JPH0782310B2 - Text display - Google Patents

Description

Description: TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to a sentence display control for a sentence that displays a state of a copying machine, a facsimile, a word processor, a printer, etc. (hereinafter, simply referred to as “copying machine, etc.”) and an instruction of its operation. You can change the display language without changing the software,
The present invention relates to a text display device capable of revising the content of a displayed text.

[Background technology]

As a text display device, for example, a display section including a text display tube is provided in the console section of a copying machine or the like, and a text (message) stored as a character code string in the message ROM of the text display control section is copied. It has been proposed to select a sentence indicating a state of a machine or the like and an instruction for its operation based on a program of a control ROM, and display the selected sentence on a display unit of a console unit.

"For example, according to Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 58-132789, a display device having a memory storing a sentence is stored separately from the device operating program. The display sentence stored in this memory is the sentence number, The display format of the text and the code indicating the number of characters are configured as a series together with the text.

If the language or content of the sentence to be displayed is changed, this memory may be replaced, and thus a highly compatible sentence display device can be provided.

However, when using such a text memory,
As the display format of sentences further diversifies and the number of characters increases, the memory capacity increases, so if you try to answer commonly to the demands of different operators in each country, you cannot ignore the difference in the required memory capacity. After all, there was a problem that practical compatibility would be lost. [Practical Example] Hereinafter, the text display device of the present invention will be described in detail.

FIG. 1 shows a first embodiment of the present invention. The sentence display device of the present invention comprises a device control unit 1, a sentence display control unit 2 having a state determination control unit 3, a state storage unit 4 and a sentence storage unit 5, and a sentence display unit 6. Equipment control unit 1
Controls the operation of electronic devices such as copiers, and operates (for example, paper jam, insufficient transfer paper, insufficient toner, etc.)
Alternatively, a control signal (hereinafter referred to as a status signal) according to an operation instruction (for example, setting of the number of copies, setting of a reduction ratio, etc.)
Is output. The text display control unit 2 is for instructing a text to be displayed to the text display unit 6 in response to the status signal, and the status determination control unit 3 receives the status signal and determines the status. Based on this determination result, the state storage means 4
Detects the sentence number of the displayed sentence corresponding to that state,
Next, the display sentence corresponding to the detected sentence number is selected from the sentence storage means 5 and output to the sentence display unit 6 to display the selected display sentence. As described above, the sentence display control unit 2 is divided into three means, and the state determination control means 3 determines the state based on the state signal by the state determination means 7 and displays it by the sentence number detection means 8. The sentence number of the sentence to be detected is detected, the sentence corresponding to the sentence number is selected by the sentence selecting means 9, the output instruction is given by the display instructing means 10, and the state storing means 4 selects the sentence to be displayed according to the state. As one case, the sentences to be displayed, which are prepared for the number of cases, are stored as sentence numbers.
Further, the text storage means 5 stores a text group to be displayed and a series of numbers defined for each text, that is, a text number.

FIG. 2 shows a second embodiment of the present invention. This configuration is the first
It differs from the configuration shown in the figure in that the state storage means stores the output format together with the sentence number and that the state determination control means has the output format detection means 17. The output format controls the display format of sentences in the following cases. That is, there may be a case where two or more sentences are required to be displayed according to the state of the device, or the type of the displayed sentence may be changed depending on the skill level of the operator. In addition, the display time and the number of times of display may be changed depending on the importance of the state. The display method of such a display text can be selected according to the state of the device by the output format detected by the output format detection means 17.

As in the case of FIG. 1, the state is discriminated by the state signal from the device control section 1. State storage means based on this determination result
From 13, the sentence number of the displayed sentence corresponding to the state is detected, and the output form detection means 17 detects the output form. The displayed text corresponding to the detected text number is stored in the text storage means 14
The selected display text is output to the text display unit 6 so as to be displayed in the detected output format.

