JPH04192084A - Character processing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To easily attain correspondence between graphs and element names by individually displaying element names of graph data in the vicinity of display positions of data at a specific time of respective graph patterns together with symbols or paintings different from normal display. CONSTITUTION:A tabulating means B generates graph data in a form of aa table based on character information inputted from an input means A, and generated graph data are stored in a storage means C. A graph display means D generates and displays a graph of a prescribed form based on graph data read out from the storage means C. A second graph display means E individually displays element names of graph data, which is read out from the storage means C, in the vicinity of display positions of data at a specific time of respective corresponding graph patterns on the displayed graph together with symbols or paintings different from normal display. Thus, element names are displayed in the display graph in accordance with values of graph data, and correspondence between the change of the graph and element names is easily discriminated.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Industrial Application Field] The present invention relates to a character processing device for creating documents, and particularly to a character processing device having a graph creation function for creating a graph using input characters and numerical values. Regarding.

[Conventional technology]

Conventionally, in this type of character processing device, in order to form a graph expressing multiple elements, a legend is added to the graph, as shown in Figure 6, in order to establish a correspondence between each filling pattern of the graph and the element name. It was created in some areas.

There has also been provided a character processing device that uses a graphics processing function to break down graph data into line segments, nine circular arcs, etc. and allows the user to freely modify the data.

[Problem to be solved by the invention]

However, in the conventional example described above, the legend described above is often placed at the upper right corner of the graph as shown in Figure 6, and it is not easy to make correspondence between the graph and the element names in the legend. Ta.

In addition, with character processing devices that can freely change and rename graph data using graphic processing functions, if the original data of the graph is changed, it is necessary to create the graph from the beginning again. This method has the drawback of requiring a lot of effort to operate.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to provide a character processing device in which element names are displayed at positions corresponding to the values of each graph data, thereby facilitating correspondence between graphs and element names.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a character processing device that displays an element name along with a symbol indicating the color corresponding to each graph element.

[Means to solve the problem]

In order to achieve such an object, the present invention provides input means for inputting character information and graph display instructions, tabulation means for creating graph data in tabular form based on the character information input from the input means, a storage means for storing graph data created by the means in a tabular form, and a graph in a predetermined format is formed and displayed based on the graph data read from the storage means in response to a graph display instruction inputted from the input means. and a graph display means for displaying each of the element names of the graph data read from the storage means in the vicinity of the data display position at a specific point in time of each corresponding graph pattern on the graph displayed on the graph display means. , a graph display means for individually displaying a symbol or color different from a normal display.

In addition, Mr. Ichikuma of the present invention states that the data at a specific point in time for each graph is either the final data of each graph corresponding to each element name, the average value, maximum value, or minimum value of each graph. characterized by something.

[Effect]

In the present invention, a graph is formed and displayed based on various forms of graph data read from a storage means that stores graph data, and each element name of the graph data read from the storage means is displayed in a graph. The data at a specific point in time (for example, the final data of each graph) of each corresponding graph pattern on the graph displayed on the display means is displayed individually with a symbol or color different from the normal display near the display position. Since the elements are displayed, the element names can be displayed in the displayed graph according to the values of the graph data, and the correspondence between changes in the graph and element names can be easily determined.

〔Example〕

Embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 shows the basic configuration of an embodiment of the present invention. In the figure, A is an input means for inputting character information and graph display instructions. Reference numeral B represents tabulation means for creating tabular graph data based on character information input from input means A. C is a storage means for storing the graph data created by tabulation means B in tabular form. Reference numeral D denotes a graph display means, which forms and displays a graph in a predetermined format based on the graph' data read from the storage means C in response to a graph display instruction input from the input means A. E is a second graph display means that displays each of the element names of the graph data read from the storage means C in a specific manner of each corresponding graph pattern on the graph displayed on the graph display means. It is individually displayed near the current data display position along with a symbol indicating the housing that is different from the normal display.

The data of each graph at a specific point in time is, for example, the final data of each graph corresponding to each element name, or the average value, maximum value, or minimum value of each graph.

FIG. 2 shows a circuit configuration of an embodiment of the present invention.

In the figure, l denotes a microprocessor (CPU), which performs calculations, theoretical judgments, etc. of the character processing device, and controls each component connected to a bus (BUS) 2, which will be described later. BUS2 is a common bus, and is used for instructions, control, and data transfer of devices connected to BUS2.

3 is a read-only fixed memory (ROM);
The control procedure of the microprocessor 1 as shown in FIGS. 9 and 9 is stored. 4 is display memory (DBUF)
and stores the display pattern. A CRT controller (CRTC) 5 has the role of displaying the contents of the display memory 4 on a display (CRT) 6, displaying a cursor, and the like. The CRT 6 is a display device such as a cathode ray tube.

