JPS6093480A - Display unit - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Summary] This bulletin contains application data before electronic filing, so abstract data is not recorded.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Technical Field] The present invention relates to a display device that provides screen information that is easily recognized by an operator when displaying a menu for business or the like.

[Prior art] In recent years, in O/A equipment such as personal computers and word processors, it is difficult to make selections while looking at a menu screen.
Devices that allow you to proceed with various processes using R operations are becoming popular.

The display on the face menu screen is designed to make it easy to understand the procedures to be performed, so even inexperienced operators can easily be guided through the menu selection operations when starting work.

However, it cannot be said that the conventional menu screen provides sufficient guidance. This is because the display mode is solely descriptive and is done using typical character fonts.

For example, regarding a menu screen that allows the operator to select a kanji font, a display as shown in FIG. 1(A) is displayed on the screen. In other words, the menu has regular character fonts like ``Mincho'' and ``Gothic''!・It is displayed only descriptively using . The operator places the digit 16 on the cursor. Select the font by keying in the number l or 2. Therefore, from the operator's point of view, the descriptive expression alone is abstract and has the disadvantage of not being able to concretely know the font itself. This applies not only to the font, but also to the font size, font pitch,
The same was true for colors, etc.

[Objectives] The present invention has been made in view of a series of disadvantages, and an object thereof is to provide a display device that makes it easy to grasp a specific processing menu.

[Examples] Examples according to the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 2 is an external A4 perspective view of a personal computer equipped with a display device according to an embodiment of the present invention. In the figure, 1 is the personal computer main body, 2 is the CRT
A display section, 3 a keyboard, and 4 a mini disk device. FIG. 3 shows the functional block configuration of FIG. 2. Body l
A color CRT display unit 2 with a rask scan display system and a VRAM 5 which stores video information in a 1ζ1 format are used to control the main body of the main unit.
Microprocessing unit (MPU) 6 that also serves as
, a main memory 7, and a keyboard 3 are integrated. Furthermore, 4 is a mini-disk device in which files of various fonts are stored.The display device of the embodiment has a configuration related to display among the above configurations.The font file includes 16×16 dots. A Mincho font consisting of
You can also use a 16-dot Gothic font.

In this way, one display character has attributes such as character and size. Now, when using this device to perform specific processing of various tasks, a menu screen is called up. The code data on which the normal menu screen is based is stored in the mini-disk device 4, and is read into the main memory 7 by the operator using the keyboard 3. In the code data, the character codes are common, but these are marked 4', 11
A control code must be added to indicate whether to display in font or Gothic font. This is done by inserting a font designation code into the required yellow part of the formatted 2-1 data array for one screen. For example, a Gothic font display designation code is inserted at the beginning of a character coat group that is desired to be displayed in a Gothic font. The same applies to the Mincho font display. Alternatively, a configuration may be adopted in which the font coat Hira I. is added to each character coat. In any case, the task of adding attribute information to a character code is usually done at the time the processing program is completed. Therefore, when the code data for the menu screen mentioned above is read into the main memory 7, the attribute control code has already been added. The same applies to attributes such as character size, character pitch, and color.

The MPU 6 then accesses the font file of the mini-display device according to the code data. FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing the processing procedure for this font access. This process is shown for the process of reading l code data. First, in step 40, l coat data is read from the main memory, and in step 41, it is determined whether or not this is a character coat. If it is not a character code, it is a line feed code or attribute specification code. The flow only shows the process of checking the font attribute code. If the determination is No, it is determined in step 42 whether or not it is a Gothic designation code. If the determination is YES, the process proceeds to step 43 and the Gothic flag is turned on. If the determination is No, the process proceeds to step 44, where it is determined whether or not the designated code is for Mincho font. If the designated coat is Mincho typeface, proceed to step 45 and turn off the Gothic typeface flag.
F, and if it is not a Mincho font designation code, it is assumed that it is not a font designation code and the process exits.

The device further reads the next code data (step 40).
), that is the letter coat or tongue l! If the character code is determined (Step 41), the process proceeds to Step 46, where a 1-1 distinction is made as to whether it is a Gothic flag or O'N.

In the initial state, the device is set to display the Mincho font, but as the designated coat of the font mentioned above is read, the Gothic font flag is set to 0N10FF. When the Gothic font flag is ON, the process advances to step 47 and the Gothic font file is accessed. If the Gothic font flag is not ON, the process advances to step 49 to access the Mincho font. The pattern information accessed in the above example is also pattern developed in the VRAM 5 in step 48. Such pattern conversion processing is performed on one screen worth of coat data in the main memory.

FIG. 1(B) shows a display mode of an embodiment of the present invention in which a pattern is developed in this manner. Here, the font selection field is "Mincho font" displayed in Mincho font,
It consists of the ``Yunofukui Book'' displayed in Gothic letters. In this way, the operator can directly know the specific fonts used in actual processing, making it easier to select fonts based on actual experience.
+f function. In the font size column, 1 and 2.3 characters of different sizes are displayed. Various display formats can be devised to give a better impression of the font size in accordance with the processing tasks. In the character pitch column, there is a display that realistically expresses the display pitch using Mincho typeface characters6 Furthermore, depending on the job, there is also a menu that allows you to select a color.

[Effect] As described above, the present invention avoids abstract and descriptive displays when displaying menus as in the past, and helps the operator understand menus by providing concrete and tangible displays that appear in actual processing. This has the effect of increasing the efficiency of menu processing.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1(A) is a diagram showing a display example of a conventional menu screen, FIG. 1(B) is a diagram showing a display example of a menu screen according to the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of a menu screen according to the present invention. FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing the functional configuration of FIG. 2, and FIG. 4 is a flowchart 1 showing a font access processing procedure. Here, l...personal computer main body. 2...-C, RT display section, 3...-keyboard, 4...
-Mini disk device, 5--VRAM, 6--microprocessing unit (MPU), 7--main memory. Patent applicant: Canon Co., Ltd. Figure 1 (A) (B) Figure 2 U ↓ Figure 3

Claims (2)

[Claims] (1) A conversion means for pattern-converting a character code to which attribute information related to character display has been added according to the attribute information, and a display f stage for displaying the pattern information obtained by the conversion means, A display device characterized in that when displaying such a menu screen, the pattern information is displayed. (2) The display device according to claim 1, wherein the attributes related to character display are font, character size, character pitch, color, or a combination thereof.