JP2804168B2 - Comprehensive information display device - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Purpose of the Invention] (Industrial application field) The present invention displays a plurality of different pieces of comprehensive information to be displayed on a dedicated display on a single display, which is suitable for displaying the information. The present invention relates to a general information display device capable of displaying any combination.

(Conventional technology) In a monitoring system that monitors the operating and failure states of various facilities located in a plant using a computer, a display called a CRT is always installed, and information is displayed on a cathode ray tube of the display. Is displayed to inform maintenance personnel of each operation state of the plant, and each facility is maintained as necessary.

By the way, when the display information of various facilities is displayed on the display device, each facility is usually displayed on a single screen so that its arrangement can be understood by a certain graphic symbol, and the operation state is represented by a color change of the symbol. The measured values are digitally displayed in the vicinity of the symbol indicating the sensor to provide the operator with information continuously. Further, when a failure occurs in various facilities, a failure mark is displayed blinking in the vicinity of a symbol representing the corresponding device to provide emergency information to the operator.

These screens are usually called graphic screens and are displayed on a display called a graphic CRT.

On the other hand, it is naturally necessary to provide the operator with other production control data on the graphic screen or direct image of the on-site equipment as an image, but at present, the former information is a character CRT that can only display normal characters, and the latter information is ITV monitors were used to transfer camera images, and operators had to select a display device depending on the type of information they wanted to see.

For information to be edited and displayed using a calculator,
Since the application software is incorporated into each display and displayed on the display, there is a problem that the display speed (response) deteriorates as the number of displays is increased and the load on the computer increases.

Further, when a plurality of types of information are to be simultaneously displayed on a single display unit in a certain combination, there is a problem that application software must be developed each time.

(Problems to be Solved by the Invention) As described above, conventionally, when display information for monitoring various facilities of a plant is displayed, information having different display forms must be displayed on dedicated display devices and confirmed. I had to. In addition, as for the display using an electronic computer, as the number of display units increases, the application software also increases, and the responsiveness is poor due to an increase in the CPU load. further,
Whenever there was a change in the display combination, etc., it was necessary to remodel the software.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION It is an object of the present invention to provide a general information display device capable of displaying a plurality of pieces of information having different display forms in any combination on one display and maintaining responsiveness even when the number of displays increases. To provide.

[Constitution of the Invention] (Means for Solving the Problems) In order to achieve the above object, in the present invention, a plurality of pieces of display information having different display forms are updated and input at regular intervals, and the information is divided into display units. A display information dividing unit that outputs the pixel information as pixel data; a large-capacity memory that stores pixel data corresponding to each piece of display information divided by the display information dividing unit in a predetermined area; It has a conversion function for performing conversion processing such as enlargement, reduction, rotation and the like at an arbitrary position and a combination function for performing combination processing. When display information and a display form or combination are set, the corresponding display information is read from the large-capacity memory. A display output device that takes in each division unit and outputs display information processed by the conversion function or the combination function, and a display information output from the display output device. It is obtained by a Shimesuru indicator.

(Operation) In the general information display device having such a configuration, a plurality of pieces of display information having different display forms are stored in a predetermined area as pixel data divided for each display unit in a large-capacity memory. Therefore, it is possible to display a plurality of pieces of information on a single display device in any combination only by setting the information to be displayed on one display screen and the display form on the display output device. Also, even when displaying each display information on multiple displays at once, each information stored in the large-capacity memory is simply read out to the display output device, meaning that the large-capacity memory can be shared by multiple displays. Therefore, if the information stored in the memory is updated at regular intervals, even if multiple display units make display requests at once, the load on the computer will not be affected, and it will respond regardless of the number of display units. Sex can be maintained.

Embodiment An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 shows the configuration of a general information display device according to the present invention. In FIG. 1, reference numeral 1 denotes an arithmetic processing unit using an electronic computer into which, via an input device 2, detection information from a sensor provided in correspondence with, for example, each of various facilities arranged in the plant is taken. The arithmetic processing device 1 has a graphic database 3 storing graphic symbolized data representing the arrangement of each facility of the plant.
And a database 4 that stores color information for changing colors of symbols according to the operation state of each facility, character screen information, and page definition information.

The arithmetic processing device 1 has an editing function of editing data for each display unit according to the type of information collected via the input device 2 based on the definition of a page stored in the database 4, and an operation of facility equipment. A judgment function for judging whether or not there is a change in the state, and if there is a change, a color changing function of a symbol of the corresponding device; and a data edited and judged by these functions is input to the page memory allocation device 5. ing.

Reference numeral 6 denotes an image processing apparatus to which a video signal of a device photographed by an ITV camera 7 installed directly on the site is input. This image processing apparatus 6 performs image processing of the video signal and inputs it to the page memory allocating apparatus 5. doing.

