JPH06342461A - Display information switching device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To provide the display information switching device with high work efficiency to reduce the designation of display switching performed by a user when the information displayed in plural areas on a display screen is switched. CONSTITUTION:A public information storage part 10 stores information. An output device 1 displays the information on the plural areas of the display screen. The switching of the information displayed on the display screen and the area displaying information to be switched are designated through an input device 2. A public information display priority storage part 11 stores the information of priority in the case of displaying the information on the display screen. A display coordinate storage part 7 stores coordinate information in the case of displaying the information on the display screen. Based on the priority information and the coordinate information, a public information display control part 13 switches the information displayed on the designated area of the display screen to the information stored in the public information storage part.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a display device for simultaneously displaying independent or related information in each of a plurality of areas displayed on a screen, and in particular, information displayed in each area. The present invention relates to a display information switching device for switching.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art An ordinary computer is equipped with a display device having an output device such as a CRT display so that the information recorded on an information recording medium can be displayed on the display screen of the output device. Has become. However, when visually confirming the information recorded on the information recording medium, it is less likely that a confirmation error will occur when the information is printed on paper than when it is displayed on the display screen of the output device. In particular, since the number of documents that can be displayed on the display screen at the same time is limited, it is less likely that a confirmation error will occur when the printed papers are arranged side by side in the work of comparing a plurality of documents. However, printing on paper requires a large amount of printing time, and thus the work efficiency is lower than that on the display screen.

Therefore, in recent years, a large display screen has been developed as an output device used for a display device, and by increasing the information that can be simultaneously displayed on one display screen, a plurality of information in document units can be simultaneously displayed. Has been done. Further, the processing speed of the CPU is increased so that the information displayed on the display screen can be quickly changed to other information, thereby further improving the work efficiency. In such a display device, the display screen of the output device is divided into a plurality of areas, and different areas of the same document can be displayed in the respective areas. Also, different documents can be displayed in each area. Further, like a window system, the same or different documents or images can be displayed in a plurality of areas, with some or all of the areas overlapping. Then, it is possible to compare the contents of the documents in the respective displayed areas, and while referring to the characters and figures of the document in one area, work such as creating and correcting the characters and figures of the other document can be performed.

Such a display device also serves as a display information switching device and is capable of switching the information displayed in each area. This display information switching device has an information storage device for storing document information, an output device having a display screen for displaying the information, and an input device for designating switching of the information displayed on the display screen. . Various display devices have been conventionally proposed as a display device capable of displaying a large amount of information on a display screen at the same time, and some examples will be described with reference to the drawings. The information stored in the information storage device is composed of one or more documents, and one document is composed of one or more pages. The drawings used for the description show the display screen of the output device and the display image of the document.

First, a case will be described in which the display screen is divided into left and right parts, and different pages of the same document are displayed one by one in each area. That is, as shown in FIG. 45, the display screen is equally divided into left and right, and the area 1 is on the left and the area 2 is on the right. The first page of the document AA is displayed in the area 1 and the area 2
Shows the second page of the document AA. Here, when the user wants to switch the display in the area 1 from the first page to the second page, if the switching of the area 1 is designated by the input device, the display image is changed from the first page to the second page. When it is desired to advance the display pages in each area one page at a time, the user gives an instruction to switch the display page to each area. That is, as shown in FIG. 46, the display of the first page in the area 1 is switched to the display of the second page, and the area 2 is displayed.
When it is desired to switch the display of the second page to the display of the third page in, the two switching instructions of area 1 and area 2 are issued by the input device.

When it is desired to display the documents displayed in all the areas on the display screen in the order of pages,
The area is designated by the input device for each area.
That is, as shown in FIG. 47, the area 1 is designated and the display of the first page is switched to the display of the third page, and the area 2 is designated and 2 is displayed.
The display of page 4 is switched to the display of page 4. To advance the page further, the area 1 is designated to switch the display of the third page to the display of the fifth page, and the area 2 is designated to switch the display of the fourth page to the display of the sixth page.

Further, as shown in FIG. 48, when the first page of the same document BB is displayed in area 1 and area 2,
It is possible to change the display of multiple areas at the same time.
In other words, if the switching is designated by the input device, the display of the first page in the area 1 is changed to 2 by one display switching instruction.
At the same time as switching to the page, the display of the first page in the area 2 is switched to the second page.

Further, when different pages are displayed in different areas and the respective pages are desired to be switched, the switching area is designated by the input device for each area. That is, as shown in FIG. 49, when the first page of the document AA is displayed in the area 1 and the second page of the document BB is displayed in the area 2, the area 1 is displayed in order to advance each page by one page. Is designated to switch the display of the first page to the second page, and the region 2 is designated to switch the display of the second page to the third page.

Although the above document switching is performed in "page" units, switching in "document" units is also possible. In other words, even when the document displayed in each area is to be switched to another document, the switching area is designated by the input device for each area. For example, as shown in FIG. 50, a plurality of documents are ranked in order of creation date, document number, title title, document CC after document AA, and document CC after document BB. It is assumed to be DD. Then, when the area 1 is designated, the display of the document AA is switched to the display of the document CC, and when the area 2 is designated, the display of the document BB is switched to the display of the document DD.

[0010]

However, the above-described conventional display information switching device has the following problems. That is, for each area where you want to switch the display,
Since it is necessary to instruct page switching and document switching, work efficiency is not good. Further, when the same document is displayed in a plurality of areas, the display can be switched by interlocking the plurality of areas with one instruction, but when different pages or different documents are displayed in each area, It is not possible to switch multiple areas in conjunction. Therefore, it is difficult to switch only pages and documents displayed in a specific area and compare and reference desired documents and drawings.

The present invention is intended to solve such a problem, and its object is to reduce the display switching designation made by the user when switching the information displayed in a plurality of areas on the display screen. Another object of the present invention is to provide a display information switching device which has a good working efficiency.

[0012]

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention according to claim 1 is a display information storage means for storing a plurality of information to be displayed, and a desired one of the information. Output means having a display screen for displaying information divided into a plurality of areas and at least one of the information being displayed on the display screen are displayed next among the information stored in the display information storage means. Input information for giving a switching command for switching to the desired information, and a display information switching device having the information displayed in any one of the plurality of regions when the switching command is input from the input device, Switching area designating means for designating in advance whether to switch to the information to be displayed next, which is stored in the display information storage means, and information to be displayed stored in the display information storage means are displayed on the display screen. A display order storage unit that stores order information that defines the order and a coordinate information that determines in which area of the display screen the information to be stored stored in the display information storage unit is stored. The display information storage means and the display information storage means based on the order information and the coordinate information, in accordance with the input of the switching command from the input means, the information being displayed in the area designated by the switching area designating means. It has a display control means for switching to the information to be displayed next stored in the.

Further, in the present invention according to claim 2, the switching area designating means is area group designating means for designating a plurality of areas selected from all areas as an area group, and It is characterized in that it has area group processing means for interlocking all the information being displayed in the plurality of areas and switching to the information to be displayed next stored in the display information storage means.

According to the present invention of claim 3, the switching area designating means designates at least one area selected from all areas as a lock area for inhibiting switching of information being displayed in the area. It is a lock area designating unit that has a lock area processing unit that suppresses switching of information being displayed in the lock area.

The present invention according to claim 4 is characterized in that the information to be displayed stored in the display information storage means is a plurality of documents having at least one page.

The present invention according to claim 5 is characterized in that the information to be displayed stored in the display information storage means is at least one document having a plurality of pages.

According to the present invention of claim 6, the display control means, in accordance with the input of the switching command from the input means, displays the document or page being displayed in the area designated by the switching area designating means. It is characterized in that it is switched so as to totally replace the document to be displayed next, which is stored in the display information storage means, on the basis of the order information and the coordinate information.

