JP2014230044A - Electronic apparatus and display program - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To automatically suppress message display in a user's busy period.SOLUTION: A use frequency measurement unit 25 measures the frequency of use by a user and automatically identifies a busy period. A message management unit 26 stores in a storage apparatus 17 a message to be displayed. When a specific message display timing comes, if the message display timing is out of the busy time, a display control unit 23 displays the message on the forefront surface, but if the message display timing is within the busy time, the display control unit 23 prohibits the message from being displayed on the forefront surface.

Description

  The present invention relates to an electronic device and a display program.

  In an electronic device having an operation panel, a user inputs settings, operation instructions, and the like of the electronic device by operating the operation panel. On the other hand, the electronic device displays various information to the user on the operation panel.

  Further, in a certain device, when various kinds of information are displayed to a user, screen display control according to a time zone is performed (for example, refer to Patent Documents 1 and 2).

JP 2011-154552 A JP 2012-178661 A

  However, if the electronic device automatically displays a message to the user during the busy period of the user, the operation by the user may be disturbed.

  In addition, it is possible to set a time zone in advance as described above and not to display a message in that time zone, but it is troublesome to perform such setting on each electronic device. It is.

  The present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and an object thereof is to obtain an electronic device and a display program that automatically suppress message display during a busy period of a user.

  The electronic device according to the present invention includes a message management unit that stores a message to be displayed, a usage frequency measurement unit that measures a usage frequency by a user and identifies a busy period, and a specific message display timing is outside the busy period. A display control unit that displays the message on the forefront and prohibits the front-most display of the message when the specific message display timing is within the busy period.

  The display program according to the present invention includes a message management unit for storing a message to be displayed on a computer, a usage frequency measurement unit for measuring a usage frequency by a user and specifying a busy period, and a specific message display timing outside the busy period. The message is displayed in the foreground, and when the specific message display timing is within the busy period, the message is caused to function as a display control unit that prohibits the display of the message in the foreground.

  According to the present invention, message display is automatically suppressed during a busy period of a user of an electronic device.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of an image forming apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating an example of the operation panel 11 of the image forming apparatus 1 in FIG. FIG. 3 is a flowchart for explaining the digital note display in the embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of an initial screen displayed immediately after the user logs in the image forming apparatus 1 shown in FIG. FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating an example of a digital note displayed in the foreground when the initial screen illustrated in FIG. 4 is displayed. FIG. 6 is a diagram showing an example of a digital note list display when the initial screen shown in FIG. 4 is displayed.

  Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

  FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of an image forming apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention. The image forming apparatus 1 in FIG. 1 is an electronic device including an operation panel 11, and is a multifunction device here.

  In addition to the operation panel 11, the image forming apparatus 1 includes a printing device 12, an image reading device 13, a facsimile device 14, a communication device 15, a control device 16, and a storage device 17.

  The operation panel 11 is disposed on the upper surface side of the housing of the image forming apparatus 1 and includes a display device 21 that displays a screen for the user and an input device 22 that receives an operation by the user. As the display device 21, for example, a liquid crystal display is used. The input device 22 is, for example, a hard key, a touch panel that realizes a soft key together with the display device 21, or the like.

  The printing device 12 is an internal device that prints an image based on image data by, for example, an electrophotographic method.

  The image reading device 13 is an internal device that optically reads a document image from a document and generates image data of the document image.

  The facsimile device 14 is an internal device that transmits a facsimile signal of a document image or receives a facsimile signal and generates image data of the document image from the facsimile signal.

  The communication device 15 is an internal device that is connected to a network (not shown) and performs data communication with other devices connected to the network. For example, a network interface or a modem is used as the communication device 15.

  The control device 16 has a computer, and operates as various processing units by loading a display program from the storage device 17 or a recording medium (not shown) and executing the display program on the computer. Specifically, the control device 16 operates as a display control unit 23, a user management unit 24, a usage frequency measurement unit 25, and a message management unit 26.

  The storage device 17 is a non-volatile storage device such as a flash memory, and stores user data such as a user ID and password of a registered user and other user attribute information. The user attribute information includes a permission level described later. The storage device 17 stores message data to be displayed to the user. The message data is input by the user's operation on the operation panel 11, and a restriction level described later of the message is also input.

  This message includes a maintenance message, a failure location notification, a usage method of a specific function, and the like. Hereinafter, such a message is also referred to as a digital note.

  The display control unit 23 controls screen display of the display device 21 of the operation panel 11.

  When the specific message display timing is outside the busy period specified by the usage frequency measuring unit 25, the display control unit 23 displays the message as a digital note on the forefront, and the specific message display timing is within the busy period. If it is, the front-most display of the message is prohibited.

  In this embodiment, the message display timing includes at least one of a time point when no operation is detected for a certain period of time, a display time point of an initial screen after login, and a display time point of an operation screen for a specific function.

  When the user ID and password input by the user on the login screen on the operation panel 11 are detected, the user management unit 24 determines whether or not the user can log in based on the user data of the registered user stored in the storage device 17. judge.