7 is a character generator (CG') that stores display patterns corresponding to characters, etc. in a display memory (DBUF).
4. 8 is an external storage device (D
ISK) and is used for storing and recalling documents and graphs. 9 is random access memory (
RAM), and document data and tables used in the explanation of FIGS. 4 to 7.

Used to store various variables.

A keyboard (KB) 10 has character keys and various function keys as shown in FIG. On this keyboard 10, KG is a graph display key, and by pressing it with a finger of the user while displaying a document, the user can instruct to create a graph by referring to a table in the document. In this embodiment, from the keyboard 10, the RA
An example will be explained in which a bar graph as shown in FIG. 7 is created based on document data as shown in FIG. 4 input to M9.

Further, this graph display key KG has the role of switching between document and graph display, and by pressing this key KG during graph display, the display can be returned to document display.

Further, KHI on the keyboard 10 is a legend view key for displaying graph elements as legends.

Further, KH2 is a data position instruction key that instructs to output the element name to a position corresponding to the final value of the graph using the final value of each data, rather than a list of element names. In this embodiment, the legend display table JTBL is used to determine the display position of the element name based on the June sales value shown in FIG.
use. The display position of the element name can be determined by the same method as the generally known method of determining the display position of a graph, so a detailed explanation thereof will be omitted.

The data in FIG. 4 is document data GDATA that is the source data for graph creation, including titles and item names.

It has element names, values, etc. This document data GDATA
is stored in the RAM 9 in advance.

Figure 5 shows the legend display table J created in RAMQ.
The configuration of TBL is shown. In this embodiment, it is used to find the display position of the element name of the June sales value of the document data GDATA in FIG. 4. This legend display table JTBL is also used for legend display in the case of the display shown in FIG. It is assumed that continuous lines, broken lines, and diagonal lines are used as the filling pattern for the graph according to the order of entry in the document data GDATA and the legend display table JTBL. In addition, the display position column of the legend display table JTBL is the document data GDA in Figure 4.
This is used to align the graph created by TA with the display position of each element name. In this embodiment, as shown in FIG. 7, the element names (in this example, store A and store B) are displayed according to the position of each graph pattern in the graph.

0 stores) will be displayed.

FIG. 6 is an example of a graph displayed when a legend is displayed on the CRT 6. The legend at the upper right corner of FIG. 6 is displayed in the legend display table JTBL of FIG. 5.

Furthermore, each coloring pattern of the bar graph is document data GDATA.
Vertical lines, broken lines, diagonal lines, etc. are determined by the order of the data in accordance with the order of entries in the legend display table JTBL.

Figure 7 shows a graph display when the legend is displayed as shown in Figure 6, and each element name is displayed according to the display position of the graph pattern in response to pressing the data position instruction key KH2. This is an example.

FIG. 8 is a main flowchart showing the operating procedure of the embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 9 is a detailed flowchart showing the details of the graph creation routine for displaying the legend in FIG. 8 or displaying element names in accordance with the graph pattern.

Next, with reference to the flowcharts in FIGS. 8 and 9, we will explain in detail the operating procedure of the CPU for displaying legends and displaying them in accordance with the graph pattern position when creating a graph based on document data GDATA. do. In this embodiment, characters are input.

Modification and graph creation are not essential parts of the present invention and can be realized by generally known techniques, so detailed explanations thereof will be omitted.

First, in processing step S1 in FIG. 8, the device is initialized and becomes ready for character input, correction, etc. through document creation processing, which will be described later. In the next processing step S2, key input is performed manually, and in the subsequent determination step S3, a process corresponding to the input key is selected.

In addition, in the processing procedure of FIG. 8, the graph display key K
When it is other than G, the document creation process of processing step S4 is selected, and data necessary for graph creation etc. are input. In this embodiment, document data GDATA having the arrangement shown in FIG. 4 is created in the RAM 9 in step S4, and a graph is created in step S5 based on this document data GDATA.

When the graph display key KG is input in processing step S2, the graph creation routine of processing step S5 is selected in determination step S3, and a graph is created based on the document data GDATA that has been input and stored in the RAM 9. do. The details of this creation procedure will be explained below according to the detailed flowchart of FIG.