In the above description, the state determination control means 7, 15 determines the state based on the state signal, but if the state signal is a state-determined signal, the state is displayed in the sentence display control unit 2, 11. It is not necessary to provide a judgment means.

The configuration described above is the same as the device control unit 1 and the text display control unit 2 and 11.
And the text display control unit 2, 11 to separate the text storage means 5,
14, state storage means 4, 13 and state determination control means 3, 12 are provided, and the state determination control means 3, 12 and sentence storage means are provided.
5,14 are accessed by the sentence number of the state storage means 4,13 (ac
It is characterized by the fact that it is possible.

FIG. 3 shows an embodiment in which the configuration shown in FIG. 1 is embodied. A text display section 22 provided on a console 21 of the copying machine 20 and a copying machine control section (microcomputer) 23 for controlling the copying machine 20, A sentence display control unit 24 that inputs a status signal of the control unit 23 and outputs a display signal corresponding to the control signal, and a predetermined sentence on the display unit 22 of the console 21 based on the display signal of the sentence display control unit 24. It has a drive unit 25 for displaying. The copier control unit 23 includes an input / output interface 26, a program ROM 27, and a calculation C.
It is composed of a PU 28 and a microcomputer having a RAM 29 for storing the calculation result, and outputs the sensor signal from the copying machine 20 and the console 21.
A control signal for controlling the operation of the copying machine 20 and a status signal corresponding to the state of the copying machine 20 are output by inputting an operation signal from the. The text display control unit 24 is an input / output port 31 that takes in a status signal internally, a status determination control unit 32 that determines the status from the status signal and controls the text display, a text group to be displayed and a text that is defined for each text. Text storage means 33a for storing numbers
And a state ROM 33b for storing the sentence number of the sentence to be displayed for each display unit, and, for example, 5
It has a character generator 34 which has a lit dot of × 7 and generates a character pattern of a displayed sentence. In this embodiment, the text storage means 33a and the state storage means 33b are the same text.
Although the storage areas are made different by using the ROM 33, they may be provided by different ROMs. Further, the drive unit 25 is controlled by the timing signal of the timing counter 38 and outputs the drive signal corresponding to the character pattern of the character generator 34, and the X-driver 40 which makes the display panel 22 dot-light by the drive signal.
And a decoder 41 for developing a timing signal and outputting a drive signal according to dynamic lighting, and a Y-driper 42 for dynamically displaying a character pattern of the character generator 34 based on the drive signal of the decoder 41.

The state determination control means 32 of the sentence display control unit 24 processes a state signal, a sentence control ROM 35 that stores a program that determines a displayed sentence and the like, and a CPU 36 that executes and executes this program,
The output RAM 37 stores the calculation result.
The text control ROM 35 is composed of three modules, a real time monitor 43, a case selection module 44 and a display module 45 shown in FIG. 4, and the real time monitor 43 is: 1. Status signal reception and inspection 2. Text control software Management of operation time 3. Management of text output time 4. Self-test at power-on of copier, case selection module 44 1. Determining output case for copier status or operator operation 2. Determining output text 3. The display module 45 stores the programs for controlling the output time 1. Reading the text from the text storage means 2. Controlling the output to the text display section.

FIGS. 5A to 5G show the structure of the text ROM 33 storing the text storage means and the state storage means.

FIG. 5 (a) is a memory map of the entire text ROM 33, and the management unit 46, the state storage means (hereinafter referred to as a case table) 47, and the text storage means 48 have separate storage areas. . FIG. 5B shows the management unit 46, which includes a total storage message number area 461 for storing the number of displayed sentences and a case table provided for each display unit for instructing the state of the copying machine and its operation. The case table has a start LOW address storage area 462 for storing the start LOW address and a text storage area start address storage area 463 for storing the start address of the area in which the displayed text is stored.

In this example, the sentences are divided into storage areas according to the number of characters, and the region 464 stores the minimum sentence number of 41-60 character sentences, and the region 465 stores the minimum sentence number of 61-80 character sentences.

