JPH02244322A - Menu display control system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To perform setting operation for a menu efficiently by providing an effective menu discriminating part, and selecting and displaying only effective items on a screen. CONSTITUTION:A mode control part 11 controls operation in specified mode and holds control information on the kind of the mode in the control mode and operation conditions in a control information storage part 12. When a menu display request is made, a requested registered menu is read out of a registered menu storage part 13 and inputted to the effective menu decision part 14. Then the effective menu discriminating part 14 discriminates whether the respective items of the input registered menu are effective or not according to the control information in the control information storage part 12 to select only the effective items and a menu display processing part 15 edits a menu and displays it out on the screen of a monitor device 16. Consequently, the setting operation for the menu is performed efficiently.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Summary] This invention relates to a menu display control method in a processing device such as an ultrasonic diagnostic device.

In a processing device with a large number of menu items.

Displays a menu consisting of multiple items registered in advance on the screen for the purpose of streamlining menu setting operations.
In a processing device equipped with a function to perform control corresponding to a specified item in a displayed menu.

When performing menu display processing, the system is equipped with a valid menu discriminator that determines whether each item in the menu is valid or invalid based on the current control state, and is configured to select only valid items and display them on the screen.

[Industrial application field]

The present invention relates to a menu display control method in a processing device such as an ultrasonic diagnostic device.

When having multiple mode states and displaying a menu consisting of multiple control items for each mode state to set the control items, control items that cannot be set based on the current control state. has been removed from the menu display to streamline the menu display.

[Conventional technology]

Many recent ultrasonic diagnostic apparatuses are capable of simultaneously displaying multiple types of mode images on a monitor screen and observing them in parallel, if necessary. Further, in the ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus, it is necessary to set various operating conditions according to the age of the patient, the degree of obesity 1 and the region to be diagnosed, etc., and an operation panel and a menu display are used as means for this purpose.

Figure 4 is an example of a monitor screen of such a conventional ultrasound diagnostic device. In Figure 4, 1 is the monitor screen, 2 is a B-mode image,
3 is an M mode image 14 is a Doppler mode image, 5 is a B mode menu, 6 is an M mode menu, 7 is a Doppler menu, and 8 is an operation panel equipped with a keyboard.

The B-mode image 2 is an in-vivo tomographic image obtained by sector scanning and can be displayed as 6 moving images or a still image.

The M-mode image 3 is an image representing the passage of time of information of one specified scanning line in the B-mode image 2.

The Doppler mode image 4 is an image obtained by analyzing the blood flow velocity in the scanning line from the Doppler shift of the echo.When this Doppler mode image 4 is displayed.

B-mode image 2 is a still image display.

Menu for B mode 5. Since the M mode menu 6 and the Doppler menu 7 each have a large number of display items, the menu to be set is selected and displayed on the screen.

Relatively frequently used items are assigned to the operation panel 8, and other items are assigned to menus. For example, menu 5 for B mode includes gain and B mode.
- Contains items for setting operating conditions such as Gamma (luminance characteristics based on 1 correction curve).

Menu 6 for M mode also includes Guinamin Cleanse and M
Contains items for setting the start position of the mode image.

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] In conventional ultrasonic diagnostic equipment, when displaying multiple mode images simultaneously, the total number of menu items for each mode image increases, so it is difficult to display all menus simultaneously on one @ screen. could not be displayed. Therefore, it is necessary to switch the menu display, making the operation complicated.

An object of the present invention is to improve the efficiency of menu setting operations in a processing device having a large number of menu items.

[Means to solve the problem]

In general, in ultrasonic diagnostic equipment that can display multiple types of mode images on the monitor screen at the same time, for example, in a control state where B-mode images, M-mode images, or Doppler mode images are displayed simultaneously, the B-mode image is a static image (freeze image). )
Therefore, setting or changing the gain or focus is invalid.

In this way, depending on the current control state of the processing device, the menu to be displayed primarily.

The present invention focuses on the fact that there may be useless items that cannot be operated even if they are included in the menu, such as items whose settings cannot be changed or whose settings themselves are meaningless among the items that have already been registered. By removing such useless items and displaying five menus using only valid items, the menu display and setting operations can be made more efficient.

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing the principle of the present invention, in which 10 is a processing device, 11
12 is a mode control unit; 12 is a control information storage unit; 13 is a registered menu storage unit; 14 is a valid menu determination unit; 15 is a menu display processing unit; and 16 is a monitor device.

The mode control unit 11 controls the operation according to the specified mode, and holds control information representing the mode type, operating conditions, etc. of the control state in the control information storage unit 12.

