JPH05100738A - Man-machine interface device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To display both images of a controlled system and also a monitor and operation on a single CRT display device by providing a picture sysnthesizing device. CONSTITUTION:Monitoring contents transfered from the controlled system 1 through a controller device 3, a computer device 9, and a display control device 4 and the image of the controlled system 1 transferred from a television camera device 2 are synthesized on the single display screen by the picture synthesizing device 5. Accordingly, the images of the controlled system 1, and the monitor and operation of the picture of the monitoring contents are displayed on the same display screen of the single CRT display device 7 separately in each window. On the other hand, operation for the controlled system operation picture and the synthesized monitor picture can be executed by a single operation input device 11.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a man-machine interface device for monitoring and operation used in the fields of factory automation, instrumentation and the like.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing a conventional man-machine interface device. In FIG. 3, 1 is a control target in a field, 3 is a control target 1 for detecting monitoring contents, and controlling a control command. A controller device to be given to the object 1, 15 is a man-machine interface circuit that plays a central role when an operator monitors and operates the controlled object 1, and 7 is a cathode ray tube display device as a display device for displaying the contents of the monitoring and operation ( Hereinafter, CRT display devices) and 11 are operation input devices through which the operator inputs operation contents.

Further, the man-machine interface circuit 15
In FIG. 4, 4 is a display control device that controls a video signal sent to the CRT display device 7, 10 is an input control device that controls an operation input received from the operation input device 11, 9 is a controller device 3, display control device 4 and input control A computer device that controls the device 10.

On the other hand, 2 is a television camera device for photographing the controlled object 1, 18 is a CRT display device for displaying an image photographed by the television camera device 2, and 16 is a CRT display for controlling a video signal sent from the television camera device 2. A display control device for sending to the device 18 and an operation input device 17 for giving a command to the display control device 16.

FIG. 4 is a screen display diagram of images displayed on the CRT display devices 7 and 18, 19 is a video image of a control target displayed on the CRT display device 18, and 20 is a screen image displayed on the CRT display device 7. The monitoring screen 14 is an operation screen window that appears on the monitoring screen. It should be noted that the control target 1 and the television camera device 2 that captures the control target 1 have been described for one case in order to simplify the description, but in reality, there are a plurality of them.

Next, the operation will be described. First, the controller device 3 constantly monitors the controlled object 1 and repeatedly captures the monitored content (physical quantity). This monitoring content is sent to the computer device 9 in the man-machine interface circuit 15, and the values and graphs in the table on the monitoring screen 20 on the CRT display device 7 are updated via the display control device 4.

On the other hand, the video camera device 2 photographs the controlled object 1. The captured video signal is displayed on the display controller 16
Is transferred to the CRT display device 18 via the, and a control target image 19 is displayed. Therefore, the operator displays the operation screen window 14 while watching the monitor screen 20 and the image 19 of the control target, operates the operation input devices 11 and 17, and controls the control target 1. Also, there are a plurality of controlled objects 1
The selection of which of the above is displayed on the CRT display device 7, 18 is also performed by operating the operation input devices 11, 17.

The operation input input from the operation input device 11 is transmitted to the computer device 9 via the input control device 10. The computer device 9 releases the operation input,
It issues a command to the controller device 3. The controller device controls the controlled object 1 according to the command. On the other hand, the operation input input from the operation input device 17 is input to the display control device 16, and the display control device 16 switches the television camera device 2 according to the operation input.

[0009]

Since the conventional man-machine interface device is configured as described above, the CRT display device 7 for the monitor screen 20 for monitoring the controlled object 1 and the image 19 of the controlled object. CRT display device 18
Since it is necessary to separately perform an input operation for and to display on the screen, the operation procedure becomes complicated, the operation is troublesome for the operator, and the installation space and installation cost of the CRT display devices 7 and 18 increase. There was a problem.

