JP2009168917A - Screen display device - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve convenience by allowing a user to recognize a controller causing communication errors and facilitating error recovery work, in a screen display device connected to a plurality of the controllers monitoring or controlling house facilities to provide contents for screen display. <P>SOLUTION: The screen display device 2 includes a control part 23 for displaying the contents received from each controller on a display part 21, and a storing part 24 for previously storing to correlate existence information of each content and an error notification screen notifying it when not receiving the content. The control part 23 displays the error notification screen corresponding to the existence information of the content on the display part 21 when not receiving any one of the contents. Therefor, it recognizes the controller generating the communication error for a user. Thus, the user is easy to perform error recovery work, and convenience is improved. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a screen display device that is connected to a plurality of systems that monitor or control residential facilities and displays content provided from each system.

  2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, a screen display device is known that is connected to a plurality of in-home systems that monitor or control residential facilities, performs data communication with each controller, and displays web content from each controller (for example, Patent Document 1). reference).

By the way, in the above screen display device, when an error occurs in communication with one of the controllers and content cannot be received from the controller, the display screen can be any of the controllers, The same error notification screen as shown in FIG. 13 preset by the browser is displayed. For this reason, it is difficult for the user to know which controller has an error in communication with which controller. Therefore, the user must perform error solving work such as communication line connection confirmation or power supply confirmation on which controller. It was hard to understand whether it was good or inconvenient. Patent Document 1 does not disclose a technique for solving this problem.
JP 2007-241449 A

  The present invention has been made to solve the above-described conventional problems, and recognizes a controller in which a communication error has occurred among a plurality of controllers that monitor or control housing equipment and provide contents for screen display. It is an object of the present invention to provide a screen display device that can improve convenience by facilitating error-resolving work.

  In order to achieve the above object, the invention of claim 1 includes a display unit that displays a screen, a communication unit that performs data communication with a plurality of controllers that monitor or control residential facilities, and each controller via the communication unit. In a screen display device comprising: a control unit that displays received content on the display unit; location information of each content, and error notification for notifying the user when the content cannot be received A storage unit that stores a table associated with the screen in advance, and when the control unit cannot receive any of the contents, an error notification screen corresponding to the location information of the content is displayed in the storage unit. Is obtained by referring to the above and displayed on the display unit.

  According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the screen display device according to the first aspect, the control unit designates a part of the display area of the display unit and displays any of the contents in the designated area. When the content to be displayed in the area cannot be received, an error notification screen corresponding to the location information of the content and preliminarily matching the size of the area is obtained with reference to the storage unit, It is displayed in the area.

  According to a third aspect of the present invention, in the screen display device according to the first or second aspect, the location information is an IP address of the controller or a URL of content held by the controller.

  According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, in the screen display device according to the second or third aspect, the control unit designates a part of the display area of the display unit based on a frame tag or an inline frame tag. is there.

  According to the invention of claim 1, when any of the contents cannot be received from a plurality of controllers that monitor or control the housing facility and provide the contents, an error notification screen corresponding to the location information of the contents is displayed on the display unit. Therefore, the user can recognize the controller having the content, that is, the controller in which the communication error has occurred. For this reason, the user can recognize the controller that should be the target of the error solving work, and can easily perform the work, improving convenience.

  According to the invention of claim 2, when content to be displayed in a part of the display area of the display unit cannot be received, an error corresponding to the location information of the content and the size of the part of the area in advance Since the notification screen is displayed in the area, it is possible to make the user recognize the controller having the content, that is, the controller in which the communication error has occurred, and even when the communication error occurs, Since other contents can be displayed in the display area, efficient error notification can be performed.

Hereinafter, screen display devices according to various embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.
(First embodiment)
First, a house equipment monitoring control system (hereinafter referred to as a monitoring control system) using a screen display device according to a first embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 1 shows the configuration of the monitoring control system. The monitoring control system 1 includes a plurality of subsystems 11 to 13 that perform monitoring or control of equipment, security monitoring, transfer of captured images using doorphones, and the like. Each controller of the subsystems 11 to 13 is connected to an integrated management apparatus 14 configured by a hub or the like. The screen display device 2 of the present embodiment is connected to the integrated management device 14, receives web content from each of the controllers, and displays it. The connection between each of the above devices and the controller is made by a communication line such as a LAN cable. Each device and the controller has a home network using a communication protocol such as TCP / IP, UDP, HTTP, or HTTPs (Hypertext Transfer Protocol Security). Constitute. The integrated management device 14 is connected to the Internet connection device 15, and the Internet connection device 15 is connected to the center device 17 via the Internet 16.