When a menu display request is made, the requested registration menu is read out from the registration menu storage section 13.

The menu is input to the valid menu determination unit 14.

The valid menu determining unit 14 determines whether each item of the input registration menu is valid or invalid based on the control information in the control information storage unit 12, and selects only valid items.

The menu display processing unit 15 organizes a menu using only the items selected as valid by the valid menu determining unit 14, and outputs the menu to be displayed on the screen of the monitor device 16.

The user sets items according to the menu displayed on the monitor screen.

[For production]

In the present invention, when the number of registered menu items is too large to fit on one screen, or when multiple menus are
When you want to display the entire screen, the menu size can be reduced because the menu is organized with only valid items that match the control status at that time. Moreover, as a result, the degree to which the menu is divided into multiple pages is reduced, and the number of cases in which the operator needs to switch pages is reduced.

〔Example〕

One embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. 2 and 3.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram of an ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 3 is a block diagram of its monitor screen.

In FIG. 2, 21 is a display mode control section.

22 is a registration menu memory address generation unit, 23 is a registration menu memory that stores each registration menu for B mode, 2M mode, and Doppler, 24 is a valid menu determination unit, 25 is a menu memory address generation unit, and 26 is a valid menu A menu memory stores only items, 27 is a display control unit, and 28 is a monitor device.

The display mode control unit 21 sends mode information indicating the mode type (B, M, Dotsupura, etc.) of the ultrasound diagnostic image to be displayed on the monitor device 28 to the registered menu memory address generation unit 22 and the menu memory address generation unit 25. , and sends condition information indicating the contents of display control conditions to the valid menu determination section 24.

The registered menu memory address generation unit 22 sends the address of the area defined in the mode specified by the mode information to the registered menu memory 23 in response to the address sending timing signal from the valid menu determination unit 24.
Generated according to the number of menu items and reads one item.

The menu memory address generation section 25 also operates in the same way as the registered menu memory address generation section 22 and generates an address for the menu memory 26.

The items read from the registered menu memory 23 are sent to the valid menu determining section 24 and the menu memory 26, respectively.

The valid menu determining unit 24 examines the condition information sent from the 3-display mode control unit 21, and applies predetermined valid/invalid determination logic or a determination table to each item in the registered menu.

Determines whether the input sequential items are valid or invalid9.
When the item is valid, the valid gate signal is turned ON. Further, each time this determination is completed, an address sending timing signal is generated and sent to each address generating section 22, 25.

The menu memory 26 corresponds to the address given from the menu memory address generation section 25.

Stores the registered menu items when the valid gate signal from the valid menu determination unit 24 is ON.

The display control unit 27 reads valid items stored in the menu memory 26, edits the menu screen, and outputs and displays the menu screen on the monitor device 28.

FIG. 3 shows an example of the configuration of a monitor screen displayed on the monitor device 28. The monitor screen 31 includes a B mode image 321M mode image 33. Doppler mode images 34 are displayed in parallel, and at the same time, a B mode menu 351 and an M mode menu 36 are displayed at the bottom of the screen. Menu 3 for Dotsupura
7 are displayed at the same time.

Each menu 35. 36. 37 is 56.7 in Figure 4
This is the result of selecting and reorganizing only valid items from the registration menu with the length shown, and it is displayed on one screen.

〔Effect of the invention〕

According to the present invention, the number of menu items is reduced, so
It becomes easier for the operator to reach the item that he or she intends to set, reducing the number of operations required and speeding up the operation.

Furthermore, there is no possibility of erroneous operations on invalid items, and reliability can be improved.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

Figure 1 is a diagram showing the basic configuration of the present invention, Figure 2 is a diagram showing the configuration of one embodiment of the present invention, Figure 3 is a diagram showing the configuration of a monitor screen in the embodiment of the present invention, and Figure 4 is a diagram of conventional ultrasound diagnosis. FIG. 3 is a configuration diagram of a monitor screen of the device. In Figure 1. 10: Processing device. 11: Mode control section. 12: Control information storage unit. 13: Registration menu storage section. 14: Valid menu determination unit. 15: Menu display processing section. 16: Monitor device. Figure 1: 10,000 acres of original trees created by the present invention Figure 1: Figure 3 Figure 4:

Claims (1)

[Claims] In a processing device having a function of displaying a menu consisting of a plurality of items registered in advance on a screen and performing control corresponding to a specified item in the displayed menu, a menu display process is provided. When performing this, the present invention is characterized in that it is equipped with a valid menu determination unit (14) that determines whether each item in the menu is valid or invalid based on the current control state, and only valid items are selected and displayed on the screen. Menu display control method.