JPH05189190A - Selecting frame display managing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To automatically add a color to be easily discriminated to a selecting frame by a user corresponding to the background color by providing a background color discriminating means, color storing means, color selecting means and frame color adding means. CONSTITUTION:This device is provided with a background color discriminating means 2, color storing means 3, color selecting means 5 and frame color adding means 7. When the icon is selected, based on information from the background color discriminating means 2, the color selecting means 5 selects any corresponding color out of colors stored in the color storing means 3 and based on information from the color selecting means 5, the frame color adding means 7 adds the selected color to the frame of the selected icon. Thus, the color to be easily visually discriminated is automatically added to the selecting frame after selection corresponding to the background color of the icon. Therefore, the selection of the icon can be easily visually confirmed by manual operations, further, the complicated operation for the user to change the background color is unnecessitated, and work efficiency is improved as well.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an icon, and more particularly to a selection frame display management device for the icon.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Recently, in order to improve the operability of a user on a personal computer, a workstation or the like, a file called an icon is visually displayed on a CRT.
File corresponding to each icon is user's CR
The icon system which can be called from the CPU by designation with a mouse or the like on the T has been widely used.

In this system, when the user selects a specific one of the icons displayed on the CRT with a mouse or the like, a frame (hereinafter referred to as a "selection frame") indicating that fact is displayed on the selected icon. ) Is formed by adding colors. As a result, the user can visually confirm that the icon selected by his / her manual operation is correct, and then perform the next operation, for example, calling the file corresponding to the selected icon.

FIG. 3 shows how a frame to which a color is added is formed in accordance with the selection of an icon in this icon system. In this figure, (A) shows the display surface of the CRT before selecting an icon, and three square icons are displayed with black lines in the green background color. (B) shows the CRT display surface after selection, the center icon 12 is selected, and a selection frame to which yellow is added is formed around it.

[0005]

However, in adding the color of the selection frame of the icon according to the prior art,
The predetermined color is added regardless of the background color of the icon. Therefore, for example, when the background color of the icon is a color similar to the color added to the selection frame as shown in FIG. 3B, it is determined whether the color of the selection frame is added, and thus the correctness of the manual icon selection. Is difficult to confirm visually.

[0006] Moreover, the user normally uses C
Such a situation has often occurred because the color tone of the RT is adjusted to one's taste and the application program does not consider the color of the CRT and the selection frame. In such a case, it is necessary for the user to change the background color by a complicated operation to make it easier to see the display by adding the color of the selection frame, and thus work efficiency due to interruption of the work that the user is originally engaged in. It had occurred until the drop of.

In view of the above problems, it is an object of the present invention to provide a selection frame display management device that automatically adds a color, which is easy for the user to discriminate, to a selection frame according to the background color of an icon. ..

[0008]

In order to achieve the above object, in the selection frame display management device according to the invention of claim 1, a background color discriminating means for discriminating the background color of the icon and an icon frame are added. The color selection means for storing the color and the color selection means for selecting the color corresponding to the background color of the icon from the colors stored in the color storage means by the information from the background color determination means and the selected icon It is characterized by further comprising frame color adding means for making the color of the frame the color selected by the color selecting means.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, a color registration means for registering a color in the color storage means and a correspondence relationship between the background color of the icon and the color stored in the color storage means are registered in the color selection means. The selection frame display management device according to claim 1, further comprising:

[0010]

With the above structure, in the invention of claim 1,
When Ancon is selected, the color selection means selects the corresponding color from the colors stored in the color storage means based on the information from the background color determination means, and the frame color based on the information from the color selection means. The adding means adds the selected color to the frame of the selected icon.

According to the second aspect of the invention, the registration of the color in the color storage means is performed by the user's operation of the color registration means.
Similarly, the correspondence relationship between the background color of the icon and the color stored in the color storage means is registered in the color selection means under the operation of the correspondence relationship registration means by the user.

[0012]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS A selection frame display management device according to the present invention will be described below based on embodiments. It should be noted that forming a frame in which a color is added to an icon and a selected icon is widely used in a computer system, and the technology of the closest relation is adopted even for objects used in daily home use such as a word processor. There is. Furthermore, the instruction, selection and adjustment of addition of a specific color to a CRT are also widely used in computer systems, and the technology of the close relation is used for everyday use such as tuners and word processors in color television. Has been adopted up to. Therefore, in the following embodiments, in principle, description of these well-known techniques in terms of hardware and software will be omitted by using sentences and flow charts.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an embodiment of a selection frame display management device according to the present invention. In the figure, reference numeral 1 is a selection frame generation means for forming a selection frame as a frame indicating the selected one of the icons displayed on the CRT according to the selection operation by the user's keyboard or mouse. Reference numeral 2 denotes a background color discrimination means for discriminating the background color of the icon from the designation of the color tone of the CRT by the user or the application program, or from the operating state of the display portion of the CRT designated by these.

Reference numeral 3 is a color storage means for storing the color added to the frame of the icon, and in the present embodiment, red,
Blue and yellow are remembered. Reference numeral 4 denotes a color registration means for registering the colors stored in the color storage means 3, which includes a CRT, a keyboard, a mouse, a microcomputer in the CRT, and R.
It consists of AM and a program for registration, and the above red, blue,
In addition to yellow, it also has a registration function for achromatic colors such as orange, brown, and black, white, and gray.