Further, according to the present invention of claim 7, the display control means, in accordance with the input of the switching command from the input means, displays the document or page being displayed in the area designated by the switching area designating means. Based on the order information and the coordinate information, switching is performed so that the document or page to be displayed next, which is stored in the display information storage means, is sequentially forwarded.

[0019]

The operation of the present invention having the above construction is as follows. That is, in the present invention according to claim 1, first of all, the desired information among the information stored in the display information storage means is divided into a plurality of areas of the display screen and displayed. Then, at the same time as the switching command is given by the input means, the area in which the information to be switched is displayed is designated by the switching area designating means. Then, the display control means calls and arranges the information to be displayed next from the display information storage means based on the order information stored in the display order storage means and the coordinate information stored in the display coordinate storage means, and outputs the information. Send to the means. In the output means, the arranged information is displayed in the area designated by the switching area designating means.

According to the present invention of claim 2,
At the same time as the switching command is given by the input means, the area group designating means designates a desired area from the entire area on the display screen as an area group. Then, the area group processing means calls and arranges the information to be displayed next from the display information storage means on the basis of the order information stored in the display order storage means and the coordinate information stored in the display coordinate storage means, Send to output means. In the output means, the arranged information is displayed in the area designated as the area group.

Further, in the present invention according to claim 3, at the same time as the switching command is given by the input means, the lock area input means is displaying the information for which switching is to be suppressed from the entire area on the display screen. Area is designated as the lock area. Then, the display control means calls and arranges the information to be displayed next from the display information storage means based on the order information stored in the display order storage means and the coordinate information stored in the display coordinate storage means, and outputs the information. Send to the means. At this time, the lock area processing means suppresses the interlocking of the information displayed in the lock area. Therefore, the output means displays the arranged information in an area other than the area designated as the lock area. The information displayed in the lock area is held on the display screen.

According to the present invention of claim 4,
Since the information stored in the display information storage means is a plurality of documents having at least one page, the order information and the coordinate information are document and page units, and the display in each area on the display screen is also document and page units. Become.

According to the present invention of claim 5,
Since the information stored in the display information storage means is at least one document having a plurality of pages, the order information and the coordinate information are in document and page units, and the display in each area on the display screen is also in document and page units. Become.

According to the present invention of claim 6,
At the same time as the switching command is given by the input means, the area displaying the document or page to be switched is designated by the switching area designating means. Then, the display control means calls and arranges the next document or page to be displayed from the display information storage means on the basis of the order information stored in the display order storage means and the coordinate information stored in the display coordinate storage means. , Send to output means. In the output means, the documents or pages that have been displayed in the area designated by the switching area designating means are replaced by the newly arranged documents or pages.

Further, in the present invention according to claim 7, the switching area is designated by the switching area designating means at the same time as the switching command is given by the input means. Then, the display control means calls and arranges the next document or page to be displayed from the display information storage means on the basis of the order information stored in the display order storage means and the coordinate information stored in the display coordinate storage means. ,
Send to output means. In the output means, the documents or pages that have been displayed in the area designated by the switching area designating means are sequentially fed by the newly arranged documents or pages.

[0026]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment in which the present invention is used as a display information switching device which also serves as a display device will be described below with reference to the drawings. The present embodiment corresponds to the present invention described in claims 1 to 7. The input means and switching area designating means according to claim 1, the area group designating means according to claim 2 and the lock area designating means according to claim 3 are an input device,
I / O control circuit, X / Y coordinate detector, click detector,
It is composed of an input command control unit, a region instruction detection unit, and a menu selection unit. The display information storage means according to claim 1 is the publication storage section, the output means is the output device and the display drive control section, the display order storage section is the publication display order storage section, the display coordinate storage section is the display coordinate storage section, and the display control. The means is the publication display control unit. The area group processing means according to claim 2 is an area group processing unit. Further, the lock area processing means according to claim 3 is a lock area processing unit.

Further, the documents and pages described in claims 4 to 7 are one unit for determining the order in displaying characters and graphics on the display screen. One or more pages are ranked and put together to form one document. Then, one or more documents are ranked and collected, and stored in the display information storage means (publication storage means in this embodiment). In this embodiment, one design gazette is regarded as one document, and the gazettes are ranked in the order of gazette numbers. Further, the page layout of each design gazette is used as it is for the page ranking. In each area of the display screen, the design gazette is displayed page by page in order, and the information to be displayed next to the last page of one design gazette is the first page of the design gazette having the next gazette number. .

Further, switching to perform the total replacement according to claim 6 means "overall document turning" described later. In addition, the switching to the forward feeding according to claim 7 means "display of next page" and "display of next document" described later.

(1) Configuration of Embodiment The configuration of this embodiment will be described with reference to the block diagram of FIG. First, 1 is an output device such as a CRT display. On the display screen of the output device 1, one or more areas 1 are provided.
It is divided into 01 and one or more design gazettes 102 are displayed in each area. On the display screen of the output device 1, a pointing cursor 103 that is moved by operating the input device 2 described later is displayed.
A display processing menu 104 for inputting instructions for the processing of this embodiment is displayed. This display processing menu 104
Are classified and set as follows according to the type of processing. That is, "search" for designating a desired design gazette and displaying it on the display screen, "dividing the display screen into a desired number of regions and displaying the design gazette page by page in each region""Next page display" to display the next page of the design publication displayed in the area, "Next document display" to display the next design publication of the design publication displayed in each area, and the design publication displayed in the entire area "Overall document turning" to replace all the documents, "Lock area designation" to prevent switching of only the design gazette displayed in the desired area, whether to switch design gazettes in "document" units or "page" units “Change of document type” for changing whether or not to perform, and “area group designation” for interlocking switching of design publications displayed in a desired area are set.

Reference numeral 2 is an input device having a mouse and a keyboard. The mouse of the input device 2 is the pointing cursor 103 on the display screen of the output device 1.
Is moved and a button is pressed when the pointing cursor 103 is located on the desired display processing menu 104, thereby inputting a desired processing instruction to the display information switching device. In addition, the keyboard specifies the same processing as the display processing menu 104 by key input,
The search condition is input at the time of "search". Here, the search condition means the publication number attached to the design publication, the filing date, the article name, the applicant, and the total number of pages.

The input device 2 as described above is connected to the X / Y coordinate detection unit 4, the click detection unit 5, and the input command control unit 6 via the I / O control circuit 3. The X / Y coordinate detection unit 4 uses the pointing cursor 10 on the display screen.
The position of 3 is detected. The click detector 5
It is for detecting whether or not there is a click input from the mouse which is the input device 2. Further, the input command control unit 6 detects the input of search conditions from the keyboard which is the input device 2.

Further, 7 is a display coordinate storage unit. Display coordinate information is stored in the display coordinate storage unit 7. The display coordinate information is information for determining in which area of the display screen the design gazette is to be displayed, and specifically, as shown in FIG. 2, the design displayed on the display screen of the output device 1. Document type of publication, number of areas, area number of each area,
Publication number, display page, total number of pages for each publication, display order, X
/ Y coordinate and the like. Of the display coordinate information, the document type indicates whether the design bulletin is displayed on the display screen based on which of "document" and "page". The number of areas indicates the number of areas displayed on the display screen of the output device 1. The area number is a number given to each area corresponding to the position of each area on the display screen. In the case of the present embodiment, the display screen is divided into four areas, the upper left area is the area number 1, the upper right area is the area number 2, the lower left area is the area number 3, and the lower right area is the area number 4. The display page shows the page number of the design publication displayed on the display screen.
Further, the publication number, the total number of pages, the display order, and the displayed pages are the “document data” of the design publication.

Reference numeral 8 is a menu selection section. This menu selection unit 8 is provided with a detection signal from the click detection unit 5 and X / Y when there is a click input from the mouse.
Upon receiving a detection signal from the coordinate detection unit 4, a processing signal indicating which processing is to be performed is sent out based on the display processing menu 104 having the pointing cursor 103. Further, the menu selection unit 8 also outputs a processing signal in accordance with the corresponding processing instruction even when the processing menu and the search condition are input from the keyboard.

