JPH0425929A - Input position designation device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To improve the operability of data input and work efficiency by immediately moving a cursor to a touched position by means of a touch operation against a screen in an input position designation device designating an input position on the screen. CONSTITUTION:An input display device 20 consists of CPU 21, a keyboard 26, a touch display 29 and the like, and it inputs and outputs data with a host computer 10. The touch display 29 consists of a display part, and a transparent touch panel installed on the display part. When an operator depression-operates the arbitrary position on the touch display 29, a touch input control part 27 informs an input area control part 24 of a touch address. The input area control part 24 checks whether the address is within an input possible area or not. When the judgement is passed, CPU 21 moves the cursor to the touch position through a display control part 23. Then, a system moves to an input processing from the keyboard 26.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Industrial Application Field J] The present invention relates to an input position specifying device for specifying an input position on a screen, and particularly relates to an input position specifying device for specifying an input position on a screen by a touch operation on the screen. Relating to a positioning device.

[Overview J Conventionally, in terminal devices and personal computers in which data is input using a keyboard or the like while looking at a display screen, it has been troublesome to move the cursor up, down, left, and right using cursor keys.

The present invention provides transparent touch keys on the top surface of the display that correspond to individual manual input areas displayed on the display surface,
By specifying a desired input area on the screen by operating the touch keys, the cursor is immediately moved to the specified input area, allowing input to the desired input area easily and immediately. It is something.

[Prior Art] Conventionally, when a computer terminal device, a personal computer, or the like is used to correct or input data in an arbitrary manual area displayed on a display, it is usually done using the following steps.
Move the cursor to the desired input area by operating the cursor keys provided on the keyboard, etc., and then
Methods of data correction or data entry were used.

For example, as shown in FIG. 4, name input areas Nl, N2, . N3 and its name input area N1. N2. Telephone number input area TI corresponding to N3
, T2. When a screen display having a plurality of input areas consisting of T3 is performed, these input areas Nl, N2 . N3
, and T.I.

T2. When inputting or modifying data in T3, it was necessary to operate the cursor key multiple times to move the cursor to the beginning of the desired input area or to the desired data input/correction position within that input area. .

[Problem to be Solved by the Invention] As described above, conventionally, when inputting or modifying data in an input area, by operating a cursor key, a desired input area and a desired input position within the input area are moved. I was moving the cursor, but since the cursor can only be moved by one character up, down, left, or right when operating the cursor keys, there are cases where there is a large gap between the input areas, or if you have already entered data to correct the data. When returning to a previously entered input area, the number of operations of the cursor keys increases, reducing work efficiency and making the operations troublesome for the user.

As mentioned above, the operation of inputting and modifying data in any input field M is difficult and the work efficiency is poor because the cursor can only be moved up, down, left, and right one character at a time with one cursor key operation. This is thought to be the cause.

Therefore, it is thought that operability will be improved if the cursor can be moved to a desired input position within a desired input area with a single operation.

The object of the invention is to enable instantaneous movement of the cursor to the desired and appropriate input position.

[Means to solve the problem] The means of the invention according to claim 1 is as follows.

The display means 1 (see the functional block diagram of the present invention in FIG. 1, the same applies hereinafter) displays the input format, cursor, and input data on the screen. The touch operation position detection means 2 consists of a transparent touch panel provided on the upper surface of the display surface of the display means 1, and detects the touch operation position on the screen displayed on the display means 1. Display control means 3
moves a cursor to a position corresponding to the touch operation position detected by the touch operation position detection means on the screen displayed by the display means 1 and displays the cursor.

The means of the invention according to claim 2 is as follows.

In addition to the functions of the display means I and the evening/7chi operation position detection means 3, the storage means 4 further stores position information of the input area of the screen displayed on the display means 1.

The determining means 5 determines whether the touch operation position is within the input area based on the touch operation position detected by the touch operation position detection means 2 and the input area position information stored in the storage means 4. Determine whether When the discrimination means 5 determines that the touch operation position is within the input area, the display control means 3 detects the touch operation detected by the touch operation position detection means 2 on the screen displayed by the display means 1. Move the cursor to the position to display it.

[For production] The operation of the means of the invention described in claim 1 is as follows.

When the data input screen is displayed by display means 1,
If the user looks at the displayed screen and needs to start inputting data from a position on the screen that is beyond the currently displayed cursor position, touch the position where the user wants to start the input, and the touch operation The position detection means 2 detects the touch operation, outputs key data, etc. corresponding to the touch operation, and notifies the display control means 3 of the touch operation. Then, based on the key data, the display control means 3 displays a cursor at the display position on the screen corresponding to the key data.

Therefore, if you try to input data to an input position that is far away from the currently displayed cursor position,
When you touch the desired input position,
Since the cursor can be immediately moved to the touched position, data can be input immediately from any position.

