JP2017151766A - Information display control device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an information display control device which offers enhanced operability by having a plurality of sub-windows showing related information integrally displayed.SOLUTION: An information display control device includes: a sub-window generating unit 21 configured to generate sub-windows for displaying acquired information; a sub-window grouping unit 22 configured to put together a plurality of sub-windows displaying related information, from among the sub-windows generated by the sub-window generating unit 21, to generate one sub-window; and a sub-window control unit 23 configured to have the sub-windows generated by the sub-window generating unit 21 and the sub-window generated by the sub-window grouping unit 22 displayed.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 3

Description

  The present invention relates to an information display control apparatus that displays display information in a multi-window form.

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, an MDI (multi-document interface) having a relationship between a parent screen and a child screen is provided as a method for an application to provide a plurality of screens for different purposes and control display.
As a technique for displaying display information on a plurality of sub-screens, for example, Patent Document 1 discloses a technique for displaying a small window generated by multi-document generating means in a device information display device that displays device information of a field device. It is disclosed.

JP 2010-079384 A

However, in the technique disclosed in Patent Document 1, only the parent screen and the child screen are linked, and the association between the child screens is not controlled. That is, all the child screens are displayed in the same row.
When the user works, it may be possible to improve the work efficiency by displaying multiple child screens, such as arranging them for each child screen that displays related information. As disclosed in Patent Document 1, if the sub-screens are displayed and arranged freely and separately, the user has the trouble of rearranging the scattered sub-screens by operating the mouse one by one. There is a problem that the user is forced to perform an operation for finding a sub-screen displaying information according to the purpose.

  This invention was made in order to solve the above-mentioned problems, and information that made it possible to further improve operability by aggregating and displaying a plurality of sub-screens displaying related information. An object is to provide a display control device.

  The information display control device according to the present invention displays a sub-screen generation unit that generates a sub-screen for displaying each of a plurality of types of acquired information, and related information about the sub-screen generated by the sub-screen generation unit A sub-screen grouping unit that generates a single sub-screen in which a plurality of sub-screens are collected, and a sub-screen display control unit that displays the sub-screen generated by the sub-screen grouping unit.

  According to this invention, the operability can be further improved by collecting and displaying a plurality of sub-screens displaying related information.

It is a block diagram of the monitoring system provided with the engineering apparatus carrying the information display control apparatus which concerns on Embodiment 1 of this invention. It is a block diagram of the engineering apparatus carrying the information display control apparatus which concerns on Embodiment 1 of this invention. It is a block diagram which shows the structure of the information display control apparatus which concerns on Embodiment 1 of this invention. In Embodiment 1, it is a figure which shows an example of the menu screen which the menu screen display control part displayed on the display part. 6 is a flowchart for explaining an operation of displaying information selected by a user as a sub-screen on the display unit in the information display control apparatus according to Embodiment 1 of the present invention. In Embodiment 1, it is a figure which shows an example of the screen which respectively displayed the subscreen which the subscreen display control part displayed on the display part by the subscreen generation part. In Embodiment 1, it is a figure which shows an example of the screen which displayed the subscreen which the subscreen display control part produced | generated by the subscreen grouping part on the display part. 8A and 8B are diagrams showing an example of the hardware configuration of the information display control apparatus according to Embodiment 1 of the present invention.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.
Embodiment 1 FIG.
The information display control apparatus according to Embodiment 1 of the present invention is mounted on an engineering apparatus that constructs a monitoring system such as a building monitoring system or a plant management system, for example.
FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram of a monitoring system including an engineering device 100 equipped with an information display control device 10 according to Embodiment 1 of the present invention.
In the monitoring system, as shown in FIG. 1, the engineering apparatus 100 and the device 200 are connected to a network 400. Here, the network 400 is Ethernet (registered trademark). The device 200 is connected to a plurality of facility devices 300 via a serial communication line 500.
In FIG. 1, three equipment devices 300 are connected to the device 200. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and a plurality of equipment devices 300 in the facility are connected to the network, and are monitored and controlled. . In FIG. 1, two devices 200 are connected to the network 400, but the present invention is not limited to this.
In addition, although illustration is omitted for the sake of simplicity, a system monitoring device such as a building monitoring device is connected to the network 400 in the monitoring system.