  The subsystem 11 includes one or a plurality of equipment 11a (housing equipment) such as a lighting fixture, an air conditioner, an electric lock, a floor heating system, and a power usage abnormality alarm, and equipment that controls or monitors the equipment 11a. A controller 11b (controller).

  The equipment controller 11b holds a plurality of web contents for displaying the name and operation state of the equipment 11a with characters or symbols, and an appropriate web is selected from them in response to a request from the screen display device 2. It has a web server function for selecting content and providing it to the screen display device 2.

  The sub-system 12 collects detection information from one or a plurality of security devices 12a (housing equipment) for detecting anomalies in the house and the security equipment 12a, and a security receiver 12b (housing) sounds an alarm sound accordingly. Equipment) and a security controller 12c (controller) that receives the detection information from the security receiver 12b and provides it to the screen display device 2.

  The security controller 12c holds a plurality of web contents for displaying the operation state and the like of the security receiver 12b with characters and symbols, and in response to a request from the screen display device 2, an appropriate web content is selected. Is selected and provided to the screen display device 2.

  The sub-system 13 includes a doorphone slave unit 13a (housing equipment) with a camera, a call function that is installed in a dwelling unit and enables a call between the doorphone slave unit 13a, and an image captured by the doorphone slave unit 13a. An interphone master unit 13b (household equipment) having a screen display function to display and an image transfer controller 13c (controller) that receives the captured image from the interphone master unit 13b, stores it, and transfers it to the center device 17 are provided. The center device 17 transmits the captured image to a portable terminal device (not shown) such as a cellular phone.

  The image transfer controller 13c holds a plurality of web contents that disclose a list of recorded captured images and the like, and selects appropriate web contents in response to a request from the screen display device 2 to the screen display device 2. It has a web server function to provide.

  A more detailed configuration of the monitoring control system 1 and its subsystems 11 to 13 is, for example, a configuration described in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2007-241449.

  Next, the screen display device 2 of the present embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS. 1 to 6 and FIGS. FIG. 2 shows an electrical configuration of the screen display device 2 of the present embodiment. The screen display device 2 includes a display unit 21 that displays a screen, a communication unit 22 that performs data communication with the above-described equipment device controller 11b, security controller 12c, and image transfer controller 13c (hereinafter referred to as controllers), And a control unit 23 that receives web content provided by the controller via the communication unit 22 and causes the display unit 21 to display the web content.

  Further, the screen display device 2 stores in advance a table in which the location information of each web content is associated with an error notification screen for notifying the user when the web content cannot be received. Unit 24, an operation unit 25 that is operated by a user to input various instructions, a speaker unit 26 that outputs sound according to various data, and a power supply circuit (not shown) that supplies power to each unit of the apparatus. Prepare. When any of the web contents cannot be received, the control unit 23 acquires an error notification screen corresponding to the location information of the web content with reference to the storage unit 24 and causes the display unit 21 to display the error notification screen. .

  The display unit 21 includes a liquid crystal display and its drive circuit. The communication unit 22 includes a communication circuit that is connected to the communication line of the above-described home network and functions as an interface between the control unit 23 and the home network. This communication circuit is configured to perform communication in accordance with, for example, the Ethernet (registered trademark) standard which is a type of LAN standard.

  The control unit 23 can be configured by a microprocessor, and the microprocessor controls the display of the display unit 22 according to an operation signal output from the operation unit 25 based on an operation by the user, and performs the above-described operation by the communication unit 22. Communication control with each controller, storage of various data in the storage unit 24, reading from the storage unit 24, sound output control of the speaker unit 26, and the like are performed. Further, in the display control of the display unit 22, the microprocessor interprets the web content from each controller and the error notification screen described in HTML using a web browser, reproduces it, and displays it on the display unit 21. To do.

  The storage unit 24 can be composed of a storage device such as a ROM, a RAM, a flash memory, or a hard disk device. A written document, a web browser used by the control unit 23, and voice data such as an alarm sound or a voice message output from the speaker unit 26 are stored in advance.

