JPH0444155A - Data communication method for electronic system notebook - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To enable a lecturer to surely inform the participants the page or the area that is under the lecture by securing the radio connection between a lecturer electronic system notebook and the participant electronic system notebook. CONSTITUTION:A lecturer electronic system notebook 10 is provided with a means which reads the information out of the electronic printed matters like an IC card, etc., a display means which displays visually the read-out information, a designation means which designates the notice information based on the displayed information, and a transmission means which transmits the notice information by radio. Meanwhile each of participant electronic system notebooks 12-1 to 12-n is provided with a means which reads the information out of the electronic printed matter storing the same information as the notebook 10, a display means which displays visually the read-out information, a reception means which receives the notice information sent from the notebooks 12-1 to 12-n, and a means which applies the notice processing to the information displayed on the display means based on the notice information. In such a constitution, a lecturer can surely let the participants know the lecturing areas of a textbook. Thus the learning effects of the participants can be improved.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Industrial Application Field] The present invention relates to electronic system organizer data communication in which, for example, in a lecture at a school, a lecturer and students communicate information regarding the lecture using an electronic system organizer connected wirelessly. Regarding the system.

[Conventional technology] In school education, social education, etc., a common format is for a large number of students to gather together in a classroom or lecture hall, and a lecturer to give a lecture to these students. be.

Additionally, published materials are often used in such lectures. For example, in a lecture at a school, a lecturer uses a textbook to explain a predetermined lecture theme by writing on a blackboard or the like. It is common for students to try to understand the content of the lecture while looking at the same textbook as the lecturer, always paying attention to the lecturer's notes and comments.

[Problem to be solved by the invention] Publication materials used in lectures are mainly printed materials. When using such published materials, students always need to know which part the instructor is currently explaining, that is, which page and which line they should be paying attention to.

For this reason, the instructor usually alerts the students by voice telling them which page and line they should be looking at.

However, if the classroom is noisy or the instructor's voice is low, it may be difficult to hear the instructor's voice. In this case, students do not know which page or line to look at, which confuses the lecture and reduces educational effectiveness.

Furthermore, the tension of the students does not necessarily persist during the lecture period. -If you get lost in your thoughts for a moment or are so absorbed in understanding the lecture content that you think about your own questions, you may not hear the lecturer's attention during that time.

In such a case, the educational effect will also be reduced.

Furthermore, in recent years, a publication format called electronic publication has begun to be implemented for published materials. This uses a so-called IC card that has an integrated circuit built into a card-like case.
This is a form in which information is stored on a card. In this case, I.C.
The information stored on the card is read out by a device such as an electronic organizer and visually displayed on a flat screen such as a liquid crystal display.

It is also possible to have the lecturer and the students carry this electronic system notebook and give lectures using the IC card with common contents as a textbook. In this case, compared to printed publications, I
The advantages of the C-card, such as its small size, and the small size and portability of the electronic system organizer, provide benefits such as a reduction in the labor involved in transporting textbooks.

However, even in this case, the above-mentioned warning (which line on which page is being lectured) is still necessary, and there is a certain limit to the improvement of educational effectiveness.

The present invention was developed with the aim of solving these problems, and it allows the instructor to reliably inform the students about which part of the textbook is being lectured on, thereby increasing the learning effectiveness of the students. The purpose is to provide a system that can further improve the

[Means for Solving the Problems] In order to achieve the above object, an electronic notebook data communication system having the following configuration is proposed.

That is, the electronic planner data communication system of the present invention is a system that includes an electronic planner for instructors and an electronic planner for students, and the electronic planner for instructors receives information from electronic publications such as IC cards. The student's electronic system notebook has a means for reading out the information, a display means for visually displaying the read information, a specifying means for specifying caution information based on the displayed information, and a transmitting means for wirelessly transmitting the caution information. A means for reading out information from an electronic publication that stores the same information as that of the instructor, a display means for visually displaying the read information, a receiving means for receiving caution information sent from the instructor's electronic system notebook, and display on the display means. The present invention is characterized in that it includes means for performing caution processing on information that is displayed based on caution information.

