JPH05341812A - Automatic operation control method for system equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To decrease the number of control data files and to save the memory capacity by adding the attribute data to the start executing date of the control data file and setting the priority of attributes. CONSTITUTION:The attributes of the 1st groups 11 are designated with each day, and the attributes of the 2nd groups 12 are designated with the days of the week. Meanwhile the attribute of a 3rd group is designated with a date. The highest priority is set to the date designation data together with the next priority set to the day-of-the-week designation data, and the lowest priority set to the each day designation data respectively. In such a way, no failure is produced despite the designation carried out double. The 5th day is set in a date designation file and therefore a date designation program is outputted on the 5th day. Meanwhile the day-of-the-week programs are outputted on the 1st and 8th days since Monday is designated in a day-of-the-week setting file. Then the each day designation programs are outputted on other days.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a time management method for automatically operating a plurality of system devices such as a high-definition theater.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In an automatic operation management method prior to the present invention, for example, in a system having a plurality of reproducing devices and related equipment, an operating program prepared for controlling the reproducing devices and related equipment is provided as a control data file. However, in this control data file, the starting and executing date and time of the device and the device are specified only by the date and the absolute time data.

In this case, even if the control contents are the same, such as the operating equipment and operating time on the first day and the second day being the same, if the start execution date is different, it will not be held as a new control data file. Must be used, and the number of data and storage memory will be extremely inefficiently used.

Therefore, when the system is automatically operated at a long-term level such as a weekly or monthly basis, the number of control data files becomes enormous and the storage memory is also used in proportion to this. The work load on the system administrator who composes an operation program for system operation has increased, and problems have arisen in the operation of the system itself.

[0005]

In view of the above-mentioned problems of the prior art, the present invention manages a small control data file that can execute an automatic operation program for a long period such as weekly or monthly. It is intended to provide a method

[0006]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention is an automatic driving management method for selectively driving a plurality of system devices according to daily time setting, and defines a priority order for execution in a daily driving program. It is a method of creating control data having a plurality of attributes and executing each operation program in accordance with the priority order by comparing with the current date and time of day. Desirably, the plurality of attributes are date designation, day designation and The operation programs which are designated every day, whose priority order is set in this order, and whose date designation is set among the above attributes are deleted after their execution.

[0007]

According to the present invention, the number of control data files can be reduced and the storage memory can be saved by the above configuration.

With respect to data whose date is past the present date and time, the data file designated by the date is automatically deleted, so that the storage memory can be effectively used.

[0009]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment in which an automatic operation management method for system equipment according to the present invention is applied to a high-definition theater will be described in detail below with reference to the drawings.

First, FIG. 1 is a conceptual block diagram showing the system configuration of a high-definition theater. In the figure, 1
Is an operation panel provided with a switch group for performing an operation start or operation end of the system and having a display section 2 for confirming an operation state, and 3 is based on a command signal from the operation panel 1. The control device controls the operation of, for example, the VTR 4 and the videograph control personal computer 6 for operating the videograph 5 in accordance with an operation program prepared in advance.

Next, FIG. 2 is a diagram for further explaining the periphery of the control device 3, and 7 is a clock signal or the like for generating the data of the current date and time (the year consists of the last two digits in the year). A clock device to be passed to the control device 3, and 8 creates or stores control data including an operating program and the like determined in time series for selecting an operating device and an operation at a certain time while driving the control device. A control data generating device, 9 is a monitor 1 based on a command from the control device 3.
It is a switcher that selects the output of the playback device to be displayed at 0.

In the figure, the data lines are represented by thick solid line arrows, the signal lines are represented by thin solid line arrows, and the control lines are represented by broken line arrows.

In the system thus constructed, the VTR
After the (playback device) 4 or the videograph (playback device) 5 is activated, the signals sent from the respective devices 4, 5 are switched by the switcher 9
Either of the images is displayed on the monitor 10 by switching.

The control from the activation of the reproduction devices 4 and 5 to the switching of signals is performed by the control device 3, and is created by the time information obtained from the clock device 7 and the control data creation device 8. The playback devices 4 and 5 are controlled by the control data file (operation program).

FIG. 3 shows the contents of the control data file as an image. That is, 1 of the current year and month
The operation program for each device that constitutes the system from the 1st to the 8th shall be created. Then, there is a limit to the number of devices to be operated and the number of software to be shown, and it is assumed that the devices are operated with exactly the same operation program (program program) for at least some days.

Further, the second group, the third group, the fourth group, the sixth group, the sixth group, the seventh group, and the seventh group are shown in a common driving program. The second group will be shown on the 5th day, and the third group will be shown on a different driving program than the first and second groups.
Creating a control data file as a group will be described.

In the case of the conventional control data file, the attributes of date and day of the week are not added, so even if it is a common operation program, 1data-1d
This corresponds to ay, and as the setting data, as shown at the bottom of FIG. 3, the date specifying data 14 for 8 days is the minimum required.

On the other hand, in this embodiment, since there are three groups of operation programs that can be used in common, the control data file can be composed of only three data. That is, the attributes of the first group 11 are designated as daily, the second group 12 is designated as a day of the week, and the third group 13 is designated as a date. In this way, only one data file is needed for the first group 11.