Reference numeral 9 is an area designation detection unit. The area instruction detection unit 9 receives a detection signal from the click detection unit 5 and a detection signal from the X / Y coordinate detection unit 4, and detects an area in which the association or lock is designated depending on the position of the pointing cursor 103. is there. Here, associating means collectively designating areas in which design gazettes are switched in association with each other as one group. Further, the lock designation means designating an area which is not interlocked with the switching of the design gazette.

Further, reference numeral 10 is a publication storage unit. As shown in FIG. 3, the publication storage unit 10 stores image information of a plurality of design publications with display order information attached. The display order information is information having a display order, a publication number, an application date, an article name, an applicant, the total number of pages, and the like.

Reference numeral 11 is a publication display order storage unit. As shown in FIG. 4, the publication display order storage unit 11 stores display order information attached to each design publication searched by the search unit 12 described later.

Reference numeral 12 is a search unit. The search unit 12 receives a processing signal from the menu selection unit 8 and performs a search for the design publication stored in the publication storage unit 10 to publish the display order information of the design publication having a high degree of coincidence with the search condition. It is stored in the display order storage unit 11.

Further, reference numeral 13 is a publication display control section.
The publication display control unit 13 includes processing signals from the menu selection unit 8, association information from the area instruction detection unit 9, display coordinate information from the display coordinate storage unit 7, and publication display order storage unit 9.
Based on the display order information from the design gazette storage unit 10
The image information of the design gazette is sent to the gazette area generation unit 16 to be described later in a state in which the display order and the display coordinates are determined. When a plurality of areas are designated in the display processing menu 104, the display screen is displayed or switched only in the designated areas. Further, when the lock of a specific area is designated in the display processing menu 104, only the designated area is not displayed or switched.

Reference numeral 14 is an area group processing section. The area group processing unit 14 associates a plurality of areas designated by the input device 2 among the areas displayed on the display screen and collects the areas as an area group. A plurality of associated areas are regarded as one area group and are stored in an area group storage unit (not shown). For example, as shown in FIG. 5, each group is given a group number (G1, G2), and the area numbers forming each group are stored. Further, a check field for checking whether or not the design gazette has been updated, that is, switched, is stored.

Reference numeral 15 is a lock area processing section. This lock area processing unit is a display processing menu 104.
Even if the switching of the design gazette is designated in, the current display content is retained without switching. Here, the held area is a lock area and is stored in a lock area storage unit (not shown).

Further, reference numeral 16 is a publication area generation unit.
The publication area generation unit 16 generates display information of the design publication to be displayed on the display screen based on the image information from the publication display control unit 13.

Reference numeral 17 is a display drive control section. The display drive control unit 17 drives the output device 1 based on the display information of the design publication generated by the publication display area generation unit 16 to display the design publication on the display screen.

(2) Operation of the embodiment The operation of the embodiment is performed by "search", "change the number of areas", "display next page", "display next document", "turn over entire document" in the display processing menu 104. , "Lock area designation",
The description is divided into “change of document type” and “area group designation”. It should be noted that steps 601 to 611 in the flowchart of FIG. 6 outline the procedure of the processing menu.

(A) Search First, the operation of the present embodiment when the user searches for the design gazette based on the search conditions and displays it on the display screen of the output device 2 will be described below. That is, in the initial state of the present embodiment, as shown in FIG. 7, the display processing menu 104 and the pointing cursor 103 are displayed on the display screen of the output device 1. Here, the user first uses the mouse of the input device 2 to display the display processing menu 104.
The pointing cursor 103 is moved to the "Search" column of and the mouse button is pressed. Then, the click detection unit 5
Detects the click input and the detected signal is the menu selection section 8
Entered in. Further, the position of the pointing cursor 103 is detected by the X / Y coordinate detection unit 4, and this detection signal is input to the menu selection unit 8. Then, when a search condition such as an application date and an article name is input with a keyboard, it is sent to the input command control unit 6 and input as a detection signal to the menu selection unit 8. As the search condition, it is possible to combine a plurality of conditions such as the article name and the application date.

The menu selection unit 8 to which the detection signal as described above is input sends a search instruction based on the search conditions to the search unit 12. Then, in the search unit 12, the display order is given from the design gazette having a high degree of matching with the search condition,
The display order information is stored in the publication display order storage unit 11. Then, the publication display control unit 13 refers to the display order information from the publication display order storage unit 11 to call the image information of the design publication from the publication storage unit 10, and causes the publication area generation unit 16 and the display drive control unit 17 to operate. To the output device 2. Then, the searched design gazette 102 is displayed on the display screen of the output device 2.

(B) Change of Number of Areas Next, the operation of this embodiment when the display screen is divided into a plurality of areas and the publication is displayed in each of the divided areas will be described.
First, the user moves the pointing cursor 103 using the mouse of the input device 2 to display the display processing menu 1
When the item "change number of areas" on 04 is clicked, the position of the pointing cursor 103 is detected by the X / Y coordinate detection unit 4 and the click detection unit 5, and this detection signal is input to the menu selection unit 8. . The menu selection unit 8 issues an instruction to “change the number of areas” to the publication display control unit 13
Send to.

After the change in the number of areas to be divided is designated, the processing procedure will be described below with reference to the flowchart of FIG. In addition, A and B are variables that mean the number of divided regions. That is, step 801
Then, the area previously stored in the lock area storage unit is erased. If nothing is stored in the lock area storage unit in the initial state of the display device, step 80 is left as it is.
Go to 2. Next, in step 802, it is determined whether or not the number of areas designated by the input means 2 exceeds the number of areas currently displayed. Then, if the number of regions is greater than the currently displayed region, in step 803,
The new number of regions is assigned to the variable B, the number of regions currently displayed is read from the display coordinate storage unit 7, and assigned to the variable A.

At step 804, it is judged whether the document type designated by the input means 2 is "document" or "page". If the document type is designated as a document, in step 807, the publication number of the design publication having the latest display order among the design publications currently displayed is searched from the display coordinate storage unit 7, and this is designated as the relevant document. To do. Here, the relevant document is a document that serves as a reference when reading the document to be displayed next, and in the present embodiment, the design gazette having the next display order of the design gazette corresponding to the relevant document is displayed next. This is mainly used when the document is to be displayed, or when the page in the display order next to the page currently displayed on the current display screen of the design gazette corresponding to the document is to be displayed next. There is. In step 808, the document data of the design gazette corresponding to the next rank of the searched design gazette is read from the gazette display rank storage unit 11 for the newly designated number of regions.

Steps 901 to 906 in FIG. 9 are a flowchart for explaining the procedure of step 808 in FIG. 8 in more detail. This procedure will be described below. That is, in step 901, 1 is added to the number of areas assigned to the variable A. In step 902, it is determined whether the area corresponding to the added number of areas is the lock area stored in the lock area storage unit. If the area is the lock area, the procedure of step 901 is repeated. If it is not the lock area, in step 903, the document data of the design gazette of the next rank of the display rank of the document is read from the display rank storage unit. Step 90
In 4, the read document data is written in the area a of the display coordinate storage unit. Here, the area a is an area having an area number corresponding to the numerical value of the variable A. Step 9
In 05, the design gazette corresponding to the document data written in the area a is the relevant document. And step 906
In, the numerical value of variable A and the numerical value of variable B are compared, and A
If <B, the procedure after step 901 is repeated. Then, the document data of the design gazette of the next rank of the relevant document is written one after another in the area having the area number corresponding to the designated area number. Then, when the document data corresponding to the specified number of areas is written, A <B is not satisfied, so that the reading process of the next document ends, and step 8 in FIG.
The process moves to 11.