[Operations] In the present invention, the instructor performs a specifying operation using the specifying means of the instructor's electronic notebook. This operation is performed based on information read out from the electronic publication and visually displayed on the display means. With such a designation, the caution information related to the designation is wirelessly transmitted from the transmitting means of the instructor's electronic system notebook.

This wirelessly transmitted caution information is received by the receiving means of the electronic notebook for students. On the other hand, information read from an electronic publication that stores the same information as that of the lecturer is visually displayed on the display means of the student's electronic notebook. In the student's electronic notebook, a caution process is applied to the information visually displayed on the display means based on the received caution information. This attention processing includes, for example, page breaks or reverse display of visually displayed information. This allows the instructor to reliably inform the students of the current lecture location.

[Examples] Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described based on the drawings.

FIG. 1 shows the configuration of an electronic notebook data communication system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

In this figure, an instructor's electronic notebook 10 used by the lecturer and a student electronic notebook 12 used by the students are shown. The student electronic system notebook 12 is generally carried by 0 students, so
There will be a total of n in the entire system.

The system according to this embodiment is a system concerning one-way communication from the instructor to the students. That is, when the instructor performs a predetermined operation on the lecturer's electronic notebook 10, predetermined information is wirelessly transmitted to the student's electronic notebook 12 in accordance with the operation.

The student's electronic system notebook 12 receives this transmission and performs predetermined display processing and the like.

FIG. 2 shows the configuration of an electronic notebook used as the lecturer's electronic notebook 10 or the student's electronic notebook 12 in this embodiment. In order to simplify the explanation, the explanation will be given here assuming that it is configured as an electronic system notebook 10 for instructors.

First, the instructor's electronic notebook 10 shown in this figure includes cover parts 14 and 16. One cover section 14 includes a flat display section 18 made of liquid crystal or the like, and the other cover section 16 includes slots 24 and 26 in which a predetermined number of IC cards 20 and personal cards 22 can be respectively mounted. .

The IC card 20 stores information corresponding to, for example, a textbook, and the personal card 22 stores information such as the following:
Information necessary for the user (in this case, the instructor) is written by the CPU, which will be described later.

The cover section 16 includes an IC card 20 and a personal card 2.
2 read/write circuits are built-in. This circuit allows IC card 20 or personal card 22
The information read from the display section 1 of the other cover section 14
8 is displayed. Here, if the IC card 20 is a textbook, display is made in units corresponding to each member of the textbook, for example.

The cover section 14 is further provided with a page operation key 28, a point designation key 30, and a transmission key 32. These keys are keys related to input to the circuit built in the cover part 14 or 16, the page operation key 28 changes the page of the display part 18, and the point designation key 30 changes the page displayed on the display part 18. The transmission key 32 is a key for instructing the transmission of necessary words, lines, etc. of the contents of the content to the student's electronic system notebook 12. The circuit operation by operating these keys is a feature of the present invention, and will be described in detail later.

In this figure, a transmitter 34 is provided as an extended electronic card. The transmitting section 34 has a built-in antenna (not shown), and is connected to a circuit built in the cover section 14 or 16 via the binding section 36. The transmitting section 34 is used to transmit the data supplied from this circuit to the student's electronic notebook 12.

In addition, in the figure, 38 is an expansion electronic card having functions such as a dictionary, a telephone directory, an address book, etc., and 40 is a recording paper.

Further, the student's electronic notebook 12 also has an approximately similar external shape. In this case, an ESC key for exiting the reception operation is provided instead of the transmission key 32, and a reception section is used instead of the transmission section 34.

Next, the circuit configuration of this embodiment will be explained.

Figure 3 shows the electronic system notebook 1 for instructors in this embodiment.
The configuration of 0 is shown in Figure 4 as the student's electronic system notebook 12.
The configuration of each is shown.

First, in FIG. 3, the CPU 42 that controls the operation of the electronic system notebook 10 for instructors includes a ROM 44, a RAM 4,
6, an IC card 20, a display section 18, a key 48, and a modulation circuit 50 are connected.

