JPS62133578A - Data selecting and editing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To jointly select related data, as well, and to set it as an object to be edited, by setting display data which has been selected by a data deciding means, as the object to be edited, and also displaying emphatically the display data. CONSTITUTION:In case a position input device 2 indicates a point P in a rectangle B, namely, in case input position information 2001 indicates an area of the rectangle B except an area of rectangles D, E, a data deciding device 4 selects all display data that are picture-drawn and displayed above the rectangle B, and also positioned in the area of the rectangle B. In this case not only the rectangle B but also the rectangles D, E are selected together. Also, the device 4 sends the selected display data for requesting am emphatical display to the selected display data, to a display device 5 through a signal line 4041. The device 5 reads out display information stored in a display information storage device 3, through a signal line 3002, converts a data format to a form conforming with a display device 1, and outputs it to the device 1 through a signal line 5031.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION (Field of Industrial Application) The present invention relates to data editing devices such as word processors and graphic editors.

(Prior Art) Conventionally, when editing is performed using a word processor or a graphic editor, display data to be edited is selected by specifying a point or area using a pointing device or the like. When specifying a point, the display data that includes the specified position on the display is selected for editing, and when specifying an area, the display data that is included in or touches the specified area on the display is selected for editing. It had been.

(Problems to be Solved by the Invention) However, when specifying the data to be edited using such a conventional editing device, this was done regardless of the data structure such as the physical relationship or attribute relationship between the data.
It was difficult to select the data to be edited in structural units. In other words, in conventional point specification, the operator sequentially selects related data from the displayed data while considering the data structure, and in region specification, the operator selects related data while also considering the data structure. However, the display area of the display area must be determined, and the operation is complicated and operation errors are likely to occur.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION An object of the present invention is to solve these problems and provide a data selection/editing device that can select not only specified display data but also data related to the specified display data to be edited.

(Means for Solving the Problems) The data selection and editing device of the present invention includes a display device that displays display data and a cursor, and outputs input position information by instructing the display data on the display device. a position input device; a display information storage device that stores display information consisting of display data displayed on the display device, display area information of the display data, and display relationship information between each display data; and the input device. a data determination device that selects from the display information storage device all display data that is related to the display data indicated by the position information in terms of display area and display relationship, and requests highlighting of the display data; Reading display information from the display information storage device, matching the display data format, and outputting it to the display device;
a display control device configured to output, to the display device, highlighted display data based on a highlighted display request obtained from the data determining device and a cursor corresponding to input position information obtained from the position input device; The present invention includes a data editing device that edits the display data selected by the determination device, and makes the display data selected by the data determination device an editing target, and displays the display data in a highlighted manner.

(Embodiment) FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention. In the figure, the data selection and editing device includes a display device 1, a position input device 2, a display information storage device 3, a data determination device 4, a display control device 5, and a data editing device 6. In the figures below, the numbers attached to signal lines also indicate the signals themselves on the signal lines.

Further, FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram to facilitate explanation of the operation of the present invention, in which (a) is a data structure of display information stored in the display information storage device 3, and (b) is a schematic diagram of the display information stored in the display information storage device 3. The display information each indicates the contents of the display screen displayed on the display device 1.

The display information includes display data, display area information of the display data,
It consists of display related information between each display data, but here, for simplicity, the display data is a rectangle, the display area information is the display position coordinates of the upper left corner of the rectangle that is the display data, the size of the rectangle, and the display related information is the display data. It is assumed that the display order of each rectangle that is data, that is, the vertical relationship of display is shown.

FIG. 2(a) shows a data structure consisting of seven pieces of display information. That is, seven rectangles indicated by capital letters A to G, display position coordinates, display size, and display order number attached to each rectangle are stored in addresses 1 to 7, respectively. The display order number indicates the display order on the display device 1, that is, the display vertical relationship in the depth direction of the screen of the display device 1. Rectangles having the same number in display relationship indicate that they are located at the same level in the depth direction of the display screen.

