JPH0547991U - Information display system - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Summary] [Purpose] To select arbitrary information from the input information and display it at the specified display position. [Structure] In order to operate the designated data input unit to divide the display screen of the display unit of the display device into display sections having a desired number of stages, the setting number of display stages is input (ST1). Next, the display category of the position to be displayed is specified by the display category number, and the item number corresponding to the display pattern desired to be displayed is input for each display category (ST2). Repeat the input processing of display category number and item number for all display categories (ST
(3, NO), if completed (ST3, YES), the process proceeds to step ST4 to display the display pattern corresponding to the designated item number for each display section at the designated position.

Description

[Detailed description of the device]

[0001]

[Industrial applications]

 The present invention relates to an information display system having one information input device and a plurality of display devices connected to the information input device, and in particular, selecting and designating arbitrary information from a plurality of input information. The present invention relates to an information display system for displaying at the display position.

[0002]

[Prior Art]

 In recent years, many information display systems having one information input device and a plurality of display devices connected to the information input device and subjected to display control have been adopted in consideration of convenience of management and grasp of displayed information. Has become. The financial information display system is one of the above information display systems, and this will be described below as an example.

As shown in FIG. 7, a conventional financial information display system generally includes a host personal computer (hereinafter referred to as a host personal computer) 21 which is an information input device installed in a management center of a head office and a host personal computer. A display device 25, which is connected to the personal computer 21 via a modem 22, a public line 23, and a modem 24, is installed in a plurality of branch offices (for example, hundreds of each one) and is subjected to display control by the host personal computer 21. Was composed.

Then, the financial information to be displayed on the display device 25 installed at the branch side is stored in the memory of the host personal computer 21 at the head office side, and after determining the information of the contents to be actually displayed, as described above, the public line 23 etc. It was transmitted to each display device 25 via the display and displayed under the control of the host personal computer 21.

[0005]

[Problems to be solved by the device]

 By the way, in the above-mentioned conventional financial information display system, when the information input to the host personal computer 21 is displayed on each display device 25, the contents determined by the host personal computer 21 side are displayed on each display device 25 as they are. Was becoming. For example, as shown in the display screen of the host personal computer 21 in FIG. 7, when the information to be displayed on each display device 25 is transmitted after the order and the display pattern from the upper part of the display screen are determined and transmitted. In No. 25, as shown on the display screen, the order and the display pattern from the upper row were displayed as they were, corresponding to the contents decided on the host personal computer 21 side.

In this case, the order and the contents of the display pattern determined by the head office are uniformly displayed on each display device 25 on the branch side, and the plurality of transmitted data are transmitted on the branch side. There was a problem that it was not possible to arbitrarily select or change the order of the information from.

Therefore, for example, on the branch side, the information of the display pattern that is currently receiving the most public attention is displayed in the uppermost display section of the display device 25 to attract the attention of the public and the business results. Even if there was a request to connect to a higher level, there was a problem that the branch could not freely change the order and display patterns. Regarding this, it is possible to change the order and display pattern on the host personal computer 21 side and then send it, but with this method, all the display devices 25 on the branch side only uniformly display the same information. However, the above problem could not be resolved in the case where the display request differs for each branch.

The present invention intends to realize an information display system capable of selecting arbitrary information from input information and displaying it at a designated display position.

[0009]

[Means for Solving the Problems]

 In the information display system of the present invention, in the information display system having one information input device and a plurality of display devices connected to the information input device, the display device is a plurality of input devices from the information input device. The feature is that any information can be selected from the above information by remote control and displayed at the specified display position.

[0010]

[Action]

 By remote control, arbitrary information to be displayed on the display unit of the display device is selected from a plurality of information input from the input device. In addition, the selected information is displayed at an arbitrarily designated display position on the display unit.

Therefore, the information to be displayed can be freely selected and displayed at the position to be displayed. Further, the display operation is easy, and various display can be arbitrarily performed on the display device side.

[0012]

【Example】

 An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to FIGS. In the following description, a financial information display system will be described as an example for convenience.

