JP4802741B2 - Wizard device and wizard type user setting method - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a wizard apparatus and a wizard type user setting method for performing user settings for a plurality of electronic devices from a common display.

  Patent Document 1 discloses personal information (eg, age, gender, address, “fast priority” input, “time priority” input,..., See FIG. 3 in Patent Document 1) in the navigation device when the navigation device is initially turned on. Setting is disclosed (see FIG. 2 of Patent Document 1).

  In the navigation device of Patent Document 1, personal information can be set only at the time of initial power-on, and at the time of initial power-on, only a part of the personal information can be input, and at the other time, the remaining information is left. There is no mention of inputting a part or changing personal information after initial setting of personal information.

  Patent Document 2 describes the initial setting of the AM broadcast frequency interval of the tuner unit in the car audio device, the setting of the presence / absence of an equalizer amplifier, the setting of the presence / absence of antenna diversity, etc. (see paragraph 0004 of Patent Document 2). The initial setting can be performed not only when the audio device is first turned on but also every time the power is turned on (102 → 110 → 121Y → 122Y → 123 in FIG. 2 of Patent Document 2). → 110 → ...).

On the other hand, in a car equipped with a navigation device and an AV device (especially a speaker), not only the user setting of the navigation device but also the user setting of the AV device can be performed by the wizard on the display device of the navigation device that displays the map and the recommended route. Like to do.
JP 2003-232647 A JP-A-9-83397

  The problems of the conventional wizard device in which the user setting of the navigation device and the AV device is performed by the wizard on the display device of the navigation device are as follows.

(A) The navigation device wizard and the AV device wizard exist separately, and the user needs to activate each wizard one by one and perform the user settings for the navigation device and the AV device in the user settings of each wizard. And it takes time.

(B) Each of the wizards described above is executed once at the start of use of the navigation device and the AV device, and is not executed again at the end of the operation. It was not possible to reset the user settings.

(C) If each of the above-described wizards is terminated halfway, it cannot be re-executed thereafter, and the user performs some user settings in the first execution of the wizard, and the remaining users in the second and subsequent executions. It is difficult to use the wizard to make settings.

  An object of the present invention is to overcome the above-described problems in a wizard apparatus and a wizard type user setting method that enable user settings for a plurality of electronic devices to be performed from a common display.

The wizard device of the present invention enables user settings for a plurality of electronic devices to be performed from a common display. The wizard apparatus includes the following means.
Integrated wizard execution means for executing an integrated wizard that integrates each wizard related to user settings of each electronic device into a single wizard,
Start instruction accepting means for accepting a user instruction for starting the integrated wizard; and execution control means for operating the integrated wizard executing means when receiving a user instruction for starting the integrated wizard.

The wizard-type user setting method of the present invention enables user settings for a plurality of electronic devices to be performed from a common display. The wizard type user setting method includes the following steps.
Integration wizard that integrates each wizard related to the user settings of each electronic device into a single wizard. The integration wizard is started each time a user instruction to start the integration wizard can be repeatedly received and every time the user instruction to start the integration wizard is received. Step to execute.

  The present invention can also be realized as a program. The program of the present invention causes a computer to function as each means of the wizard device of the present invention.

  According to the present invention, since wizards that have been conventionally executed for user setting for each electronic device can be collectively executed by a single integrated wizard, user setting work by a user can be rationalized.

  FIG. 8 is a hardware configuration diagram of the in-vehicle electronic device system 50. The in-vehicle electronic device system 50 includes a car navigation device, a TV tuner 56, a radio tuner 57, and a CD / DVD drive 58 as a player as in-vehicle electronic devices.

  In the relevant part of the car navigation device, the GPS module 55 detects the vehicle position based on the radio wave from the GPS satellite. A VICS (Vehicle Information and Communication System) module 56 receives road congestion information from FM multiplex broadcasting or the like. The hard disk device 54 includes a map database 55 and can freely write and read music data dubbed from a CD or the like.

