JPH08314680A - Display device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To provide the display device which improves the operability of operation that is performed while plural kinds of software are switched frequently and easily confirms whether or not sequential operation is carried out with screen development as a procedure indicates. CONSTITUTION: When a touch area or icon on a screen is selected, a screen corresponding to the selected touch area or icon is opened and when a touch area or icon on the opened screen is selected, a new screen is opened. Information on the icon symbol corresponding to an operation monitor screen is registered in an icon symbol storage means 33. The history which is developed on the operation monitor screen, is stored in a storage means 34. On the basis of information in a development history storage means 34, the history of screen development is detected and the information on the icon symbol corresponding to the developed operation monitor screen is read out of the icon symbol storage means 33. Consequently, icons are arrayed on the screen in the order corresponding to the development history of the operation monitor screen.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an improvement in a display device in which when a touch area or an icon is selected, a screen corresponding to the selected touch area or icon opens.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a display device, a touch area or icon is arranged on the screen, and when the touch area or icon is selected with a mouse, a screen corresponding to the selected touch area or icon opens and the opened screen is displayed. If you further select the touch area or icon of, a new screen may open. The icon displayed on the screen represents the software or the like to be used by a symbol that symbolizes its function. Therefore, the icon becomes a mark when the screen is expanded. The operator activates the desired software by selecting the icon and sequentially develops the screen.

In the conventional display device, the rule of the order of arranging the icons is not particularly determined, or the icons are arranged according to the software name corresponding to the icon. Also, once the order of arranging the icons is decided, it remains unchanged unless the operator changes it. For this reason, when performing work while switching a plurality of pieces of software many times, if the operator does not remember the position of the icon to be selected many times, it takes much time to find the icon, resulting in poor work efficiency. There was a point. Further, since no history of screen expansion remains on the display screen, it was difficult to confirm whether the sequential work was executed by the screen expansion according to the procedure.

[0004]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made to solve the above-mentioned problems, and by arranging icons on the screen in the order according to the history of screen expansion, a plurality of software can be stored. An object of the present invention is to improve the work efficiency in the case of performing work while switching a number of times, and to realize a display device that can easily confirm whether or not a sequential work is executed by screen development according to a procedure.

[0005]

According to the present invention, when a touch area or icon on the screen is selected, a screen corresponding to the selected touch area or icon opens, and when the touch area or icon on the opened screen is selected, In a display device in which a new screen opens, a display unit for displaying an operation monitoring screen provided with a touch area and an icon, and screen input by selecting the touch area or icon displayed on the screen of this display unit. Input means to do,
An icon symbol storage means for storing information of an icon symbol corresponding to the operation monitoring screen, a development history storage means for storing a history of development of the operation monitoring screen, and a touch area or an icon selected by the input means is detected. Input detection means, screen detection means for detecting the operation monitoring screen corresponding to the touch area or icon detected by the input detection means, and the expansion history storage means as history of the information of the operation monitoring screen detected by this screen detection means History update means to be added to the information of, the screen call means for calling the operation monitoring screen detected by the screen detection means, the history of screen expansion is detected based on the information of the expansion history storage means,
Information of an icon symbol corresponding to the expanded operation monitoring screen is read from the icon symbol storage means, and icon display means for arranging corresponding icons on the screen in an order according to the expansion history of the operation monitoring screen. It is a display device characterized by the above.

[0006]

According to the present invention as described above, the information of the icon symbol corresponding to the operation monitoring screen is stored in the icon symbol storage means. The history in which the operation monitoring screen is expanded is stored in the expansion history storage means. The history of screen expansion is detected based on the information of the expansion history storage means, and the information of the icon symbol corresponding to the expanded operation monitoring screen is read from the icon symbol storage means. Thereby, the corresponding icons are arranged on the screen in the order according to the development history of the operation monitoring screen.

[0007]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG.
FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 1, 1
Is a display unit for displaying an operation monitoring screen provided with a touch area and icons. Reference numeral 2 is an input means for inputting a screen by selecting a touch area or an icon of the operation monitoring screen displayed on the screen of the display unit 1. The input means 2 is, for example, a pointing device such as a mouse.

Reference numeral 3 is a storage unit. In the storage unit 3, reference numeral 31 denotes a position information storage unit that stores position information indicating where on the screen the icon and the touch area are. Reference numeral 32 denotes a definition information storage unit that stores information defining the operation monitoring screen. Reference numeral 33 denotes an icon symbol storage means, which stores information on the icon symbol corresponding to the operation monitoring screen. Three
A development history storage unit 4 stores a history of screen development.
The contents of the expansion history storage means 34 are updated every time the screen is expanded.

