JPH05257606A - Information processing method - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To improve the operability by indicating and selecting displayed discrimination information through a reader by an operator and processing the read discrimination information by an information processing part. CONSTITUTION:The processing process and processing result of information processed by an information processor 2 or a request to instruct information processing is displayed on the display screen 5 of a display device 1. While a menu picture is displayed on the display screen 5, the information processor 2 shows nine choices on the display screen to the operator, and an input-wait state wherein the selection of one of the choices is requested, is kept. In this case, the operator puts the discrimination information reader 4 on the discrimination information 6 on the screen at the input request from the information processor 2 and turns on a read switch. Then, the information which is read by the reader 4 is sent to the information processor 2 and the information is processed according to the signal.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an information processing method, and more particularly to an information processing operation system.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, a keyboard, a mouse, a light pen, and a pressure-sensitive plate are known as well-known devices as input devices for information processing devices.

Among these, a keyboard is used as a general input device.

The light pen and the pressure-sensitive plate are extremely excellent in operability because the selection information on the screen displayed on the screen can be directly pointed to by the pointer. Especially, the information on the screen is GUI (Graphic User I).
Input devices such as light pens and pressure sensitive plates are indispensable when displaying multiple screens for multi-task processing or devices that are displayed on a computer.

However, of these, the light pen
Since a device for coordinate detection is generally complicated and expensive, it has been used for a specific system such as CAD (Computer Aided Design), but has not been generally used.

The pressure-sensitive plate is widely used in desktop personal computers, palm-top personal computers, electronic notebooks, etc., because it has the drawbacks of the above-mentioned light pen, that is, the constraints of the installation space and the cost of the device are relatively small. ..

In the case of the pressure-sensitive plate, information can be selected by directly pointing to the information on the screen, which is excellent in operability, but the screen is liable to get dirty due to direct pointing with a finger, and the display section is sensitive to finger pressure. It is necessary to be stable and stable, so that it is difficult to use in a device form such as a laptop, or the display screen is difficult to see because a pressure sensitive device is placed in front of the display screen. There is.

[0008]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to solve the above drawbacks of the light pen device and the pressure sensitive plate device.
The purpose is to provide an operating system with good operability.

[0009]

[Means for Solving the Problems] Information processing unit, display screen,
Also, the device is configured with the optical reading device for reading the identification information displayed on the display screen as a minimum component, and the operation of the information is achieved by optically reading the identification information displayed on the display screen. That is, it is achieved by displaying the identification information on the display screen, the operator instructing and selecting the displayed identification information by the reading device, and processing the read identification information by the information processing unit.

[0010]

According to the present invention, the drawbacks of the light pen device and the pressure sensitive plate device are eliminated.

[0011]

EXAMPLES Details of the present invention will be described with reference to examples.

FIG. 1 shows an example of the configuration of one device according to the present invention. In this example, it comprises an information processing main body 2, a display device 1, a keyboard 3, and an identification information reading device 4.

The operation procedure will be described with reference to the apparatus shown in FIG.
The processing process of the information processed by the information processing device 2, the processing result, or the information processing instruction request is displayed on the display screen 4 of the display device 1. Now, for example, a menu screen as shown in FIG. 3 is displayed on the display screen 4. In this state, the information processing apparatus 2 displays nine selection fields on the display screen 4 for the operator, and waits for input in a state in which one selection is requested.

Identification marks as shown in FIG. 2 are attached to the respective selection lines. Since the identification mark can be registered as a character and handled in the same manner as character information, it can be easily displayed at any position on the screen. Further, it is possible to display the graphic screen in a dot configuration at an arbitrary position.

As the identification mark, for example, a one-dimensional bar code, a two-dimensional bar code, a circular code, a character figure, etc. are displayed as shown in FIG.
It is also possible to identify the pattern.

In response to an input request from the information processing device 2,
The operator places the identification information reading device 4 on the identification information 6 on the screen and turns on the reading switch. The information read by the reading device 4 is sent to the information processing device 2, and the information processing is performed based on the signal.

An instruction command of the read identification information signal,
Conversion to information code and position information is performed by an internal program.

The identification information can be written on the outside of the display device 1 (for example, a database book), and in that case, the identification information can function as the identification information on the screen.

In the case of FIG. 3, since this is a menu screen, the identification information functions as a branch instruction.

An embodiment in which the identification information functions as an information code and position information is shown in FIG. The left half of the screen simulates the system notebook. The right half displays information read from the database. The database is stored in an optical disk device or a magnetic disk device built in the device.

The operation is performed as follows. First, the system notebook is turned over with the identifiers 12 and 13. In this case, the identification information functions as an instruction command. Next, the reading information from the database on the right side is scroll-searched by the identification information 8 and 9. When the target search information is found, the identification information attached to the information 1
0 and 11 are read by the reading device 4. Further, the identifiers 14 and 1 displayed in the page of the system notebook on the left half of the screen
The display position of information is designated by reading 5, 16, and 17. By this operation, the information is moved from the database to the designated position of the system notebook.

The processing when the identification information functions as an information code can be performed as follows as an example. First, an information code is attached to the information, and identification information is set to this information (FIG. 8). Information is handled as an information code on the program, and when it is displayed on the screen, the identification information set in the above information is attached to the information code. Information and identification information are displayed in pairs on the screen. The identification information on the screen is read by the reading device, and the read signal is converted into an information code and processed. By the above operation, the information can be easily processed on the screen by the identification information.
In the case of this example, the identification information, the information code, and the information have a one-to-one correspondence, and the identification information, the information code, and the information are exchanged as a unit with the information scroll operation, but a lot of identification information is required. If a method of scrolling only the information code and the information during scrolling and fixing the correspondence of the identification information, the information code, and the information at the time of selecting the information can be processed with a small number of identification information.

The same processing is also implemented when functioning as an instruction code and position coordinates. The flow of information in the above example is shown in FIG. The processing procedure is shown in the flowchart (FIG. 10).

[0024]

According to the present invention, 1. Only by adding an identification information reading device as a device, the device burden such as installation space and device cost is small.

2. Since the information control can be directly instructed on the screen using the display screen information, the user interface is excellent.

3. Since the form of the identification information and the degree of freedom of its display position are large, a flexible operation system can be constructed.

It is possible to provide an information operation system having extremely excellent operability, which has advantages such as the above.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a configuration example of one device of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing various examples of identification information.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of a selection request display screen.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an application example to a palm top type.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an example of application to a laptop type.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing an application example to a desktop type.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing an example of a display screen using identification information.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing a conversion table of identification information, an information code, and information.

FIG. 9 shows the information flow of the device according to the invention.

FIG. 10 is a flowchart showing a processing flow of the device according to the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 ... Display device, 2 ... Information processing main body unit, 3 ... Keyboard,
4 ... Identification information reading device, 5 ... Display screen, 6, 7,
8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16,
17 ... Identification information.

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. An information processing apparatus comprising an information processing unit, a processing unit for processing information or a display unit for displaying a processing result, and an optical reading device for reading identification information displayed on a display screen as minimum components. An information processing method characterized in that identification information displayed on a screen is read by a reading device, and information processing is performed by the read identification information. 2. As the identification information, a one-dimensional bar code, a two-dimensional bar code, a circular code, a single color mark, a combination mark of a plurality of colors, a character graphic, alphabets, Arabic numerals, kanji, katakana, hiragana and other characters and symbols. The information processing method according to claim 1, wherein the information processing method is used. 3. The information processing method according to claim 1, wherein a color and a pattern are used as the identification information.