JPH08314620A - Display device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To speedily and easily know the places of respective components displayed on a touch panel screen with guide information. CONSTITUTION: Touch switch functions are assigned to the respective components A-D and the display area for a guide switch H which are displayed on the touch panel screen 17a and when the guide switch H is pressed, the guide information 71 showing the operation procedure, etc., of the respective components A-D is displayed. Then touch switch functions are assigned even to the display areas of the component names 71a-71d of the respective components in the guide information 71, and made to correspond to the respective components A-D on the touch panel screen 17a. For example, when the component name 71a in the guide information 71 is pressed, the component A on the touch panel screen 17a blinks to inform the operator of the place of the component A.

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 displaying guide information of one or more parts displayed on a touch panel screen.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art As a display device used for monitoring and controlling data of FA equipment in a factory, a touch panel type having a touch panel screen to which signals can be directly input by a touch switch is widely adopted.

In a display device having such a touch panel screen, guide information indicating an operating procedure of each component is displayed on the touch panel screen by various methods for an operator or the like.

By the way, as a conventional display method of the guide information in such a display device, there is, for example, the following method.

.. By pressing the guide switch arranged on the touch panel screen, guide information indicating the operation procedure of each part, guide information such as attribute information indicating the attribute of each part, and text including the part name of each part Display with.

[0006] By pressing a guide switch arranged on the touch panel screen, a pop-up window is displayed, and the guide information is displayed in the text on the pop-up window.

[0007]

However, in such a conventional display device, since the guide information indicated by the component name or the like is only displayed in text, the component name described in the guide information is displayed on the touch panel. Which part on the screen corresponds to, or where that part is
However, there is a problem in that it is not possible to quickly recognize such problems and that it is easy to make a mistake in pushing parts.

Particularly, when a large number of parts are present on the touch panel screen of the display device, such a problem tends to occur.

Further, the guide information includes the guide information of each part displayed on the touch panel screen and the attribute information of each part. Therefore, when the attribute information of each part is to be changed, There was also a problem that the entire guide information had to be corrected.

The present invention has been made in view of such a problem, and it is possible to quickly and easily know the location of the component displayed on the touch panel screen by the guide information, and change the attribute of the component. It is an object of the present invention to provide a display device that does not require correction of the entire guide information even in the case.

[0011]

In order to achieve the above object, in the invention according to claim 1, a display device for displaying guide information of one or more parts displayed on the touch panel screen is displayed on the touch panel screen. When the guide switch display means for displaying a guide switch for instructing the display of guide information and the guide switch displayed by the guide switch display means are pressed, the guide information including at least the part name of the part is displayed on the touch panel screen. Guide information display means to be displayed on the top, when any part name display area in the guide information displayed by the guide information display means is pressed, a notification means for notifying the part corresponding to the part name, It is characterized by including.

Further, in the invention according to claim 2, in a display device for displaying guide information of one or more parts displayed on the touch panel screen, a guide switch for instructing display of the guide information on the touch panel screen is provided. When the guide switch display means for displaying, the attribute switch display means for displaying the attribute switch for instructing the display of the attribute information of each part on the touch panel screen, and the guide switch displayed by the guide switch display means are pressed If the guide information display means for displaying the guide information including at least the part name of the part on the touch panel screen and the arbitrary part name display area in the guide information displayed by the guide information display means are pressed ,
An informing means for informing a part corresponding to the part name, and an attribute information display for displaying the attribute information of the pressed part when the above attribute switch is pressed and any one of the above parts is pressed And means.

In the invention according to claim 3, the invention according to claim 1
Alternatively, in the display device according to claim 2, the guide information display means displays the guide information on the touch panel screen and at a position where the guide information does not overlap the position of the component indicating the operation procedure or the like. , Is characterized.

Further, in the invention according to claim 4, in the display device according to claim 1, claim 2 or claim 3,
The attribute information display means is characterized by displaying the attribute information of the component overlaid on the component whose attribute information indicates the attribute.

According to the invention of claim 5, the display device of claim 1, claim 2, claim 3, or claim 4 is a programmable terminal connected to a programmable controller for executing a user program. , Is characterized.

[0016]

According to the present invention, at least one or more parts are displayed on the touch panel screen, and when the part is pressed, guide information including at least the part name of the part is displayed on the touch panel screen. When an arbitrary part name display area in the guide information displayed on the touch panel screen is pressed, the part corresponding to the pressed part name displayed on the touch panel screen is blinked to notify the user. To do.

When the attribute switch for instructing the display of the attribute information of each part displayed on the touch panel screen is pressed and any one of the above parts displayed on the touch panel screen is pressed, The attribute information of the pressed part is displayed separately from the guide information.

[0018]

Embodiments of the display device according to the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 shows the configuration of a display device according to the present invention.