For example, the engineering apparatus 100 performs engineering work to change the setting data or software of the device 200 for reasons such as addition / change / deletion of the equipment 300 connected to the device 200 and addition / change / deletion of a monitoring point. When necessary, software information such as setting data or application functions designated in advance as a target of writing to the device 200 is transmitted to the device 200.
Selection of software information such as setting data or application function to be written into the device 200 and an instruction to write software information such as selected setting data or application function are performed by the user, and the user displays the information display control device 10. Based on the display content displayed on the display unit (to be described later with reference to FIG. 2), selection of the software information such as the setting data or the application function and a write instruction are performed.

The device 200 operates in accordance with software information such as setting data or application functions written from the engineering apparatus 100, and monitors and controls the equipment 300 connected via the network 400. Further, the device 200 stores data collected from the equipment 300 via the network 400, and stores the operation history of the equipment 300, data such as daily report data, monthly report data, alarm data, etc. as necessary. Send to. Alternatively, the host device scans the device 200 to collect operation history of the equipment 300, data such as daily report data, monthly report data, and alarm data.
The equipment 300 is equipment installed in the facility, and is, for example, a sub computer, a VAV (Variable Air Volume), or the like.

FIG. 2 is a configuration diagram of an engineering device 100 equipped with the information display control device 10 according to the first embodiment of the present invention.
The engineering device 100 includes the information display control device 10 and includes a setting data storage DB (database) 50, a display unit 40, a write instruction reception unit 20, and a write execution unit 30.
The setting data storage DB 50 stores information such as setting data or software such as application functions to be written in the device 200 so that the correspondence relationship can be understood, that is, the related information can be recognized as such data. Specifically, the setting data storage DB 50 stores, for example, numerical value or character string data stored in a table in which device types and devices are associated with each other. The setting data storage DB 50 also stores information associated with application functions related to each device.

  Software information such as setting data or application functions stored in the setting data storage DB 50 is created in advance as data that can be understood by the user and stored in the setting data storage DB 50. Not limited to this, after construction of the monitoring system, information on each equipment device 300, management information such as I / O information, and the like of each equipment device 300 installed in the facility from the device 200 via a communication unit (not shown). Collect monitoring point information and information related to the specifications for accessing the monitoring point information at all times or in a preset cycle, and based on the collected data, software such as setting data or application functions Information may be updated.

The engineering apparatus 100 does not include the setting data storage DB 50, but stores, for example, setting data or software information such as application functions to be written in the device 200 that monitors and controls the facility device 300 in an external server. You may do it.
Here, the setting data storage DB 50 is provided in the engineering device 100. However, the configuration data storage DB 50 is not limited thereto, and may be provided in the information display control device 10 or provided outside the engineering device 100. May be.

The information display control apparatus 10 refers to the setting data stored in the setting data storage DB 50 or the software information such as the application function, and causes the display unit 40 to display the menu screen of the information stored in the setting data storage DB 50. Then, information required by the user is received from the displayed menu screen, and the received information is displayed on the display unit 40 as a child screen.
The detailed configuration and operation of the information display control device 10 will be described later.

  The write instruction receiving unit 20 receives information to be written to the device 200, for example, an application function, from the user based on the information displayed on the display unit 40 by the information display control device 10 as a child screen.

  The writing execution unit 30 transmits information such as application functions received by the writing instruction receiving unit 20 to the device 200.

The display unit 40 displays information to be provided to the user such as a menu screen or a sub-screen created by the information display control device 10 based on software information such as setting data or application functions stored in the setting data storage DB 50. The display unit 40 is a display, for example, a liquid crystal display or a plasma display. Moreover, the display part 40 may be comprised by LED, a cathode ray tube, etc.
Here, the display unit 40 is provided in the engineering device 100, but is not limited thereto, and may be provided outside the engineering device 100.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the information display control apparatus 10 according to Embodiment 1 of the present invention.
As shown in FIG. 3, the information display control device 10 includes an operation reception unit 1, a sub screen control unit 2, and a menu screen display control unit 3.