Further, in step 811, the coordinates of the area to be displayed on the screen are determined from the new number of areas. In step 812, the newly determined number of areas and coordinates are written in the display coordinate storage unit 7 in ascending order of area number. The display page of each design gazette is specified to be one page per area. In step 813, the publication display control unit 13 reads the image information of the design publication from the publication storage unit 10 according to the publication number and the display page stored in the display coordinate storage unit 7, and the publication region generation unit 1
Sent to 6. In the display drive control unit 17, the publication area generation unit 1
The image information generated by 6 is sent to the output device 1, and the image information shown in FIG.
As shown in, the display screen is divided into a specified number of areas, and the design gazette is displayed in each of the divided areas. In step 814, when the area group is stored in the area group storage unit, all area numbers forming the area group are erased.

The above procedure will be specifically described by using an example.
That is, when the display device is in the initial state, as shown in FIG. 11, the number of display areas stored in the display coordinate storage unit 7 is 0, and the document type indicating the display unit on the screen is ""Document" is set. When the designated new number of areas is 4, it is larger than the current number of areas 0 stored in the display coordinate storage unit 7, so the publication display control unit 13
Refers to the latest display order stored in the display coordinate storage unit 7. However, since the display order is not stored, the latest order is set to 0, and the publication number, the total number of pages, and the display order of the design gazettes of the first to fourth positions are displayed from the display order storage unit 11. The number is written together with the number of pages from the area 1 to the area 4 of the display coordinate storage unit 7, and finally displayed on the display screen as shown in FIG.

Further, if the designation of the document type in step 804 in FIG. 8 is "page", then in step 805, the display coordinate storage unit 7 has the lowest display rank among the currently displayed publications. Find the design gazette with the largest display page and use it as the relevant document. Then, in step 806, the reading process of the next page is performed, and this procedure will be described in detail according to the flowchart of FIG.
That is, in step 1201, the total number of pages is compared with the number obtained by adding 1 to the display order of the display pages of the design publication which is the relevant document. If the number obtained by adding 1 to the display page is larger than the total number of pages of the document, in step 1203, the document data of the next display order of the document is read from the publication display order storage unit 11. If the number of display pages plus 1 is not larger than the total number of pages in the document, 1 is added to the display order of the display pages in step 1202. The procedure after step 1204 is step 901 in FIG.
Is the same as ˜906. However, step 906 of FIG.
When A <B in step 1208 of FIG. 12 corresponding to the above, the procedure returns to step 1201. When the writing of the document data for the increased number of areas is completed, the process proceeds to steps 806 and 811 in FIG. 8 and the same processes as those for the document type “document” are performed and displayed on the screen.

Further, in the processing of step 802,
If the number of specified areas does not increase beyond the current number of areas,
In step 809, the display area is determined in ascending order of the area number. In 810, the document display control unit 13 erases the document data in the non-display area among the publication number, the coordinate value, the display order, etc. stored in the display coordinate storage unit 7. For example, when the number of areas currently displayed is 4 and the number of new areas is 2, area numbers 1 and 2 are display areas, and the other area numbers 3 and 4 are erased from the document data as non-display areas. . After this,
The processing after step 811 is performed.

(C) Next Page and Next Document Display When the area division is performed as described above, the display screen is divided into a plurality of areas, and the design gazette is displayed page by page in each of the divided areas. In this state, the operation of the embodiment when the user switches the page displayed in each area to the next page will be described below. For example, as shown in FIG. 43 (a), the pages of the document displayed in each area are sequentially displayed in page order, and the next page of the document of the next order is displayed after the last page of the document. The first page is displayed.

First, the user uses the mouse of the input device 2 to move the pointing cursor and clicks the item "display next page" on the display processing menu 104. Then, the position of the pointing cursor 103 is X / Y.
The detection signal is detected by the coordinate detection unit 4 and the click detection unit 5, and this detection signal is input to the menu selection unit 8. The menu selection unit 8 sends an instruction for display switching “display next page” to the publication display control unit 13.

Then, the processing is performed as shown in the flowchart of FIG. The variables C and D are variables representing the number of areas, and the area c means an area having an area number corresponding to the numerical value of the variable C. That is, in step 1301, the number of areas currently displayed is read from the display coordinate storage unit 7. In step 1302, 0 is assigned to variable C and variable D
The number of areas currently displayed on the display screen is substituted into.
Further, in step 1303, 1 is added to the variable C. In step 1304, it is determined whether the area having the area number corresponding to the number of the variable C is the lock area. If the area is the lock area, the processing of step 1303 is repeated.

If it is determined in step 1304 that the area is not the lock area, in step 1305, the design gazette displayed in the area of the area number corresponding to the number of variables C (hereinafter referred to as area c) is regarded as the relevant document. It Then, in step 1306, it is judged whether or not the number obtained by adding 1 to the display page is larger than the total number of pages of the corresponding document. If it is larger, the process proceeds to step 1308, and if not, the process proceeds to step 1307. In step 1307, the document data of the page corresponding to the value obtained by adding 1 to the value of the display page of the document data of the relevant document is read. That is, the document data of the page next to the display page is read. Further, in step 1308, the document data of the document next to the document whose display order is the corresponding is read from the document display order storage unit 11. Further, the document data read in step 1307 and step 1308 is written in the column of area c of the display coordinate storage unit 7 in step 1309. Next, in step 1310, it is determined whether or not the variable D is larger than the variable C. If it is larger, the procedure from step 1303 is repeated, and if it is not larger, the processing of step 1311 is performed. In this step 1311, the publication display control unit 13 reads the image information of the design publication from the publication storage unit 10 according to the document data stored in the display coordinate storage unit 7, and sends it to the publication region generation unit 16 for display. It is displayed in each area of the device 1.

The operation of this embodiment when the user switches the document displayed in each area to the next document will be described below.

This is, for example, as shown in FIG. 43 (d), the first page of the document displayed in each area is sequentially displayed according to the display order of the document.

First, the user uses the mouse of the input device 2 to move the pointing cursor and clicks the item "display next document" on the display processing menu 104.
Then, the position of the pointing cursor 103 is X /
The detection signal is detected by the Y coordinate detection unit 4 and the click detection unit 5, and this detection signal is input to the menu selection unit 8. The menu selection unit 8 sends a display switching “next document display” instruction to the publication display control unit 13.

Then, the processing is performed by the procedure shown in steps 1401 to 1409 of the flowchart of FIG. 14, and this procedure is step 1 of the flowchart of FIG.
In 306, the procedure is the same as when the number of displayed pages is larger than the total number of pages of the corresponding document, and thus the description thereof is omitted.

(D) At the time of turning over the entire document The operation of the present embodiment when the user looks at the design gazettes displayed on the display screen of the output device 1 while sequentially changing them will be described below. For example, as shown in FIG. 10, the publication number 93000- is displayed on the display screen.
When four gazettes 1 to 93000-4 are displayed, the user compares them with the newly created designs in his hand. When you want to display.
When this whole document turning is performed in "document" units, it is switched as shown in FIG. 43 (e).
When performed in "page" units, switching is performed as shown in FIG. 43 (b).

First, the user uses the mouse of the input device 2 to move the pointing cursor, and clicks the item of "page turning over" on the display processing menu 104. Then, the position of the pointing cursor 103 is detected by the X / Y coordinate detection unit 4 and the click detection unit 5, and this detection signal is input to the menu selection unit 8. The menu selection unit 8 sends a display switching “whole document turning” instruction to the publication display control unit 13.

Then, the processing is performed as shown in the flowchart of FIG. The variables E and F are variables that represent the number of areas. That is, step 15
In 01, the number of areas currently displayed and the document type are read from the display coordinate storage unit 7. Step 15
In 02, 0 is substituted for the variable E, and the number of regions currently displayed on the display screen is substituted for the variable F. Further, in step 1503, it is determined whether the document type designated by the input means 2 is "document" or "page".