FIG. 5C shows a single case table, and area 471.
Stores the sentence number of the displayed sentence corresponding to the state.
This case table is displayed according to the state of the copying machine, that is, the number of case tables is facilitated. For example, if the number of displayed sentences corresponding to the state of the copying machine is 120, then 120 case tables are provided.

5 (c), (d), (f), and (g) show the structure of the sentence storage unit 48, and the sentence display unit 22 has a limit in the number of characters that can be displayed. It is divided into areas according to the information and stored. FIG. 5D shows the sentence storage means 49 for 1 to 40 character sentences. The displayed sentence group is stored for each sentence, and each sentence is given a serial number, that is, a sentence number. In order to reduce the number of sentences to be stored, a sentence in which a part of the sentence is blank is also stored so that it can be rewritten by an input signal from the console 21. For example, as shown in Fig. 5 (e), in the case of a sentence that displays the reduction ratio, "Enlarged copy of ---% is possible.
A sentence in which the reduction ratio portion is blank, such as "Please press the start button" is stored, and the reduction ratio signal input from the console 21, for example, 141 (%) can be written in the blank portion. The text storage means 49 shown in FIG. 5 (d) is composed of areas 491 and 493 for storing a 5-bit rewrite start byte position, areas 492 and 494 for storing a 3-bit rewrite byte number, and an area of 20 bytes each. 40 characters of block 0,1 Message character part 495,4
Has 96. The upper areas 491 and 492 are block 0 of the area 495.
The lower areas 493 and 494 control the block 1 of the area 496. FIG. 5 (e) shows an example of the control, and area 495
Rewriting start byte position of block 0 of is area 49
The number of rewriting bytes (3 bytes) is determined by the code (011) of the area 492. (F) and (G) show the message storage units 50 and 51 of a 60-character sentence and an 80-character sentence.

The above-mentioned sentence numbers are a series of consecutive numbers assigned to each sentence, and one sentence number corresponds to one sentence. When it is possible to display in multiple languages, for example, Japanese for copiers for Japan and English for copiers for the United States, even if sentences with the same meaning differ in languages. Assign the same sentence number. This is because this sentence display device uses the sentence number as the access means, and if the sentence number is the same even if the language changes,
This is because display is possible without changing the state determination control means and the case table.

Next, the operation of the text display device shown in this embodiment will be described with reference to the flowchart in FIG.

When a sensor signal indicating the state is input from the sensor of the copying machine 20 to the copying machine control unit 23, a state signal corresponding to the state is output to the text display control unit 24 while being synchronized by the transfer synchronization signal (information). Received). If there is no abnormality due to noise or the like in the reception of this status signal, it is judged to be normal in the reception information inspection. The status signal is the sentence control RO of the control unit 24.
The case is processed by the CPU 36 based on the program of M35 and the case corresponding to the status signal is determined. When it is determined that this case is different from the previous case, the case table (FIG. 5C) of the case is read from the text ROM 33 to the output RAM 37. The output RAM 37 is composed of an edit RAM and a display RAM. The reading of the case table is performed by determining the address determined based on the storage of the area 462 of the management unit 46. Case determination and management table described above 46
On the basis of the storage of the area 463, the text storage address of the text storage area 48 is calculated from the text number of the case table. The corresponding sentence is read out to the edit RAM based on the calculation result. Next, after setting the timer that determines the display time, display RA
When the character code of the sentence is sent from M to the character generator 34, the character generator 34 generates a character pattern, which is read and taken into the shift register 39. The shift register 39 drives the X-driver 40, and the Y-driver 42 controls the dynamic lighting so that the sentence is displayed on the display unit 22 for the display time determined.

Next, an embodiment in which the configuration of FIG. 2 is embodied will be described with reference to FIGS.

In this embodiment, the output format can be changed according to the state of the device.