  Further, the user management unit 24 sets any one of a plurality of specific permission levels for the user in accordance with, for example, an operation by the user on the operation panel 11.

  For example, the permission level is one of three levels: a first level, a second level, and a third level. The first level permits display of messages of all levels of the restriction levels “prohibited”, “warning”, and “standard” described later. The second level permits display of messages of only “prohibited” and “warning” among restriction levels “prohibited”, “warning”, and “standard” described later. The third level permits the display of only “prohibited” messages of restriction levels “prohibited”, “warning”, and “standard”, which will be described later. In this way, whether to display a message for each of the plurality of restriction levels is set for each permission level.

  FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating an example of the operation panel 11 of the image forming apparatus 1 in FIG. The operation panel 11 illustrated in FIG. 2 includes hard keys 51 to 55 and a touch panel 56 as the input device 22. The hard key 51 is a power key, the hard key 52 is a start key, the hard key 53 is a stop / clear key, the hard key 54 is a numeric keypad, and the hard key 55 indicates a logout key. . The touch panel 56 is disposed on the display surface of the display device 21.

  In FIG. 2, a login screen 61 is displayed on the display device 21 of the operation panel 11. The login screen 61 displays an input field for inputting a user ID (user name) and a password, and a login key 62 for executing user authentication for login and canceling the display of the login screen 61. The For example, the user ID and password are entered using the numeric keypad (hard key 54).

  The usage frequency measuring unit 25 measures the usage frequency by the user and identifies the busy period.

  In this embodiment, the usage frequency measuring unit 25 measures the usage frequency for each user and specifies the busy period for each user.

  For example, the usage frequency measurement unit 25 measures at least one of the number of times of login by the user, the number of times of remote access, and the number of operations on the operation panel for each specific time unit (for example, 10 minutes). The busy period is specified based on the measured number of times. For example, a time period in which the number of times measured within a specific period (for example, within one month) exceeds a threshold is specified as a busy period.

  The message management unit 26 stores the message to be displayed in the storage device 17.

  Further, the message management unit 26 sets one of a plurality of restriction levels in the message, and stores the restriction level information in the storage device 17 in association with the message. For example, the restriction level is one of three levels: “prohibited”, “warning”, and “standard”.

  Further, the message management unit stores foreground setting data for specifying whether or not to display the foreground in association with the message.

  The message, the restriction level, and the foreground setting data are input by, for example, an operation by the user on the operation panel 11, and the message management unit 26 stores the input message, the restriction level, and the foreground setting data.

  In this embodiment, when the specific message display timing is within a busy period, the display control unit 23 is stored based on the permission level of the user permitted to log in by the user management unit 24 and the message restriction level. Of messages that are permitted to be displayed are displayed in the forefront, and the front-most display of messages for messages whose display is rejected is prohibited.

  In this embodiment, when the specific message display timing is within the busy period of the user permitted to log in, the display control unit 23 stores the message based on the permission level of the user and the message restriction level. Of the messages that are displayed, only the messages that are allowed to be displayed are displayed in the foreground, and the messages that are rejected from being displayed are prohibited from being displayed in the foreground.

  For example, when a user whose permission level is the third level is logged in, during the busy period of the user, the “forbidden” level digital note is displayed in the foreground, but the “warning” level and the “standard” level. The digital note is not displayed in the foreground even if it is stored.

  In addition, when the foreground display is not prohibited, the display control unit 23 displays the foreground message for which the foreground display is designated by the foreground setting data, and the foreground display is not designated by the foreground setting data. The message is not displayed in the foreground.

  Next, the operation of the image forming apparatus 1 will be described.

  The usage frequency measuring unit 25 counts the number of times of the detected time zone each time a user login, remote access, operation on the operation panel, or the like is detected. The usage frequency measuring unit 25 further specifies a busy period (for example, a specific time zone on a specific day of the week) based on the number of times in the specific period, and stores information on the busy period in the storage device 17 as user attribute information. Memorize and update at regular intervals.

  On the other hand, the display control unit 23 performs display control of the digital note. FIG. 3 is a flowchart for explaining the digital note display in the embodiment of the present invention.

  When detecting the message display timing (step S1), the display control unit 23 first determines whether or not a message to be displayed as a digital note is stored in the storage device 17 (step S2). When a message to be displayed as a digital note is not stored in the storage device 17, the display control unit 23 does nothing in particular.

  On the other hand, when a message to be displayed as a digital note is stored in the storage device 17, the display control unit 23 determines whether or not the current time is within the busy period of the login user specified by the usage frequency measurement unit 25. Is determined (step S3).

  When the current time is within the busy period, the display control unit 23 uses the foreground setting data based on the stored message limit level and foreground setting data, and the permission level of the login user. It is determined whether or not there is a message of a restriction level for which display is specified and display is permitted by the permission level (step S4).

  When the foreground display is designated and there is a restriction level message that is permitted to be displayed, the display control unit 23 displays the stored foreground (step S5). In addition, when the foreground display is designated and a plurality of messages of a restriction level permitted to be displayed are stored, the display control unit 23 stacks the layers of the plurality of messages. Display the foreground, and whenever the foreground layer is closed by the user, the next layer message is displayed in the foreground to display all messages.