  The menu screen display control unit 3 refers to the setting data storage DB 50, converts software information such as setting data or application functions stored in the setting data storage DB 50 into a tree screen by a tree structure screen generation program, A menu screen on which information headings are displayed is created and displayed on the display unit 40.

The operation receiving unit 1 receives various operations from the user.
The operation reception unit 1 includes a display information selection reception unit 11 and a display mode switching reception unit 12.
The display information selection receiving unit 11 receives selection of information to be displayed from the user.
The display mode switching accepting unit 12 accepts display mode switching from the user.
In the first embodiment, the normal mode and the grouping display mode can be set as the display mode. The normal mode is a mode in which when a plurality of pieces of information are selected as information to be displayed by the user, the plurality of pieces of information selected by the user are simultaneously displayed on separate sub-screens. The grouping display mode is This is a mode in which a plurality of sub-screens displaying related information are collectively displayed as a single sub-screen with respect to each sub-screen displaying a plurality of pieces of information selected by the user. In the first embodiment, it is assumed that the normal mode is set as the initial value.
When the display mode switching accepting unit 12 accepts an instruction to switch between the normal mode and the grouping display mode and accepts switching of the display mode to the grouping display mode, the display mode switching accepting unit 12 sets 1 to a switching flag held internally. In the normal mode, 0 is set in the switching flag. That is, the initial value of the switching flag is 0, and for example, the switching flag is initialized when the power is turned on.

The sub-screen control unit 2 acquires software information such as setting data or application functions from the setting data storage DB 50 based on various operations received from the user, generates the information on the sub-screen, and displays it on the display unit 40.
The sub-screen control unit 2 includes a sub-screen generation unit 21, a sub-screen grouping unit 22, a sub-screen display control unit 23, and a sub-screen information storage unit 24.
The sub-screen generation unit 21 acquires relevant information regarding the information received by the display information selection reception unit 11 of the operation reception unit 1 by referring to the setting data storage DB 50, and omits Windows (registered trademark / hereinafter, description is omitted). The sub-screen for displaying the acquired information is generated using the multi-document interface function of When there are a plurality of pieces of information received by the display information selection receiving unit 11, the child screen generating unit 21 generates a plurality of child screens for displaying the plurality of pieces of information.
The sub-screen generation unit 21 temporarily stores the generated sub-screen information in the sub-screen information storage unit 24.

The sub-screen grouping unit 22 generates one sub-screen in which a plurality of sub-screens displaying related information are collected. In the first embodiment, the small screen grouping unit 22 generates one small screen in which a plurality of small screens displaying related information are tabbed.
The sub-screen display control unit 23 causes the display unit 40 to display the sub-screen generated by the sub-screen generation unit 21 or the sub-screen generated by the sub-screen grouping unit 22 according to the display mode. Further, when a display mode switching instruction is received from the user, the child screen generation unit 21 or the child screen grouping unit 22 generates a child screen corresponding to the switching instruction, and according to the received display mode, The display unit can be switched between individually displaying a plurality of child screens generated by the child screen generation unit 21 or displaying one child screen generated by the child screen grouping unit 22 in which a plurality of child screens are collected. 40.
The small screen information storage unit 24 temporarily stores the small screen information generated by the small screen generation unit 21.

Here, the child screen information storage unit 24 temporarily stores the child screen information. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and the child screen generation unit 21 temporarily stores the child screen information therein. You may make it keep.
Here, the small screen information storage unit 24 is included in the small screen control unit 2, but is not limited thereto, and the small screen information storage unit 24 is an information display control device external to the small screen control unit 2. 10 may be provided, or may be provided outside the information display control device 10.

The operation of the information display control device 10 will be described.
Here, first, the menu screen displayed on the display unit 40 at the start of operation will be described.
In the information display control device 10, the menu screen display control unit 3 displays the menu screen on which the information headline is displayed in the menu screen display area of the display unit 40.
Specifically, the menu screen display control unit 3 refers to the setting storage unit 50, and uses the tree structure screen generation program to store software information such as setting data or application functions stored in the setting data storage DB 50 in a tree screen. In other words, a menu screen on which information headings are displayed is created and displayed in the menu screen display area of the display unit 40.
Here, FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating an example of a menu screen displayed on the display unit 40 by the menu screen display control unit 3. As shown in FIG. 4, the menu screen is displayed in the menu screen display area 40 a of the display unit 40.
In the setting data storage DB 50, software information such as setting data or application functions to be written to the device 200 that monitors and controls the facility device 300 is stored as associated data.
The menu screen display control unit 3 refers to the setting data storage DB 50 and creates a menu screen on which information headings are displayed by the tree structure screen generation program and displays the menu screen on the display unit 40.

FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating an example of an image of a menu screen displayed on display unit 40 in the first embodiment.
Here, in the setting data storage DB 50, for example, information on the floor of a building is the highest level, and information on the device type, device, and application function is stored in association therewith. A menu screen as shown in FIG. 4 is displayed.
In FIG. 4, “instrumentation system 1” is shown as the device type, and “primary device 1”, “primary device 2”, and “primary device 3” are shown as the devices, and the application function information “Function 11”, “Function 12”, and “Function 13” are displayed.
Note that the device type and the device are managed in the setting data storage DB 50 in association with the device type ID, device ID, application function ID, and the like.

  Here, as shown in FIG. 4, the menu screen display control unit 3 displays the information stored in the setting data storage DB 50 as a menu screen in a hierarchical structure. However, the present invention is not limited to this. For example, only the uppermost information may be displayed and switched to display lower information according to the user's operation. The menu screen may be information stored in the setting data storage DB 50. Any list can be used as long as it can display the list.

As described above, when the menu screen is displayed in the menu screen display area 40a of the display unit 40, the information display control device 10 accepts the selection of information to be displayed from the user and sets the corresponding information as a sub screen to display the information on the display unit 40. Display in the screen display area.
Hereinafter, an operation in the information display control apparatus 10 that accepts selection of information to be displayed from the user, generates a sub-screen, and displays the sub-screen on the display unit 40 will be described.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart for explaining the operation of causing the information display control apparatus 10 according to the first embodiment of the present invention to display the information selected by the user on the display unit 40 as a sub-screen.
The display information selection reception unit 11 of the operation reception unit 1 waits until receiving selection of information to be displayed from the user (in the case of “NO” in step ST501), and receives selection of information to be displayed from the user (step ST501). In the case of “YES”, the received selection information is output to the child screen generation unit 21 of the child screen control unit 2.
Here, for example, on the menu screen shown in FIG. 4, it is assumed that the user has received selection of function 11, function 12, function 13 of primary device 1 and function 12 of primary device 2. The user checks by clicking a check box attached to and displayed on each information heading, and selects the heading of information to be displayed. Here, as described above, the information to be displayed is selected by clicking the displayed check box, but the present invention is not limited to this, and the information may be selected by another method.

  The sub-screen generation unit 21 of the sub-screen control unit 2 refers to the setting data storage DB 50 and acquires information received from the display information selection reception unit 11 (step ST502). The received information includes, for example, each information that the menu screen display control unit 3 displays as a menu screen heading when creating the menu screen, a device type ID of each device type, a device ID of each device, an application function ID, and the like. The child screen generation unit 21 acquires information such as the device type ID, device ID, and application function ID of the information selected by the user from the menu screen display control unit 3 and stores the device type ID. The corresponding information stored in the setting data storage DB 50 may be specified from the device ID, application function ID, and the like.

The child screen generation unit 21 uses the multi-document interface function of Windows to generate a child screen for displaying the information acquired in step ST502 (step ST503). When there are a plurality of pieces of information received by the display information selection receiving unit 11, the child screen generating unit 21 generates a plurality of child screens for displaying the plurality of pieces of information. That is, here, since the function 11, the function 12, and the function 13 of the primary device 1 and the function 12 of the primary device 2 are selected in step ST501, four children for displaying the four selected information respectively. A screen will be generated.
At this time, the child screen generation unit 21 assigns an identification number to the generated child screen. In addition, the child screen generation unit 21 temporarily stores information on the child screen to which the identification number is assigned in the child screen information storage unit 24. The identification number may be arbitrarily assigned.

The sub-screen display control unit 23 of the sub-screen control unit 2 determines whether 1 is set in the switching flag (step ST504).
In step ST504, when 1 is not set in the switching flag (in the case of “NO” in step ST504), the process proceeds to step ST505.
On the other hand, if 1 is set in the switching flag in step ST504 (in the case of “YES” in step ST504), the process proceeds to step ST508.

Here, first, as an operation at the time of start-up, it is assumed that an initial value, that is, 0 is set in the switching flag, and operations after step ST505 will be described.
If it is determined that the switching flag is 0, the sub-screen display control unit 23 displays each sub-screen generated by the sub-screen generation unit 21 in step ST503 in the screen display area of the display unit 40 (step ST505). Specifically, the child screen display control unit 23 separately arranges and displays the child screens generated by the child screen generation unit 21 for each child screen. That is, the child screen generated by the child screen generating unit 21 is displayed in a multi-window form.

FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating an example of a screen in which the child screen display control unit 23 causes the display unit 40 to display the child screens generated by the child screen generation unit 21. As shown in FIG. 6, a plurality of sub-screens are individually arranged and displayed in the screen display area 40b of the display unit 40. That is, the display mode of the small screen as shown in FIG. 7 is the normal mode. The screen display area 40b corresponds to the parent screen.
Here, the function 11 of the primary device 1 (2a in FIG. 6), the function 12 of the primary device 1 (2b in FIG. 6), the function 13 of the primary device 1 (2c in FIG. 6), and the primary display 1 are displayed in the screen display area 40b. Information on the function 12 (2d in FIG. 6) of the device 2 is displayed on the sub-screen.
In FIG. 6, for example, “1.1 [WJ-1]” of the sub-screen 2 a that displays information on the function 11 of the primary device 1, “1.1” is a combination of a system number and a device number. Represents. Here, the device NO of the primary device 1 is 1, and “1.1” indicates “primary device 1 of the instrumentation system 1”. [WJ-1] is a device type or type, and here, [WJ-1] represents a primary device.
Here, as shown in FIG. 6, for each heading, the system No., device No., device type, type, and device name are displayed. However, the present invention is not limited to this. It only needs to be able to understand which information is displayed.

  In addition, regarding the arrangement and size of each sub-screen, the sub-screen display control unit 23 can arrange the sub-screen display control unit 23 at any position and in any size. You may arrange | position so that a part of sub-screen may overlap. In addition, the user can freely change the arrangement and size of each sub-screen, and the operation receiving unit 1 can instruct the user to change the arrangement or change the size by dragging the corresponding sub-screen with the mouse. When the position / size change accepting unit (not shown) accepts, the sub-screen display control unit 23 changes the arrangement or the size of the sub-screen so that the arrangement or size is based on the instruction to change the arrangement. .

When the child screen is displayed in the screen display area 40b in step ST505, the operation end instruction receiving unit (not shown) of the operation receiving unit 1 determines whether an operation end instruction has been received from the user (step ST506). The user gives an instruction to end the operation, for example, by clicking an end button (not shown) displayed on the display unit 40 or performing an operation for closing the screen.
When an operation end instruction is received from the user (in the case of “YES” in step ST506), the process ends.

On the other hand, when an instruction to end the operation is not received from the user (in the case of “NO” in step ST506), the display mode switching receiving unit 12 of the operation receiving unit 1 determines whether an operation switching instruction is received from the user ( Step ST507).
Regarding the display of the sub-screen, when the user selects a plurality of information as the information to be displayed, the normal mode in which the plurality of selected information is displayed simultaneously on different sub-screens, and the sub-screen that displays the information respectively Can be freely switched to a grouping display mode in which a plurality of sub-screens displaying related information are displayed together as one sub-screen. Specifically, the user switches the display mode by, for example, clicking a display switching button (40c in FIG. 6) displayed on the display unit 40. This is only an example. For example, the user may switch the display mode by clicking one of the displayed child screens, or may switch the display mode by other methods. Good.
In step ST507, the display mode switching reception unit 12 determines whether a display mode switching instruction to the normal mode or the grouping display mode has been received from the user.