As the output format, the text to be displayed is: a. Standard text that is output according to the operator's operation or the status of the equipment (hereinafter, initial message) b. More detailed equipment status or operator's operation for the initial message There are three types of sentences (hereinafter, help message) that explain in more detail to c. There are three types of sentences (hereinafter, diagnostic message) for the diagnostic tests provided on the device for maintenance and inspection, and the display format is , A. A form in which sentences with more characters than the maximum number of characters that can be displayed in the sentence display area are divided and displayed in units of the number of displayable characters (hereinafter
Scroll display) b. In the case where there are two or more sentences to be displayed for each state, there are two types of forms in which those sentences are alternately displayed (hereinafter, alternate display).

FIG. 7 is an embodiment based on the configuration shown in FIG. 2, and is provided with a text display unit 22, a copying machine control unit 23, and a drive unit 25, and the details are the same as in FIG. To do. The same components as those in FIG. 3 are designated by the same reference numerals.

The text display control unit 52 includes an input / output port 31 that takes in a status signal internally, a text control ROM 53 that stores a program that processes the status signal and determines the text number of the displayed text, a case table, and a predetermined display. A text ROM 54 that stores a text in the form of a character code string, and a status signal is processed based on the program of the text control ROM 53, and the text is based on an address determined from the text number of the text according to the state of the copier 20. Is read from the text ROM 54, and is read from the text ROM 54 with the CPU 55 that determines its display mode (for example, the display format of whether to display at once or scroll display, display timing, display time limit, etc.). Edited RAM 56 that edits the displayed text into a display text, display RAM 57 that stores the display text edited by the edit RAM 56 for display, and prevent different display texts from being displayed continuously. Non-display timer 58 to eliminate the Midzura of visual based on the afterimage by
And a character generator 34 which has, for example, 5 × 7 lighting dots and which generates a character pattern of a displayed sentence based on the stored contents of the display RAM 57. Unlike FIG. 3, the text control ROM 53 has a program for setting the output format in the case selection module described above, and the text ROM 54 accommodates the output format together with the text number of the displayed text for each case. The console 21 also has a help button 65 for requesting a help message.

8A to 8E show the structure of the text ROM 54.
(A) shows the whole memory map, and the management section 59,
It has a case table 60, a diagnostic table section 61, a help tree table 62, a message storage section 63, and a checksum 64. Hereinafter, each will be described. (B) shows the management unit 59, which stores a total memory message number area 591 for storing the number of displayed sentences and a start LOW address of a case table provided for each case instructing the state of the copying machine and its operation. Case table ・ Start LOW address storage area 592 and diagnostic table that stores the sentence number of the diagnostic sentence provided for each diagnostic mode required for maintenance of the copying machine etc. ・ Diagnostic table that stores the start address of the table Table start address storage area 593 and help tree table start address storage area 594 that stores the start address of the help tree table that stores the sentence number of the help sentence displayed when the operator turns on the help button 65
And a message storage area for storing the start address of the area in which the displayed text is stored, and a start address storage area 595 and the minimum text number of the text of 41 to 60 characters 6
0-character message minimum number storage area 596, 80-character message minimum number storage area 597 that stores the minimum sentence number of a sentence of 61 to 80 characters, and help that stores the maximum number of layers determined by the number of times the Help button 65 is turned on -Has a tree maximum layer number storage area 598 and an empty byte 599. (C) shows a case table provided for each case in which the state of the copying machine and the instruction of its operation are determined based on the program of the text control ROM 53, and the area 601 stores the initial sentence number of the displayed sentence corresponding to the case. The area 602 stores the type of the alternate format (a format in which a plurality of sentences are alternately displayed), and the area 603 is a display based on the number of times the operator turns on the help button 65 according to the state of the copying machine. The number of sentence layers defining a sentence is stored, an area 604 stores an alternate sentence number that is displayed in an alternate manner instead of an initial sentence, and an area 605 is a help tree pointer that specifies a help tree table described later. Remember. As the output type stored in the area 602, as shown in (d), a fixed display (displaying only the initial sentence) when the lower 3 bits are “000” and an alternate · 1 display (when displaying “001”) ( Initial, alternate 2
Alternate output for 60 seconds with message) and "01
There is a display of alternate 2 when the value is "0" (alternate output is performed three times with two messages, initial and alternate), and as the output after the completion of alternate display, the upper 1 bit is " The initial sentence when "0" is set, and the alternate sentence when the upper 1 bit is "1" is set as the display sentence at the end of alternate. (F) shows the diagnostic table 61 for indexing the diagnostic message numbers, each diagnostic case 0,1,
The message number corresponding to 2 ... n is stored.
(G) indicates the help tree table 62, in which the sentence numbers of the sentences corresponding to the number of times the help button 65 is turned on are in layers 1, 2, ...
A storage area 621 for storing the message number of the help text that is first output in each layer and a text number storage area 622 for the text that outputs the help text and the alternate output are provided.