When the document type is "document", in step 1506, the last displayed design bulletin is searched from the design gazettes currently displayed, and this is set as the relevant document. For example, as shown in FIG. 2, when the design gazette displayed in the area 4 has the lowest display order, the relevant document is 93000-4.

Next, at step 1507, the publication display control unit 13 reads the next document. The procedure of this work is the same as that of the flowchart of FIG. However, the variable A in FIG.
Is a variable E, a variable B is a variable F, and an area a is an area e. Here, the area e is an area having an area number corresponding to the numerical value of the variable E.

Further, in step 1508 of FIG.
According to the publication number and the display page stored in the display coordinate storage unit 7, the publication display control unit 13 sets the publication storage unit 1 according to the publication number.
The image information of the design gazette is read from 0, sent to the gazette area generation unit 16, and displayed in each area of the display device 1. At this time, the contents stored in the display coordinate storage unit 7 are as shown in FIG.

If the document type specified in step 1503 of FIG. 15 is "page", step 15
In 04, the document having the lowest display order and the largest display page among the currently displayed documents is set as the relevant document. Then, in step 1505, the reading process of the next document is performed. Since this procedure is the same as the flowchart of FIG. 12, the description thereof will be omitted. However, the variable A in FIG. 9 is the variable E, the variable B is the variable F, and the area a is the area e. Here, the area e is an area having an area number corresponding to the numerical value of the variable E. Further, similarly to the case where the document type is “document”, the process of step 1508 in FIG. 15 is performed.

(E) Lock Area Designation The operation of this embodiment when the user wants to replace another area while holding the design gazette displayed in a specific area of the display screen will be described below. This is because, for example, as shown in FIG.
In the case of 000-5 to 93000-8, when the user compares it with the design at hand, publication number 93000-6
Since I wanted to keep the display of the design gazette of
With the displayed area of 3000-6 locked,
It is used when it is desired to switch to another area, as shown in FIG.

First, the pointing cursor 103 is moved by using the mouse of the input device 2, and the pointing cursor 103 comes on the area to be locked on the screen and the item "lock area designation" of the display processing menu 104. When the mouse button is pressed at this time, the position of the pointing cursor 103 is detected by the X / Y coordinate detection unit 4 and the click detection unit 5, and the detection signal is input to the menu selection unit 8. The menu selection unit 8 sends an area lock instruction and an area number to be locked to the publication display control unit 13.

The value of the designated lock area is stored in the lock area storage section by the lock processing section 15. For example, when the area number 2 is designated, the contents of the lock area storage section are as shown in FIG. The publication display control unit 13 displays the pushpin image on the area so that the user can know that the designated area is locked, and as shown in FIG. 18, displays the frame of the area and the background color. It is changed to indicate that the image is not switched.

Further, the user designates "next page display", "next document display", and "whole document turning" in order to continue switching the design gazette displayed in the unlocked area. Then, the switching process is performed by designating the region numbers in ascending order, but only the design gazette of the lock region is not switched. That is, in the case of "next page display",
As shown in step 1304 of the flowchart of FIG. 13, the area designated as the lock area is forgotten to be switched, and the design gazette of the next area is switched. Also,
In the case of "next document display", as shown in step 1404 of the flowchart of FIG. 14, the area designated as the lock area is forgotten to be switched, and the design gazette of the next area is switched. Further, in the case of “whole page turning”, as shown in step 1205 of the flowchart of FIG. 12 corresponding to step 1505 of the flowchart of FIG. 15, and as shown in step 902 of FIG. 9 corresponding to step 1507. The area designated as the lock area is forgotten to switch, and the design gazette of the next area is switched.

For example, as shown in FIGS. 18 and 19, the area corresponding to the area number 2 displaying the publication 93000-6 (the upper right area in the display screen of FIG. 18) is stored in the lock area storage section. Since it is stored, the lock processing unit 1
Switching is suppressed by 5. Therefore, the document data of area number 2 stored in the display coordinate storage unit 7 cannot be switched.

(F) At the time of changing the document type In the case of the present embodiment, when the display unit of the design publication is designated by "document", a plurality of publications can be listed. For example, as shown in FIG. 20, 93000-7 to 93
Publications up to 000-10 can be displayed page by page in each area. Also, when the display unit is specified by "page",
It is possible to list multiple pages of one design gazette. For example, as shown in FIG. 21, 4 such as 93000-7
It is possible to list the contents of the gazette consisting of pages. The operation of the system when switching between the display of "document" units and the display of "page" units will be described.

The user moves the pointing cursor 103 with the mouse of the input means 2 in order to instruct to change the display type. This pointing cursor 10
When the mouse button is pressed when "3" is displayed on the "Change Document Type" of the display processing menu, the position of the pointing cursor is detected by the X / Y coordinate detection unit 4 and the click detection unit 5, and the detection signal is displayed on the menu. It is input to the selection unit 8. The menu selection unit 8 sends a new value for the number of areas and an instruction to change the area division to the publication display control unit 13.

The following procedure will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. G and H are variables that mean the number of regions. That is, in step 2201, the contents of the lock area storage unit are erased. In step 2202, the number of areas and the document type currently displayed, and
The design gazette displayed in the area corresponding to the area number 1 (referred to as area 1 in the drawing) is set as the relevant document, and the document data thereof is read from the display coordinate storage unit 7. Next, in step 2203, the document data after the area (area 2 in the figure) corresponding to the area number 2 stored in the display coordinate storage unit 7 is erased. In step 2204, 2 is substituted for the variable G, and the number of regions currently displayed is substituted for the variable H.

Then, in step 2205, the menu selection section 8 determines whether the document type designated by the input means 2 is "document" or "page".
Here, if the document type specified by the user is “page”, in step 2207, a page obtained by adding 1 to the display page of the corresponding document,
That is, the document data of the next display order on the display page is read. Then, as shown in steps 1201 to 1208 of FIG. 12, the process of storing in the corresponding area of the display coordinate storage unit 7 is performed for all the areas to be displayed after the area 2. However, the variable A in FIG. 12 corresponds to the variable G, the variable B corresponds to the variable H, and the area a is an area g which means an area corresponding to the area number indicated by the numerical value of the variable G.

If the document type designated by the user is "document", then in step 2206 of FIG. 22, the document data of the gazette corresponding to the next rank of the relevant document is read from the gazette display rank storage unit 11. Then, the process of reading the document data of the publication corresponding to the next rank of the relevant document from the publication display rank storage unit 11 and storing it in the corresponding area of the display coordinate storage unit 7 as shown in steps 901 to 906 of FIG. This is performed for all the areas to be displayed after the area 2. However, the variable A in FIG. 9 is the variable G and the variable B.
Represents the area corresponding to the variable F, and the area a represents the area g corresponding to the area number indicated by the numerical value of the variable G.

As described above, step 2206 in FIG.
Alternatively, when the reading process is performed in 2207, a new document type is written in the display coordinate storage unit 7 in step 2208. And step 220
In 9, the publication display control unit 13 reads the display data of the design publication from the publication storage unit 10 according to the document data stored in the display coordinate storage unit 7, and sends it to the publication region generation unit 16. Therefore, the design gazette is displayed in each area of the display screen. Further, as will be described later, when the area group storage unit stores area groups that associate areas with each other, in step 2210, all the area numbers forming the area groups are erased.

For example, if the contents of the display coordinate storage unit 7 are as shown in FIG.
When set to 00-7, the document data in which the number of display pages is increased by 1 is stored in each area column of the display coordinate storage unit 7. The display coordinate storage unit 7 when the change of the document type is completed as described above
21, the document type is changed from "document" to "page", and the first to fourth pages of the publication 93000-7 are displayed.