The display device 1 is a programmable terminal (PT) 1 that functions as a display device of a programmable controller (PLC) 2 that controls the operation of switches and sensors by executing a user program.
The programmable controller 2 is connected via the communication cable 4, and the tool terminal 3 is connected via the communication cable 5.

The programmable terminal 1 mainly includes a CPU 11 for controlling display, a program ROM 12 in which an operation program for the CPU 11 is stored, and a work memory 1.
3, a data memory 14, a VRAM 15, and an image data memory 16 in which image data such as parts to be displayed on the touch panel screen, guide information, and attribute information is stored in advance.
And a display unit 17 having a touch panel screen capable of inputting signals by a touch switch assigned to a display area of a part or the like on the touch panel screen, and a signal corresponding to the switch is input to the CPU 11 by pressing the touch switch on the touch panel screen. The input processing unit 18, the PLC interface 19 connected to the PLC 2 and the like via the connection cable 4, and the tool interface 20 connected to the tool terminal 3 via the communication cable 5.

The CPU 11 is configured to mainly function as a guide switch display means, a guide information display means, an informing means, an attribute switch display means, and an attribute information display means by the operation program stored in the program ROM 12. There is.

The tool terminal 3 creates image data such as guide information and attribute information displayed on the display unit 17 of the programmable terminal 1 as will be described later, and sends it to the programmable terminal 1 via the communication cable 5. It is something to download.

FIG. 2 shows a procedure for creating the guide information stored in the image data memory 16.

This guide information is created by the tool terminal 3 connected to the programmable terminal 1,
The tool terminal 3 creates guide information indicating the operation procedure of one or more parts displayed on the touch panel screen of the display unit 17 of the programmable terminal 1 by the part name of each part (step 100). Next, a touch switch (SW) area is designated, that is, a touch switch function is set in the display area of the part name of each part in the created guide information (step 200), and the touch switch is assigned to each display area. It specifies which part displayed on the touch panel screen that has already been created corresponds to the product name (step 300).

Specifically, according to each of the parts A to D displayed on the touch panel screen of the display unit 17, for example, "the part D, the part B, and the part C are not pressed until the part D is valid (pressable). ). ”, The part names of the parts A to D displayed on the touch panel screen are“ part A ”and“ part B ”. , "Part C", "part D", the touch switch function is assigned to the display area, and the touch switch function is set in the display area.
The guide information is completed by designating which of the parts A to D on the touch panel screen that have already been created corresponds to the parts name of.

In this way, the tool terminal 3 creates guide information, and after completing the guide information, downloads the guide information to the image data memory 16 in the programmable terminal 1 via the communication cable 5. Store.

Next, the guide processing in the display device constructed as described above will be described with reference to the drawing of the screen example.

FIG. 3 shows the part A displayed on the display unit 17.
7A to 7G show the touch panel screen 17a where G is displayed.

The touch panel screen 17a displays "Part A
Then, the component D becomes valid (pressable) only after the component B and the component C are pushed, and when the component D is pushed, the component E, the component F, and the component G become valid. Is displayed.

Further, on the touch panel screen 17a, a guide switch H for instructing the display of guide information indicating the operation procedure of the components A to G of each component and an attribute indicating the attribute of the components A to G of each component. The attribute switch I for instructing the display of information is separately displayed.

FIG. 4 shows the touch panel screen 17a when the guide switch H is pressed.

That is, when the guide switch H is pressed,
The guide information 71 indicating the operation procedure of each of the components A to G on the touch panel screen 17a is the touch panel screen 1
A pop-up window, that is, a multi-window type window is formed and displayed on the window 7a at a position where the guide information 71 does not overlap the display position of the parts A to D indicating the operation procedure.

The guide information 71 indicates the operation procedure of each of the parts A to D on the touch panel screen 17a as described above, and as shown in the figure, "part A, part B, part C".
Only when and are pressed, the part D becomes valid (can be pressed). The contents of the guide for each of the parts A to D are shown.

The touch switch function is also assigned to the display areas of the component names 71a to 71d of the components A to D in the guide information 71, so that they can be pressed.

Although not shown in the guide information 71, the guide information 71 further indicates that the part E, the part F, and the part G are valid (pressable) only when the part D is further pressed. It is assumed that the guide contents of the other parts E to F continue.

FIG. 5 shows a state of the touch panel screen 17a when the part name 71a of the part A in the guide information 71 is pressed.

As shown in the drawing, when the part name 71a of the part A in the guide information 71 is pressed, the touch panel screen 1
The part A displayed on 7a blinks to notify the operator of the location of the part A on the touch panel screen 17a.

When the part name 71b of the part B in the guide information 71 is pressed, the part B displayed on the touch panel screen 17a blinks, and further the guide information 7
When the component name 71c of the component C in 1 is pressed, the component C displayed on the touch panel screen 17a blinks,
Further, when the component name 71d of the component D in the guide information 71 is pressed, the component D displayed on the touch panel screen 17a blinks.

