JP2015069610A - Plant monitoring operation system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a plant monitoring operation system that achieves improved operability of plant monitoring operation by achieving high functionality of a user interface.SOLUTION: When a monitoring operation screen 001, an alarm screen 002, and an operation procedure screen 003 are displayed on a three-dimensional touch panel and a touch input or close input is performed on any of the screens, an input function 101 detects the input to generate an input event and transmits the generated input event to an instance in which drawing process corresponding to the screen is defined in advance. The instance by which the input event is received generates a drawing request to transmit it to an output function 102, and then the output function 102 draws an image corresponding to the drawing request from the instance, on the three-dimensional touch panel.

Description

  The present invention relates to a plant monitoring operation system with a highly functional user interface.

Conventionally, a two-dimensional touch panel has been used in a plant monitoring operation system. The two-dimensional touch panel is a device that recognizes point coordinate values on the screen specified by the user and changes in the coordinate values, and touches an object on the screen with a finger or a predetermined input device (hereinafter referred to as touch). ), It is possible to cause the designated device to execute various processes.
Until now, operations have been performed by touching a two-dimensional touch panel because of the detection capability of the touch panel and the computing performance of the computer. In recent years, the number and types of data that can be displayed at the same time are increasing due to improvements in the performance of computers and networks and the enlargement of monitoring operation screens.
Also in the touch panel operation, a three-dimensional touch panel that can execute various processes only by bringing the screen close to the screen (hereinafter referred to as proximity) in addition to the touch is used. (See Patent Document 1)
However, in the plant monitoring operation system, the user interface is not enhanced by the cooperation of these technologies, and the monitoring operation is performed by touching a conventional two-dimensional touch panel.

Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 8-212005 (pages 3 to 4, FIG. 1)

In the conventional plant monitoring operation system, a user interface for simply using these is not prepared, although the amount of information to be monitored is increasing.
For example, increasing the number of surveillance cameras is not a significant technical or cost burden at present, but the interface for linking them with the surveillance operation screen is not a touch-only two-dimensional touch panel. There are problems such as difficult to use.

  The present invention has been made to solve the above-described problems, and an object of the present invention is to obtain a plant monitoring operation system that improves the operability of plant monitoring operations by enhancing the functionality of a user interface.

  The plant monitoring operation system according to the present invention is a plant monitoring operation system for monitoring and operating a plant by displaying a plurality of screens including a monitoring operation screen, and a display constituted by a three-dimensional touch panel for displaying each screen. The process for displaying each screen displayed on the display unit is a plurality of instances defined in advance corresponding to each screen, when input by touch or proximity is performed on any screen An input unit that generates an input event and transmits the generated input event to an instance corresponding to the screen, and draws an image on the display unit according to information from the instance that has received the input event from the input unit An output means is provided.

  According to this invention, it is a plant monitoring operation system that displays a plurality of screens including a monitoring operation screen and monitors a plant, and includes a display unit configured by a three-dimensional touch panel that displays each screen, and this display unit The process for displaying each screen displayed on the screen is generated by multiple instances defined in advance corresponding to each screen, when input is made by touch or proximity on any screen And an input means for transmitting the input event generated to the instance corresponding to the screen, and an output means for rendering an image on the display unit in accordance with information from the instance that has received the input event from the input means. Therefore, it is possible to improve the functionality of the user interface, improve visibility in plant monitoring operations, and reduce human errors. .

It is a block diagram which shows the plant monitoring operation system by Embodiment 1-Embodiment 5 of this invention. It is a flowchart which shows the input and drawing process of the plant monitoring operation system by Embodiment 1 of this invention. It is a flowchart which shows the input and drawing process of the plant monitoring operation system by Embodiment 2 of this invention. It is a flowchart which shows the input and drawing process of the plant monitoring operation system by Embodiment 3 of this invention. It is a flowchart which shows the input and drawing process of the plant monitoring operation system by Embodiment 4 of this invention. It is a flowchart which shows the input and drawing process of the plant monitoring operation system by Embodiment 5 of this invention.

Embodiment 1 FIG.
Embodiment 1 of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.
1 is a block diagram showing a plant monitoring operation system according to Embodiment 1 of the present invention.
In FIG. 1, a monitoring operation screen 001, an alarm screen 002, and an operation procedure screen 003 are display screens of the plant monitoring operation system and are displayed on the display unit. The number of each screen differs depending on the plant monitoring operation system.
The monitoring operation screen 001 displays an object 004 to be monitored and an operating device 005 for operating the object 004. The operation device 005 may be fixedly displayed on the screen, or may be displayed as a pop-up on the screen by proximity or touch input to the object 004.