(G) Area group designation When the display is switched in "document" units on the display screen of the output device 1, each design gazette is displayed page by page. When design gazettes are referred to one by one in order of gazette numbers, the first page is sufficient for displaying each gazette, but when it is desired to switch the gazettes while referring to the gazettes by two pages, the "region Specify the group ". For example, when the display coordinate storage unit 7 has the contents shown in FIG.
When the areas corresponding to 3 and 3 and the areas corresponding to the area numbers 2 and 4 are displayed in association with each other, the associated two areas are regarded as one area, as shown in FIG.

The operation of this embodiment when such an association is made will be described below. That is, the user specifies the area on the screen to be associated. That is, the pointing cursor 10
Move 3 Then, when the pointing cursor 103 comes over a specific area on the screen and the "area group designation" item of the display processing menu 104, the mouse button is pressed. Then, the position of the pointing cursor 103 is detected by the X / Y coordinate detection unit 4 and the click detection unit 5, and the detection signal is the menu selection unit 8
Entered in. The menu selection unit 8 sends an association instruction and an area designation to be associated with the publication display control unit 13. This area designation can be designated, for example, associating areas corresponding to area numbers 1 and 3 and associating areas corresponding to area numbers 2 and 4.

The procedure of such association which means designation of the area group will be described below with reference to the flowcharts of FIGS. 25 to 30. 25 to 27, it is assumed that the connectors p, q, and r surrounded by circles are connected to each other, and the parts with the same connector are connected. Also, J, K, M,
La and Ln are variables that mean the number of areas, and area j
Is an area corresponding to the area number indicated by the numerical value of the variable J. First, as shown in FIG. 25, in step 2501, the contents of the lock area storage unit are erased, and in step 2502, the area number stored in the area column of the area group storage unit is erased. Then, in step 2503, the newly designated related areas are stored in order in the area column of the area group storage unit. At this time, the ranking information stored in the area group storage unit is as shown in FIG. Then, in step 2504, the number of areas and the document type currently displayed on the display screen and the document data of the publication displayed in the area 1 are read from the display coordinate storage unit 7. For example, as shown in FIG. 23, the document data of the publication 93000-5 displayed in the area 1 is read from the display coordinate information of the display coordinate storage unit 7. In step 2505 of FIG. 25, 1 is substituted into the variable J, the number of regions currently displayed on the display screen is substituted into the variable K, and the number of regions in which document data has been written is substituted into the variable M.

Next, in step 2506 of FIG. 26, it is referred to whether the area j is included in the area group stored in the area group storage unit. And
If so, in step 2507 it is checked whether there is a check whether the region group containing region j has updated its screen display. For example, as shown in FIG. 5, since the area 1 is included in the area group G1, it is checked whether there is a check indicating whether the screen display of the area group G1 has been updated. If there is a check, the processing after step 2523 is performed. If there is no check, in step 2508, in the variable La,
The number of areas of the area group area including the area j is substituted, and 0 is substituted for the variable Ln. Further, step 25
In 09, 1 is added to Ln, and step 2510
It is confirmed that M = 0 in FIG.
After the processing of steps 2806 to 2807 of step 8, the processing of step 2512 and subsequent steps is performed.

If M = 0 in step 2510, "document processing within the related area group" is executed in step 2511. The details of this processing will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. That is, in step 2801, it is confirmed whether or not the variable Ln = 1. If Ln = 1, in step 2802,
It is determined whether the document type designated by the input means 2 is "document" or "page". Here, if the document type designated by the user is “page”, step 2804
Then, in step 3001 in the flowchart of FIG.
~ 3003 processing is performed. In step 2806, the area having the rank indicated by the numerical value of Ln in the area group including area j (described as the corresponding group in the drawing) is set as the target area. Here, the target area is an area in which the document data of the relevant document is written. Since Ln = 1 here, for example, in the case of the area group G1 in FIG. 5, it is the first area. Further, in step 2807, in the target area,
The document data of the relevant document is written. If the document type designated by the user is "document" in step 2802, the process of step 2806 and the subsequent steps of step 2806 in the flowchart of FIG. 29 are performed in step 2803.

Further, in step 2801, Ln
If = 1 is not satisfied, in step 2805, the processes of 3001 to 3003 in the flowchart of FIG.
The processing from step 2806 is performed. That is,
The document data of the relevant document is written in the second and subsequent areas.

Further, in step 2512 of FIG. 26, 1 is added to the variable M indicating the number of written areas. In step 2513, the document indicated by the document data written in the target area is set as the next relevant document. Then, in step 2514, the variable Ln indicating the number of regions of the target region is compared with the variable La indicating the number of regions in the designated region group, and when Ln <La, that is, in the designated region group, If there is an area in which the document data has not been written, the processing from step 2509 is repeated. Also, Ln <La
If not, that is, if the document data has been written to all the areas in the specified area group,
In step 2515, it is checked that the designated area group in the area group storage unit has been written.
For example, as shown in FIG. 31, “completed” is stored in the check box of the area group G1. Further, in step 2523 of FIG. 27, it is confirmed whether the number of areas currently displayed on the display screen is larger than the variable J and the number of areas in which the document data has been written. That is, it is confirmed whether J <K and M <K. J
If <K and M <K, that is, if there is an unwritten area in the area currently displayed on the display screen, 1 is added to the variable J in step 2524,
The processing from step 2506 onward is repeated. J <K and M
If not K, that is, after the document data is stored in the entire area currently displayed on the display screen, in step 2525, the design is stored in the publication storage unit 10 according to the display coordinate information in the display coordinate storage unit 7. The image information of the publication is read, and the design publication is displayed in each area of the display screen. Then, in step 2526, the screen update check given to each area group in the area group storage unit 14 is erased.

In step 2506, the area j
If is not stored in the designated area group storage unit, it is determined in step 2516 whether the variable M is 0 or not. That is, it is confirmed whether or not there is an area in which the document data has been written. If M = 0 here, there is no area that has already been written, so the document data is written in area j. Then, in step 2521, 1 is added to the variable M, and in step 2522, the document data in the area j is set as the relevant document.

If M = 0 in step 2516, that is, if there is an area in which the document data has been written, in step 2517 the document type designated by the input means 2 is "document" or "page". Is determined. When the document type is "page",
After the processing of step 2901 in the flowchart of FIG. 9, the processing of step 2520 onward in FIG. 25 is performed. When the document type is "document", the processes of steps 251 to 3003 in the flowchart of FIG. 30 are performed, and then the processes of step 2520 and the subsequent steps of FIG. 25 are performed.

FIG. 24 shows a display example of the display screen when the association is performed, and FIG. 23 shows the display coordinate storage unit 7.
It is a figure which shows the content of. For the associated area, the color of the frame and the background of the area of the screen are changed to indicate to the user that the areas are associated with each other.

Further, in the state as shown in FIG. 24 in which the areas 1 and 3 and the areas 2 and 4 are associated with each other, the user designates "display next page" or "display next document" by the input means 2. Thus, the next document or the next page of the document displayed in each area can be displayed. For example, in FIG.
When the "next document display" is designated in such a state and the processing is completed, the contents of the display coordinate storage unit 7 become as shown in FIG. Further, as shown in FIG. 44 (d), when the portion surrounded by a thick line is associated as an area group, the next document is displayed as shown in the figure.

In order to display the next document or the next page at the time of associating the areas, the display processing menu 104 of "display the next document" and "display the next page" is selected after the above-described area group designation operation. do. Then, the subsequent procedure will be described below with reference to the flowcharts of FIGS. In addition, in these flowcharts, it is assumed that the connectors s, t, and u surrounded by circles are integrally connected, and the parts with the same connector are connected. In addition, the same variables as in FIG. 25 have the same meaning.

First, in step 3301, the number of areas currently displayed on the display screen is read from the display coordinate storage unit 7. In step 3302, 1 is substituted for the variable J, and the number of areas currently displayed on the display screen is substituted for the variable K.