  The operation unit 25 includes a push button switch and a touch panel (a push button switch 25 a and a touch panel 25 b described later), and the touch panel is disposed on the display screen of the display unit 21. The operation unit 25 sends an operation signal according to the operation of the push button switch or the touch panel by the user to the control unit 23. The speaker unit 26 includes a speaker and its drive circuit.

  FIG. 3 shows the appearance of the screen display device 2. The screen display device 2 has a substantially rectangular box-shaped housing 27 made of a resin member and embedded in a wall surface in a house. The housing 27 includes the display unit 21, the communication unit 22, the control unit 23, and the memory described above. The unit 24, the operation unit 25, and the speaker unit 26 are internally provided. The front surface of the housing 27 is provided with a liquid crystal display 21a of the display unit 21, various push button switches 25a of the operation unit 25, and a plurality of holes 27a for emitting output sound from the speaker unit 26 to the outside. . A touch panel 25b of the operation unit 25 is integrally provided on the liquid crystal display 21a. Although not shown, on the rear surface of the housing 27, a communication modular jack of the communication unit 22 and a terminal to which a commercial power line is connected are exposed. The shape of the communication modular jack is, for example, an RJ-45 shape conforming to the Ethernet (registered trademark) standard.

  FIG. 4 shows the above-mentioned table stored by the storage unit 24. In this table T1, the location information of the web content provided from each of the equipment controller 11b, the security controller 12c, and the image transfer controller 13c is associated with the error notification screen that is displayed when they cannot be received due to a communication error. It has been. In the present embodiment, the IP address of each controller is registered as the location information of each web content, but it may be the domain name or host name of each controller or the URL of the content that each controller has. Here, as an example, the IP addresses of the equipment device controller 11b, the security controller 12c, and the image transfer controller 13c are “192.168.0.5”, “192.168.0.6”, and “192.168.0.7”, respectively.

  FIG. 5 shows a flow of screen display control processing by the control unit 23. First, here, it is assumed that the user operates the operation unit 25 and inputs a web content acquisition instruction from any of the equipment device controller 11b, the security controller 12c, and the image transfer controller 13c. As shown in FIG. 6A, this input is performed when the user presses a part corresponding to the icon displayed on the liquid crystal display 21a on the touch panel 25b with the finger f1.

  The control unit 23 detects an operation input to the operation unit 25 by the user based on an operation signal from the operation unit 25 (S1), and starts communication with a controller that holds the web content to be acquired (S2). This communication partner controller is a provider of web content whose location is associated as a link destination with an icon designated by the user. For example, as shown in FIG. 6A described above, the link destination associated with the “menu” icon designated by the user, that is, the URL of the web content is “http://192.168.0.6/top.html”. ”, The security controller 12c has this web content, so communication with the security controller 12c is started.

  When an error occurs in communication with the controller of the communication partner and the web content cannot be received from the controller (Yes in S3), the control unit 23 acquires the IP address of the controller, The corresponding error notification screen is selected with reference to the table T1 in the storage unit 24 (S4). The acquisition of the IP address described above is performed by extracting the IP address from the URL when the IP address is included in the URL, or referring to a correspondence table between the URL and the IP address stored in the storage unit 24 in advance. It is done by doing. And the control part 23 acquires the selected error notification screen from the memory | storage part 24, and displays it on the display part 21 (S5).

  As an example, when the communication partner is the security controller 12c, the IP address is “192.168.0.6”. Therefore, according to the table T1 (see FIG. 4 above), the corresponding error notification screen is “erromamo. html ". For this reason, as shown in FIG. 6B, the error notification screen “erromamo.html” notifying that an error has occurred in the connection with the security controller 12c is displayed on the entire screen of the liquid crystal display 21a. . If the web content can be received from the communication partner controller (No in S3), the error notification screen is not displayed, the web content is displayed (S6), and the process ends.

  In the present embodiment, when any of the contents cannot be received from each of the above controllers that monitor or control the housing facility and provide the contents, an error notification screen corresponding to the location information of the contents is displayed on the display unit 21. Is done. Therefore, the user can recognize the controller having the content, that is, the controller in which the communication error has occurred. In addition, the user can be made aware that the failure to receive the content is not caused by a failure of the screen display device 2 or the like. For this reason, the user can recognize the controller that should be the target of the error solving work, and can easily perform the work, improving convenience.