  Note that the display control unit 23 does nothing in particular when the foreground display is specified and there is no restriction level message that is permitted to be displayed. In other words, during a busy period of this user, messages other than the restriction level message permitted by the user (for example, an important “prohibition” level message) are not displayed in the foreground, and the user's operation is not easily disturbed.

  FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of an initial screen displayed immediately after the user logs in the image forming apparatus 1 shown in FIG. FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating an example of a digital note displayed in the foreground when the initial screen illustrated in FIG. 4 is displayed.

  For example, when the initial screen is displayed immediately after login, a message that should be displayed as a digital note, foremost display is specified, and a message of a restriction level that is permitted to be displayed is stored. At this time, as shown in FIG. 5, the digital note 101 including the message is displayed in the foreground. Conversely, if no such message is stored, the user can immediately operate the initial screen shown in FIG. The digital note 101 is erased when the “close” key 111 is pressed. When the “list display” key 112 is pressed, the display shifts to a list display described later.

  On the other hand, when the current time is outside the busy period, the display control unit 23 determines that the message for which the foreground display is designated by the foreground setting data is based on the stored foreground setting data of the message. It is determined whether at least one exists (step S6).

  When at least one message for which the foreground display is designated is stored, the display control unit 23 displays only the message for which the foreground display is designated (step S7).

  On the other hand, when the message for which the front-most display is designated is not stored at all, the display control unit 23 displays the stored message as a list (step S8). FIG. 6 is a diagram showing an example of a digital note list display when the initial screen shown in FIG. 4 is displayed. As shown in FIG. 6, a message list 121 is displayed, and icons 131 to 133 indicating message restriction levels (for example, icons of colors corresponding to the restriction levels) are displayed in the list 121. Further, when the “text display” key 122 is pressed by the user, the display control unit 23 displays the selected message in the display area 123. When the user presses the update key 124, the list 121 is updated.

  As described above, according to the above embodiment, the usage frequency measuring unit 25 measures the usage frequency by the user and automatically specifies the busy period. When the specific message display timing is outside the busy period, the display control unit 23 displays the message on the foreground, and when the specific message display timing is within the busy period, the display control unit 23 prohibits the front-most display of the message.

  Thereby, the front-most display of the message is automatically suppressed during the busy period of the user. Therefore, the user's operation during the busy period is not easily disturbed.

  The above-described embodiment is an example of the present invention, but the present invention is not limited to these, and various modifications and changes can be made without departing from the scope of the present invention.

  The present invention is applicable to an image forming apparatus such as a multifunction machine.

1 Image forming apparatus (an example of electronic equipment)
23 Display Control Unit 24 User Management Unit 25 Usage Frequency Measurement Unit 26 Message Management Unit

Claims (7)

A message manager for storing messages to be displayed;
A usage frequency measurement unit that measures usage frequency by users and identifies busy periods;
When the specific message display timing is outside the busy period, the message is displayed in the foreground. When the specific message display timing is within the busy period, the display control unit prohibits the front-most display of the message. When,
An electronic device comprising: A user management unit for determining whether or not the user can log in,
The message management unit sets one of a plurality of restriction levels for the message;
The user management unit sets any one of a plurality of permission levels for the user,
Whether to display the message for each of the plurality of restriction levels is set for each permission level,
The display control unit is stored based on the permission level and the message restriction level of a user permitted to log in by the user management unit when the specific message display timing is within the busy period. Displaying only the messages that are allowed to be displayed among the messages in the forefront, and prohibiting the front-most display of the messages for messages that are denied to be displayed;
The electronic device according to claim 1. The usage frequency measurement unit measures the usage frequency for each user, specifies the busy period for each user,
The display control unit, when the specific message display timing is within the busy period of the user permitted to log in, the permission level of the user permitted to log in by the user management unit and the restriction level of the message Based on the above, only the messages that are allowed to be displayed among the stored messages are displayed in the foreground, and the forefront display of the message for the messages that are denied to be displayed is prohibited.
The electronic device according to claim 2. The message management unit stores setting data for specifying whether to display the forefront in association with the message,
When the foreground display is not prohibited, the display control unit displays the foreground message for which the foreground display is designated by the setting data, and the foreground display is not designated by the setting data. Do not display the message on the front,
The electronic device according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein   The usage frequency measuring unit measures at least one of the number of times of login by the user, the number of times of remote access, and the number of times of operation on the operation panel for each specific time unit. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the busy period is specified based on the electronic device.   The message display timing includes at least one of a time point when no operation is detected for a certain period of time, a time point when an initial screen is displayed after login, and a time point when an operation screen for a specific function is displayed. The electronic device according to claim 5. Computer
A message manager that stores messages to be displayed;
A usage frequency measurement unit that measures the frequency of use by the user and identifies a busy period, and if the specific message display timing is outside the busy period, the message is displayed in the foreground, and the specific message display timing is the busy period If it is within the period, a display control unit that prohibits the front-most display of the message;
Display program to function as.

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