JPH0421116A - Input device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To accurately and rapidly input a required item name by displaying the item names of plural items on a display means by using a display area having a size corresponding to the display information of these item names when a representative item name is specified by a specifying means. CONSTITUTION:At the initial stage, item names stored in a 1st item name storage means 1 are displayed on the display means 5 by a display control means 4 so that the item names are representative item names can be discriminated at a glance and a required item out of these displayed item names is selected by a specifying means 3. On the other hand, detailed data corresponding to all the representative item names are stored in a 2nd item name storage means 2. When the representative item name is selected by the means 3, all similar item names corresponding to the inputted representative item name are read out from the means 2 and displayed by the control of the means 4. All the item names are displayed correspondingly to respective display data lengths without being restricted by the display area. Thus, plural similar item names can be displayed so as to easily be observed.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to a data input device such as an office computer or a personal computer, and more particularly to a multi-item input device that can input a plurality of items by operating the - button.

〔overview〕

When selecting multiple data items on a personal computer or office computer, a large number of selected data items are displayed on one screen, and a transparent touch switch is provided on the top of the display screen that corresponds 1:1 with the selected item. A selection data input device is used in which data is input by operating the .

However, in such an input device, there are many selection items displayed on the display screen, and the display of each item is an abbreviated display in which each item name is simplified. For this reason, data selection was difficult.

The present invention prevents incorrect input of the item name to be selected by displaying a plurality of similar items as a representative item name, and displaying items that are not similar to other items as an item name indicating a single item. This is to prevent data entry and make it easier to input data.

[Prior Art] When inputting data into an office computer or a personal computer, qualitative items such as a customer's name, address, product name, etc. are often input. For example, this is the case when a personal computer or the like is used for inventory management, customer management, etc. In such cases, it is inefficient to enter data using a keyboard.

For this reason, selected data such as name, address, product name, etc.
A multi-item input device has been proposed that can input items (items) with a single key touch. In such a human-powered device,
For example, a transparent touch switch is provided on the front surface of a display displaying input items, and each touch area of the touch switch is made to correspond one-to-one to the item displayed on the display screen. Then, when the user selects a desired item and touches the selected item, the touch operation is detected and processing is performed based on the content of the selection data corresponding to the touch area.

[Problem to be solved by the invention]

In such an input device, the display area of the items displayed on the display screen is fixed to one screen, for example, 6
When displaying selected data for 4 items, 1 page is 8
It is divided into ×8 areas and assigned to each item. For this reason, the display range of character strings that display selected data is extremely narrow, and simplified item information must be displayed.

For example, if the item display area is a three-letter display area, items with three or more letters such as rABC Shoji J, rABc Shokai, rABC Shoten J, etc. will be rAB J, rA
It had to be abbreviated as ``B-Kai'' and ``rAB store''.

However, as mentioned above, when multiple similar item names with common characters are displayed in one display area, it is not easy to immediately distinguish between the item names, and input The problem is that after doing so, you realize that the item name you entered was selected by mistake. On the other hand, when inputting dissimilar item names, a screen display in which a large number of similar item names are displayed becomes an obstacle to finding a desired item name and causes a decrease in efficiency.

In this case, it would be better to focus on making it possible to display item names in an easy-to-read manner in some way.

An object of the present invention is to make it possible to display a plurality of similar item names in an easy-to-read manner.

[Means to solve the problem]

The means of the present invention are as follows.

The first item name storage means 1 (see the functional block diagram of FIG.
Independent item name data that represents two items with one item name,
Stores information that is a mixture of representative item name data representing a plurality of similar items with one item name.

The second item name storage means 2 stores data of a plurality of item names included in the representative item names stored in the first item name storage means, for example, in full spelling.

The specifying means 3 specifies the representative or independent item name, and also, for example, when multiple item names included in a group of representative item names are displayed, specifies the data of one item name included in the representative item name. do.

When a representative item name is specified from the first item name storage means 1, the display control means 4 stores the item name of the group included in the representative item name in the second item name storage means 2.
The item name data is displayed on the display means 5 in a display area of a size corresponding to the amount of displayed information.

[For production] The operation of the means of the invention is as follows.

Now, suppose that the display control means 4 is displaying item name data consisting of a mixture of independent item names and representative item names initially stored in the first item name storage means 1. In addition to indicating the common parts of similar item names, representative item names should be marked with a number indicating the number of similar item names, or an asterisk at the beginning or end of the item name. The item name is displayed on the display means 5 so that it can be seen at a glance that it is a representative item name. In this way, the display means 5
A desired item is selected by the specifying means 3 from among the item data displayed on the screen.

The second item name storage means 2 stores detailed data about all similar item names corresponding to all representative item names, for example full spelled item names, and the representative item name is stored in the second item name storage means 2. When is selected, under the control of the display control means 4, all similar item names corresponding to the input representative item name are read out from the second item name storage means 2 and displayed. All of the similar item names to be displayed are displayed in accordance with their respective display data lengths without being constrained by the item name display area that has been divided equally and assigned to each item name.