The page memory allocating device 5 displays a graphic screen or character screen information periodically input as update display information from the arithmetic processing device 1 and image information from the ITV camera 7 input from the image processing device 6 into one dot on the display screen. Each data is decomposed for each bit, that is, converted into pixel data and stored in the display large-capacity memory 8. In this case, the display large-capacity memory 8 stores each information by dividing an area into information units of each type (hereinafter referred to as page units).

Further, reference numeral 9 has a conversion function of taking in information stored in the display large-capacity memory 8 in page units and performing conversion such as enlargement, reduction, rotation, and the like as a display image, and a combination function of combining information in page units. The page memory combination output device 9 is a page memory combination output device 9. When there is a request from the operator through the console 10, a plurality of displays 11a to 11a are displayed in an arbitrary combination in a display form corresponding to the request.
1c is displayed in parallel.

Next, the operation of the integrated information display device configured as described above will be described with reference to FIG. Now, the graphic screen and the character screen information are updated and input from the arithmetic processing unit 1 to the page memory allocating device 5, and the IT
When image information captured by the V camera 7 is input, the page memory allocating device 5 distributes the information in units of pages according to the type of information, and the information is displayed on dedicated pages 8a to 8f of the large-capacity display memory 8. It is decomposed into dot images on the screen and stored in bit units. Each piece of information stored in each of the dedicated pages 8a to 8f of the large-capacity display memory 8 is always updated by the arithmetic processing device 1 and the image processing device 7 with a screen display dot image.

Here, assuming that the pages 8a to 8f and the display positions that the operator wants to display on the cathode ray tubes of the displays 11a to 11c for the page memory combination display output device 9 are set by the console 9, this page The memory combination display output device 9 reads out the corresponding page information from the large-capacity display memory 8, edits the page information by the conversion function and the combination function, and displays the page information corresponding to the displays 11a to 11c in a display form according to the operator's request. To display. For example, in FIG. 2, the page 11 of the large-capacity display memory 8 is displayed on the display 11a.
Each information of d, 7e, 7f is combined and displayed as windows 12a, 12b, 12c, and each information of pages 8c, 8b, 8f is combined and displayed as windows 12d, 12e, 12f on a display 11b.

As described above, in this embodiment, the graphic screen and character information updated and output at regular intervals from the arithmetic processing device 1 and the image processing device 7 and the image information from the ITV camera 6 are converted into page units by the page memory allocation device 5 according to the type of information. The display memory 11 is decomposed into dot images and stored in the large-capacity display memory 8. The page memory combination display output device 9 allows the operator to simply set the information to be displayed and the display form, and display them on the displays 11 a to 11 c. A plurality of different types of information can be combined and displayed. Therefore, conventionally, a plurality of pieces of information having different display forms are separately displayed on each display, but according to the present apparatus, a plurality of pieces of information are converted, such as enlargement, reduction, rotation, etc., into one display. Any combination can be displayed later. Further, since a plurality of different types of information are stored in the display large-capacity memory 8 in page units while being updated at regular intervals by the arithmetic processing device 1 and the image processing device 6, various types of information are stored in the plurality of displays. Simultaneous display does not affect the load on the computer, and responsiveness can be maintained irrespective of the increase or decrease in the number of displays.

The present invention is not limited to the embodiment described above and shown in the drawings, and can be implemented with various modifications without departing from the scope of the invention.

[Effects of the Invention] As described above, according to the present invention, it is possible to display a plurality of pieces of information having different display forms in an arbitrary combination on a single display, and to respond even if the number of displays increases. Can be provided.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block circuit diagram showing an embodiment of a comprehensive information display device according to the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a functional block diagram for explaining the operation of the embodiment. DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Calculation processing device, 2 ... Input device, 3 ... Graphic database, 4 ... Database, 5 ... Page memory allocation device, 6 ... Image processing device, 7 ... ITV camera, 8 ... Display Large-capacity memory, 9 ... Page memory combination display / output device, 10 ... Operation console, 11a to 11c ... Display.

Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] A display information dividing means for updating and inputting a plurality of pieces of display information having different display forms at regular intervals, dividing the information for each display unit, and outputting the information as pixel data, and dividing the display information by the display information dividing means. A large-capacity memory for storing pixel data corresponding to each piece of display information in a predetermined area, and a conversion function and combination processing for performing conversion processing such as enlargement, reduction, and rotation at an arbitrary position on the same display screen. When the display information and the display mode or combination are set, the corresponding display information is taken in from the large-capacity memory for each division unit, and the display information processed by the conversion function or the combination function is output. And a display for displaying display information output from the display output device.