(Second Embodiment)
Since the constituent members of the screen display device according to the second embodiment of the present invention are the same as those of the first embodiment, the description will be made with reference to FIGS. The control unit 23 of the present embodiment designates a part of the display area of the liquid crystal display 21a, and web contents provided from each of the equipment device controller 11b, the security controller 12c, and the image transfer controller 13c in the designated area. Display one of the following. When the control unit 23 cannot receive the web content to be displayed in the designated area, the control unit 23 displays an error notification screen corresponding to the location information of the web content and matching the size of the area in advance in the table of the storage unit 24. To get it and display it in that area.

  The control unit 23 performs display control of the liquid crystal display 21a based on the HTML document stored in advance in the storage unit 24 for designating a part of the display area. Specifically, as shown in FIG. 7, a part of the display area is specified by displaying an inline frame on the display screen based on an inline frame tag (iframe: enclosed in a circle) in the HTML document. To do. The inline frame is for providing a window-shaped display area of a specified size at a desired position in the screen and displaying web content in the display area. Note that a part of the display area may be specified by a frame displayed based on a frame tag (frame). The frame is for dividing one screen into a plurality of display areas and displaying different web contents in each display area.

  In addition, the control unit 23 not only displays one of the above web contents (hereinafter referred to as first content) in the designated area, that is, the area surrounded by the inline frame, but also outside the area. Any other web content (hereinafter referred to as second content) is displayed. As shown in FIG. 8, the inline frame includes a display area of the liquid crystal display 21a surrounded by the inline frame IF1, that is, a first content display area A1 where the first content is displayed, The surrounding area is divided into a second content display area A2 where the second content is displayed.

  The storage unit 24 includes an error notification screen when the first content cannot be received (hereinafter referred to as a first error notification screen), and an error notification screen when the second content cannot be received (hereinafter referred to as a second error notification screen). Is stored in advance. The first and second error notification screens are described in HTML, and the size of the first error notification screen is adjusted in advance to the size of the first content display area, that is, the size of the inline frame.

  FIG. 9 shows a table stored in the storage unit 24 of the present embodiment. In the table T2, as in the case of the table 1 (see FIG. 4 described above), the location information of the web content provided from each of the equipment controller 11b, the security controller 12c, and the image transfer controller 13c, and when it cannot be received The displayed error notification screen is associated with each other, but in the present embodiment, the URL is registered as the location information of each web content. The error notification screen is composed of the first or second error notification screen described above.

  In the table T2, even when the controller has a plurality of web contents, an error notification screen is associated with the URL of each web content. For example, when the equipment controller 11b has web content for setting the name of the equipment 11a, web content for displaying a power consumption graph of the equipment 11a, and web content for controlling the equipment 11a. As shown in FIG. 9 described above, in the table T2, the URL of each web content is associated with an error notification screen for notifying that it cannot be received for each web content.

  Here, an example of the screen display control process by the control unit 23 of the present embodiment will be described. As shown in FIG. 10, the web content from the security controller 12c, that is, the security content is displayed in the first content display area A1 surrounded by the inline frame IF1, and the second content display area A2 is displayed from the image transfer controller. Assume that web content, that is, image transfer content is displayed. The IP addresses of the security controller 12c and the image transfer controller 13c are “192.168.0.6” and “192.168.0.7”, respectively, and the first content display area A1 has “http://192.168.0.6/top. An icon (not shown) with “html” as the link destination is displayed, and an icon (not shown) with “http://192.168.0.7/top.html” as the link destination is displayed in the second content display area A2. Suppose that

  When the user presses an icon in the first content display area A1 with a finger, the control unit 23 starts communication with the security controller 12c having the web content associated with the URL as a link destination. When an error occurs in the communication and the web content cannot be received, the control unit 23 refers to the table T2, and an error corresponding to the URL “http://192.168.0.6/top.html” Get notification screen “mamorieerror.html”.

  Then, as shown in FIG. 11, the error notification screen “mamorieerror.html” notifying that an error has occurred in the connection with the security controller 12c is displayed in the inline frame IF1. The size of the error notification screen “mamorieerror.html” is set in advance to the size of the inline frame IF1. Even if the error notification screen is displayed in the inline frame IF1, when the image transfer content can be received, it is displayed in the second content display area A2.