When the display mode switching instruction is not received from the user (in the case of “NO” in step ST507), the process returns to step ST506 and the subsequent processing is repeated.
When a display mode switching instruction is received from the user (in the case of “YES” in step ST507), the process returns to step ST504.
Here, in step ST505, it is assumed that the user has clicked the display switching button 40c and instructed switching to the grouping display mode from the state in which the child screen is displayed in the normal mode as shown in FIG. .
At this time, when receiving the display mode switching instruction, the display mode switching accepting unit 12 sets the internally held switching flag to 1.

Returning to step ST504, the sub-screen display control unit 23 determines whether 1 is set in the switching flag (step ST504).
In step ST507, since 1 is set in the switching flag, the process proceeds to step ST508.

In step ST508, the sub-screen grouping unit 22 of the sub-screen control unit 2 generates one sub-screen in which a plurality of sub-screens displaying related information are collected. Specifically, the child screen display control unit 23 outputs a child screen grouping instruction to the child screen grouping unit 22, and the child screen grouping unit 22 generates the child screen generation unit 21 in steps ST502 and 503, The sub-screens temporarily stored in the sub-screen information storage unit 24 are grouped into sub-screens that display related information in a preset unit, and a plurality of sub-screens are tabbed for each same group. One sub-screen is generated. Here, it is assumed that grouping is performed in advance as related information for each device. That is, information on the same device is grouped into the same group.
The sub-screen grouping unit 22 may set the order of tabs, that is, the order in which sub-screens are displayed by which tabs, for example, in ascending order of identifiers assigned to the sub-screens. This is only an example, and the tabbing order can be set as appropriate.
At this time, the sub-screen grouping unit 22 generates information as a single sub-screen for information where the same group does not exist.

Then, the sub-screen display control unit 23 displays the sub-screen generated by the sub-screen grouping unit 22 in step ST508 in the screen display area of the display unit 40 (step ST505). That is, the child screen display control unit 23 displays the tabbed child screen generated by the child screen grouping unit 22 or the child screen generated as a single child screen because the same group does not exist on the display unit 40. Display.
Here, FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating an example of a screen in which the sub-screen display control unit 23 displays the sub-screen generated by the sub-screen grouping unit 22 on the display unit 40. As shown in FIG. 7, the application function information regarding the same device is displayed in the screen display area 40 b of the display unit 40 as a tabbed sub-screen. That is, the display mode of the small screen as shown in FIG. 7 is the grouping display mode. As shown in FIG. 7, the child screen generated by the child screen grouping unit 22 is displayed in a multi-window form.

  Here, since grouping is performed in units of devices, the function 11 of the primary device 1 that is displayed on the screen display area 40b as separate sub-screens (2a to 2c in FIG. 6) in FIG. A sub-screen that displays information, a sub-screen that displays information about the function 12 of the primary device 1, and a sub-screen that displays information about the function 13 of the primary device 1 are tabbed as sub-screens that display related information. And displayed as one sub-screen (2e in FIG. 7). Further, the information on the function 12 of the primary device 2 is displayed on a single sub-screen as in FIG. 6 (2d in FIG. 7) because there is no sub-screen in the same group.

  As shown in FIG. 7, the sub-screen grouping unit 22 generates and displays one sub-screen in which a plurality of sub-screens for displaying related information are tabbed, so that the user can obtain a target function / The screen can be checked together. Also, by looking at the heading of the tab, you can easily grasp which information is displayed on which sub-screen, so you can easily operate the scattered sub-screens one by one with the mouse, etc. It is possible to aggregate and display the sub-screens under a certain condition by simply pressing the screen switching button without forcing the operation for searching the sub-screen displaying the information. As a result, the user can grasp necessary information more easily.

  Here, as shown in FIG. 7, the child screen grouping unit 22 generates one child screen in which a plurality of child screens displaying related information are tabbed, but the present invention is not limited to this. . For example, when one sub-screen that lists headings of sub-screens for displaying related information is generated and a desired sub-screen heading is selected from the list, the sub-screen of the selected heading is displayed. You may make it do. The sub-screen grouping unit 22 only needs to generate a plurality of sub-screens displaying related information as one sub-screen.

  Then, it progresses to step ST506 and repeats the subsequent processes. For example, when the user wants to switch the display mode to the standard mode again, if the user clicks the display switching button 40c of the display unit 40, the switching flag is set to 0 (step ST507), and the sub-screen display control is performed. The unit 23 arranges and displays the child screens generated and temporarily stored by the child screen generation unit 21 (step ST503) for each child screen (step ST505).