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a block configuration of an information display system having a host personal computer 11 which is an information input device and a display device 15 which are connected via a public line 13. Here, for example, a plurality of display devices 15 (several hundreds) are installed, for example, one each on the branch side with respect to one host personal computer 11 installed on the head office side, but only one is shown in the figure. There is.

As shown in the figure, the data input from the host personal computer 11 is sent to the public line 13 via the modem 12, and the data passed through the public line 13 is displayed on the display device via the modem 14 on the receiving side. The data is input to 15 and displayed based on these data.

An example of the display data table in the memory of the host personal computer 11 is shown in FIG. In this example, 300 pieces of display data are stored, and each piece of display data consists of an item number and a display pattern. For example, the display data in the top row has the item number “001” and the display pattern “Super MMC”. When the display system shown in FIG. 1 is turned on, all the data (300 in this case) stored in the display data table of the host personal computer 11 is constantly stored in the modem 12, the public line 13, and the modem 14. It is output to the display device 15 via.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a circuit configuration of an embodiment of the display device 15 of the information display system shown in FIG. As shown in the figure, display data input from the host personal computer 11 (see FIG. 1) via the modem 14 is output to the CPU (central processing unit) 16 via an interface (not shown). The CPU 16 stores the input display data in the display data storage unit 17a of the RAM 17.

A designated data input unit 19 for adding designated data, which will be described later, to the CPU 16 via the wireless transmission unit 18a and the wireless reception unit 18b is also provided. The designated data input unit 19 is formed in a small size, for example, a handy type, and when the operator operates an attached push button, for example, the wireless transmission unit 18a and the CPU 16 provided on the designated data input unit 19 side. Data is transmitted and received wirelessly (using radio waves or light) between the wireless reception units 18b provided on the side.

The designated data added to the CPU 16 is stored in the designated data table 17 b of the RAM 17. Here, the designated data means that the display data of an arbitrary display pattern is selected from the plurality of display data input from the host personal computer 11 according to the item number, and the display screen of the display unit 22 described later has an arbitrary number of steps. This is the data that is input to divide into display sections and display the above selected display data in the display section at the position specified on the display screen.

Further, the CPU 16 reads the display data of the designated item number and display pattern from the display data storage unit 17 a according to the designation data stored in the designation data table 17 b and outputs it to the display control unit 21. In the above, the operation of the CPU 16 is performed according to the operation program stored in the ROM 20.

The display control unit 21 outputs the display data transferred from the RAM 17 to the display unit 22 under the control of the CPU 16 to display a specified condition (display division of a specified position, a specified position). Display with the display pattern corresponding to the item number. The display unit 22 has its display screen formed into a full dot matrix type using liquid crystal, and can be divided into display sections with an appropriate number of steps (for example, 20 steps at the maximum) as necessary, and any of the divided display sections. Is also formed so that characters such as kanji, alphabets, numbers, etc., numbers, signs, and figures can be displayed. In addition, there are two types of display unit 22, LED full dot matrix type and 7-segment LED type. The former can display characters such as Kanji, alphabet, numbers, etc., numbers to symbols, figures, illustrations, etc. The latter is designed so that only a few letters can be displayed.

FIG. 4 shows an example of the designated data table 17b set in the RAM 17 by a push button operation of the designated data input unit 19, for example. In this example, 20 pieces of designated data are stored, and each designated data is composed of a display classification number and an item number (corresponding to the item number of the display data in FIG. 3). For example, the designated data in the top row has a display classification number of "01" and an item number of "004". The “20” at the bottom of the display category number indicates that the display screen of the display unit 22 (see FIG. 2) is divided into 20 display categories, and each display category number is counted from the top of the display screen. Indicates the position of the display section.

Next, the display operation of the display data input from the host personal computer 11 to the display unit 22 performed by the control of the CPU 16 in the information display system having the above configuration will be described with reference to the flowchart shown in FIG. To do.

First, the push button of the designated data input unit 19 is operated to set and input the number of display stages in order to divide the display screen of the display unit 22 into display sections having a desired number of stages (ST1). By inputting the setting of the number of display steps, a display classification number is given to the designation table 17b in the RAM 17 according to the input number of display steps. For example, when the display step number is set to 20, the display section numbers 1, 2, 3, ... 20 are sequentially input from the top to the display section number data column of the designation table 17b.

Next, the display section of the position to be displayed on the display screen of the display unit 22 is specified by the display section number, and the item number corresponding to the display pattern to be displayed is input for each display section (ST2). .. Here, the correspondence between the item numbers and the display patterns can be obtained by distributing the material in which the contents of the display data table of the host personal computer shown in FIG. 3 are printed out in advance from the head office to each branch and referring to the materials. Done.

After that, the process proceeds to step ST3, it is determined whether or not the input is completed, and if it is not completed, the display classification number and the item number in the designated data table 17b in step ST2 are displayed for all the display classifications desired to be displayed. Is repeated (ST3, NO). When the input is completed for all the display classifications (ST3, YES), the process proceeds to step ST4, where the CPU 16 reads the display data corresponding to the designated data in the designated data table 17b from the display data storage unit 17a, and the display control unit 21 is controlled to display the display pattern of the designated item number for each display section at the designated position on the display screen of the display unit 22 (ST4).

For example, when the display data table of the host personal computer 11 is set as shown in FIG. 3 and the designated data table 17b in the RAM 17 of the display device 15 is set as shown in FIG. As shown in FIG. 6, the display pattern "US $ 120 yen" on the display screen of the host personal computer 11 from the top of the display screen is displayed in the uppermost display section of the display screen of the display device 15.

As described above, in this embodiment, by operating the designated data input unit 19 from among a plurality of display data input from the host personal computer 11, any display data desired to be displayed by remote control is displayed. Is selected. Further, the selected data is displayed in the display section at the designated position on the display screen of the display unit 22.

Therefore, the data of the display pattern to be displayed can be arbitrarily selected from the plurality of data transmitted from the host personal computer 11 by the remote control, and the position of the display screen of the display unit 22 can be arbitrarily designated. Can be displayed on. Therefore, conventionally, the data to be displayed cannot be selected or changed on the side where the display device 15 is installed, and the data determined by the host PC 11 installed at the head office is directly installed at each branch. It is possible to eliminate the inconvenience that is uniformly displayed on the plurality of display devices 15. That is, on the side where the display device 15 is installed, various displays can be arbitrarily performed according to each sales strategy. Further, since the selection of display data and the designation of the position of the display area are performed by the remote control, the display operation becomes very easy.

It should be noted that in the above-described embodiment, the item number is used to select the desired display data from the plurality of display data transmitted from the input device, but the present invention is not limited to this and other identification numbers are used. You may make it perform using etc. Further, the remote control is performed on the display device side, but it is also possible to control a plurality of connected display devices via the public line from the head office side where the input device is set.

Further, although the description of the above embodiments has been made by taking the financial information display system as an example, this is merely an example for convenience, and the information display system of the present invention is a railway passenger guide and other message display systems. Of course, it can also be applied to.

[0031]

[Effect of the device]

 According to the present invention, information to be displayed can be arbitrarily selected from input information and can be displayed at an arbitrarily designated position on the display unit. Moreover, since the information is selected and the display position is specified by the remote control, the display operation is easy. In addition, various displays can be arbitrarily performed on the side where the display device is installed.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an information display system of the present invention.

2 is a block diagram showing a configuration of an embodiment of a display device in the information display system of FIG.

3 is an example of a display data table of a host personal computer in the information display system of FIG.

4 is an example of a designated data table in a RAM of the display device of FIG.

5 is a flowchart for explaining a display operation of the display device of FIG.

6 is an explanatory diagram of a display example of the display device in FIG.

FIG. 7 is an explanatory diagram of a display example of a display device of a conventional example.

[Explanation of symbols]

 11 Host PC 12, 14 Modem 13 Public line 15 Display device 16 CPU 17a Display data storage unit 17b Designated data table 18a Wireless transmission unit 18b Wireless reception unit 19 Designated data input unit 20 ROM 21 Display control unit 22 Display unit

Claims (2)

[Scope of utility model registration request] 1. An information display system having one information input device and a plurality of display devices connected to the information input device, wherein the display device is selected from a plurality of information input from the information input device. An information display system characterized by selecting arbitrary information by remote control and displaying it at a specified display position. 2. The information display system according to claim 1, which is a financial information display system.