The operation of the means of the invention according to claim 2 is as follows.

For example, when the display means 1 displays an input formant such as a telephone directory in which multiple input areas are set, the user looks at the displayed screen and selects the information currently displayed on the screen. When it is necessary to start data input or correction from a position farther than the cursor position, when you touch the position where you want to start the input/correction, the touch operation position detection means 2 detects the touch operation and Corresponding key data etc. are output and the discrimination means 5 is notified of the touch operation. Then, based on the key data, the determining means 5 determines whether the display position of the screen corresponding to the key data is within the input area stored in the storage means 4 or not. As a result of the determination, if the display position of the screen corresponding to the key data is within the input area, the display control means 3 is notified that the display position of the screen corresponding to the key data is within the input area. Then, the display control means 3, based on the key data,
A cursor is displayed at the display position on the screen corresponding to the key data.

Therefore, if you try to input data to an input position that is far away from the cursor position on the input formant that is currently displayed and has multiple input areas, you can immediately input data to the desired appropriate position. Since the cursor can be moved, data can be input immediately from any position within the correct input area on the input format.

[Example] An example will be described below with reference to FIGS. 2 and 3.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the system configuration of one embodiment.

The host computer 10 is made up of various computers such as an office computer or a personal computer, and loads application software stored on a floppy disk or the like into the main memory, executes the application software, and displays the input/display device 2.
It outputs screen display data and inputs data from the input/output device 20 to the input/output device 20.

More specifically, the screen display data includes the length (for example, byte length) of an input area (input area) and initial display data within the input area.

The input display device 20 inputs and outputs data to and from the host computer 10, and also includes a CPU 21 consisting of a microprocessor that controls the entire system.
Human power information save memory 22, display control section 23, input area control section 24, and input control section 2 connected to U21
5, and further includes a keyboard 26 connected to the input control section 25, a touch input control section 27 connected to the input area control section 24, and the display control section 2.
3, and a touch display 29 connected to the display memory 28 and the touch input control section 27.

The CPU 21 has a ROM (read/read memory) not shown in the figure.
It executes programs stored in the computer's only memory to control the entire system and input and output data to and from the host computer.

The CPU 21 receives information regarding each input area to be displayed on the touch display 29 that is notified from the host computer (the starting edge (line position and digit position) of the input area on the screen, the length of the input area, and the initial display). When inputting data), the information is written to the input information save memory 22, and then the input area control unit 24 is instructed to control the input area based on the input area information stored in the input area information save memory 22. I request you to do so. Note that the start address of the input area is a display address set on the display section of the touch display 29.

In addition, the display control unit 23 creates image data for the initial display of the input area based on the initial display data of the input area stored in the input information save memory 22 in response to a request from the CPU 21, and displays the created image data. The data is written to display memory 28, which is video RAM. The display data of the initial screen stored in the display memory 28 is read out by the control section in the touch display 29 and displayed on the display section of the touch display 2ψ9. Further, when the data is related to the display of the data input start position, cursor display data is written in the corresponding storage area of the display memory 28. Further, when the iTi key code is output, the key code is written in the storage area corresponding to the cursor position. Then, referring to the inputtable data length of the input area stored in the input information save memory 22, it is checked whether the position where the key code is written is the end of the data length, and if it is not the end, writes the cursor display data to the position advanced by one character.

The touch display 29 is an LCD that performs display based on display data written in the display memory 28.
It consists of a display section (liquid crystal display device) or the like, and a transparent touch panel mounted on the display section. The touch input control unit 27 detects the touch position on the touch panel of the touch display, converts the address (line position and digit position) of the touch operation position into the display address, and outputs it to the input area control unit 24. .

When the input area control unit 24 inputs the display address of the touch operation position from the touch input control unit 27, it refers to the input information save memory 22 and determines whether the display address corresponds to an address within the input area. is checked, and if 8 hits, the display controller 23 is notified via CP (J 21) that the cursor will be moved to that display address.

When the display control unit 23 receives the notification, it moves the cursor to the notified display address on the display unit of the touch display 29.

The keyboard 26 has multiple keys (keys) such as alphanumeric characters and numerical values.
It detects a key operation operated by an operator, generates a key code corresponding to the operated key, and outputs the key code to the input control section 25. The input control unit 25 transmits the input key code to the CPU 21.
It is output to the display control section 23 via. Display control section 23
writes the input key code to the address corresponding to the cursor position in the display memory 28. As a result, characters, numbers, etc. input from the keyboard 26 are displayed at the corresponding position on the display section of the touch display 29.

Further, the display control unit 23 subsequently refers to the input information save memory 22 and checks whether the current cursor position is at the end of the currently designated input 9M area, and if it is not at the end, the cursor position Advance by one.