Reference numeral 5 is a color selecting means for selecting a color corresponding to the background color of the icon from the colors stored in the color storage means 3. In this embodiment, the color is the opposite color of the icon or a color which is as close as possible to the color. Are registered or programmed to be selected and stored in RAM in the CRT. In the present embodiment, the combination of the opposite colors is for the purpose of improving the visibility of the user in a general computer system, not for academic research, and in consideration of the color development performance of the CRT. , The textbooks and reference books on color are used for registration.

Reference numeral 6 denotes a correspondence relationship registration means for registering the correspondence relationship between the background color of the icon and the colors stored in the color storage means 3 in the color selection means 5, which is in the CRT, keyboard, mouse, floppy disk or CRT. It is composed of a microcomputer and a program for registration. Then, the user can register a desired correspondence such as yellow with respect to red while watching the color display on the CRT. For this reason, it is possible to flexibly deal with color vision abnormalities as well as CRT color development capabilities and user preferences.

7 is C according to the instruction from the color selecting means 5.
A frame color adding means for adding the selected color to the selection frame of the icon selected by the user on the RT, which is a CRT.
The color display device (not shown) is integrally incorporated with its control device. The color registration means 4 and the correspondence relationship registration means 6 among the above-described components are the color storage means 3 and the color selection means 5 in advance before the user performs an operation of displaying and selecting an icon in the computer system. It is used when performing a registration operation.

Next, the selection frame generating means 1 is also incorporated in the selection frame display management device according to the prior art integrally with the means for adding a specific color to the selection frame. Not directly connected to. However, the present invention is premised on the fact that the background color discrimination unit 2, the color selection unit 5, and the frame color addition unit 7 operate when the main selection frame generation unit 1 enters the operating state.

Next, the operation of the present embodiment having the above-mentioned structure on the CRT will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 2 shows how the display surface of a CRT incorporating the selection frame display management device of this embodiment changes. In this figure, (A) shows three types of square icons 11, 1 on the CRT in order from the top.
2 and 13 are displayed. Here, the background color of the icon is blue, and the icon itself is displayed by a black line. In (B), the icon 12 in the middle is selected,
A state in which an upper selection frame to which red, which is a color close to the opposite color of blue, is added, is formed on the outer peripheral portion is shown.

That is, when the user designates the icon 12 with the keyboard or the mouse, the background color discriminating means 2 discriminates that the background color of the icon is red, and the color selecting means 5 is notified of that fact. Notice. Upon receiving the information, the color selection means 5 selects blue, which is the opposite color of red, from the three colors of red, blue, and yellow stored in the color storage means 3, and adds the selection information to the frame color. Pour into means 7.

Frame color adding means 7 that has received the information
Adds red to the selection frame of the icon 12 selected by the user. As a result, the user can visually confirm the correctness of the icon 12 selected by himself and then move to the next operation. Although the present invention has been described above based on the embodiments, it goes without saying that the present invention is not limited to the above embodiments. That is, specifically,
The following is also included in the present invention.

The icon selection frame is not stationary, but is dynamic such that the color changes and the dotted line flickers. The color added to the selection frame is not a single type such as red or yellow, but a plurality of types such as red is added to the icon and yellow is added to the selection frame formed around the icon.

At least one of the background color of the icon and the color of the selection frame is not a chromatic color but an achromatic color. Regarding the correspondence between the background color of the icon and the color of the selection frame, not only the color tone but also the lightness or the saturation or a combination thereof is considered. It is not used for computer systems, but for other purposes such as researching files and data stored in files, word processors, etc.

The CRT as the icon display device is not of the cathode ray tube type but of other types such as a liquid crystal type display device. It is an improvement of the existing icon system in terms of hardware and software. For example, a function of recognizing the location of the icon on the CRT and a function of changing the color of the icon according to the background color are added to the existing program by reworking the program.

Further, the selection frame includes not only a frame indicating the selection formed around the selected icon, but also a color addition to the icon itself or a color addition to the outer edge thereof. It is a concept.

[0026]

As described above, according to the first aspect of the present invention, since a color that is easily visually discernable is automatically added to the selection frame according to the background color of the icon, the icon is manually operated. The selection can be visually confirmed easily, and the complicated operation of changing the background color of the user is unnecessary, and the user's original work is not interrupted, which increases the work efficiency.

According to the second aspect of the invention, in addition to the effect of the first aspect, the user can specify the color of the selection frame that is easily visually discriminable according to the background color of the icon.
The color development function of the CRT and the user's preference can be flexibly dealt with even in color blindness.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram of an embodiment of a selection frame display management device according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram showing how a selection frame in which a color corresponding to a background color is added to an icon displayed on a CRT is formed in the above embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a view of C by the selection frame display management device according to the related art.
It is a schematic diagram which shows a mode that the selection frame by which the color was added to the icon on the RT display surface is formed.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 selection frame generation means 2 background color discrimination means 3 color storage means 4 color registration means 5 color selection means 6 correspondence relationship registration means 7 frame color addition means

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A background color discriminating means for discriminating a background color of an icon, a color storing means for storing a color added to a frame of the icon, and information corresponding to the background color of the icon by information from the background color discriminating means. A color selection means for selecting a color from the colors stored in the color storage means; and a frame color addition means for setting the color of the frame of the selected icon to the color selected by the color selection means. A selection frame display management device characterized by being. 2. Correspondence registration for registering a color registration means for registering a color in the color storage means, and registration of a correspondence relationship between the background color of the icon and the color stored in the color storage means in the color selection means. 2. The selection frame display management device according to claim 1, further comprising means.