Then, in step 3303 of FIG. 34, it is judged whether or not the area j is the lock area. If it is the lock area, 1 is further added to J in step 3304,
Return to step 3303. In step 3303, region j
If is not a lock area, then in step 3305 area j
Is included in the associated region group. If so, step 330.
At 6, it is checked if there is a check to see if the region group screen display including region j has been updated. If there is a check, the processes from step 3320 are performed.
If there is no check, in step 3307, the number of regions of the region group including the region j (hereinafter referred to as the relevant region group) is substituted into the variable La, and 0 is substituted into the variable Ln. Then, in step 3308, among the documents displayed in the regions included in the relevant region group, the document having the last display order and the largest display page is set as the relevant document. Further, in step 3309, 1 is added to Ln, and “document processing in the related area group” is performed in step 3310. The details of this processing are the same as the flowchart in FIG. Then, in step 3311 of FIG. 34, the document indicated by the document data written in the target area is set as the next relevant document. And then step 3312
In, the variable Ln indicating the number of regions of the target region is compared with the variable La indicating the number of regions in the designated region group, and when Ln <La, that is, writing of the document data in the designated region group. If there is an area that has not been processed, the processing from step 3306 is repeated. If Ln <La is not satisfied, that is, if the document data is written in all the areas in the specified area group, in step 3313,
Checks that the specified area group in the area group storage area has been written.

Furthermore, in step 3320 of FIG. 35, it is confirmed whether or not the number of areas currently displayed on the display screen is larger than the variable J. That is, it is confirmed whether J <K. If J <K, that is, if there is an unwritten area in the area currently displayed on the display screen, step 3321 in step FIG.
At 1, the variable J is incremented by 1, and the processes from step 3303 are repeated. If J <K is not satisfied, that is, after the document data is stored in all areas currently displayed on the display screen, in step 3322, the publication storage unit 10 is operated according to the display coordinate information of the display coordinate storage unit 7.
The image information of the design gazette is read from, and the design gazette is displayed in each area of the display screen. And step 3323
At, the screen update check given to each area group in the area group storage unit 14 is erased.

If the area j is not included in the associated area group in step 3305 of FIG. 34, then in step 3314 the display coordinate storage unit 7 is displayed.
The document data of the area j is read from. Then, in step 3315, it is determined whether the document type designated by the input means 2 is "document" or "page". If the document type is “page”, the processing of steps 3001 to 3003 in the flowchart of FIG. 30 and the processing of step 3318 and subsequent steps of FIG.
Perform processing after 0. When the document type is “document”, step 2901 in the flowchart of FIG.
34, the processing from step 3318 onward in FIG. 34 is performed, and then the processing from step 3320 onward in FIG. 35 is performed.

Further, in the state as shown in FIG. 24 in which the areas 1 and 3 and the areas 2 and 4 are associated with each other, the user designates “whole document turning” by the input means 2 and displays in each area. The entire document can be turned over. For example, turning over of the entire document in this case is performed as shown in FIG. Figure 44
The part surrounded by the thick line in (e) is associated as a region group. In order to turn over the entire document at the time of associating the regions, the display processing menu 104 of "turning over the entire document" is selected after the above-described region group designation operation. Then, the procedure after that,
6 to 38, a description will be given below. In addition, in these flowcharts, it is assumed that the connectors v, w, and x surrounded by circles are integrally connected, and the portions with the same connector are connected. In addition, the same variables as in FIG. 25 have the same meaning.

First, in step 3601, the number of areas currently displayed and the document type are read from the display coordinate storage unit 7. In step 3602, 1 is substituted into the variable J, and the number of regions currently displayed on the display screen is substituted into the variable K. Further, in step 3603, it is determined whether the document type designated by the input means 2 is "document" or "page".

If the document type is "document", in step 3604, the last design order is searched from the design gazettes currently displayed, and this is determined to be the relevant document, and then step 3606 is executed. Proceed to. If the document type is “page”, in step 3605, the document having the lowest display order and the largest display page among the currently displayed documents is set as the relevant document, and the process proceeds to step 3606.

Then, in step 3606 of FIG. 37, it is determined whether or not the area j is the lock area. If it is the lock area, 1 is further added to J in step 3607,
Return to step 3606. In step 3606, region j
If is not a lock area, then in step 3608, area j
Is included in the associated region group. If yes, step 360
At 9, it is confirmed whether there is a check as to whether the area group screen display including the area j has been updated. If there is a check, the processes from step 3621 are performed. If there is no check, in step 3610, the variable L
The number of regions of the region group including the region j (hereinafter referred to as the relevant region group) is substituted into a, and 0 is substituted into the variable Ln. Then, in step 3611, 1 is added to Ln, and "document processing within the related area group" is performed in step 3612. The details of this processing are the same as those in the flowchart of FIG. Then, in step 3613 of FIG. 37, the document indicated by the document data written in the target area is set as the next relevant document. Then, in step 3614,
The variable Ln indicating the number of regions of the target region is compared with the variable La indicating the number of regions in the designated region group, and Ln <L
In the case of a, that is, when there is an area in which the document data is not written in the specified area group, the processing from step 3611 is repeated. If Ln <La is not satisfied, that is, if the document data is written in all the areas in the specified area group, in step 3615, it is checked whether the specified area group in the area group storage unit has been written. do.

Further, the processing after step 3621 of FIG. 38 is performed, but since this is the same procedure as the flowchart of FIG. 35, its explanation is omitted.

In step 3618, the area j
If is not included in the associated area group, the processing from step 3616 is performed, but since this is the same as the flowchart from step 3315 in FIG. 34, description thereof will be omitted.

(3) Effect of Embodiment According to this embodiment as described above, the design gazette displayed in all the areas of the display screen can be switched by a single operation of pointing with the mouse. , Work efficiency is good. Further, if a specific region is designated as a region group, the design publication displayed in the designated region can be switched with a single operation of instructing with a mouse, so that work efficiency is good.

Further, by designating a specific area as the lock area, it is possible to switch the design publications displayed in other areas while holding the design publication displayed in the designated area. Therefore, it is convenient when the design described in a specific publication and the design described in another publication are compared and referenced to find a similar design.

(4) Other Embodiments The present invention is not limited to the embodiments described above, and it is possible to appropriately switch each part. For example,
As shown in FIG. 39, the search unit 12 may not be provided.
Further, if it is not necessary to specify the lock area, the lock area processing unit need not be provided. The information storage unit in FIG. 39 corresponds to the display information storage unit according to claim 1, and the information display control unit corresponds to the information control unit according to claim 1.

As the document displayed on the display screen of the output device 1, documents having various contents can be used. When information as shown in FIG. 40 is stored in the display information storage means,
The display coordinate information stored in the display coordinate storage means is as shown in FIG.
The display order information stored in the display order storage means is as shown in FIG. Examples of such document switching patterns are shown in FIGS. 43 and 44. The circled numbers in the figure correspond to the area numbers.

Further, in the above embodiment, the pointing area 103 is moved by operating the mouse to specify the lock area and the area to be associated with the input means 2.
This is done by pressing the mouse button when the item 3 comes on the display processing menu 104 to be designated. However, there are cases where it is desirable to distinguish between the processing when the mouse button operation is performed once and the processing when the mouse button operation is performed twice. As described above, when it is desired to provide the mouse operation with various functions, the operation for specifying the area may be different from that in the embodiment. For example, the area can be designated by moving the pointing cursor 103 to a specific area and moving the pointing sol 103 while pressing the mouse button. It is also possible to input the area number from the keyboard and specify the area.

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As described above, according to the present invention, the display information switching device is provided with the display order storage means, the display coordinate storage means, the area group processing means, and the lock area processing means. When switching information displayed in a plurality of areas, the user does not have to make much switching designation, and a display information switching device with high work efficiency can be provided.

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FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of an embodiment of a display information switching device according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of stored contents of a display coordinate storage unit in the display information switching device shown in FIG.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of contents stored in a publication storage unit in the display information switching device shown in FIG.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of stored contents of a publication display order storage unit in the display information switching device shown in FIG.