  In an electronic device part other than the car navigation device, the TV tuner 56 outputs video and audio signals related to TV broadcast radio waves of VHF and UHF. The radio tuner 57 outputs an audio signal related to radio broadcast radio waves of AM or FM. The CD / DVD drive 58 can read data for the map database 55 from a predetermined CD-ROM and can read data for reproducing music and movies from a music CD or DVD.

  The processing and control device 60 includes a CPU, receives data and signals from the GPS module 55, the VICS module 56, the hard disk device 54, the TV tuner 56, the radio tuner 57, and the CD / DVD drive 58, and executes various processes. . The image generator 62 generates an image display signal based on the data input from the processing and control device 60 and outputs it to the monitor 63. The monitor 63 is equipped with a touch panel, and the touch position detector 64 detects a user touch position on the touch panel and outputs it to the processing and control device 60. A user instruction to the processing and control device 60 can be performed by a user touch at a predetermined position on the touch panel, or can be performed via a remote controller (not shown).

  The automobile on which the processing and control device 60 is mounted is provided with four speakers 66a to 66d on the front, rear, left and right sides of the passenger compartment. The D / A converters 65a to 65d receive the digital audio signal from the processing and control device 60, convert it into an analog audio signal, and output it to the speakers 66a to 66d, respectively. The in-vehicle electronic device system 50 is configured to output sound from the TV tuner 56 and the radio tuner 57 from the speakers 66a to 66d, and set a music CD in the CD / DVD drive 58 to the music CD. The recorded music is reproduced and emitted from the speakers 66a to 66d. The in-vehicle electronic device system 50 also sets a movie DVD in the CD / DVD drive 58, reproduces the movie recorded on the movie DVD, displays an image on the monitor 63, and speakers 66a to 66d. Sound is emitted from.

  FIG. 1 is a flowchart of the integrated wizard 10 for in-vehicle electronic devices. The in-vehicle electronic device integration wizard 10 is mounted in the in-vehicle electronic device system 50. The in-vehicle electronic device integration wizard 10 is a collection of user setting wizards for each in-vehicle electronic device.

  FIG. 2 shows a setup screen portion in the menu set. The setup screen portion is displayed on the monitor 63. In addition to the setup screen portion, the menu set includes a navigation menu screen portion and a sound adjustment screen portion, and the user designates these screen portions as the “navigation menu”, “sound adjustment”, and “setup” tags. Switching is performed by touching or pressing a predetermined key on the remote control. These screen portions are displayed in a pop-up format within the touch panel of the monitor 63. The “end” button is displayed in the lower right corner of the pop-up screen portion, and the user can close the pop-up screen portion by touching the button.

  The menu set can be called by pressing a predetermined hard key or a remote control key arranged on the monitor 63 or touching a predetermined button on the touch panel. That is, the user can call up the setup screen portion with the button of “Startup Wizard” in FIG. 2 at any time while the vehicle is stopped and the in-vehicle electronic device system 50 is operating.

  Hereinafter, for convenience of explanation, it is assumed that each user operation during execution of the in-vehicle electronic device integrated wizard 10 is performed by touching the touch panel. As shown in FIG. 2, the setup screen portion includes buttons for “startup wizard” in addition to buttons such as “screen portion setting” and “navigation function setting”. The user starts the in-vehicle electronic device integrated wizard 10 by touching a button of “startup wizard”.

  The in-vehicle electronic device integration wizard 10 includes a navigation related setting wizard and an audio setting wizard. Further, the navigation related setting includes a plurality of setting portions of Navi1, Navi2, Navi3, Navi4,. Similarly, the audio setting includes a plurality of setting portions of Aud1, Aud2, Aud3, Aud4,. In the in-vehicle electronic device integrated wizard 10, navigation-related settings are made first, and then audio settings are made, but the order may be reversed.

  In the in-vehicle electronic device integrated wizard 10, navigation-related settings Navi1, Navi2, Navi3,... Are executed in S11, S13,. In S21, S23,..., Audio settings Aud1, Aud2, Aud3,.