FIG. 2(b) shows a display screen for the seven pieces of display information shown in FIG. 2(a). As shown in the figure, seven rectangles of different sizes are displayed at the positions indicated by the display position coordinates, at the display size, and according to the vertical relationship. The W points attached to the two left corners of each rectangle indicate the position indicated by the display position coordinates. For example, rectangle A stored at address 1
In the display device 1, the display position coordinates are (100, 10
0), the display size, that is, the rectangular size is 900 x 7
00 indicates that the display relationship is displayed at the innermost position. As for the vertical relationship of the display, rectangles B and C are placed on top of rectangle A, and rectangle B is placed on top of rectangle A.
Rectangles F and G are displayed above rectangle E and rectangle C, respectively. In other words, rectangles B and C or rectangles E, F, and G having the same number in the display relationship indicate that they are at the same level.

Next, the operation of each device shown in FIG. 1 will be explained using FIG. 2.

The display device 1 displays display information 5031 from the display control device 5.
Display. That is, the display data specified by the display control device 5 is displayed at the specified position, in the specified size, and in the specified relationship.

Further, according to instructions from the display control device 5, highlighted display data and a cursor for indicating display data are displayed.

The position input device 2 indicates the position on the display data displayed on the display device 1, and inputs the position information 2001.
Output as . The input position information 2001 is output to the display control device 5 for interlocking the cursor of the display device 1, and is also output to the data determination device 4 for determining display data.

The display information storage device 3 stores display information displayed on the display device l. In the storage format, as shown in FIG. 2(a), a set of display data, display area information, and display related information forms one display information. The data determination device 4 converts the display information stored in the display information storage device 3 into a signal 3001.
The input position information 2001 is compared with the display area and display relationship. As a result of the comparison, all related display items are selected, and at the same time, they are considered to be edited and output to the data editing device 6 via the signal line 4041.

On the display screen as shown in FIG. 2(b), the position input device 2
When points within rectangle B, for example point P, that is, when the input position information @2001 is rectangular and points to the area of rectangle B excluding area E, the data determination device 4 draws and displays the area above rectangle B and All display data located within the area of rectangle B is selected. In this case, rectangles other than rectangle B and E are also selected. Furthermore, the data determination device 4
Selected display data for requesting highlighted display of the selected display data is output to the display control device 5 via the signal line 4041. In the above example, rectangles B, D, and E are notified as objects to be highlighted.

The display control device 5 reads the display information stored in the display information storage device 3 via the signal line 3002, converts the data format into a format that matches the display device 1, and transfers the display information to the signal line 5031.
is output to the display device 1 via. Further, the display data selected by the data determining device 4 is highlighted and output to the display device 1, and a cursor linked to the input position information 2001 obtained from the position input device 2 is output to the display device 1. All the contents shown in FIG. 2(b) are displayed on the display device 1 by the display control device 5. In the second example, the contents are rectangles B and D.

Only E is highlighted.

The data editing device 6 performs editing processing on the display data 4041 selected by the data determining device 4. In the above example, rectangles B, D, and E are to be edited.

FIG. 3 shows an embodiment of the data determination device 4 in FIG.
FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the display control device 5. As shown in FIG.

The display device 1 shown in FIG. 1 can be a display device that displays characters, graphics, etc., such as a flat display such as a liquid crystal or plasma display, in addition to a CRT, and the position input device 2 can be a pointing device such as a mouse, tablet, touch panel, etc. device is available.

The display information storage device 3 shown in FIG. 1 can be a file device such as a magnetic disk or a floppy disk, or a memory such as a RAM or bubble memory. The display data to be displayed on the display device 1 is stored as a set of display data, display area information, and display related information as shown in FIG. 2(a).

Next, FIG. 3, which is a block diagram showing one embodiment of the data determination device 4, will be described. In the figure, the data determination device 4 includes a data readout circuit 401 and an area determination circuit 402.
, a higher-order determination circuit 403 , and a higher-order data extraction circuit 404
Consists of spikes.