In FIG. 9, first, in processing step 85.1, RAMQ
Legend display table JTBL for displaying legends and element names from document data GDA, TA (see Figure 4) in
(see Figure 5) is created in RAMQ. in particular,
In this embodiment, the June value (sales value) shown in FIG. 4 is used as the display position information for determining the display position of the element name on this table JTBL. That is, in processing step 35.1, a legend display table JTBL is created as shown in FIG. 5, and when displaying a legend as shown in FIG. = store A, broken line = store B, diagonal line = store C. In addition, when displaying the element names of store names such as store A and store B according to the graph pattern positions as shown in Figure 7, document data G
Display position information 1s75 in Figure 5 copied from DATA
, 375, 150) to output the symbol indicating the filling and the element name according to the height of the final edge of the graph. As described below, the above legend display is performed in processing step 85.3.
Element name display is also performed in process step 85.7 and process step 85.8.

Next, in processing step 85.2, a graph display process is performed, and a graph is created and displayed with reference to the document data GDATA of FIG. In the next processing step S5.3, a legend is created and displayed with reference to the legend display table JTBL of FIG. 5 created in the above-mentioned processing step 85.1. Through the above processing, a graph with a legend displayed as shown in FIG. 6 is displayed on the screen of the CRT 6.

In the next processing step 85.4, keys are manually processed from the keyboard 10, and a process corresponding to the type of input key is selected in a judgment processing step 85.5. That is, when the graph display key KG is input here, it is an instruction to end the graph display, and the process returns to the document display in step 85.9, and the graph creation process ends. When the legend view key KHI is input, the process returns to step 85.1, and the graph with legend is redisplayed in steps 35.2 and 35.3. In this embodiment, the legend view key KHI is used to return the graph of FIG. 7 in which element names, which will be described later, are displayed in accordance with the data positions, to the graph with legend of FIG. 6.

Also, when the data position instruction key KH2 is input,
Decision processing step 85.5 leads to processing step 85.6.
is selected, and in this processing step S5.6, a graph is formed and displayed with reference to the document data GDATA. This process is similar to step S5.2 above. Next, in processing step 35.7, the position (address) on the display screen where the element name (store name in this example) is to be displayed is calculated based on the display position information of the display table JTBL for the legend in FIG. . In this embodiment, the legend display table J
Since the TBL display position information is used as the final value of the graph, the final position of the graph matches the element name display position. That is, the position in the horizontal direction is the final position of the graph. Next processing step 85.8
Now, with reference to the store name in the legend display table JTBL, the specific store name as an element name is output and displayed at each display position determined in step 85.7 along with a symbol indicating color. Then return to step 85.4. Through the above processing steps S5.6 to 85.8, a graph is created and displayed on the screen of the CRT 6, with the symbol indicating the housing and the element name of its filling pattern displayed as the final value of the graph. be done.

In the embodiment of the present invention described above, the document data GDATA
The position to write the element name was determined by focusing on the final value of You may write the element name in the field. Also,
Similarly, it is also preferable to determine the entry position of each corresponding element based on the position of the average value, maximum value, or minimum value of each graph.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As explained above, according to the present invention, a graph is formed and displayed based on various forms of graph data read from a storage means that stores graph data, and elements of the graph read from the storage means. Each name is displayed individually with a fill symbol near the display position of the data at a specific point in time for each corresponding graph (for example, the final data for each graph), so the graph data Element names can be displayed in the displayed graph according to the values, and the effect can be obtained that the correspondence between changes in the graph and element names can be easily determined.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the basic configuration of an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the circuit configuration of an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram showing an example of the arrangement of the keyboard in FIG. 2. 4 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of graph document data created in the RAM of FIG. 2, and FIG. 5 is an example of a table for displaying legends of element names created in the RAM of FIG. 2. The explanatory diagram shown in Fig. 6 is the CR of Fig. 2.
7 is a plan view showing an example of the display in the initial state displayed on the CRT of FIG. 2; FIG. 8 is a plan view showing an example of the display according to the present invention displayed on the CRT of FIG. 9 is a detailed flowchart showing the details of the graph creation routine of FIG. 8. 1... Microprocessor (CPU) 3... Read-only fixed memory (ROM) 4... Display memory
(DBUF) 6... Display (CRT) 7... Character generator (CG') 9... Random access memory (RAM) 10... Keyboard (KB) KG... Graph display key KHI...・Legend - View instruction key KH2...Data position instruction key GDATA...Document data J TBL...Legend display table

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] 1) Input means for inputting character information and graph display instructions; Tabulation means for creating graph data in tabular form based on the character information input from the input means; and the tabulation. storage means for storing the graph data created by the means in a tabular form; a display means for forming and displaying a graph; 1. A character processing device comprising: graph display means for individually displaying a symbol or color different from a normal display in the vicinity of a display position of the character. 2) The data at a specific point in time for each graph is either the final data for each graph corresponding to each element name, the average value, the maximum value, or the minimum value for each graph. The character processing device according to claim 1.