The ROM 44 stores the operating program of the CPU 42,
The CPU 42 reads the contents of the ROM 44 when the power is turned on.

The RAM 46 is read out from the IC card 20 and displayed on the display section 1.
The data displayed in 8 is temporarily stored.

Key 48 is a simplified representation of keys 28, 30, 32 previously described. In addition, personal card 2 in Figure 2
2. The expansion electronic card 38 is omitted for simplicity of illustration.

The modulation circuit 50 is a circuit that modulates a carrier wave using data supplied from the CPU 42. This data is, for example, data related to a page specified by operating the page operation key 28. The modulation circuit 50 is further connected to a transmitter 34 and an antenna 54, and the modulated carrier wave is transmitted from the antenna 54 by the transmitter 34 as a low power radio wave.

The student's electronic notebook 12 shown in FIG. 4 has almost the same configuration as the lecturer's electronic notebook 10. That is, the CPU 56 has a ROM 58, a RAM 60,
It has a configuration in which an IC card 62, a display section 64, and a key 66 are connected.

The difference from the instructor's electronic notebook 10 is that the antenna 6
8, and a detection circuit 72 that extracts data from the signal received by the receiver 70.

That is, a signal transmitted as a radio wave from the instructor's electronic notebook 10 is received by the receiving section 70 via the antenna 68, detected by the detection circuit 72, and data is extracted. This data is supplied to the CPU 56, and accordingly, warnings such as page break and reverse are displayed on the display section 64.

FIG. 5 shows the operation of the instructor's electronic notebook 10 in this embodiment, and FIG. 6 shows the operation of the student's electronic notebook 12 as a flowchart.

Next, based on these flowcharts, the operations of the instructor's electronic notebook 10 and the student's electronic notebook 12 during a lecture will be described.

First, for example, a lecturer and students are in a classroom with an electronic system notebook 10 for instructors and an electronic system notebook 12 for students, respectively.
, and mount the IC cards 20 and 62 with the same contents, respectively, and open the IC cards 20 and 62 (step 100.200).

After this, the display 1 will be displayed in the electronic system notebook 10 for instructors.
02 is executed. In display 102, step 10
The first page of the IC card 20 opened at 0 is displayed.

Display] After 02, the instructor's electronic system notebook 10 moves to a key acceptance operation 104. If there is no input from the key 48 in this key acceptance operation 104, the display returns to 102 and the operation is repeated. If there is an input from the key 48, for example from the page operation key 28, the process moves to the next determination 10-6.

In this determination 106, the input in the key reception operation 104 is performed manually on the page operation key 28 and on the point designation key 30.
It is determined whether the input is manual input, transmission key 32 input, or CLO8E input. That is, if the key input in the key reception operation 104 is the page operation key 28, the process moves to the next step 108, if the key input is the point designation key 30, the process moves to step 110, and if the key input is the send key 32, the process moves to step 110. The process moves to step 112.

Note that if there is a key force required to close the IC card 20 in the key acceptance operation 104, the process moves to the IC card 20 closing operation 114, and the operation ends.

Here, the instructor operates the page operation keys 28 so as to sequentially advance the pages read from the IC card 20. In step 108, the pages of the IC card 20 are read using this operation as a command.

In step 110, a part of the screen component, such as a word or line displayed on the display section 18, is specified.

This designation is, for example, designation of a location on the display section 18 for reverse display, cursor display, blink display, etc., and the instructor can specify a predetermined location (
For example, by pressing the display location of the word you want to specify,
The relevant location shall be the designated location.

After executing steps 108 and 110, the process returns to display 102, and the page obtained by page reading or the designated point is displayed.

Further, in step 112, data is transmitted to the student's electronic system notebook 12.

This data transmission is performed by transmitting a frame having a configuration as shown in FIG.

What is shown in FIG. 7 is a frame configuration when data output from the CPU 42 is transmitted from the antenna 54 via the modulation circuit 50 and the transmitter 34.

In this figure, the frame is the destination address DA.