At this time, the date designation data is positioned as the highest priority of the three attributes, followed by the day designation data, and the daily designation data as the lowest priority. By setting the priority in this way, even if the control data file specified for every day and the control data file specified for the day of the week coincide with the date and time, the control data file for the day of the week will be executed with priority, and Even when the control data file of 1 overlaps with the control data file of the date specification, the control data file of the date specification is executed with priority, and the inconvenience of executing each file at the same time is prevented.

FIG. 4 is a flow chart showing the flow of processing for enabling the determination of such attributes and the selection and execution of the control data file according to the priority order. The flow of processing will be described based on FIG. First, the process is started in step S1.

In step S2, it is determined whether or not there is a control data file in the control data creating device 8. If there is no control data file, this process ends in step S3, and another process, that is, creation of a control data file is performed. If the control data file has been created, the process proceeds to step S4, and the current time and date are acquired from the clock device 7.

Next, in the present embodiment, it is determined whether or not the date has the highest priority in step S5. In this step S5, a control data file stored in the control data creation device 8 at random is assumed (n pieces are prepared).
Are taken out in order and the attribute is examined. For example, if the first data file has the date designation attribute, the process proceeds to the next step S6 and is compared with the previously acquired time data. Next, for example, if the second control data file does not have the date designation attribute, it is determined in step S7 that this data file is the last data file, and if it is not the last, the process returns to step S5 and the third control data file is returned. It is judged from the control data file of whether or not it is the date designation data, and this operation is repeated thereafter. If the file fetched is the last, the process proceeds to step S8 to determine the attribute of the day designation.

On the other hand, the date-specified control data file is compared with the acquisition time data (particularly the date in this case) in step S6, and if the data match, it is executed in step S9. If they are not the same, the process returns to step S7 to search for other data having the date-designated attribute. Then, after that, the process ends in step S3.

After the data is executed in step S9, the executed data is deleted in step S10. This is a measure for preventing the same operation program from being executed again at the same date that will come 100 years later and for reducing the used capacity of the storage memory. In this way, the operation program on the 5th (Friday) in FIG. 3 is executed.

The determination of the attribute designating the day of the week is basically the same as the determination of the attribute designating the date. That is, if there is no control data file with the date designation attribute, or if there is, but the date is different from the current date, from the first as in the case of the date designation control data file. Among the files up to n files, the files having the attribute that specifies the day of the week are selected in steps S8 and S11.
To extract.

Since the date-specified control data file can be extracted by the previous operation, it may be stored in the memory and the control data file excluding these may be searched for the day of the week. Then, the program for that becomes complicated and requires a large amount of memory. Therefore, in this embodiment, the method of searching all the control data files from the beginning is adopted, and in this embodiment, the available memory capacity is secured and the program is simplified. I decided to try.

The extracted control data file having the attribute for specifying the day of the week is compared with the acquisition time data in step 12, and if they match, the control data of the day of the week is executed in step S13, and the process ends in step S3. Of course, when the data does not match the acquisition time data, the control data file having another attribute of the day of the week is checked, and if not, the process proceeds to step S14 to check the attribute specified every day.

In step S14, it is checked every day whether or not the file is a designated control data file. If there is an error in the data itself or the like, the flow advances to step S3 to end the processing. Since it is not necessary to match the date with the control data file designated every day, the control data designated every day is executed in step S15. If they do not match, the process ends in step S3.

By configuring as in this embodiment,
It can be seen that the number of control data files used is significantly reduced and the control data files can be easily managed. Also, when a special control data file is needed for only one day, it is possible to flexibly cope with it by creating a control data file by specifying the date without changing other data files.

Further, it can be seen that if the control data file designated by date is automatically deleted after its execution, the storage memory of the control data creating device can be effectively utilized.

From the above, it can be seen that the number of management data files can be reduced and the storage memory can be effectively used, the work burden on the system administrator can be reduced, and the system can be operated easily.

[0032]

As described above, according to the present invention, attribute data such as date designation, day designation, daily designation, etc. is added to the activation execution date and time of the control data file, and priority is set in this attribute. As long as the control contents are the same, the control data files specified for the day of the week and for the day can be used repeatedly, reducing the number of required control data files and saving storage memory. The storage memory can be effectively used by providing a means for automatically deleting the control data for the data whose current time has passed.

Therefore, it is expected that the workload of the system administrator will be reduced and the operation of the system will be facilitated.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a conceptual diagram showing an example of a system using an automatic operation management method for system equipment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating in detail the periphery of the control device of FIG.

FIG. 3 is a conceptual diagram showing the structure of a control data file.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart illustrating an operation of an automatic operation based on a control data file.

[Explanation of symbols]

 3 Control Device 7 Clock Device 8 Control Data Creation Device 11 Control Data File of First Group 12 Control Data File of Second Group 13 Control Data File of Third Group

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. An automatic driving management method for selectively driving a plurality of system devices according to daily time setting, wherein the daily driving program is controlled by having a plurality of attributes that define priorities in execution. An automatic operation management method for system equipment, characterized in that data is created and each operation program is executed in accordance with the above-mentioned priority order by comparison with the current date and time. 2. The automatic operation management of the system device according to claim 1, wherein the plurality of attributes are date designation, day designation, and daily designation, and the priority order is set in this order. Method. 3. The automatic operation management method for system equipment according to claim 2, wherein the operation program for which the date designation is set among the attributes is deleted after the execution.