FIG. 8 (h) (ri) (nu) (ru) shows the text storage section,
Its structure is similar to that shown in FIGS. 5 (d), (f) and (g).

In addition, (e) shows the mutual relation of each area described above.
Since these are self-explanatory from the drawings, their description is omitted.

9 and 10 show a text display format, FIG. 9 shows a scroll system, and FIG. 10 shows an alternate system. The scrolling method uses multiple display sentences when the display sentence exceeds a predetermined number of characters (for example, 40 characters).
For example, it is divided into two and displayed in a time-sharing manner.
"LIFT GREEN HANDLE ON LEFT SIDE AND OPEN COPIER
(Please raise the green handle to the left to open the copier) "is displayed as" LIFT GREEN HANDLE ON LEFT
"SIDE AND →" and "OPEN COPIER" divided into 4 each
It is displayed every second. The alternate method is "READY TO ENLARGE ... 141% PUSH" START "(141% enlarged copy is possible. Press the start button)"
The first sentence, that is, the initial sentence and "SMALLER COPY
The second sentence "PAPER COULD BE USED" (the copy paper can be made smaller), that is, the alternate sentence, is alternately displayed for 4 seconds.

Figure 11 (a) (b) shows two alternate formats,
(A) is the display of the above-mentioned Alternate.
Sentence 1 and second sentence 2 are alternately displayed three times for 4 seconds each, and either sentence 1 or 2 is finally fixedly displayed, and (b) is the above-mentioned alternate-1 display. After alternately displaying the sentences 1 and 2 for 4 seconds each for 60 seconds, either sentence 1 or 2 is finally fixedly displayed. As shown in the figure, in (a), (a) is the case where both the first and second sentences 1 and 2 are 40 characters or less, and (b) is the case where both the sentences 1 and 2 are both larger than 40 characters. Further, (c) is the case where the first sentence 1 is 40 characters or less and the second sentence 2 exceeds 40 characters (MSG is an abbreviation of message and meaning of sentence). In (b) and (c), if each sentence exceeds 40 characters, it is displayed by the scroll method. In case of (b),
Since it is more obvious than the case (a), the description is omitted. In addition to these (a) and (b), the alternate format may be such that, for example, the alternate display for 4 minutes or the display of a certain state is continuously continued until the states of a plurality of machines change. This alternate format is stored in the area 602 of FIG. 8C.

12 (a)-(d) show the help format. This help format is a format for displaying a detailed explanation of the method of action when the action for the device state cannot be understood only by the initial sentence or alternate sentence, and depending on the skill level of the operator, the display is required. Since it may or may not be set, the display is started by pressing the help button 65 attached to the console 21 of the copying machine 20.