It consists of an opcode COM and an operand OPR.

The destination address DA is an address indicating the student's electronic system notebook 12, and the operation code COM is a code of a command to be issued to the student's electronic system notebook 12. Operand OPR is a parameter of this opcode COM.

In this embodiment, the data transmission in step 112 is performed by sending a frame twice as shown in FIG.

First, the frame related to the first transmission is a frame for transmitting a command PSET for setting the page read by opening 100 of the IC card or by step 108. In this case, the instruction PSET is set to the operation code COM, and its operand OPH contains the page number - PNO indicating which page is currently being read.
is set.

After the frame related to this command PSET is transmitted, a frame for instructing the display mode on the display section 64 of the student's electronic notebook 12 is further transmitted. For example, if you want to display the reverse display on the display section 64 of the student's electronic notebook 12, the command REV related to reverse display is set to the operation code COM, and the operand OPR includes the reverse display start position X, Y, and The display length is set. Also, if necessary, use the command RE
Instead of V, a command C8L related to cursor display and a command BLK related to plink display are transmitted.

After step 112 is executed, the instructor's electronic notebook 10 returns to the display 102 again.

On the other hand, in the student's electronic system notebook 12, the IC
After the card is opened (200), a display 202 similar to that of the instructor's electronic system notebook 10 is executed, and the process moves to an ESC key input reception operation (204). In this step 204, it is determined that the ESC key is not input.
If the determination is made in step 05, the process moves to determination 206. In this determination 206, it is determined whether or not the frame shown in FIG. 7 has been received from the instructor's electronic system notebook 10. If there has already been a reception, the data related to the reception is stored in the RAM 60, so the determination 206 is
This is a determination of the contents of AM60. As a result, if it has not been received, the screen returns to display 202 and repeats the reception waiting operation. If it has been received, the process moves to determination 208.

In determination 208, it is determined whether the destination address DA of the transmitted frame matches the own address. It is assumed that the number of electronic notebooks 12 for students is provided in accordance with the number of students n, and that the same address is set for each electronic notebook 12 for students.

As a result, if the other party's address DA does not match the own address, the display returns to 202 and the reception waiting operation continues, but if they match, the process moves to the next step 210.

In step 210, the received data is decoded. That is, out of the data transmitted by the frame shown in FIG. 7, which command is indicated by the operation code COM and what kind of content the corresponding operand OPR is is identified in step 210, and the next command is identified. The process moves to determination 212.

In determination 212, it is determined what kind of command is the command based on the data decoded in step 210. For convenience of explanation, let us assume that the only commands related to transmission are PSET and REV.
If it is set to PSET, the process moves to step 214, and if it is set to REV, the process moves to step 216. In step 214, a page reading operation similar to step 108 in the electronic notebook 10 for instructors described above is performed. Further, in step 216, a point designation operation similar to step 110 in the above-described instructor's electronic notebook 10 is performed. When step 216 is executed, the process returns to display 202, and in response, a reverse display is executed on display section 64 of student's electronic notebook 12. After this, the state shifts to a reception waiting state.

After step 214 ends, the display returns to 202, and the student's electronic notebook 12 shifts to a reception waiting state.

If it is determined in determination 205 that an ESC key has been input in ESC key reception 204, the process moves to key reception operation 220. In the key reception operation 220, if there is no key manual power, the key reception operation 220 is repeatedly executed, and if there is human power, the process moves to the next determination 222. In determination 222, the type of the input key is determined, and if the input key is a page operation key, a page reading operation (224) is performed, and if it is a point designation key, a point designation action (226) is performed. It will be done. That is, ESC
The operation by pressing the key is an operation in which the student separates from the control of the lecturer's electronic notebook 10 and operates the student's electronic notebook 12.

After executing steps 224 and 226, the process moves to display 227, where a display corresponding to the operation in step 224 or 226 is displayed, and then the process moves to a reception waiting operation.

Furthermore, if the ESC key is pressed again, this is detected and determined by the determination 222, and the instructor's electronic system notebook 1 is
Returns to operation based on reception from 0. That is, judgment 2
Move to 06.

