JPH0546314A - Mouse cursor display system for engineering work station - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To simplify an operation procedure by replacing a mouse on the input device of a touch panel. CONSTITUTION:A touch panel XY coordinate input device 109 expands artificially a physical coordinate corresponding to one-to-one to XY coordinates on a display screen, and designates the coordinate by touching it with a finger. Also, what kind of work is started is selected by a touch panel work selection switch 110. Subsequently, in a main processing part 101, a data processing means 107 executes a processing for displaying data by means, and an image output request means 108 executes a request for outputting processing data on a display screen. Then, an image processing part 103 outputs a mouse cursor or a working method, and displays it on a display device (CRT) 104.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a mouse cursor display system for simplifying the method of designating a mouse cursor and selecting a work content in an engineering work station.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In the conventional mouse cursor display method of an engineering work station, a cursor using a mouse plays an important role, and the mouse moves on the panel due to a structural problem such as a space. It is designed to realize the change of coordinates on the CRT). In addition, the function switches built into the mouse enable the selection and modification of work contents. As shown in FIG. 3, the conventional input / output device of an engineering work station has a central processing unit, a main memory unit, a display unit (CRT), a keyboard and a mouse, and a display unit (CRT) and a keyboard. The mouse is connected to the central processing unit and the main memory by a bus via each control unit and the image output processing adapter.

Further, the mouse counts the mutations on the X and Y axes by rollers or LEDs, and based on this data, the central processing unit detects the mutations from the pointer of the mouse cursor on the current display device (CRT). Calculate and specify new output location later. In this way, the mouse cursor is displayed by moving the mouse on the panel, and the displayed contents are selected and changed. Further, while the work contents are displayed on the screen of the display device by the function switch set on the mouse for selecting the work contents, the mouse cursor is moved to specify the contents to be selected.

[0004]

Conventionally, a display device (CR
T) The mouse is used to specify the coordinates of the cursor on the screen. However, the method of changing the coordinates within the moving range of this mouse is limited to the mouse panel, so the range is wide. Is not suitable for coordinate movement on the display device (CRT). In addition, although the work contents are selected and the work environment is changed by the function switch built into the mouse, both display the work contents list on the display (CRT) and select and change the work procedure. There is a drawback that the operation becomes complicated because of stepping.

[0005]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention is a mouse cursor display system for designating coordinates and selecting work contents on a display screen of an engineering work station (EWS), in which XY coordinates are displayed on the display screen. A physical touch panel corresponding to one-to-one is pseudo-developed, and a touch panel capable of designating coordinates by touching it with a finger; a coordinate recognition notifying means for recognizing and notifying coordinates input from the touch panel; Work selecting means for selecting which work to start from the touch panel based on the notified coordinates, and data processing means for performing processing for outputting the determined coordinate data and work content data on the display screen. ,
Image output request means for issuing a request for outputting the processed data on the display screen, and image processing means for accepting the request and outputting a mouse cursor or a work method on the display screen are provided.

[0006]

Embodiments of the present invention will now be described with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention.

In this embodiment, the main processing unit 10 as a control unit is used.
1, an input processing unit 102 as an input unit, an image processing unit 103 for processing screen information, and a display device (CRT) 104 as a display unit.

The input processing section 102 includes a touch panel XY coordinate input device 10 belonging to the coordinate recognition notification processing means 105.
The main processing unit 1 recognizes and analyzes the input data from 9
The data processing means of the main processing unit 101 by similarly recognizing and analyzing the input data from the coordinate recognition notifying means 105 for notifying the data processing means 107 of 01 and the touch panel work selection switch 110 belonging to the work selecting means 106. 1
07, work selection means 106 for notifying the selected data.

The image processing unit 103 includes an image output processing unit 111 which is in charge of processing for outputting the contents requested and delivered by the image output requesting unit 108 of the main processing unit 101 to the display device (CRT) 104. There is.

The operation of this embodiment will be described.

FIG. 2 is a flow chart showing the flow of processing in this embodiment.

First, before starting the selection of the work content required for the next work, the operator uses the touch panel XY coordinate input device 109 of the coordinate recognition notifying means 105 to specify the coordinates on the display screen (CRT) where the coordinates are to be displayed. Do (Step 20
1). The data input to the coordinate recognition notifying means 105 is recognized and the input processing coordinates are notified to the data processing means 107 of the main processing unit 101 (step 202). Then, if necessary, the contents of the work are designated by the switch 110 for selecting the work of the work panel of the work selecting means 106 (step 20).
3). Then, the work selection means 106 notifies the main processing unit 101 and the data processing means 107 of the designated work content data (step 204).

Here, it is determined whether or not the work content is input by the touch panel work selection switch 110 of the work selection means 106, and if the work content is not designated, it is determined that only the mouse cursor is displayed. Then, the process proceeds to step 209, and if the work content is designated, the process proceeds to the next step (step 205). Then, the data processing means 107 of the main processing portion 101 edits the data based on the data notified from the coordinate recognition notifying means 105 and the work selecting means 106 (step 206). Further, the image output requesting unit 108 requests the image processing unit 103 to output the edited data as an image together with the data (step 207).

Here, the image processing unit 103 constantly monitors whether an image output request has arrived or whether output data is available. If the request and data are not available, the process returns to step 206 and the request and data are available. If so, the process proceeds to the next step (step 208). Then, according to the request for the display position and the display content, the image output processing means 11 of the image processing unit 103.
1 performs output processing to the display device (CRT) 104. If the display content is not specified, output processing is performed on the display device (CRT) 104 so that the mouse cursor is simply output to the specified display position (step 209), and the display device (CRT) 104 is displayed. The processed data is sent to display / move the mouse cursor and display the selected work content. (Step 210).
This completes the series of processes.

[0016]

As described above, according to the present invention, since the coordinates can be designated by displacing the mouse on the touch panel type input device, the coordinates to be designated directly can be designated. Further, since the processing method can be directly selected, the processing procedure is extremely simple.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing the flow of processing in this embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing a conventional example.

[Explanation of symbols]

 Reference Signs List 101 main processing unit 102 input processing unit 103 image processing unit 104 display device (CRT) 105 coordinate recognition notifying means 106 work selecting means 107 data processing means 108 image output requesting means 109 touch panel XY coordinate input device 110 touch panel work selecting switch 111 image Output processing means

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A mouse cursor display method for designating coordinates and selecting work contents on a display screen of an engineering work station (EWS), wherein physical coordinates correspond one-to-one to XY coordinates on the display screen. Is developed in a pseudo manner and touched with a finger to specify coordinates, a coordinate recognition notifying means for recognizing and notifying the coordinates input from this touch panel, and which of the coordinates is notified based on Work selecting means for selecting whether to start work from the touch panel, data processing means for performing processing for outputting the determined coordinate data and work content data on the display screen, and displaying the processed data. Image output requesting means for issuing a request to output on the screen, and accepting the request and outputting the mouse cursor or the working method on the display screen A mouse cursor display method for an engineering work station, which comprises: