JPH0619657A - Monitor controller - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To select selection object equipments and to input control instructions on a CRT screen. CONSTITUTION:This controller is provided with a pointing device 6 capable of coordinate specification on the CRT display screen 2 of a CRT display device 1. The controller displays the recognition that the selection object equipment 10 is selected at the symbols 11 and 12 of the selection object equipment 10 on the CRT display screen 2 based on data coordinate-specified by the pointing device 6 and outputs a control signal to the selected selection object equipment.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a supervisory control device that enables selective control such as starting and stopping process equipment while observing a CRT screen.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art FIG. 5 shows, for example, Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 63-250725.
FIG. 1 is a schematic configuration diagram showing a conventional monitor and control device disclosed in Japanese Patent Publication No. JP-A-2003-163, in which 1 is a CRT display device and 2 is a CRT display device.
A process flow screen as a CRT display screen displayed on the RT display device 1, 3 is a keyboard operation panel, 4 is a push button switch provided on the keyboard operation panel 3, and 5 is a touch board.

Next, the operation will be described. First, the operator selects the process flow screen 2 including the status of the device in order to display the status of the process device as the selection target device to be operated. That is, from the push button switches 4 of the keyboard operation panel 3, a screen selection switch that calls a screen including a process device to be operated is pressed, and a CRT display screen required on the CRT display device 1 is a process flow as shown in the figure. Display screen 2.

Next, after confirming the state of the process equipment on the process flow screen 2 displayed on the CRT display device 1, the symbol equipment to be operated using the touch board 5 is selected by two touch operations. The target process equipment is selected by. Further, by issuing a control request with the master switch in the push button switch 4 on the keyboard operation panel 3, a control signal is output to the process equipment.

[0005]

Since the conventional supervisory control device is constructed as described above, the operator must push the process flow screen 2 or the keyboard operation panel 3 to control the selection of the process equipment. It is necessary to operate according to the procedure while selecting various switches such as the button switch 4, and since the selection operation can be advanced while confirming the input operation and the output content, the large keyboard operation panel 3 is connected to the CRT display device 1. There was a problem that it had to be installed nearby.

The present invention has been made in order to solve the above-mentioned problems, and a process can be carried out by directly operating a process device on the CRT display screen while watching only the CRT display screen on the CRT display device. It is an object of the present invention to obtain a monitoring control device that can easily perform a device selection operation and can simplify the configuration.

[0007]

A monitor control device according to the present invention comprises a CRT display device on which a symbol of a device to be selected is displayed, and a pointing device capable of designating coordinates on a CRT display screen of the CRT display device. The controller is caused to display, on the basis of the data coordinate-designated by the pointing device, the symbol of the selection target device on the CRT display screen for recognizing that the selection target device is selected. The control signal is output to the selected device to be selected.

[0008]

The monitoring and control apparatus according to the present invention directly points and selects the symbol of the process device, which is the selection target device displayed on the CRT display screen of the CRT display device, and selects that the selection target device is selected. The symbol is selectively displayed by flickering the symbol, and the symbol of the target device in the flicker is pointed so that the target device can be controlled.

[0009]

【Example】

Example 1. An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. In FIG. 2, 1 is a CRT display device, 2 is a CRT
A CRT display screen displayed on the display device 1, 3 is a keyboard operation panel, and 4 is a push button switch provided on the keyboard operation panel 3.

FIG. 1 is a CRT display device 1 shown in FIG.
FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a schematic configuration of a monitor control device including a keyboard operation panel 3, and in the figure, reference numeral 8 denotes a controller, which is constituted by a microprocessor, has an arithmetic processing unit and a storage device, and has the entire monitor control device. Control.

Further, the CRT display device 1 and the keyboard operation panel 3 are provided as peripheral devices. Also,
6 is a touch panel as a pointing device arranged on the front surface of the CRT of the CRT display device 1, 7 is a touch panel controller for inputting the output of the touch panel 6 to a controller 8, and 9 is a process device 10 as a device to be selected.
It is a process input / output device that inputs and outputs signals to and from.

Next, the operation will be described. FIG. 3 shows the process display screen until the process device 10 as a selection target device is selected and operated.
(A) shows the operation status for selecting the process equipment 10 on the CRT display screen 2. A valve symbol 11 and a pump symbol 12 as device symbols are displayed on the CRT display screen 2, and the pump symbol 12 to be selected is displayed in green because it is stopped.

Here, the operator directly presses the pump symbol 12 on the CRT display screen 2 with a finger. This operation is CR
It is detected by the touch panel 6 provided on the T front surface.

Therefore, as shown in FIG.
The symbol 12 of the selected pump will remain flicker with the color still green.
The above operation can be canceled by pressing a reset mark 13 provided on the CRT display screen 2.

Next, FIG. 3C shows the CRT display screen 2 immediately after the operation operation is performed. Here, the symbol 12 of the selected pump, which is flickered as described above, is directly pressed again with a finger. As a result, the pump is started, the symbol 12 of the pump is red, the flicker is stopped, and red is continuously lit. Further, the pump can be stopped by pressing the symbol 12 of the pump that is lit in red again with a finger by the same operation.

Next, the operation procedure of the above monitoring control will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. In FIG. 4, first,
By pressing the touch panel 6 with a finger, for example, the pump symbol 12 is selected on the display screen. At this time, if the symbol 12 of the pump is not in the flicker yet, it has not been selected (step ST1), and therefore, the process proceeds to step ST2, where it is determined whether or not the touch panel 6 is turned on.

If it is recognized that the switch is turned on,
Enter the position on the CRT display screen 2 (step ST
3) Based on the position information, the pump symbol 12 is selected as the selection target device symbol (step ST4).
At this stage, the pump symbol 12 on the CRT display screen 2
To flicker (step ST5), set a flicker flag (step ST6), and return to step ST1.

Here, if the reset mark 13 is pressed (step ST7), the flicker of the pump symbol 12 is stopped (step ST8) and the in-flicker flag is reset (step ST9) to return to the original state. . On the other hand, if the reset mark 13 is not pressed, the process proceeds to step ST10, and if the selected symbol on the touch panel 6 is not turned on next, wait in this state by the operations of step ST1, step ST7, and step ST10. become.

Next, when the operator turns on the symbol 12 of the pump again, the controller 8 judges from the turned-on position coordinates and stops the symbol flicker (step ST11). Next, it is determined whether or not the pump is stopped (step ST12), and if it is stopped, the pump is started (step ST13), and the color of the symbol 12 of the pump, which is a symbol, is changed from green to red ( After step ST14), the flicker flag is reset (step ST15), and the process returns to step ST1. When it is determined that the pump is not stopped, the pump is stopped (step ST16) and the pump symbol 1
Change the color of 2 from red to green (step ST1
7) Then, the process returns to step ST1.

Example 2. Although the touch panel 6 is used as the pointing device in the above embodiment, the same function can be achieved by using a mouse, a light pen or the like.

Example 3. Further, in the above embodiment, the case of starting and stopping the pump has been described, but a valve symbol 11, a circuit breaker or the like may be used, and the same effect as that of the above embodiment can be obtained.

[0022]

As described above, according to the present invention, a CRT display device on which the symbol of the selected device is displayed, and the CRT display device
A pointing device capable of designating coordinates on the CRT display screen of the RT display device, and the controller selects the symbol of the selected device on the CRT display screen based on the data designated by the pointing device. Since it is configured to display the recognition that the target device is selected and to output the control signal to the selected target device, only the screen displayed on the CRT display device can be selected by the pointing device. Since it can be operated, this operation can be performed without error and in a short time, improving operability. In addition, since there is no need for a push button switch or the like, the keyboard operation panel can be made smaller or smaller. Alternatively, there is an effect that what can be omitted is obtained.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a supervisory control device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a configuration diagram showing an outline of a supervisory control device of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram showing a state of selecting and operating a target device on the CRT display screen in FIG.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing an operating procedure of monitoring control according to the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a configuration diagram showing an outline of a conventional monitoring control device.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 CRT display device 2 CRT display screen 6 touch panel (pointing device) 8 controller 10 process device (device to be selected) 11 valve symbol (symbol of device to be selected) 12 pump symbol (symbol of device to be selected)

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A C on which a symbol of a device to be selected is displayed.
The RT display device, a pointing device capable of designating coordinates on the CRT display screen of the CRT display device, and the above-mentioned C based on the data designated by the pointing device.
Supervisory control including a controller for causing the symbol of the selection target device on the RT display screen to display that the selection target device is recognized and for outputting a control signal to the selected selection target device apparatus.