  The navigation-related settings Navi1 and Navi2 are, for example, an elevation angle setting and a home position setting of the display device of the navigation device. FIG. 3 and FIG. 4 respectively show wizard screen portions relating to the setting of the elevation angle of the display device of the navigation device and the setting of the home position. The audio setting Aud1 is, for example, a vehicle type setting. Audio output from the front, rear, left and right speakers 66a to 66d is controlled based on the vehicle type. FIG. 5 shows a wizard screen portion related to the setting of the vehicle type.

  In FIG. 3, the elevation angle of the display can be set in 7 steps in increments of 1 from -1 to +5. The user touches one button corresponding to a desired elevation angle among the buttons written as -1, 0, 1,..., 5 to set the elevation angle. The color of the set elevation button changes. When the user notices that he has selected the wrong elevation button, he can change the setting by touching the correct elevation button again. The function of a button such as “Next” will be described after the description of FIG.

  In the wizard screen portion of FIG. 4, “present location” and “search” buttons are displayed. When the user touches the “current location” button, a map with a predetermined mark on the current location is displayed in the right half. When registering a location other than your current location as your home, touch the “Search” button and display the map that includes your home location in the right half of the screen using the same search method used when setting the recommended route search destination. To make the mark at home.

  In the screen portion of FIG. 5, “compact”, “sedan”, “wagon”, “minivan”, “SUV”, “one box”, and “not select” buttons are displayed. The user sets a vehicle type by touching a button corresponding to the vehicle type of the own vehicle or a “do not select” button.

  The “Pit Confirm”, “Previous”, “Next”, and “Exit” buttons are displayed on all the wizard screen portions during execution of the in-vehicle electronic device integrated wizard 10. When the user finishes setting in each wizard screen portion and moves to the wizard screen portion for setting the next item, the user touches the “Next” button. When the user returns to the previous wizard screen portion and wants to change the setting related to the previous wizard screen portion, the user touches the “Previous” button. Furthermore, the user touches the “End” button when the user setting of this time is limited to the touch panel of the current screen portion and the in-vehicle electronic device integrated wizard 10 is to be ended halfway.

  Each user setting screen portion related to the in-vehicle electronic device integration wizard 10 displays information indicating what number setting is in the entire setting portion between the “Previous” button and the “Next” button. Is done. In this example, the total number of setting portions in the in-vehicle electronic device integrated wizard 10 is 11, and the screen portions corresponding to the setting portions are Navi1, Navi2, Navi3, Navi4,... Aud1, Aud2, Aud3, Aud4. Paged in the order of.

  In the in-vehicle electronic device integration wizard 10, in S12, S14,..., S22, S24. Specifically, when the user touches the “Finish” button in each wizard screen portion, the determination in S12, S14,..., S22, S24. 10 is finished. When the user touches the “Next” button, the determination in S12, S14,..., S22, S24.

  6 and 7 show a navigation menu screen portion and a sound adjustment screen portion, respectively. User settings in the navigation menu screen portion and the sound adjustment screen portion are the same as those in the prior art. Both the navigation menu screen portion and the sound adjustment screen portion can be called at any time as in the setup screen portion.

  In the navigation menu screen portion, navigation settings, map display settings, and guidance settings are individually selected. In the sound adjustment screen portion, the position, equalizer, CS Automatic, balance / fader, source level, and basic settings are individually selected.

  FIG. 9 is a functional block diagram of the wizard device 70. The wizard device 70 enables user settings for a plurality of electronic devices to be performed from a common display.

  The integrated wizard execution means 71 executes an integrated wizard that integrates each wizard related to user settings of each electronic device into a single wizard. The start instruction receiving means 72 receives a user instruction for starting the integration wizard. When the execution control unit 73 receives a user instruction to start the integration wizard, the execution control unit 73 operates the integration wizard execution unit 71.

  An example of the integration wizard in the wizard device 70 is the in-vehicle electronic device integration wizard 10 that is executed by touching the “start-up wizard” button in FIG. 2. The wizard integrated with the integrated wizard in the wizard device 70 includes, for example, a wizard related to user settings of a car navigation device and a wizard related to user settings of an audio device such as a CD. The electronic device in which the integrated wizard is involved in user settings is not limited to the in-vehicle wizard. It shall include home-use electronic devices such as recorders and home AV systems deployed at home, and household electrical appliances such as cooking and washing.