  On the other hand, when the user presses an icon in the second content display area A2 with a finger, the control unit 23 communicates with the image transfer controller 13c having web content in which a URL is associated with the icon as a link destination. Start communication. When an error occurs in the communication and the web content cannot be received, the control unit 23 refers to the table T2, and an error corresponding to the URL “http://192.168.0.7/top.html” Get notification screen "rokutenerror.html". Then, as shown in FIG. 12, the error notification screen “rokutenerror.html” for notifying that an error has occurred in the connection with the image transfer controller 13c is displayed on the full screen.

  In the present embodiment, when it is not possible to receive a part of the display area of the display unit 21, that is, the content displayed in the first content display area A1, the size of the part of the area corresponding to the location information of the content An error notification screen suitable for the above is displayed in the area. Therefore, the controller having the content, that is, the controller in which the communication error has occurred can be recognized by the user, and other contents are displayed in the display area other than a part of the area even when the communication error has occurred. be able to. For this reason, efficient error notification can be performed.

  In addition, this invention is not limited to the structure of the said 1st and 2nd embodiment, A various deformation | transformation is possible according to the intended purpose. For example, the location information of the web content may be a URL with an additional argument. Further, the input instruction for obtaining the desired web content, that is, the selection input of the icon displayed on the liquid crystal display 21a is not limited to the operation on the touch panel 25b, and may be possible by the operation on the push button switch 25a. Further, in the table T2 of the second embodiment, those URLs are registered as the location information of the web contents. However, the IP addresses, domain names, or the IP addresses of the equipment controller 11b, the security controller 12c, and the image transfer controller 13c, respectively. It may be a host name.

1 is a configuration diagram of a house equipment monitoring and control system including a screen display device according to a first embodiment of the present invention. The electrical block diagram of the said apparatus. The front view of the said apparatus. The figure which shows the table stored in the memory | storage part of the said apparatus. The flowchart of the screen display control process by the control part of the said apparatus. (A) is a figure which shows the example of a content display in the display part of the said apparatus, (b) The figure which shows an example of the error notification screen displayed on the display part. The figure which shows the HTML document for designating the display area of the display part of the screen display apparatus which concerns on the 2nd Embodiment of this invention. The figure which shows the content display of the display part by the control part of the said apparatus. The figure which shows the table stored in the memory | storage part of the said apparatus. The figure which shows the example of a content display in the said display part. The figure which shows an example of the error notification screen displayed on the said display part. The figure which shows the example of the error notification screen different from the above. The figure which shows the error notification screen at the time of the communication error in the conventional screen display apparatus.

Explanation of symbols

1 Housing equipment monitoring and control system 11a Equipment equipment (housing equipment)
11b Equipment controller (controller)
12a Security equipment (housing equipment)
12b Security receiver (housing equipment)
12c Security controller (controller)
13a Doorphone handset (housing equipment)
13b Intercom master unit (housing equipment)
13c Image transfer controller (controller)
2 screen display device 21 display unit 22 communication unit 23 control unit 24 storage unit T1, T2 table

Claims (4)

A display for displaying a screen;
A communication unit that performs data communication with a plurality of controllers that monitor or control residential facilities;
In a screen display device comprising: a control unit that causes the display unit to display content received from each controller via the communication unit;
A storage unit that stores in advance a table that associates the location information of each content with an error notification screen for notifying the user of the content when the content cannot be received;
When the control unit cannot receive any of the content, the control unit acquires an error notification screen corresponding to the location information of the content with reference to the storage unit, and causes the display unit to display the error notification screen. A characteristic screen display device.   The control unit designates a part of the display area of the display unit, displays any of the contents in the designated area, and cannot receive the content to be displayed in the area. 2. The screen display according to claim 1, wherein an error notification screen corresponding to the location information of the content and preliminarily matching the size of the area is acquired with reference to the storage unit and displayed in the area. apparatus.   The screen display device according to claim 1, wherein the location information is an IP address of the controller or a URL of content included in the controller.   The screen display device according to claim 2, wherein the control unit designates a part of a display area of the display unit based on a frame tag or an inline frame tag.

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