JPS6118035A - Electronic device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To transmit visually and intuitively the state of an electronic device by symbolizing a human face or body after storing the state of the device and to attaining recognition of the state of said device. CONSTITUTION:The state of an electronic device supplied to a CPU via a KEY is stored to a RAM. The CPU reads a pattern which is previously written to a ROM according to the state of the elecrronic device and displays a pattern formed by symbolizing a human face to a display device DIS. Thus the state of said device is transmitted visually and intiutively.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to electronic equipment that communicates the status of the equipment to an operator.

Conventional technology used message displays to communicate the status of equipment to the operator, but it was not visual or intuitive and was confusing.

Purpose In view of the above points, an object of the present invention is to provide an electronic device that visually and intuitively communicates the status of the device to an operator.

Another object of the present invention is to provide an electronic device that conveys the status of the device by visualizing a human face or body as a symbol.

Embodiment FIG. 1 is a block diagram of one embodiment of the present invention. In the figure, KEY is a keyboard for inputting information.

The DIS is a display device that displays input information and the status of the device as described later.

The CPU is a central processing unit, which includes a processing unit ALU that performs arithmetic and logic decisions, a buffer BUF that stores input information, a control circuit that generates control signals according to commands, and a controller that stores control procedures as shown in FIG. It has a memory CROM. R
OM is a memory, as shown in Figure 2.
．． There is an area of ROM3, and this area is address A, for example.

B and C are combined to form a pattern PATL as shown in Figure 4.
, PAT2, and PAT3, respectively. RAM
is a memory that displays status information indicating the current internal state of the device in area ST as shown in Figure 3, and displays it in display area VRA.
When patterns FAT1-3 are written to MI and input information is written to VRAM2, they are displayed on the display DIS in FIG. 1 in an 1-to-1 correspondence. In particular, VRAMI is an area for displaying, for example, symbols of human facial expressions.
7) Write information to VRAM t wr I4 figure PAT1 in ROM2 1tffi4 figure P A T 2
F. In the ROM 3, PAT3 in FIG. 4 will be displayed at a predetermined position.

When displaying the device status, use RAM area S in Figure 3.
The status information is written to T and control is passed to the status display control. Status display control is performed in RAM area ST.
The RO in Figure 2 is determined by the value of the written status information.
This is done by determining which of ROM1, ROM2, and ROM3 of M is to be accessed, and writing it into the RAM area VRAMI.

The operation of the embodiment having the above configuration will be explained with reference to the flow shown in FIG. When the device displays the status, it first reads the status information of area ST, and if the CPU processing unit ALU determines that it is, for example, 91'', the memory RO
M area ROM1 (7) PATI) -T: IJ
Write to RAM (7) VRAM 1.

If ST=1, it is determined whether 5T=2. If yes, the memory ROM area ROM2 (
7) Write PAT2 to VRAMI.

If no, for example, determine whether 5T=3, and then
If s, FAT3 of area ROM3 of memory ROM
Write to VRAMI. If no, end the process.

- When the status display control described in F is completed, the area VRAM
1. Control is performed to display the contents of VRAM2 (7) on the display device DNS, and then the key manual control is performed, and the above-mentioned control is performed again.

Therefore, when the status information ST=1, the smiling face j is displayed, when 5T=2, the angry face 1 is displayed, and 5T
It is assumed that when =3, a "confused face" will be displayed.

By configuring as above, you can visually check the machine status.
It can be intuitively communicated to the operator, and especially if it is displayed along with the message on an interactive man-machine interface, the visual and intuitive dialogue will be linked with the detailed dialogue using the message, and the effect will be tremendous. Become.

Also, in today's embodiment, there are three facial expressions, but it can be easily inferred from the above explanation that this can be expanded to N faces or changed to facial expressions of human movements.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a detailed diagram of the memory ROM shown in FIG. 1, FIG. 3 is a detailed diagram of the memory RAM, and FIG. 4 is a detailed diagram of the memory ROM shown in FIG. FIG. 5 is a diagram showing the control procedure. ROM...Memory RAM...Memory CPU...Central processing unit DIS fist...Display device

Claims (1)

[Claims] An electronic device comprising: a storage means for storing a state of the device; and a means for visualizing information in which at least a part of a human being is symbolized according to the state of the device in the storage means.