  The display is typically a touch panel display such as the monitor 63 of FIG. 8, and a user instruction is made by touching a predetermined part of the touch panel. However, the display device does not have to be a touch panel type, and in that case, the user instruction is performed by, for example, an operation on a hard key attached to the display device or an operation on a key of a remote controller.

  Users can streamline many user configuration tasks by using the integrated wizards compared to using individual wizards.

  The start instruction accepting unit 72 can repeatedly accept a user instruction for starting the integration wizard. As a result, the user can perform user settings all at once, change the user settings as appropriate, and gradually accumulate user settings.

  The halfway termination instruction accepting unit 77 accepts a user instruction to terminate the integration wizard halfway during operation of the integration wizard executing unit 71. The halfway termination control unit 78 terminates the operation of the integration wizard execution unit 71 when receiving a user instruction to terminate the integration wizard during the operation of the integration wizard execution unit 71.

  The integrated wizard has the advantage of eliminating the need to start each wizard individually and streamlining the entire user configuration work, but on the other hand, the user work time for executing all of the integrated wizard is integrated by the integrated wizard. As the number of wizards increased, there is a disadvantage that becomes longer. However, in the wizard device 70, the disadvantage can be suppressed by allowing the user to repeatedly execute the integrated wizard and enabling it to be terminated halfway.

  The storage unit 81 stores a midway end position in the integration wizard when the integration wizard is ended halfway. When the execution control unit 73 receives a user instruction to start the integration wizard after the integration wizard is finished halfway, the execution control unit 73 operates the integration wizard execution unit 71 so that the integration wizard resumes from the stored halfway end position.

  The user may skip user settings in the integration wizard. In such a case, the storage unit 81 stores the set user setting or non-set user setting wizard portion, and when the next integration wizard is restarted, only the unset user setting wizard portion is sequentially ordered. Or may be executed with priority.

  In FIG. 9, the halfway end position stored in the storage unit 81 is described so that the integrated wizard executing unit 71 reads out, but the execution control unit 73 can control the restart position of the integrated wizard in the integrated wizard executing unit 71. In this way, the execution control unit 73 may read the midway end position from the storage unit 81.

  When the execution control means 73 receives a user instruction to start the integration wizard after the integration wizard is finished, the integration wizard resumes from the wizard related to the electronic device used by the user when the user instruction is received. The integrated wizard execution means 71 may be operated.

  More specifically, for example, it is assumed that, in the previous execution of the integrated wizard, the user has terminated the audio setting wizard halfway and is currently using a car navigation device instead of an audio device such as a CD player. . In this state, when the user gives an instruction to start the integration wizard, the wizard device 70 resumes the integration wizard from the wizard related to the navigation-related settings, even though the audio setting wizard was ended halfway last time. . In this way, the user can quickly start setting according to his / her wishes in the integration wizard.

  Furthermore, the resuming position of the integrated wizard may be based on a wizard associated with each electronic device in the integrated wizard without using each user setting in each electronic device as a unit. That is, for example, in the previous execution of the integration wizard, it is assumed that the setting items up to Navi2 in FIG. 1 have been completed and terminated there, and the next time the user issues an instruction to execute the integration wizard, not from Navi3, It may start from Aud1 or resume from Navi1 again.

  Restart the integrated wizard from the wizard related to the electronic device used by the user at the time of receiving the user instruction, and set the restart position of the integrated wizard as a unit corresponding to each electronic device in the integrated wizard. For example, in the previous execution of the integration wizard, the user has completed the setting up to a certain setting item in the wizard related to the navigation-related setting, and has ended halfway there, and currently uses the car navigation device. Suppose you were. In this state, when the user gives an instruction to start the integration wizard, the wizard device 70 may restart the integration wizard from the setting item next to the certain setting item in the wizard related to the navigation related setting. Instead, it is possible to restart from the first setting item of the wizard related to the navigation related setting.