The present invention has been made in order to solve the above-mentioned problems, and an image of a controlled object, a monitor, and an operation image are simultaneously displayed by a single operation input device in a single command. It is an object to obtain a man-machine interface device that can be displayed on a CRT display device.

[0011]

A man-machine interface device according to the present invention is provided with an image synthesizing device for synthesizing an image of a monitoring content output by a controller device and an image of a control target output by a television camera device. The image of the monitoring contents and the image of the control target which are combined by the combining device are displayed on the screen of a single CRT display device simultaneously or selectively by the operation input device.

[0012]

In the CRT display device according to the present invention, under the control of the computer device based on the command from the operation input device, either one or both of the image of the control target and the image of the monitoring content including the operation procedure are selectively displayed on the same screen. Display on top.

[0013]

EXAMPLES Example 1. An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. In FIG. 1, 1 is a control target, 2 is a television camera device, 3 is a controller device, 4 is a display control device, 7 is a CRT display device, 9 is a computer device, 10 is an input control device, and 11 is an operation input device. Since these are the same as or equivalent to those of the conventional one denoted by the same reference numeral in FIG. 3, duplicated description thereof will be omitted.

Further, 5 is an image synthesizing device for synthesizing the video of the controlled object 1 and each video signal of the screen of the monitoring contents (including the operation procedure corresponding to the monitoring result), 6 is such an image synthesizing device 5. It is a man-machine interface circuit that is different from the conventional one in that it is equipped.

An example of an image displayed on the CRT display device 7 is shown in FIG. 2, where 12 is a combined image, 13 is a window for displaying the image of the controlled object 1, and 14 is the controlled object 1.
3 is a monitoring screen window displaying an image including the monitoring result of and the operation procedure corresponding thereto.

Next, the operation will be described. First, although the basic operation is similar to the conventional case, in the present invention, the monitoring contents transferred from the controlled object 1 via the controller device 3, the computer device 9, and the display control device 4 and the television camera device 2 are used. The transferred image of the control target is combined into a single screen by the image combining device 5.

Therefore, on the same screen 12 of the single CRT display device 7, as shown in FIG. 2, the monitor and operation screens, which are the screens of the video to be controlled and the monitoring contents, are divided into windows 13 and 14, respectively. Is displayed. On the other hand, a single operation input device 11 can be used to operate the control target, the operation screen, and the combined monitoring screen 12.

Example 2. Although only one type of operation input device 11 is provided in the above embodiment, two or more types of devices such as a keyboard device, a touch panel device and a mouse device may be used together.

[0019]

As described above, according to the present invention, the image synthesizing device for synthesizing the image of the monitoring content output by the controller device and the image of the control target output by the television camera device is provided, and is synthesized by the image synthesizing device. By the operation input device, the image of the above-mentioned monitoring contents and the image of the controlled object are displayed on the screen of a single CRT display device simultaneously or selectively. Display command to monitor the video of the control target, monitor the control target, or one or both of the operation screens with a single CR.
There is an effect that it is possible to selectively display on the screen of the T display device, thus reducing the installation space and installation cost of the entire device.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a man-machine interface device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a screen display diagram showing a screen example of a CRT display device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing a conventional man-machine interface device.

FIG. 4 is a CRT of a conventional man-machine interface device.
It is a screen display figure which shows the example of a screen of a display apparatus.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Control Target 2 Television Camera Device 3 Controller Device 5 Image Compositing Device 7 CRT Display Device (CRT Display) 11 Operation Input Device

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A controller device for controlling a control target and detecting monitoring contents of the control target, a television camera device for photographing the control target, an image of the monitoring contents output by the controller device, and the television. An image synthesizing device for synthesizing an image of a control target output from a camera device, an image of the above-mentioned monitoring contents and an image of a control target synthesized by the image synthesizing device are simultaneously displayed on a screen of a single CRT display device, or A man-machine interface device having an operation input device for selectively displaying.