  In this way, in step ST505, the sub-screen display control unit 23 arranges and displays each sub-screen generated by the sub-screen generation unit 21 separately, or the sub-screen grouping unit 22 Whether the generated child screens are grouped into related groups and generated and one child screen with multiple child screens tabbed is displayed, that is, whether to display in standard mode or grouping display mode, Judgment is made by the switching flag, and the display of the sub-screen is controlled.

Thereby, based on the user's instruction, the information selected from the menu screen can be displayed on the display unit 40 by appropriately switching whether the information is displayed on a separate sub-screen or a tabbed sub-screen. it can.
Therefore, for example, when the user wants to freely display and arrange the sub-screens, the user can display them in the normal mode for displaying each sub-screen separately. For example, information can be displayed in a display mode as necessary, such as displaying in a grouping display mode in which a customized sub-screen is displayed, and operability is further improved.

  Here, as an example, the sub-screen grouping unit 22 has been described as a sub-screen that displays related information as a sub-screen that displays information related to the same device in units of devices. However, the unit of grouping is not limited to this. For example, you may make it the subscreen which displays the information regarding the same group classification be the same group. In this case, as shown in FIG. 6, the child screen showing the information on the function 11 of the primary device 1, the child screen showing the information on the function 12 of the primary device 1, the child screen showing the information on the function 13 of the primary device 1, The child screens indicating the information on the function 12 of the device 2 are all grouped into the same child screens displaying information related to the group type of the instrumentation system 1, and these four screens are tabbed as one child screen. It is displayed in the screen display area 40b of the display unit 40.

Further, for example, sub-screens that display information of the same application function type may be grouped into the same group. In this case, for example, the child screen showing the information on the function 12 of the primary device 1 and the child screen showing the information on the function 12 of the primary device 2 shown in FIG. The child screens are grouped, and the two screens are displayed in the screen display area 40b of the display unit 40 as one child screen tabbed.
At this time, since the tab headings are the same for “function 12”, the sub-screen display control unit 23 sets the names of the tabs to “primary device 1” and “primary device 2” indicating devices, for example. , It can be changed and displayed.

  Further, as shown in FIG. 7, the tabbed child screen generated by the child screen grouping unit 22 is displayed in the screen display area 40 b of the display unit 40, and the user arranges the tabbed child screens. It can also be changed. Specifically, for example, the user drags the tab of the child screen to be rearranged with the mouse, and drops the tab at a desired position after the rearrangement. The sorting operation by the user is received by a sorting receiving unit (not shown) of the operation receiving unit 1, and the sub-screen display control unit 23 tabs the sub-screen grouping unit 22 based on the information received by the sorting receiving unit. A sub-screen in which the sub-screens are rearranged is generated, and the small screen after the tab rearrangement generated by the sub-screen grouping unit 22 is displayed in the screen display area 40b of the display unit 40. The child screens to be rearranged may be specified from the child screen identification information.

In the first embodiment, the menu screen display area 40a, the screen display area 40b, and the display switching button 40c of the display unit 40 are in the range shown in FIGS. 6 and 7, or the positions shown in FIGS. However, the display position of the menu screen display area 40a, the screen display area 40b, and the display switching button 40c can be set as appropriate.
In the first embodiment, the user switches the display mode using the display switching button 40c. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and for example, a normal mode button and a grouping display mode button are displayed. The display mode may be switched by selecting, as long as the display mode can be switched.

8A and 8B are diagrams showing an example of the hardware configuration of the information display control apparatus 10 according to Embodiment 1 of the present invention.
In Embodiment 1 of the present invention, the operation receiving unit 1 is a mouse 804 or a keyboard 803.
Each function of the sub-screen control unit 2 and the menu screen display control unit 3 of the information display control device 10 is realized by a processing circuit 801. That is, the information display control device 10 includes a processing circuit 801 for controlling the display operation of the display unit. The processing circuit 801 may be dedicated hardware as illustrated in FIG. 8A or may be a CPU 806 that executes a program stored in the memory 805 as illustrated in FIG. 8B.