  The wizard type user setting method as the best mode of the present invention enables user settings for a plurality of electronic devices to be implemented from a common display. And each time it accepts a user instruction to start the integrated wizard that integrates each wizard related to the user settings of each electronic device into a single wizard, and a user instruction to start the integrated wizard, And step to run the integration wizard.

  A specific example of the electronic device in the wizard type user setting method is the same as that of the wizard device 70. In addition, in the wizard type user setting method, it is preferable that the integrated wizard can be terminated in the same way as the wizard device 70. It is advantageous to store the halfway end position at the time of halfway termination and restart the integration wizard from the stored halfway end position when the next integration wizard is executed thereafter.

  The program as the best mode for carrying out the present invention causes a computer to function as each means of the wizard device 70 described above.

  Although the present invention has been described with reference to the best mode of the apparatus, method, and program, the present invention is not limited to this, and each component in the best mode is modified and embodied without departing from the spirit of the invention. Can be Various inventions can be formed by a convenient combination of a plurality of constituent elements disclosed in the best mode. For example, some components may be deleted from all the components shown in the best mode. Furthermore, it is possible to combine components according to different best modes.

It is a flowchart of the integrated wizard for vehicle-mounted electronic devices. It is a figure which shows the setup screen part in a menu set. It is a figure which shows the wizard screen part which concerns on the setting of the elevation angle of the indicator of a navigation apparatus. It is a figure which shows the wizard screen part which concerns on the home position setting of a navigation apparatus. It is a figure which shows the wizard screen part which concerns on the setting of a vehicle type. It is a figure which shows a navigation menu screen part. It is a figure which shows the sound adjustment screen part. It is a hardware block diagram of a vehicle-mounted electronic device system. It is a functional block diagram of a wizard apparatus.

Explanation of symbols

10: Integrated wizard for in-vehicle electronic devices, 70: Wizard device, 71: Integrated wizard execution means, 72: Start instruction receiving means, 73: Execution control means, 77: Halfway end instruction receiving means, 78: Halfway end control means, 81 : Storage means.

Claims (3)

In the wizard device that enables user settings for multiple electronic devices from a common display,
Integrated wizard execution means for executing an integrated wizard that integrates each wizard related to user settings of each electronic device into a single wizard,
Start instruction receiving means for repeatedly receiving a user instruction to start the integration wizard;
Execution control means for operating the integration wizard execution means upon receiving a user instruction to start the integration wizard;
During operation of the integration wizard execution means, a halfway completion instruction receiving means for accepting a user instruction to terminate the integration wizard halfway, and
During operation of the integrated wizard execution means, an end control means for ending the operation of the integrated wizard execution means when a user instruction to end the integration wizard is received.
With
When the execution control unit receives a user instruction to start the integration wizard after the integration wizard is finished, the integration wizard resumes from the wizard related to the electronic device used by the user when the user instruction is received. Thus, the wizard apparatus characterized by operating the said integrated wizard execution means . 2. The wizard device according to claim 1, wherein the wizard integrated with the integrated wizard includes a wizard related to user settings of a car navigation device and a wizard related to user settings of an audio device. In a wizard type user setting method that enables user settings for a plurality of electronic devices from a common display,
Integrated wizard execution step that executes an integrated wizard that integrates each wizard related to user settings of each electronic device into a single wizard,
A start instruction receiving step for repeatedly accepting a user instruction for starting the integration wizard;
An execution control step for executing the integration wizard execution step upon receiving a user instruction to start the integration wizard;
During the execution of the integration wizard in the integration wizard execution step, an intermediate end instruction receiving step for receiving a user instruction to end the integration wizard halfway; and
An end control step for interrupting execution of the integration wizard in the integration wizard execution step when a user instruction to end the integration wizard is received during execution of the integration wizard in the integration wizard execution step,
With
In the execution control step, when a user instruction for starting the integration wizard is received after the integration wizard is finished halfway, the integration wizard resumes from the wizard related to the electronic device used by the user when the user instruction is received. Thus, the wizard-type user setting method characterized by controlling execution of the integrated wizard execution step .

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