The displayed texts shown in Fig. 12 (a) to (d) show an example of text output when a paper jam occurs in the copying machine.The text displayed is as follows: Text A: "Please remove the paper in the passage. Pressing the help button will show you how to remedy. "Text B:" Please raise the green handle to the left to open the copier. "Text C:" Remove the paper where the red lamp is lit. Please have a sentence D: "You can remove the paper by turning the No. 3 handle to the right." A sentence E: "Please close the copier and press the start button". The sentence A is an initial sentence that is displayed first for the state of the copying machine, and the sentences B to E are help sentences that are displayed by pressing the help button 65. When a paper jam occurs, sentence A is displayed. If the user does not know what to do in this display, the help button 65 is pressed to display the sentence B, and when the display of the sentence B is finished, the sentence A is displayed again (FIG. 12 (a)). When the help button 65 is pressed again, the sentence C is displayed, and then the sentence A is displayed again (Fig. 12 (b)). If the operator does not understand the treatment in sentences A to C, he presses the help button 65 (third time)
The sentence D is displayed, and then the sentence A (Fig. 12 (C)),
Furthermore, when the 4th help button 65 is pressed, sentence E is displayed. Since there is no help sentence after that, the help display is sentence E.
Is displayed (Fig. 12 (d)).

As described above, the help format is configured such that the help sentence displayed by the help button 65 can be changed according to the number of imprints, and the area 603 of the case table unit 60 shown in FIG. , The number of help layers, that is, the number of times the help button is pressed, and the area 605, the help tree table pointer, that is, the sentence number of the sentence displayed according to the pressing circuit, are stored. Based on this case table, the help tree table is stored. The help text stored in the section 62 is displayed.

Operation of the text display device based on the above configuration No. 13
The operation will be described below with reference to the flowchart in the figure.

When a sensor signal indicating the state is input from the sensor of the copying machine 20 to the copying machine control unit 23, a state signal corresponding to the state is output to the text display control unit 52 while being synchronized by the transfer synchronization signal (information). Received). If there is no abnormality due to noise or the like in the reception of this status signal, it is judged to be normal in the reception information inspection. The status signal is the sentence control RO of the control unit 52.
The case is processed by the CPU 55 based on the program of M53 and the case corresponding to the status signal is determined. When it is determined that this case is different from the previous case, the case table (Fig. 8 (c)) of the case is read from the text ROM 54 to the editing RAM 56, and at the same time, the help of the area 605 of the case table. The help tree table (FIG. 8 (g)) is read out to the editing RAM 56 by the table pointer. The reading of the case table and the help tree table is performed by determining the address determined based on the storage in the areas 592 and 594 of the management table (FIG. 8B). The address of the sentence corresponding to the initial sentence number of the region 601 of the case table is determined based on the determination of the case and the storage of the regions 595, 596, 597 of the management unit 59. When the corresponding sentence is read out to the editing RAM 56 based on this determination, the displayed sentence is edited based on the output type 602 of the case table, the help hierarchy number 603, and the rewriting storage contents 631 and 632 of the message storage unit 63. The displayed text is written to the display RAM 57. For example, if the displayed sentence contains an alternate sentence, a 4-second timer for performing alternate display is set (similarly, the 4-second timer is also set when scroll display is required from the number of characters, Also,
When performing alternate display three times, it is counted by the counter). When the 40-character code forming the initial sentence is sent from the display RAM 57 to the character generator 34, the character generator 34 generates a character pattern, which is read and stored in the shift register 39. The shift register 39 drives the X-driver 40,
The Y-driver 42 controls the dynamic lighting so that the initial text is displayed on the display unit 22. Alternate text is displayed when the 4-second timer finishes RAM5
It is read from 7, and is displayed on the display unit 22 in the same manner. Which alternate format of FIG. 11 (a) (b) should be used is the content of the area 602 of the case table (FIG. 8 (d)).
Determined by Further, the content of this area 602 (FIG. 8 (e)) determines the sentence fixedly displayed when the alternate display is completed. Further, the display of the help text shown in FIGS. 12A to 12D is controlled based on the contents of the area 603 of the case table.

