JPH09330199A - Personal computer - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To perform operation while relative windows do not overlap with each other, and improve usability and operation efficiency by enlarging or reducing an arbitrary area in a window displayed on a main display as slave windows of arbitrary size on subordiante displays, and enabling editing operation. SOLUTION: Part of a window W1 displayed fully on the screen of the main display DISP1 is specified as an operation specification area R1, and an enlargement/reduction rate and a display are set. When a display on a subordiante display DISP2 is set at this time, an enlarged or reduced area R1 is displayed in a window W2 on the subordinate display DISP2, editing in the window W2 is enabled, and the editing result is stored in an original file. Further, when the display contents of the subordinate display DISP2 are further enlarged or reduced, another window can be displayed as a window of the main display DISP1 similarly from the window W2 to the contrary.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to a personal computer.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In the conventional multi-window display, as described in Japanese Patent Application No. 4-154735, "Method and apparatus for superposing and displaying multi-moving image windows", in the prior art, a single display is displayed. You can display multiple windows on top of each other, but since the pointing device is common and there is only one display, you can use the same window when performing operations such as enlarging or reducing the window displayed on the display. Since it rewrites each time and displays a new window of enlargement / reduction on the same display, the window before execution becomes invisible, and while viewing the window before enlargement / reduction, the window of the enlargement / reduction part There was a drawback that you could not operate.

[0003]

In editing involving operations such as window rewriting such as window enlargement / reduction or redisplaying in another window, the window before the operation is rewritten or the windows overlap each other. There was a problem in that it became invisible and the subsequent editing operations became complicated, and editing was time-consuming and time-consuming.

An object of the present invention is to allow a plurality of windows to be displayed on the entire display, for example, so that when a plurality of windows are displayed on the full screen and an operation such as editing is desired, all the windows can be displayed on the entire display without overlapping. It is to provide a PC having multiple displays.

[0005]

A first method for achieving the above object is to provide a plurality of displays on one PC and to display a plurality of displays when processing one job in a plurality of windows. The purpose is to display a plurality of related windows in different windows.

A second method for achieving the above object is as follows:
By providing a unique pointing device for each display, when a single job is processed by a plurality of displays, a plurality of windows can be operated by the pointing device unique to each display.

[0007]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to FIG.
This will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 1 shows a first embodiment according to the present invention.
It is a whole block diagram of the Example of this. FIG. 2 shows a procedure for carrying out the present invention.

FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram of an operation for realizing the procedure of FIG. 2 on an actual display.

FIG. 4 is an overall explanatory view of the second embodiment according to the present invention, which is an overall configuration diagram of a PC having a plurality of displays when a pointing device dedicated to each display is used.

In FIG. 1, displays DISP1-
DISP2 is a display screen of a notebook PC.

When the first window W1 is displayed in full screen on the main display DISP1, a partial area of the first window W1 is designated as an operation designation area R1. R
When the area 1 is designated, the enlargement / reduction ratio and the display are set. At this time, the display display is the display DISP in which the window W1 is displayed.
Set to display on DISP2 which is a display different from 1. The result of enlarging or reducing the region R1 by this operation is the window W2 of the sub display DISP2.
Is displayed on the screen and can be edited in the window W2. The edited result can be stored in the original file displaying W1 by the store command.

Further, the point during editing of the window W2 can be set so that it can be displayed in the window W1 by mode setting. According to the present invention, when the content displayed on the sub-display DISP2 is further enlarged or reduced, another window W3 is reversed from W2 in the same manner as when W1 to W2 are generated. It can also be displayed as a window W3.

When there are a plurality of displays,
By performing the same operation, it is possible to display n windows W1 to Wn having different enlargement ratios on n displays. In this case, one window W1 to the other windows W2 to Wn are displayed on different displays, as well as W1 to W2, W2 to W3,
..., Wn-1 to Wn can be partially displayed in sequence.

FIG. 2 shows a flowchart of partial editing according to the present invention. FIG. 3 shows an operation explanatory diagram of the window in the present invention. An example of partial editing will be described below with reference to FIGS.