5 is a diagram showing an example of stored contents of an area group storage unit in the display information switching device shown in FIG.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing a main processing flow of the display information switching device shown in FIG.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing an initial state of a display screen in the display information switching device shown in FIG.

8 is a flowchart showing a flow of a region division changing process of the display information switching device shown in FIG.

9 is a flowchart showing a flow of a next document reading process in the flowchart of FIG.

10 is a diagram showing an example in which the display screen in the display information switching device shown in FIG. 1 is divided into four areas and displayed.

11 is a diagram showing an example of stored contents of a display coordinate storage unit in the display information switching device shown in FIG.

12 is a flowchart showing a flow of a next page reading process in the flowchart of FIG.

FIG. 13 is a flowchart showing a flow of a next page display process of the display information switching device shown in FIG.

FIG. 14 is a flowchart showing a flow of a next document display process of the display information switching device shown in FIG.

15 is a flowchart showing the flow of the entire document turning process of the display information switching device shown in FIG.

16 is a diagram showing an example of stored contents of a display coordinate storage unit in the display information switching device shown in FIG.

FIG. 17 is a diagram showing an example of stored contents of a lock area storage unit in the display information switching device shown in FIG. 1.

FIG. 18 is a diagram in which one area of the display screen of FIG. 17 is designated as a lock area.

19 is a diagram showing an example of stored contents of a display coordinate storage unit in the display information switching device shown in FIG.

20 is a diagram showing an example of stored contents of a display coordinate storage unit in the display information switching device shown in FIG.

21 is a diagram showing an example of stored contents of a display coordinate storage unit in the display information switching device shown in FIG.

22 is a flowchart showing the flow of a document type changing process of the display information switching device shown in FIG.

23 is a diagram showing an example of stored contents of a display coordinate storage unit in the display information switching device shown in FIG.

24 is a diagram associating two areas of the display screen of FIG.

25 is a flowchart showing the flow of this processing of the processing for associating areas between the areas in the display information switching device shown in FIG. 1 (steps 2501 to 2505).

FIG. 26 is a flowchart showing the flow of this processing of the processing for associating areas in the display information switching device shown in FIG. 1 (steps 2506 to 2522).

27 is a flowchart showing the flow of this processing of the processing for associating areas between the areas in the display information switching device shown in FIG. 1 (steps 2523 to 2526).

28 is a flowchart showing the flow of document display processing within a related area group in the flowchart shown in FIG. 25.

FIG. 29 is a flowchart showing the flow of document reading processing in the flowchart shown in FIG. 25.

30 is a flowchart showing the flow of page reading processing in the flowchart shown in FIG. 25.

FIG. 31 is a diagram showing an example of stored contents of a region group storage section in the display information switching device shown in FIG. 1.

32 is a diagram showing an example of stored contents of a display coordinate storage unit in the display information switching device shown in FIG.

33 is a flowchart (steps 3301 to 3302) showing a flow of next page or next document display processing at the time of area association in the display information switching device shown in FIG.

34 is a flowchart showing a flow of a next page or next document display process at the time of area association in the display information switching device shown in FIG. 1 (steps 3303 to 3319).

FIG. 35 is a flowchart showing steps of a next page or next document display process at the time of area association in the display information switching device shown in FIG. 1 (steps 3320 to 3323).

FIG. 36 is a flowchart showing the flow of the entire document turning process at the time of area association in the display information switching device shown in FIG. 1 (steps 3601 to 605).

37 is a flowchart showing the flow of the entire document turning process at the time of area association in the display information switching device shown in FIG. 1 (steps 3606 to 3620).

38 is a flowchart showing the flow of the entire document turning process at the time of area association in the display information switching device shown in FIG. 1 (steps 3621 to 3624).

FIG. 39 is a block diagram showing the configuration of another embodiment of the display information switching device according to the present invention.

FIG. 40 is a diagram showing an example of stored contents of a display information storage means in the display information switching device of the present invention.

FIG. 41 is a diagram showing an example of stored contents of a display coordinate storage means in the display information switching device of the present invention.

FIG. 42 is a diagram showing an example of stored contents of a display order storage means in the display information switching device of the present invention.

FIG. 43 is a diagram showing an example of switching the document displayed on the display screen in the display information switching device of the present invention.

FIG. 44 is a diagram showing an example of switching documents at the time of area association in the display information switching device of the present invention.

FIG. 45 is a diagram showing an example of a display screen in a conventional display information switching device.

FIG. 46 is a diagram showing an example of a display screen in a conventional display information switching device.

FIG. 47 is a diagram showing an example of a display screen in a conventional display information switching device.

FIG. 48 is a diagram showing an example of a display screen in a conventional display information switching device.

FIG. 49 is a diagram showing an example of a display screen in a conventional display information switching device.

FIG. 50 is a diagram showing an example of a display screen in a conventional display information switching device.

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 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Output device 2 ... Input device 3 ... I / O control circuit 4 ... X / Y coordinate detection part 5 ... Click detection part 6 ... Input command control part 7 ... Display coordinate storage part 8 ... Menu selection part 9 ... Area instruction detection Part 10 ... Publication storage unit 11 ... Publication display order storage unit 12 ... Search unit 13 ... Publication display control unit 14 ... Region group processing unit 15 ... Lock region processing unit 16 ... Publication region generating unit 17 ... Display drive control unit 101 ... Region 102 ... Design Bulletin 103 ... Pointing Cursor 104 ... Display Processing Menu 601 and Later ... Each Step of Procedure

Claims (7)

[Claims] 1. A display information storage means for storing a plurality of information to be displayed, an output means having a display screen for displaying desired information of the information divided into a plurality of areas, and the display screen. In the display information switching device, there is provided at least one of the information being displayed, and an input means for giving a switching command for switching to the next information to be displayed among the information stored in the display information storage means. A switching area for designating beforehand which of the plurality of areas the information displayed in the plurality of areas should be switched to the information to be displayed next, which is stored in the display information storage means, when a switching command is input from the means. Designating means, the information to be displayed stored in the display information storage means,
A display order storage unit that stores order information that determines the order in which the display screen is displayed, and the information to be displayed stored in the display information storage unit,
Display coordinate storage means that stores coordinate information that determines which area of the display screen is displayed, and information that is being displayed in the area designated by the switching area designation means in accordance with the input of a switching command from the input means. To
A display information switching device comprising display control means for switching to information to be displayed next, which is stored in the display information storage means, based on the order information and the coordinate information. 2. The switching area designation means is area group designation means for designating a plurality of areas selected from all areas as an area group, and information displayed in the plurality of areas related to the designated area group. 2. The display information switching device according to claim 1, further comprising area group processing means for interlocking all of the above and switching to the information to be displayed next stored in the display information storage means. 3. The lock area designating means is a lock area designating means for designating at least one area selected from all areas as a lock area for suppressing switching of information displayed in the area. 2. The display information switching device according to claim 1, further comprising lock area processing means for suppressing switching of information being displayed in the lock area. 4. The display information switching device according to claim 1, wherein the information to be displayed stored in the display information storage means is a plurality of documents having at least one page. 5. The display information switching device according to claim 1, wherein the information to be displayed stored in the display information storage means is at least one document having a plurality of pages. 6. The display control means, in accordance with the input of the switching command from the input means, displays the document or page being displayed in the area designated by the switching area designating means on the basis of the order information and the coordinate information. 5. The switching is performed so as to totally replace the document to be displayed next stored in the display information storage means.
Alternatively, the display information switching device according to claim 5. 7. The display control means, in response to the input of the switching command from the input means, displays the document or page being displayed in the area designated by the switching area designating means on the basis of the order information and the coordinate information. 6. The display information switching device according to claim 4 or 5, wherein the display information switching means is switched so as to be sequentially fed depending on a document or page to be displayed next stored in the display information storage means.