When the 4 second timer times out in the alternate display described above, if the first half of a 60 to 80 character sentence is being output, the sentence address is added, for example, 40 is added, and the latter half of the sentence is displayed from the sentence ROM 54 via the edit RAM 56. The data is read out to the RAM 57 and output, and the 4-second timer is newly set. If the 4-second timer times out while the latter half is being output, the address is obtained from the sentence number that is not currently output based on the initial sentence number and alternate sentence number in the case table, and in the same way, from the sentence ROM 54 through the edit RAM 56. display
The data is read out to the RAM 57 and output, and the 4-second timer is newly set.

In this way, the displayed text is displayed in various output formats in accordance with the status signal. Further, referring to FIGS. 8 and 14, the display output routine (FIG. 14 (a)), the text display control unit 52
The time-out routine (FIG. 14 (b)) of the non-display timer 58 and the time-out routine (FIG. 14 (c)) of the message output timer (not shown) will be described. In Fig. 14 (a), the text to be displayed is the text ROM5.
If the data is read from 4 to the edit RAM 56 and there is rewriting, rewriting is performed as shown in FIG. The rewritten display text is written from the edit RAM 56 to the display RAM 57, but before that, a display prohibition command is output to prohibit the display during writing. If the non-display timer 58 is operating when the display text is written in the display RAM 57, the non-display timer 58 and the display prohibition command are immediately cleared and the message output timer is set for 4 seconds. The displayed text is displayed on the display unit 22 for these four seconds. On the other hand, if the non-display timer 58 is not operating when the above-mentioned writing is completed, the non-display timer 58 is set to 250 milliseconds to avoid the influence of the afterimage of the preceding display. When this non-display time of 250 milliseconds elapses, according to Fig. 14 (b),
The message output timer is set. This is done based on the text currently displayed, based on the count value of the alternate counter and the presence / absence of the alternate type. If the text currently displayed is a fixed display of only the initial text, the count value of the alternate counter is 0,
Furthermore, since the alternate type is none (0), the message output timer is not set. In the case of an alternate sentence, the count value of the alternate counter is ≠ 0 and the message output timer is set. In the case of scrolled text, the count value of the alternate counter is = 0, but since the alternate type is ≠ 0, the message output timer is set. Further, in the case of the alternate text and the scroll display text, the count value of the alternate counter is ≠ 0, and similarly the message output timer is set. When the message output timer is set in this way, the display prohibition command is cleared and the process returns to FIG. 14 (a). In addition, Figure 14 (c) shows
It is a flowchart for selecting the sentence to be displayed next,
If the character processing command is checked and the text currently being output is a scroll display text, the character processing command is ≠ 0,
That is, if the text is being output up to 40 characters, 40 is added to the text address in order to index 41 to 80 characters. When the character processing command is = 0, it means that the scroll is finished, and the process moves to the alternate processing routine to determine the text number of the text to be displayed next or the text number of the text to be fixedly displayed.

In the case of an alternate sentence, the character processing command is = 0.
Then, similarly, the process shifts to the alternate processing routine. After this, the process moves to (a) again.

In the sentence display device according to the present invention having the above-mentioned configuration,
For example, in order to be able to display the displayed text in multiple languages such as Japanese, English, French, and German, the text storage means, for example, only the text ROMs 33 and 54 are exchanged for the language of that country, and At this time, all sentences having the same meaning are given the same sentence number. When revising a sentence, leave the sentence number unchanged and change the sentence. Further, when the display text or the output format is changed by changing the specification of the device, only the display text storage means by state is replaced.

That is, since a sentence corresponding to one case is stored with the same sentence number among a plurality of sentence ROMs stored in each country's language, the CPUs 36 and 55 execute a single program of the sentence control ROMs 35 and 53. You can use it, and if you want to display in the desired language,
You can exchange it for the text ROM of that language.