The alarm screen 002 displays the contents of the abnormality when any abnormality (accident etc.) occurs in the plant. The operation procedure screen 003 displays a procedure for a plant operator to operate the plant monitoring operation system during normal times or abnormal times.
These screens are three-dimensional touch panels. Instances for displaying each screen are an instance 201 for a monitoring operation screen, an instance 202 for an alarm screen, and an instance 203 for an operation procedure screen, respectively. A generation function is provided.

This plant monitoring operation system includes the above-described screens, an input function 101, and an output function 102.
The input function 101 (input means) includes an input processing function for receiving a proximity input signal (signal due to proximity of a position in the normal direction) or a touch input signal from a three-dimensional touch panel, and a proximity input signal. It has a proximity event generation function that generates a proximity event, a touch event generation function that generates a touch event from a touch input signal, and an event transmission function that transmits an event to the instance for the screen.
The output function 102 (output means) has a drawing processing function for drawing on a three-dimensional touch panel in response to a drawing request, and an audio / video output function for outputting audio and video.

Next, the operation will be described.
FIG. 2 is a flowchart when input is performed.
For example, when the user inputs (S001) to the monitoring operation screen 001, the input function 101 first starts measuring the proximity time (S201), and then determines whether the input is a touch input. Determination is made (S002).
If the input is a touch input, a touch event is immediately generated (S003) and transmitted to the monitoring operation screen instance 201.
The monitoring operation screen instance 201 generates a drawing request from the touch event (S004) and transmits it to the output function 102.
The output function 102 executes a drawing process on the monitoring operation screen 001 (S005). After the execution, the input function 101 resets the proximity time (S202).

If it is not a touch input in S002, it is determined whether or not they are close to each other for a certain time (S101). If the predetermined time or more has not elapsed, the process returns to the determination of whether or not the input is a touch input (S002). This is to prevent a proximity event that is not intended by the user from operating. For example, the proximity event is prevented from operating while the user is about to perform touch input.
If there is a proximity for a certain time in S101, a proximity event is generated by the input function 101 (S102) and transmitted to the monitoring operation screen instance 201.
The monitoring operation screen instance 201 generates a drawing request from the proximity event (S103) and transmits it to the output function 102.
The output function 102 executes a drawing process on the monitoring operation screen 001 (S104). After the execution, the input function 101 resets the proximity time (S202).
Note that when there is no input in the determination of whether or not there is a proximity beyond a certain time (S101), the proximity time is reset to 0 and the process ends.

According to the first embodiment, by applying a three-dimensional touch panel to the user interface, it is possible to improve the functionality of the user interface, and it is possible to improve visibility and reduce human errors in plant monitoring operations.
In addition, for example, the user can enlarge / reduce / move an object, acquire / record necessary video and audio, and record a comment on an abnormality occurring in the object by approaching an object to be monitored. Therefore, it is possible to easily handle an operation that has been complicated by the conventional touch.
In addition, the cooperation between proximity and touch makes it possible to execute processing by an operation different from the conventional one. This cooperation between proximity and touch will be described in detail in Embodiments 2 to 4. To do.

Embodiment 2. FIG.
Next, a second embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG.
In the second embodiment, for example, the display position of the operation device 005 on the monitoring operation screen 001 can be changed by proximity.
When it is close to a specific part of the operation device 005 for a certain time or more, the operation device 005 becomes movable, and when the proximity position is moved while maintaining the proximity state, the operation device 005 follows. To move.
When fixing to the monitoring operation screen 001, the operation device 005 is touched.
In order to enable such a cooperation process between proximity and touch operation, a proximity execution flag (flag) is prepared in the monitoring operation screen instance 201. This proximity execution flag is turned ON / OFF by the input function 101, and when it is ON, the display position of the operation device 005 can be moved.

In the following, the case where input is performed will be described with reference to FIG.
Note that S001 to S003, S005, S101 to S104, S201, and S202 in FIG. 3 are the same processes as those in FIG. In FIG. 3, S301 is inserted after S003, and S302 to S307 are inserted after S104.

In S002, when only normal touch input is performed, a drawing request is generated when the proximity execution flag is OFF (S301).
If there is a proximity input in S101, the input function 101 generates a proximity event (first input event) (S102) and transmits it to the monitoring operation screen instance 201.
The monitoring operation screen instance 201 generates a drawing request from the proximity event (S103) and transmits it to the output function 102.
The output function 102 executes a drawing process related to the proximity event, in this case, a drawing process for indicating that the operation device 005 can be moved (for example, the frame line is made red) (S104). The proximity execution flag is turned ON (S302).
Accordingly, the user can move the operation device 005 while maintaining proximity, and performs a touch operation when the user reaches a position to be moved.
The input function 101 determines whether there is a touch input within a certain time after the proximity execution flag is turned on (S303). If there is no touch input, the proximity execution flag is turned OFF (S307).

