION: The display device is provided with a storage 24 for storing corresponding information between the display of a display screen of a display unit 12 and page numbers of the manual corresponding to the display, and the display device displays the page number corresponding to the display on the display screen. The display device is configured so that the storage 24 stores corresponding information corresponding to the version of a manual, and the page numbers of the manual are displayed as corresponding to the version information accepted by an operating section 13 and corresponding to the display of the display screen. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a display device that includes a storage unit that stores correspondence information between a display screen display and a page number of a manual corresponding to the display, and displays a page number corresponding to the display on the display screen.

Copiers, facsimile machines, multifunction devices, etc. have a display device such as a liquid crystal display device, but the display screen size of the display device is limited in size, and even if you try to display operation instructions on a small display screen , Not enough display. Therefore, instead of displaying the operation description on the display screen, the corresponding page number of the manual (instruction) is displayed (for example, see Patent Document 1).
JP 2004-214990 A

  By displaying the page number of the manual corresponding to the current display on the display screen, it becomes possible to easily find the page of the operation explanation or the contents explanation from the manual. However, when the manual is changed, there is a high possibility that the page number of the explanation is also changed, and there is a problem that the practicality is low.

  The present invention has been made in view of such circumstances, and even if the manual is changed by storing the correspondence corresponding to the version of the manual in the storage unit, the version of the manual to be used It is an object of the present invention to provide a display device capable of displaying a corresponding page number on a display screen.

  Further, the present invention includes a receiving means for receiving the version information of the manual, and displays the page number of the manual corresponding to the received version information and corresponding to the display on the display screen, thereby changing the manual. It is another object of the present invention to provide a display device that can display the page number corresponding to the version of the manual to be used on the display screen.

  In addition, the present invention provides an accepting unit that accepts version information of an instruction and an external storage device, and the accepting unit accepts the correspondence according to the version information accepted by the accepting unit. Acquisition means for acquiring the correspondence according to the version information from the external storage device, so that the correspondence stored in the storage unit is changed to the version after the change even if the manual is changed. Another object is to provide a display device that can be adapted.

  A display device according to a first aspect of the present invention includes a storage unit that stores correspondence information between a display screen display and a page number of a manual corresponding to the display, and displays the page number corresponding to the display on the display screen. The storage unit stores correspondence information corresponding to the version of the manual.

  The display device according to a second aspect of the present invention is the display device according to the first aspect, further comprising receiving means for receiving the version information of the manual, and displaying a page number corresponding to the version information received by the receiving means and corresponding to display of the display screen. It is comprised by these.

  The display device according to a third aspect of the present invention is the display device according to the first aspect, connected to the receiving means for receiving the version information of the manual and the external storage device for storing the corresponding information, and corresponding information corresponding to the version information received by the receiving means Is not stored in the storage unit, an acquisition unit that acquires correspondence information corresponding to the version information received by the reception unit from the external storage device is provided.

  In the first invention, since the correspondence corresponding to the version of the manual is stored in the storage unit, even if the manual is changed, the page number corresponding to the version of the manual to be used is displayed on the display screen. It becomes possible to display.

  In the second invention, the version information of the manual is received by the accepting means, and the page number of the manual corresponding to the received version information and corresponding to the display on the display screen is displayed. In addition, the page number corresponding to the version of the manual to be used can be displayed on the display screen.

  In the third invention, when the version information of the manual is received by the receiving means, and the correspondence information corresponding to the received version information is not stored in the storage unit, the acquisition means receives the correspondence information corresponding to the received version information. Since the information is acquired from the storage device, the correspondence information stored in the storage unit can be made to correspond to the changed version even when the manual is changed.

  According to the first invention, even when the manual is changed, the page number corresponding to the version of the manual to be used can be displayed on the display screen.

  According to the second aspect, even if the manual is changed, the page number corresponding to the version of the manual to be used can be displayed on the display screen.

  According to the third aspect, even if the manual is changed, the correspondence information stored in the storage unit can be made to correspond to the changed version.