Note that the same IC card closing operation 228 as in the lecturer's electronic notebook 10 is also performed in the student's electronic notebook 12.

To summarize the above operations, for example, when the lecturer reads a new page by operating the page operation key 28 of the lecturer's electronic notebook 10 and then operates the send key 32, the student's electronic notebook 12 displays the The page displayed in section 64 will be changed according to the instructor's operation.

Further, when the lecturer specifies the section where he/she is lecturing by operating the point specification key 30, this specified section will be displayed, for example, in reverse on the display section 64 of the student's electronic system notebook 12. . In addition, students are required to take the ES
It is possible to leave the management of the instructor's electronic system notebook 10 by operating the C key, and return to the management by operating the ESC key again.

In this embodiment, data transmission 112 is performed in accordance with the operation of the transmission key 32;
It is also possible to perform the operation without performing the second operation. Such an operation is shown in FIG.

In FIG. 8, the key manual power determined in the determination 106 is the manual power of the page operation key 218, and the manual power of the point designation key 3.
There is only 0 manual effort and IC card CLOSE, and data transmission 112 is indispensably executed after steps 108 and 110 are executed according to the operations of the former two. In other words, newly loaded pages and newly specified points are automatically displayed in the student's electronic system! It will be transmitted to the 12th side. Note that in this case, the frame related to transmission may be a single frame related to a single command.

In this way, the lecturer does not need to operate the transmission key 32 every time, and it becomes possible to give a lecture with simpler operations.

Furthermore, the frame transmitted in this example is the seventh
It is not limited to the frames shown in the figures.

For example, it is also possible to transmit the title of the book on the IC card that is to be used for the current lecture as data.

In this case, it becomes possible to change the textbook during the lecture. Alternatively, clock pulses for synchronous operation of the instructor's electronic system notebook 10 and student's electronic system notebook 12, a frame check code for frame management, etc. may be added to the frame shown in FIG. do not have.

[Effects of the Invention] As explained above, according to the present invention, by wirelessly connecting the instructor's electronic notebook and the student's electronic notebook, information related to the instructor's page or point designation can be transferred to the student's electronic notebook. This information can also be obtained from the system notebook, allowing the lecturer to reliably inform the students of the page or section currently being lectured on. As a result, the learning effect of the students is improved, and this effect can be realized with a simple device that does not have connection means such as cables.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a system configuration diagram showing the configuration of an electronic organizer data communication system according to an embodiment of the present invention; FIG. 2 is an exploded perspective view showing the actual configuration of an electronic organizer used in this embodiment; The figure is a block diagram showing the circuit configuration of the electronic system notebook for instructors in this embodiment, FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing the circuit configuration of the electronic system notebook for students in this embodiment, and FIG. FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing the operation of the instructor's electronic notebook; FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing the operation of the student's electronic notebook in this embodiment; FIG.
The figure is a frame configuration diagram showing the structure of the frame transmitted from the instructor's electronic notebook to the student's electronic notebook in this embodiment, and FIG. 8 shows other operations of the instructor's electronic notebook in this embodiment. It is a flowchart figure. 10 ... Electronic system notebook for instructors 12 ...
Electronic system notebook for students 18.64 ... Display sections 20, 62 ... IC card 28 ... Page operation key 30 ... Point designation key 32 ... Send key 34 ... Send section 42 , 56... CPU 48, 66... Key 50... Modulation circuit 70... Receiving section 72... Detection circuit

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] Means for reading information from electronic publications such as IC cards, display means for visually displaying the read information, designation means for specifying caution information based on the displayed information, and wireless transmission of caution information an electronic system notebook for instructors having a transmission means for transmitting information; a means for reading out information from an electronic publication storing the same information as that of the instructor; a display means for visually displaying the read information;
An electronic system notebook for students, which has a receiving means for receiving caution information transmitted from the electronic notebook for instructors, and a means for performing caution processing on the information displayed on the display means based on the caution information. An electronic notebook data communication system.