Therefore, a plurality of similar item names can be displayed easily.

〔Example〕

Hereinafter, one embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS. 2 to 5.

FIG. 2 is a system block diagram of an input device according to an embodiment. The multi-item keyboard 6 is constituted by a touch panel in which transparent touch switches 7 are superimposed on the entire screen of a display section 7' consisting of a liquid crystal display element or the like. The display section 7' shows K and -K.

Items that are n pieces of selection data are displayed. In addition, transparent electrodes (not shown) are formed in a matrix in one-to-one correspondence directly above the display position of the selected data on the display section 7', and a finger or the like is pressed against the displayed item position (item key Ti). Contact(
Touch operation) allows you to select that item. However, the position of the item key Ti is the item Ki (
i=1.2...n) and are positionally the same as described above.

The multi-item keyboard 6, via the key data control section 8,
It is connected to a CPU (central processing unit) 9. When the item key Ti is touched, a key operation signal is output to the key data control section 8, and the key data control section 8 creates an item code corresponding to the item key Ti. This data is output to the CPU 9.

In addition to the above, a display control section 10 and a display data control section 11 are connected to the CPU 9. Further, although not shown, a ROM (read-on memory) and a RAM (random access memory) are connected to the CPU 9, and according to the program stored in this ROM,
Performs the processing described later.

The display data control unit 11 is a circuit that performs control when reading necessary display item data from the display data buffer 12 according to control signals and item codes output from the CPU 9, and includes a display data buffer 12 and a display memory 13 in addition to the CPU 9 and the application 14.

The display data buffer 12 stores information on item names of selected data. 3(a) and 3(b) are diagrams showing the structure of the display data buffer 12, which is composed of an initial display table 16 and a full spell data table 18. FIG. 3A shows the contents of the initial display data table 16. Area 17 of initial display table 16
In areas a to 17e, one logical record corresponding to the item name and l to l is stored.

That is, in areas 17a and 17b, the item names are displayed in display section 7'.
This is a storage area for position data indicating the position (address) displayed above. For example, in the item shown in Figure 2, °"1°"1" is stored as the position data corresponding to , and in the item 2. “2” and “1” are stored as the corresponding position data. In addition, the area 17c stores initial display data of item names, that is, when the item name represents a single item name, data of the item name such as a normal abbreviation, and on the other hand, when the item name represents a single item name, data of the item name such as a normal abbreviation is stored. When it is a representative item name that is represented collectively as a representative item name, store data of item names common to the following items. For example, “AB Shokai Pa,” “AB Shoji”, “’AB
In the case of similar names such as "Shop", "AB" is stored as the representative item name.Also, in area 17d, if the item name represents a single item, "1" is stored.
When it represents the representative item name, a numerical value corresponding to the number of similar items is stored. For example, in the above example, the representative item name "AB" represents three item names such as "AB Shokai °", and "'3" is stored in the area 17d.Furthermore, the area 17e is When the item name stored in the area 17c is the representative item name, the full spell table 18 stores specific item names of multiple similar item names included in the representative item name in full spelling.
The address in Bootara is memorized. That is, point data of the full spell data table 18 in which information on the corresponding full spell is stored is stored. and,
The areas 17a to 17e of the initial display table 16 are provided for each independent item name or representative item name.
a' to 17b', 17a" to 17b", and so on are formed.

Further, FIG. 3B shows a memory area of the full spell data table 18 that stores information on the full spell display data. This full spell data table 18 also stores one logical record corresponding to one similar item name in five areas 19a to 19e. Further, the pointer in the area 17e mentioned above indicates the initial address of the full spell data table 18 in which information on a plurality of item names included in the representative item name is stored. Therefore, data of a plurality of similar item names included in one representative item name are stored in continuous areas 19a to 19e, 19a' to 19e', . . . in the full spell data table 18.

Areas 19a and 19b are the aforementioned area 17a.

Similarly to 17b, address data of the position where the full spelling of the item name is stored is stored, and full spelling display data for displaying the item name in full spelling is stored in the name area 19c. Furthermore, data indicating the display length of the full spelled item name on the screen is stored in the area 19d.

Furthermore, the key code corresponding to the full spelled item name is stored in area 19e.

The areas 19a to 19e configured in this manner are similar to the areas 19a' to 19e19a'' to 19e19a'' shown in FIG.
19e", . . . are sequentially configured in the same manner.

Next, the input display operation of the embodiment configured as described above will be explained with reference to the flowchart of FIG. 4. In addition,
In the following explanation, a register K (not shown) provided in the CPU 9 will be used.

It is assumed that, at the initial time, the item data in the initial display table 16 is displayed under the display control of the display data control section 11. A part of the display state of the display section 7' at this time is shown in FIG. 5b). In addition, the abbreviated display ABI shown in (1) of the same figure is a representative item display that includes AB Shokai, AB Shoji, and AB Shoten when shown in full spelling. Conventionally, in this case, AB This is what was displayed at AB, AB, and AB stores.