Further, when the operator finishes inputting and modifying data on one screen, he presses a transfer key (not shown) provided on the keyboard 26. When this transfer key is operated, the code of the transfer key is notified to the input control unit 25, and the input control unit 25 decodes the code and transfers the code to the CP.
The input area control unit 24 is notified via U21 that the transfer key has been input.

When the input area control unit 24 receives the notification of the manual transfer key, the input area control unit 24 selects a display corresponding to each input area from the display memory 23 based on the input area position and data length information stored in the input information save memory 22. The data (input data) is read and the read display data is transferred to the host computer 10 all at once.

Next, the operation of the main parts of the embodiment configured as described above will be explained.

First, from the host computer 10, the input display device 20
When display data to be displayed on the display section of the touch display 29 is sent to the CPU 21, the CPU 21
The received display data is output to the display control section 23, and the display control section 23 develops the display data into image data and draws it on the display memory 28.

As a result, a display for inputting a name and telephone number is displayed on the display section of the touch display 29, as shown in FIG. 4, for example.

Subsequently, the host computer 10 notifies the CPU 21 that the name input areas N1 to N3 and the telephone number input areas T1 to T3 shown in FIG. 4 are input areas. At this time, the information to be notified is for each input area N1 to N3.
, the display address of the start end (line position and column position) of T1 to T3, area length (for example hide length), initial display data, etc. The CPU 21 writes input area information regarding these input areas N1 to N3 and T1 to T3 into the input information save memory 22.

Next, the operation after the name and phone number input screen is displayed on the display section of the touch display 29, which is the main part, is as follows.
This will be explained with reference to the flowchart in FIG.

The operator can select any position on the touch display.
When a pressing operation is performed with a finger or the like, the pressing operation is detected by the touch input control unit 27, and the touch input control unit 27
Address of the pressed position (line position and digit position on the display)
is converted into a corresponding address (hereinafter referred to as a display address) on the display section of the touch display 29. Then, the converted display address is notified to the input area control section 24 (Sl). When the input area control unit 24 inputs the display address, it checks whether the display address is registered as an input area (S2), and if it is registered, it interrupts the CPU 21 and controls the display. - Notify that the cursor will be moved to an address. When the CPTJ 21 receives the interrupt from the input area control unit 24, it notifies the display control unit 23 that the cursor will be moved to the touch key address. When the display control unit 23 receives the above notification, it controls the cursor to move to the specified display address, and the operator moves the input area on the display unit of the touch display 29 where the touch operation was performed. The cursor is moved to the corresponding display address (S3).

The subsequent processing shifts to data input processing using a normal keyboard such as a standard keyboard.

Further, in the above process S2, if the touched position is in an area other than the input area where data can be input, the touch key operation is invalidated and no interruption is made to the CPU 21.

In this way, according to this embodiment, the touch display 2
If you touch the corresponding position in the arbitrary input area displayed on the display section 9, that evening.

The cursor automatically moves to the touch position within the input area that was touched, and data can be input immediately from any position within the input area specified by the touch.
This is particularly useful in devices with touch displays and numeric stroke keys.

[Effects of the Invention] According to the first invention, the cursor can be easily and immediately moved to any position on the screen corresponding to the touch operation position by touch operation, thereby improving the operability and work of data input. Increased efficiency.

According to the second invention, the touch operation moves the cursor only within the input possible area on the screen.
In addition to the effects of the invention described above, it is possible to prevent data from being input into the wrong area, and the operability and work efficiency of small data inputs are significantly improved compared to the prior art.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Fig. 1 is a functional block diagram of the present invention, Fig. 2 is a block diagram showing the system configuration of one embodiment, Fig. 3 is a flowchart explaining the operation, and Fig. 4 explains the state of conventional cursor movement. It is a diagram. DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1...Display means, 2...Touch operation position detection means, 3...Display control means, 4...Storage means, 5...Discrimination means.

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] 1) Display means; Touch operation position detection means for detecting a touch operation position on a screen displayed by the display means; and Touch operation position detection means on the screen displayed by the display means. An input position specifying device comprising: display control means for moving and displaying a cursor at a position corresponding to a touch operation position detected by the input position specifying device. 2) a display means; a storage means for storing positional information of an input area on a screen displayed on the display means; a touch operation position detection means for detecting a touch position on the screen displayed on the display means; determining means for determining whether or not the touch operation position is within the input area based on the touch operation position detected by the operation position detection means and the input area position information stored in the storage means; If the determining means determines that the touch operation position is within the input area, a display for moving a cursor to the touch operation position detected by the touch operation position detection means on the screen displayed by the display means and displaying the same; An input position specifying device comprising: a control means;