If there is a touch input within a certain time in S303, the input function 101 generates a touch event (second input event) (S304) and transmits it to the monitoring operation screen instance 201.
The monitoring operation screen instance 201 generates a drawing request when the proximity execution flag is ON (S305) and transmits the drawing request to the output function 102.
The output function 102 executes a drawing process (for example, returning the frame line to the original color) to indicate that the operation device 005 is fixed at the moved display position (S306). After the execution, the proximity execution flag is turned OFF by the input function 101 (S307).

  Although the movement of the operation device 005 has been described above, this movement is not limited to the operation device 005, and other images may be used.

  According to the second embodiment, the display position of the operation device on the monitoring operation screen can be changed by proximity and touch operation.

Embodiment 3 FIG.
Next, Embodiment 3 of the present invention will be described based on FIG. 4 with reference to FIG.
In the third embodiment, the operation unit can be moved by an input order opposite to that of the second embodiment, that is, by touch operation and proximity.
When a touch operation is performed on a specific portion of the operation device 005, the operation device 005 is in a movable state, and the user moves the operation device 005 while touching.
When fixing to the monitoring operation screen 001, it is assumed to be close to a specific part of the operation device 005 for a predetermined time or more.
A touch execution flag (flag) is prepared in the monitoring operation screen instance 201 in order to enable such cooperation processing between touch operation and proximity. This touch execution flag is turned ON / OFF by the input function 101. When the touch execution flag is ON, the display position of the operation device 005 can be moved.

In the following, the case where input is performed will be described with reference to FIG.
Note that S001 to S005, S101, S102, S104, S201, and S202 in FIG. 4 are the same processes as those in FIG. In FIG. 4, S402 to S409 are inserted after S005, and S401 is inserted after S102.

In S101, in the case of only normal proximity, a drawing request is generated when the touch execution flag is OFF (S401).
In S002, when there is a touch input at a specific location of the operation device 005, a touch event (first input event) is generated by the input function 101 (S003), and the monitoring operation screen instance 201 is used. In response to the drawing request (S004), the output function 102 executes drawing processing relating to touch, in this case, drawing processing for indicating that the operation device 005 is movable (for example, the frame line is made red). Then, the touch execution flag is turned ON (S402). As a result, the user moves the operation device 005 while touching a specific part of the operation device 005, and switches to the proximity when it reaches a position to be moved.
The input function 101 determines whether there is a proximity input within a certain time (S403). If there is no proximity input, the touch execution flag is turned off (S409).

If there is a proximity input within a certain time in S403, the proximity time is first reset and a new measurement is started (S404). It is determined whether or not there is a proximity for a certain time (S405). If there is, the input function 101 generates a proximity event (second input event) (S406), and the monitoring operation screen instance 201 To transmit.
The monitoring operation screen instance 201 generates a drawing request when the touch execution flag is ON (S407) and transmits the drawing request to the output function 102.
The output function 102 executes a drawing process (for example, returning the frame line to the original color) to indicate that the operation device 005 is fixed at the moved display position (S408). After the execution, the touch execution flag is turned OFF by the input function 101 (S409).
Note that if there is no input during the determination of whether there is a proximity for a certain time (S405), the proximity time is reset to 0, and the touch execution flag is turned OFF, and the process ends.

  Although the movement of the operation device 005 has been described above, this movement is not limited to the operation device 005, and other images may be used.

  According to the third embodiment, the display position of the operation device on the monitoring operation screen can be changed by touch operation and proximity.

Embodiment 4 FIG.
Next, Embodiment 4 of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG.
In the fourth embodiment, for example, the alarm screen 002, the monitoring operation screen 001, and the operation procedure screen 003 can be linked.
This operation is executed by performing either one or both of proximity and touch on a predetermined position predetermined for each screen.
For example, when it is close to the alarm displayed on the alarm screen 002 for a predetermined time or longer, the operation procedure related to the alarm is displayed on the operation procedure screen 003.
When an alarm on the alarm screen 002 is touched, a monitoring operation screen related to the alarm is displayed on the monitoring operation screen 001.
If the alarm is touched after approaching the alarm for a certain period of time, the monitoring operation screen related to the related operation procedure can be displayed on each screen in one action.

Hereinafter, a description will be given of a case where an input is performed according to FIG.
Note that S001 to S003, S005, S101, S102, S104, S201, and S202 in FIG. 5 are the same processes as those in FIG. In FIG. 5, S501 and S502 are inserted after S003, and S503 and S504 are inserted after S102.