First, when the touch switches 7 of the multi-item keyboard 6 are operated manually, the CPU 14 takes in the code data converted by the key data control unit 8 into the register (step (hereinafter referred to as S) 1).

Next, as described above, since the full spelling is not displayed at the initial setting and the shortened spelling is displayed, the judgment (SZ is No) is made, and the judgment (S3) is executed.

In this judgment (S3), the CPU 9 searches the initial display table 16 of the display data buffer 12 from the code data input to the register K as described above, and determines whether the selected item name is included in the representative item names. Judgment will be made based on whether or not. Specifically, areas 17a and 17b of the initial display table 16 that match the code data
The position data (17a', 17b', . . . ) is searched, and the determination is made based on whether point data to the full spell data table 18 is written in the area 17e corresponding to the matched position data.

For example, if the selected item is an independent item name,
As mentioned above, area 17e of the initial display data table
(or 17 e', . . . ) is output to the application 14 via the display data control unit 11 (S4).

On the other hand, if the selected item is an item name included in the representative item names, the area of the designated address in the full spell data table 18 indicated by the pointer in area 17e is searched as described above. That is, in this case as well, areas 19a, 19b (19a', 19b', . . . ) in the full spell data table 18 are searched from the address data indicated by the pointer. Here, for example, if the above-mentioned 'AB Association' is selected, AB Association is included in the representative item name, so
Three item names ("AB Shokai PA" AB Shoji" AB Shoten") that are similar to AB Association are read from areas 19c, 19c', and 19c' of the full spell data table 18. At the same time, each of the corresponding Areas 19a, 19b,
19a'.

The position data is read from areas 19b', . . . , and the display length data is read from areas 19d, 19d', 19'. Write with the specified memory length. Thereafter, the display control unit 1 according to the display instruction signal output from the CPtJ9 to the display control unit 10
0 outputs the data of the full spelled item name stored in the display memory 13 to the display section 7', and displays the full spelled item name on the display section 7' (S5). The display example shown in FIG. 5(C) shows a display example when the above-mentioned three item names are displayed on the display section 7'. In other words, the initially selected “A”
Three item names similar to the item names of the B meeting are displayed in full spelling on the polynomial keyboard 6 (display section 7'), and the operator operates the item key Ti to select one after seeing this display (S ,).

Therefore, at this time, as shown in FIG. 3C, the item name that the operator wants to select is displayed in full spelling, and the data for other selection items is not displayed, so the operator can select the desired item name without error.

Next, when the displaying item core of the full spell is selected as described above (S+-3z is Yes), the CPU 9 displays the full spell data from the code data outputted via the key data control section 8. It is determined whether the item name has been operated (S6).

Then, if the full spell data is manipulated, the corresponding key code is output to the application 14 (S).
). For example, in the above example, if the item key (K+) that displays AB Shokai is operated, the code data input to the CPU 9 will be in area 1 of the full spell data table 18.
The key code of area 19e corresponding to areas 9a and 19b is selected and this key code is output to the application 14 via the display data control unit 11 (S,). Thereafter, the display state of the display section 7' is returned to its original state (S8).

Furthermore, if an independent item name has been operated in the determination (S6), the key code of the corresponding item name is output to the application 14 (S,).

As described above, according to this embodiment, when a representative item name is input, all similar item names grouped under the representative item name are displayed in full spelling.

Therefore, all item names can be quickly searched without any misunderstandings, and desired item names can be entered accurately.

In addition, in the above embodiment, in the display data of the representative item name,
The display is set to include a numerical value indicating the number of similar item names, and the display indicates that the item name is a representative item name. Various methods can be considered, such as adding an asterisk to the beginning or end of the symbol to distinguish it.

In addition, in the above embodiment, the key manual method is a touch panel, but it is not limited to a touch panel, and a key chain equipped with a push-down key installed separately from the display screen, corresponding to the display item name, can also be used. It is also possible to input an item displayed on the screen by pressing a key on the keyboard.

〔Effect of the invention〕

According to the present invention, similar item names are not displayed, and a desired item name can be entered accurately and quickly.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a functional block diagram of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a system configuration diagram of an embodiment, FIG. 3 is a diagram showing the contents of a display data sofa, and FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing the operation of an embodiment. Figure 5(a)~
(C) is a diagram showing an example of displaying multi-item data. 1... first item name storage means, - second item name storage means, - instruction means, - display control means, - display means.

Claims (1)

[Claims] In a page consisting of multiple item names, data for independent item names representing one item with one item name and data for representative item names representing multiple similar items with one item name are stored. a first item name storage means for storing data on a plurality of item names included in the representative item name stored in the first item name storage means; or a specification means for specifying one of the independent item names, and when a representative item name is specified by the specification means, the item names of a plurality of items included in the representative item name correspond to the display information amount of those item names. 1. A display control means for displaying information on a display means in a display area of a size of .