  Hereinafter, the present invention will be specifically described with reference to the drawings showing embodiments thereof. In this embodiment, a display device provided in a multifunction machine having functions of a facsimile, an image scanner, and a printer will be described as an example.

  FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration example of a multi-function peripheral including a display device according to the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating an example of a communication network to which the multi-function peripheral is connected. The multifunction machine 10 is connected to an internal network 30 such as an in-house LAN (Local Area Network). A server 34 is connected to the internal network 30. The multi-function device 10 is connected to an external network 32 such as a telephone network or the Internet.

  The MFP 10 includes a main control unit 11, a display unit 12, an operation unit 13, a reading unit 14, a recording unit 15, a codec 16, a conversion unit 17, a modem 18, an NCU (Network Control Unit) 19, a LAN interface 20, and an image. A memory 21, a ROM 22, a RAM 23, and a storage unit 24 are provided, and are connected to a bus 29. The units 12 to 24 of the multifunction machine 10 are controlled by a main control unit 11 such as a CPU.

  The display unit 12 is a display device such as an LCD (Liquid Crystal Display), and displays the operation state of the multifunction machine 10 under the control of the main control unit 11. The operation unit 13 is a device that receives an operation input to the multifunction machine 10 and includes various keys such as a start key, a stop key, a numeric keypad, an abbreviated dial key, and a function key. Note that by using the touch panel type display unit 12, some or all of the various keys of the operation unit 13 can be substituted.

  The modem 18 is a fax modem capable of facsimile communication, and is connected to the bus 29 and the NCU 19. The NCU 19 is connected to the external network 32. The modem 18 is connected to the external network 32 as necessary, and data such as facsimile communication with an external communication device (not shown) connected to the external network 32 is connected. Send and receive. The LAN interface 20 is an interface for connecting the multifunction machine 10 to the internal network 30, and performs data transmission / reception with the server 34 connected to the internal network 30.

  The ROM 22 stores various programs and data executed by the main control unit 11, and the main control unit 11 executes the programs stored in the ROM 22 to control each part of the multifunction machine 10. The RAM 23 is configured by SRAM, flash memory, or the like, and stores temporary data or various setting data used when the main control unit 11 executes a program. When the RAM 23 is composed of a flash memory, various setting data of the multifunction machine 10 can be retained even when the power is turned off.

  The reading unit 14 is an image scanner including, for example, a CCD (Charge Coupled Device), reads a document, and outputs image data. The image memory 21 is configured by a DRAM or the like, and stores image data of a document read by the reading unit 14. The image memory 21 stores image data received by the LAN interface 20 or the NCU 19 via the internal network 30 or the external network 32. In addition, the image data stored in the image memory 21 can be transmitted from the LAN interface 20 or the NCU 19. The recording unit 15 is an electrophotographic printer, and records an image based on the image data stored in the image memory 21 on a recording sheet.

  The codec 16 performs encoding and decoding such as encoding of image data to be transmitted by facsimile and decoding of image data received by facsimile. The conversion unit 17 performs data conversion such as conversion from an image data format for facsimile transmission to an e-mail format and conversion from an e-mail format to an image data format for facsimile reception.

  The accumulating unit 24 accumulates image data read by the reading unit 14 or image data received by facsimile. For example, image data stored in the image memory 21 is accumulated in the accumulation unit 24 under the control of the main control unit 11. As the storage unit 24, a flash memory or a hard disk device can be used.

  The storage unit 24 stores manual version information (hereinafter referred to as version registration data). The storage unit (storage unit) 24 stores correspondence information (hereinafter referred to as page correspondence data) between the display of the display screen of the display unit 12 and the page number of a manual (instruction) corresponding to the display. Yes. Note that page correspondence data corresponding to the version registration data is stored in the storage unit 24.