Also, the help sentence " Please open the copier by raising the handle to the left. ”
Based on the machine specifications For more details, please refer to "Which is in the copier?" "Please remove" Even if you revise it like `` please remove it '', by storing the revised text in the text ROM with the same text number as the text number of the original text, the CPU 36, 55 causes the text control ROM 3
A sentence can be read from the sentence ROM 33, 54 according to a case based on a common program of 5,53.

〔The invention's effect〕

As described above in detail, in the text display device according to the present invention, the device control unit for controlling the copying machine and the text display control unit for controlling the text display are separated, and the text display control unit is the text storage means. A basic configuration is one in which the state storage means and the state determination control means are separated and can be accessed by the sentence storage means and the state determination control means by the sentence number of the state storage means.

According to the present invention, since the displayed text is configured as a partially rewritable blank, for example, it is not necessary to store the text including the numerical value of the magnification according to each magnification of enlargement / reduction, and therefore, it should be stored. Since the number of sentences, that is, the memory capacity can be reduced, the compatibility is not substantially impaired as in the conventional sentence display device.

With this configuration, when the language to be displayed is changed, the displayed text is changed, or the output format is changed, it is sufficient to always replace only the text storage means or the status storage means, and the device control unit or the display control unit. It is possible to provide a text display device having high compatibility and a small number of exchanged parts without having to change the program or the like. Further, by storing the output format in the state storage means in accordance with the sentence to be displayed, the output format can be arbitrarily specified and the display manner can be changed between the sentences according to the state.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a first embodiment of the present invention. Second
The figure is a block diagram showing a second embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 3 is an explanatory view showing the first embodiment in detail. Figure 4 shows the sentence control RO
Explanatory drawing which shows the sentence control of M. 5 (a) to (g) are explanatory views showing the text ROM. FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing the operation of the first embodiment. FIG. 7 is an explanatory view showing the second embodiment in detail. FIGS. 8A to 8E are explanatory views showing the sentence ROM. FIG. 9 is an explanatory diagram showing an output format of the scroll method.
FIG. 10 is an explanatory diagram showing the output format of the alternate system. First
11 (a) and (b) are explanatory views showing two types of alternate systems. 12 (a)-(d) are explanatory diagrams showing the help format. FIG. 13 is a flow chart showing the operation of the second embodiment of the present invention. 14 (a) to (c) show a display output routine,
The flowchart which shows the timeout routine of a non-display timer and a message output timer. Explanation of reference numerals 1 ... device control unit, 2,11 ... text display control unit, 3 ... state determination control means, 4,13 ... state storage means, 5,14 ... text storage means, 6 ... text Display means, 7,15 ... State determination means, 8,16 ... Sentence number detection means, 9 ... Sentence selection means,
10, 19 …… Display instruction means, 17 …… Output format detection means.

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Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A device control section for controlling an electronic device and outputting a status signal according to its status, and a sentence number is selected based on this status signal, and a display pattern signal is generated based on this sentence number. A sentence display control unit for outputting, and a sentence display unit for displaying a display sentence based on this display pattern signal, in a sentence display device for displaying a sentence indicating the state of the electronic device or an instruction of its operation on the display unit, The sentence display control unit determines a case number corresponding to a state signal output from the device control unit, and a state that stores an output type for each case number and a sentence number corresponding to the output type. Storage means, and sentence number detection means for reading out the sentence number corresponding to the output type from the state storage means, corresponding to the case number determined by the state determination means, and A sentence storage unit that stores a display sentence configured as a rewritable blank in association with the sentence number stored in the state storage unit, and from the sentence storage unit based on the sentence number read by the sentence number detection unit. And a sentence selection unit for reading a sentence, and when the sentence read by the sentence selection unit is accompanied by information on a rewritten portion, a blank portion of the read sentence is used as a status signal output from the device control unit. A sentence display device characterized by rewriting based on the above and outputting a display pattern signal based on the completed sentence.