Reference numeral 4 is a control unit. In the control unit 4, 41 is input detection means, which is position information selected by the input means 2, and
The selected touch area or icon is detected based on the position information of the icon and the touch area stored in the position information storage means 41. Reference numeral 42 denotes a screen detection unit that detects an operation monitoring screen corresponding to the touch area or icon detected by the input detection unit 41. Information indicating the correspondence between the touch area or icon and the operation monitoring screen is stored in the position information storage unit 31. 43 is a history updating means,
The information of the operation monitoring screen detected by the screen detection unit 42 is added to the information of the expansion history storage unit 34 as a history. Reference numeral 44 denotes a screen calling unit that calls the operation monitoring screen detected by the screen detection unit 42. When calling the operation monitoring screen, the definition information stored in the definition information storage means 32 is used. Reference numeral 45 denotes an icon display means, which is a development history storage means 3
The history of screen expansion is detected based on the stored information of No. 4, and the information of the icon symbol corresponding to the expanded operation monitoring screen is detected based on the stored information of the icon symbol storage means 33, thereby the operation monitoring screen Arrange corresponding icons on the screen in the order according to the expansion history of.

Reference numeral 5 is a bus for transmitting signals exchanged between the storage unit 3 and the control unit 4.

The operation of the display device shown in FIG. 1 will be described. FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing the operation procedure. A description will be given according to the steps X1 to X6 in the flowchart. (X1) When the icon or the touch area on the screen is selected by the input means 2, the selected event and the selected position information are sent to the input detection means 41. (X2) The input detection unit 41 detects which touch area or icon is selected based on the position information selected by the input unit 2 and the position information of the icon and touch area stored in the position information storage unit 41. To do. (X3) The screen detection unit 42 detects the operation monitoring screen corresponding to the touch area or icon detected by the input detection unit 41. When detecting the operation monitoring screen, the information indicating the correspondence between the touch area or icon stored in the position information storage unit 31 and the operation monitoring screen is referred to. (X4) The history update means 43 adds the information of the operation monitoring screen detected by the screen detection means 42 to the screen development history list of the development history storage means 34 as a history. (X5) The screen calling unit 44 calls the operation monitoring screen detected by the screen detection unit 42. When calling the operation monitoring screen, the definition information stored in the definition information storage means 32 is used. Further, since the operation monitoring screen has been switched, the screen calling unit 44 updates the position information of the touch area stored in the position information storage unit 31 to the position information of the touch area of the new operation monitoring screen. (X6) The icon display means 45 is the expansion history storage means 3
4, the history of screen expansion is detected by referring to the screen expansion history list stored in FIG.
Read from and display on the screen. Thereby, the icons are arranged on the screen in the order according to the development history of the operation monitoring screen. Further, since the new icon is displayed, the position information of the new icon is added to the position information of the icon stored in the position information storage unit 31.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of screen development by the display device of FIG. The screen expands from G1 to G7 in FIG. The D1 portion of the screen is the icon display area, and the D2 portion is the operation monitoring screen display area. A1
A10 is an operation monitoring screen. T is a touch area provided on the operation monitoring screen. The position of the touch area T differs depending on the type of operation monitoring screen. As the operation monitoring screen is expanded, the icons are arranged in the icon display area in the order according to the operation monitoring screen expansion history. Although FIG. 3 shows the case where the icon symbol is a reduction of the operation monitoring screen itself, the present invention is not limited to this, and it is sufficient if the icon symbol is a display symbolizing the operation monitoring screen.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a state in which the screen expansion history list stored in the expansion history storage means 34 changes when the screen is expanded as shown in FIG.

[0014]

According to the present invention, the icons are arranged on the screen in the order according to the history of screen expansion. This makes it easy for operators to easily select the desired icon when performing work while switching between multiple software programs by simply selecting the icons arranged on the screen in order. Can be found in, and work efficiency can be improved.
Further, since the history of screen expansion remains as an array of icons, it is possible to easily confirm whether or not the sequential work is executed by the screen expansion according to the procedure. For example, the history remains faithfully even when the same screen is repeatedly developed as in screen A → screen B → screen A → screen B.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart for explaining the operation of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of screen development in the display device of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a transitional state of a screen development history list.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 Display Unit 2 Input Means 3 Storage Unit 33 Icon Symbol Storage Means 34 Deployment History Storage Means 4 Control Unit 41 Input Detection Means 42 Screen Detection Means 43 History Update Means 44 Screen Call Means 45 Icon Display Means

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A display device in which when a touch area or icon on the screen is selected, a screen corresponding to the selected touch area or icon opens, and when a touch area or icon on the opened screen is selected, a new screen opens. A display unit for displaying an operation monitoring screen provided with a touch area and an icon, an input means for inputting a screen by selecting the touch area or icon displayed on the screen of the display unit, and an operation monitoring screen Icon symbol storage means for storing the information of the icon symbol corresponding to, an expansion history storage means for storing the history of the operation monitoring screen being expanded, and an input detection means for detecting the touch area or the icon selected by the input means. And the operation monitoring image corresponding to the touch area or icon detected by this input detection means. A screen detecting means for detecting a surface; a history updating means for adding information of the operation monitoring screen detected by the screen detecting means to the information of the expansion history storing means as a history; and an operation monitoring screen detected by the screen detecting means. A screen call means for calling and a history of screen expansion based on the information of the expansion history storage means, information of an icon symbol corresponding to the expanded operation monitoring screen is read from the icon symbol storage means, and an operation monitoring screen is displayed. And an icon display unit for arranging corresponding icons on the screen in an order according to the expansion history of the display device.