In order to enable cooperation between the screens, if there is an input (S101) on any screen, the monitoring operation screen instance 201, the alarm screen instance 202, and the operation procedure are performed in both cases of touch input and proximity input. An event corresponding to the input is transmitted to all instances of the screen instance 203 (S501, S503).
In each instance of the screen, a drawing request is generated (S502, S504) and transmitted to the output function 102.

  According to the fourth embodiment, it is possible to perform display related to other screens by input on one of the screens and to link the screens.

Embodiment 5 FIG.
Next, a fifth embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG.
In the fifth embodiment, for example, when an object 004 on the monitoring operation screen 001 is touched or close to the object 004 for a certain period of time, symbols A, B, and C are displayed around the object 004.
The symbol may be a character or a figure, or an image or video. Thereafter, sound is output when close to the symbol A, video is output when close to the symbol B, and the controller 005 is displayed when close to the symbol C.
A plurality of drawing processes can be registered for such one proximity and touch, and a user can select a drawing process at the time of execution.

In the following, the case where input is performed will be described with reference to FIG.
Note that S001 to S003, S005, S101, S102, S104, S201, and S202 in FIG. 6 are the same processes as those in FIG. In FIG. 6, S601 and S602 are inserted after S003, and S603 and S604 are inserted after S102.

In S101, when there is an input on a certain screen, the instance of the screen (the monitoring operation screen instance 201, the alarm screen instance 202, and the operation procedure screen instance 203) in both cases of the touch input and the proximity input. Generates a plurality of drawing requests (S601, S603) and transmits them to the output function 102.
The output function 102 displays icons corresponding to a plurality of drawing processes on the screen (the monitoring operation screen 001, the alarm screen 002, or the driving procedure screen 003) (S602, S604), and the user executes by proximity or touch input. Select a drawing process. After the selection, the drawing process is executed (S005, S104).

  According to the fifth embodiment, a plurality of drawing processes can be registered corresponding to one input, and the user can select a drawing process at the time of execution.

  It should be noted that the present invention can be freely combined with each other within the scope of the invention, and each embodiment can be appropriately modified or omitted.

001 monitoring operation screen, 002 alarm screen, 003 operation procedure screen,
004 object, 005 controller, 101 input function, 102 output function,
201 Instance for monitoring operation screen, 202 Instance for alarm screen,
203 Instance for operation procedure screen.

Claims (8)

A plant monitoring operation system that displays a plurality of screens including a monitoring operation screen and monitors a plant,
A display unit configured by a three-dimensional touch panel for displaying the screens;
A process for displaying each screen displayed on the display unit includes a plurality of instances defined in advance corresponding to each screen,
An input means for generating an input event when an input by touch or proximity is performed on any of the screens, and transmitting the generated input event to the instance corresponding to the screen,
And a plant monitoring operation system comprising output means for drawing an image on the display unit in accordance with information from the instance that has received the transmission of the input event from the input means.   2. The plant monitoring operation system according to claim 1, wherein the instance has a flag for switching information to be transmitted to the output means when turned on and off by the input means.   The plant monitoring operation system according to claim 2, wherein the input means turns on and off the flag by a combination of the proximity and touch input.   The input means transmits a first input event to the instance and turns on the flag when there is a proximity input to a predetermined part of the image on the screen, and there is a touch input following the proximity input. The monitoring operation system according to claim 2 or 3, wherein a second input event is transmitted to the instance and the flag is turned off.   The input means transmits a first input event to the instance when there is a touch input to a predetermined portion of the image on the screen, turns on the flag, and there is a proximity input following the touch input. The monitoring operation system according to claim 2 or 3, wherein a second input event is transmitted to the instance and the flag is turned off. In response to the transmission of the first input event, the instance transmits drawing information indicating that an image input to the predetermined location is movable to the output unit,
5. The drawing information for indicating that the image is fixed at the display position after the movement of the image in response to the transmission of the second input event, is transmitted to the output means. Item 5. The plant monitoring operation system according to Item 5. The input means transmits an input event to all the instances when an input by one or both of touch and proximity is performed on a predetermined position predetermined for each screen.
The output means draws an image of each screen related to the predetermined position on the display unit in accordance with information from all the instances that have received the transmission of the input event from the input means. The monitoring operation system according to any one of claims 1 to 6. The instance is configured to be able to define a plurality of processes related to the image when touch input or proximity input is performed on the image in the screen,
The output means displays a plurality of icons corresponding to the plurality of processes from the instance, and when one of the icons is selected, an image obtained by the process corresponding to the selected icon is displayed on the display unit. The monitoring operation system according to claim 1, wherein drawing is performed.

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