  When the processing circuit 801 is dedicated hardware, the processing circuit is, for example, a single circuit, a composite circuit, a programmed processor, a parallel programmed processor, an ASIC, an FPGA, or a combination thereof.

  When the processing circuit 801 is the CPU 806, the functions of the sub-screen control unit 2 and the menu screen display control unit 3 are realized by software, firmware, or a combination of software and firmware. That is, the sub-screen control unit 2 and the menu screen display control unit 3 are realized by a processing circuit such as a CPU 806 that executes a program stored in the HDD 802, the memory 805, or the like, or a system LSI. It can also be said that the programs stored in the HDD 802, the memory 805, and the like cause the computer to execute the procedures and methods of the sub-screen control unit 2 and the menu screen display control unit 3. Here, the memory 805 corresponds to, for example, a RAM.

  The small-screen information storage unit 24 of the information display control device 10 uses the HDD 802. This is merely an example, and the small-screen information storage unit 24 may be configured by the memory 805.

As described above, according to the first embodiment, the user is forced to operate the scattered child screens one by one with a mouse operation or the like, or an operation for finding a child screen displaying information according to the purpose. It is possible to aggregate and display the child screens under certain conditions. As a result, the user can more easily grasp necessary information regarding the monitoring target.
In addition, for example, when the user wants to freely display and arrange the sub-screens, the user can display them in the normal mode in which each sub-screen is displayed separately. For example, information can be displayed in a display mode as necessary, such as displaying in a grouping display mode in which a customized sub-screen is displayed, and operability is further improved.

  In the above description, it is assumed that a plurality of sub-screens are displayed independently from each other on the assumption that the sub-screen is not displayed on the display unit 40 using FIG. From the state in which the sub-screens are already displayed on the display unit 40, one sub-screen in which the sub-screen grouping unit 22 receives the operation switching instruction from the user and collects the sub-screens displaying the related information. It is also possible to generate In that case, the following operations are performed from step ST507 in FIG.

Moreover, in Embodiment 1 of this invention, although the information display control apparatus 10 demonstrated as what was mounted in the engineering apparatus 100 which comprises a monitoring system, it is not restricted to this, For example, the information display control apparatus 10 is It may be mounted on a system monitoring device (not shown) in the monitoring system, and the information display control device 10 can be applied to any system or device that displays acquired information.
In the first embodiment of the present invention, the information display control device 10 is configured as shown in FIG. 1, but the information display control device 10 includes the sub-screen control unit, so that the above-described effects are obtained. Is obtained.

  Further, in the present invention, any constituent element of the embodiment can be modified or any constituent element of the embodiment can be omitted within the scope of the invention.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Operation reception part 2 Subscreen control part 3 Menu screen display control part 10 Information display control apparatus 11 Display information selection reception part 12 Display mode switching reception part 20 Write instruction | indication part 21 Subscreen production | generation part 22 Subscreen grouping part 23 Subscreen display Control unit 24 Sub-screen information storage unit 30 Write execution unit 40 Display unit 50 Setting data storage DB
DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 100 Engineering apparatus 200 Device 300 Equipment 400 Network 500 Serial communication line 801 Processing circuit 802 HDD
803 Keyboard 804 Mouse 805 Memory 806 CPU

Claims (3)

A sub-screen generator for generating a sub-screen for displaying the acquired information;
A sub-screen grouping unit that generates a single sub-screen in which a plurality of sub-screens displaying related information are collected for the sub-screen generated by the sub-screen generation unit;
An information display control device comprising: a child screen generated by the child screen generation unit; and a child screen display control unit that displays the child screen generated by the child screen grouping unit. It further includes a display mode switching reception unit that receives display mode switching,
The sub-screen display control unit individually displays a plurality of sub-screens generated by the sub-screen generation unit according to the display mode received by the display mode switching reception unit, or the sub-screen grouping unit generates The information display control device according to claim 1, wherein switching whether to display one sub-screen in which a plurality of sub-screens are collected is performed. The sub-screen grouping unit
The information display control device according to claim 1, wherein a plurality of sub-screens that display the related information are tabbed to generate one sub-screen.

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