First, display DISP with Flow1
A window W1 for editing is generated on the screen 1. The text or graphic data to be edited from the file is displayed on the window W1.

In Flow2, the entire view of the object to be edited is displayed on the window W1.

In FIG. 3, they are indicated by Flow 1 and 2. Next, F
The cutout region R1 is set at low3.

The cutout condition in Flow4 (for example, the enlargement / reduction ratio of 200%, the cutout window display position DISP)
Set 2). Up to n displays can be set as long as the hardware allows. Further, it is of course possible to simultaneously display on a plurality of displays.

A cutout region R1 with a scaling ratio of 200% is displayed on the cutout window W2 on the display 2 with the Flow 5
The part corresponding to is partially displayed.

When changing the line thickness of the portion shown by the bold line in FIG. 3 on the window W2 in Flow6, do not blink the portion corresponding to the edited portion of W2 on the window W1 and set the pointing position of W2. It is displayed in W1 which is the original window. By doing this, you can clearly see the part being edited in the overall view and you can surely edit it.

Next, in Flow7, when the editing area R1 is moved from R1 to R2 on the grasping window W1 with a pointing device such as a small input PEN, the editing area of W2 is also followed and the display area is scrolled. ,Is displayed. In this case, since there is no overlap between W1 and W2, the editing work can be executed very smoothly. At this time, the small input pen PEN1 displays the display DISP.
1 as a pointing device.

In addition to this, a small keyboard, a track pad, a track pointer, a mouse, and the like can be considered as the pointing device, but by setting a device use mode that can be set for each pointing device, a dedicated device for a display can be used. It is also possible to specify, use a device common to these displays, and switch to the corresponding display at each time.

Finally, in Flow 7, when the partial editing work is temporarily interrupted or completed, the editing result is saved in W1, thereby ending the partial editing and returning to the whole editing.

Although an example of the procedure of the partial editing work is shown above, it is obvious that various editing works can be combined by using a plurality of displays.

FIG. 4 shows a second embodiment according to the present invention.

According to the invention, the display DISP1
Further, since the display DISP2 is provided with a dedicated pointing device and a plurality of displays are provided so that a window can be displayed on another display, the pointing on each display can be smoothly performed. For example, in FIG. 3, in the window W1 and the window W2 when editing, a small input pen PEN1 dedicated to scrolling the cutout region R1 of W1 is provided, so that W2 on another display is displayed.
Since the scrolls do not overlap, the scroll result can be seen immediately, so editing work can be performed very smoothly. In addition to the above, various operations can be smoothly performed in the text and drawing editing work because the windows do not overlap each other.

[0027]

By controlling the display positions of the windows so that they are distributed and displayed on two displays, it is possible to work in a state in which the related windows do not overlap each other, and it is possible to repeat complicated processing and redisplay time. It can be saved and it is easy to use, improving work efficiency as a whole.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is an explanatory diagram of a first embodiment according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart of partial editing according to the present invention.

FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram of a window operation according to the present invention.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram of a second embodiment according to the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 PC1 ... Personal computer, CV1 ... Cover side display part of notebook PC, DISP1-2 ... Display, W1-W2 ... Window, R1-2 ... Cutout editing area, KB1 ... Small keyboard, PEN1-2 ... Small input pen, TPAD1 ... Trackpad, Flow2-8 ... Processing blocks of the flowchart.

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A personal computer having a plurality of displays in which an arbitrary region of a window displayed on a main display can be enlarged and reduced as a child window of an arbitrary size on a plurality of sub-displays and edited. 2. The personal computer according to claim 1, further comprising a pointing device dedicated to the sub-display. 3. The personal computer according to claim 1, wherein a region having an arbitrary shape of an arbitrary window displayed on the main display is cut out and displayed in an arbitrary window on the sub display for editing. 4. A PC having a plurality of displays, characterized in that an area having an arbitrary shape of an arbitrary window can be cut out and displayed in an arbitrary window on another display without any distinction between the main display and the sub-displays for editing.