  FIG. 3 is a conceptual diagram showing an example of page correspondence data. The page-corresponding data is the display screen NO. The correspondence between the manual version and the manual page is stored. The page correspondence data is the display screen NO. It is possible to store the correspondence relationship between the manual and the page of the manual, or the correspondence relationship of only the version corresponding to the version registration data.

  The operation unit 13 operates as a receiving unit that receives manual version information (version information), and the version information received by the operation unit 13 is stored in the storage unit 24 as version registration data by the main control unit 11. Then, the page number of the manual corresponding to the display on the display unit 12 and corresponding to the version registration data is displayed on the display screen of the display unit 12 by the main control unit 11.

  FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram illustrating an example of the display screen 40 of the display unit 12. The example of FIG. 4 is a fax number registration screen. (42) and a registration number (44) are displayed, and a manual page number (46) corresponding to this display (fax number registration screen) is also displayed.

  Further, the LAN interface 20 is connected to a server 34 (external storage device) that stores page correspondence data, and the page correspondence data corresponding to the version information received by the operation unit 13 is not stored in the storage unit 24. It operates as acquisition means for acquiring page correspondence data corresponding to the received version information from the server 34.

  FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing an example of display processing of a manual page number corresponding to the display screen. When the display screen of the display unit 12 is updated by operating the operation unit 13 (S10: YES), the main control unit 11 registers the manual page corresponding to the updated display screen in the page correspondence data. If there is a manual page corresponding to the display screen (S12: YES), the manual version is acquired from the version registration data (S14), and the page number of the manual corresponding to the display screen and the acquired version is acquired. Is acquired from the page correspondence data (S16), and the acquired page number is additionally displayed on the display screen of the display unit 12 (S18). Thereby, the page number of the manual corresponding to the version and the display screen is displayed.

  When there is no manual page corresponding to the display screen (S12: NO), or when the display screen is turned off (S20: YES) after the page number is additionally displayed on the display screen (S18), the process is terminated. If the display screen is not turned off (S20: NO), the same processing is repeated.

  FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing an example of manual version registration processing. When registration of the manual version is accepted from the operation unit 13 (S30), the main control unit 11 updates the version registration data (S32), and the page correspondence data does not correspond to the updated new version (S34). : NO), requesting page correspondence data corresponding to the new version from the LAN interface 20 to the server 34 (S36), and storing the page correspondence data corresponding to the new version received by the LAN interface 20 from the server 34 24 (S38), and the process is terminated. If the page-corresponding data corresponds to the updated new version (S34: YES), the process ends. As a result, the page correspondence data corresponding to the manual version is stored in the storage unit 24.

  In the above-described embodiment, the multifunction device has been described as an example. However, the present invention can be applied to a display device provided in an arbitrary device other than the multifunction device.

1 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration example of a multifunction machine including a display device according to the present invention. 1 is a block diagram illustrating an example of a communication network to which a multifunction peripheral is connected. It is a conceptual diagram which shows the example of page corresponding data. It is the schematic which shows the example of the display screen of a display part. It is a flowchart which shows the example of the display process of the page number of the manual corresponding to a display screen. It is a flowchart which shows the example of the registration process of a manual version.

Explanation of symbols

10 MFP 11 Main Control Unit 18 Modem 19 NCU
20 LAN interface 21 Image memory 23 RAM
24 storage unit 30 internal network 32 external network 34 server

Claims (3)

In a display device that includes a storage unit that stores correspondence information between a display screen display and a page number of a manual corresponding to the display, and displays a page number corresponding to the display on the display screen,
The storage device stores correspondence information corresponding to the version of the manual. It has a means to accept the version information of the manual,
2. The display device according to claim 1, wherein the page number corresponding to the version information received by the receiving means and corresponding to the display on the display screen is displayed. Means for accepting the version information of the manual;
When the correspondence information corresponding to the version information received by the receiving unit is not stored in the storage unit and connected to the external storage device that stores the correspondence information, the correspondence information corresponding to the version information received by the receiving unit is displayed. The display device according to claim 1, further comprising: an acquisition unit configured to acquire from the external storage device.

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