Therefore, according to this embodiment, when the part name display area of each part is pressed in the guide information, the part blinks on the touch panel screen 17a to notify the operator of the location of the part. Therefore, it is possible to visually and quickly know where on the touch panel screen 17a the part having the part name displayed in the guide information is located.
The operability and comprehension of operators etc. are improved.

It should be noted that, in the present embodiment, it is explained that the operator is informed of the part whose component name is pressed in the guide information 71 by blinking it. However, in the present invention, in addition to the blinking of the component, the component name The notification color may be changed by changing the display color of the pressed component to the display color of another component or by increasing the brightness.

FIG. 6 shows an example in which the attribute information 72 is displayed on the touch panel screen 17a.

The attribute information 72 indicates the attribute information displayed when the attribute switch I is pressed and then the component G is pressed. In this case, as shown in the figure,
The attribute information 72 is displayed so as to overlap the part G indicating the attribute.

The attribute information 72 is the guide information 7 described above.
As in the case of 1, it may be displayed at a position where it does not overlap on the component G indicating the attribute.

Specifically, the content of the attribute information 72 is composed of a part name of this part G, an operation mode, a function name, a reversal, a notification contact, etc. In the case of this part G, each is "G". , "Momentary", "Notification", "Yes", "D"
The attribute is displayed such as M0115 ″.

Therefore, according to the present embodiment, the attribute guide switch I is provided on the touch panel screen 17a in addition to the guide switch H, and the attribute guide switch I is depressed.
Then, when any part is pressed, the attribute information of that part is displayed separately from the guide information. Therefore, if the attribute information of the part is changed, only the attribute information of that part is changed. Thus, there is no need to change the entire guide information as in the conventional case, and the changing work becomes easy.

[0047]

As described above, according to the present invention, when a component displayed on the touch panel screen is pressed, guide information including at least the component name of the component is displayed on the touch panel screen, and the guide information in the guide information is displayed. When you press an arbitrary part name display area, the part corresponding to the pressed part name displayed on the touch panel screen is notified by blinking, so the part name displayed in the guide information It is possible to visually and easily know where the part is on the touch panel screen, and the operability and comprehension of the operator and the like are improved.

Further, in the present invention, when an attribute switch is provided on the touch panel screen in addition to the guide switch, and the attribute switch is depressed, and then an arbitrary component is depressed, the attribute information of the component is used as the guide information. Since it is displayed separately from the above, even when the attribute information of each part is changed, it is not necessary to change the entire guide information as in the conventional case, and the change work can be facilitated.

[Brief description of drawings]

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

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing a procedure of creating guide information stored in an image data memory.

FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of a touch panel screen displayed on a display unit.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of a touch panel screen when a guide switch is pressed.

FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram showing a state of a touch panel screen when an arbitrary component name in the guide information is pressed.

FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram showing an example in which attribute information is displayed on a touch panel screen.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 Programmable Terminal (Display Device) 2 Programmable Controller 3 Tool Terminal 11 CPU (Guide Switch Display Means, Guide Information Display Means, Notification Means, Attribute Switch Display Means, Attribute Information Display Means) 17 Display 17a Touch Panel Screen 71 Guide Information 72 Attributes information

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Claims (5)

[Claims] 1. A display device for displaying guide information of one or more parts displayed on a touch panel screen, including guide switch display means for displaying a guide switch for instructing the display of the guide information on the touch panel screen. When the guide switch displayed by the guide switch display means is pressed, the guide information display means for displaying guide information including at least the part name of the part on the touch panel screen, and the guide information display means for displaying the guide information are displayed. A display device comprising: a notification unit that notifies a component corresponding to the component name when an arbitrary component name display area in the guide information is pressed. 2. A display device for displaying guide information of one or more parts displayed on a touch panel screen, and guide switch display means for displaying a guide switch for instructing display of the guide information on the touch panel screen. When the attribute switch display means for displaying the attribute switch for instructing the display of the attribute information of each part on the touch panel screen and the guide switch displayed by the guide switch display means are pressed, at least the part name of the part is displayed. When the guide information display means for displaying the guide information including the guide information on the touch panel screen and any part name display area in the guide information displayed by the guide information display means are pressed, the part corresponding to the part name A notification means for notifying the If meaning part is pressed, the display apparatus characterized by comprising an attribute information display means for displaying the attribute information of the the pressed parts, a. 3. The guide information display means displays the guide information on the touch panel screen at a position where the guide information does not overlap with the position of a component indicating an operation procedure or the like. The display device according to claim 1 or 2. 4. The attribute information display means displays the attribute information of the part in a superimposed manner on the part for which the attribute information shows the attribute, and displays the attribute information. Display device. 5. The display device according to claim 1, claim 2, claim 3, or claim 4 is a programmable terminal connected to a programmable controller that executes a user program.