The data reading circuit 401 sequentially reads the display information stored in the display information storage device 3 via the signal line 3001.

The area determination circuit 402 sequentially compares the input position information 2001 with the display area information 4011 obtained from the data reading circuit 401, and selects display information having a display area that two-dimensionally includes the input position information @2001 via the signal line 4021. Output via In the case of FIG. 2(b), the designated point P and seven display areas of display information are compared, and a rectangle A containing point P is determined.

B is selected.

"Third place determination circuit 403 compares the vertical relationship of the inclusion display information 4021 obtained from the area determination circuit 402,
Display information with the highest hierarchical relationship is connected to signal line 4.
Output via 031. In the case of FIG. 2(b), the display relationships of the rectangles A and H selected by the area determination circuit 402 are compared, and rectangle B, which is located higher, that is, has a larger value as the display relationship, is selected.

The upper data extraction circuit 404 extracts the uppermost display information 4031 obtained from the upper judgment circuit 403 and the data readout circuit 4.
The display information 4011 obtained from 01 is sequentially compared, and the highest display information ff14031 and all the display information located higher than it are extracted. The display information obtained in this way is sent to the display control device 5 as highlighted display target information.
Further, both are outputted to the data editing device 6 via a signal line 4041 as information to be edited.

In the case of FIG. 2(b), the rectangle B selected by the upper judgment circuit 403 is compared with other rectangles, and the rectangle that is located higher than rectangle B, that is, has a larger value in terms of display relationship,
E is selected along with rectangle B.

Next, FIG. 4, which is a block diagram showing one embodiment of the display control device 5, will be described. In the figure, the display control device 5 includes a data expansion circuit 501, a display memo I 7502, a data exchange circuit 503, a cursor generation circuit 504, and a data emphasis circuit 505.

The data emphasizing circuit 505 adds emphasizing attributes such as bordering and coloring to the display data corresponding to the display information 4041 selected by the data determining device 4, and outputs the data to the data expansion circuit 501 via the signal line 5051.

The data expansion circuit 501 reads display information stored in the display information storage device 3 via a signal line 3002, and
The data is developed into two-dimensional image information and output to the display memory 502 via the signal line 5011. In the example of FIG. 2(a), an operation is performed in which rectangular display data is written into the display memory 502 in the area indicated by the display area information in the order indicated by the display related information. Furthermore, the highlighted display information from the data emphasizing circuit 505 is also developed into two-dimensional image information and output to the display memory 502 via the signal line 5o11.

The display memory 502 can be a RAM, a bubble memory, or the like. It stores two-dimensional image information, and performs arbitrary reading and writing to two-dimensional coordinate positions on the memory.

The cursor generation circuit 504 generates cursor data and outputs it to the data conversion circuit 503 via the signal line 5041.

At that time, input position information obtained from the position input device 2! 200
1 is also output.

The data conversion circuit 503 sequentially reads out the contents of the display memory 502 in a rask scanning format via a signal line 5021, converts it into a display display signal such as a video signal, and outputs the signal to the display device 1 via a signal line 5o31. Further, cursor data 5041 from the cursor generation circuit 504 is similarly converted into a display display signal 5031. The display timing of the cursor on the display data is performed at a specified position in the cursor data 5041.

Note that the emphasis method in the data emphasis circuit 505 is an example and does not define the present invention.

The data editing device 6 can be a word processor, a graphic editor, or the like.

It should be noted that the data examples used in the above description are for illustration only and do not define the present invention. In particular, the display relationship in the display information is not limited to the physical vertical relationship of the display data as in the example, but may also be a relationship based on inherent attributes of the display data or a relationship set artificially.

(Effects of the Invention) As explained below, in the present invention, by specifying one of the data displayed on the display, data related to that data can also be selected. This has the effect of facilitating the operation of a data editing device for selecting and editing data having a data structure.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram for explaining the present invention in detail, FIGS. 2(a) and (b) are schematic diagrams for explaining the invention in detail, and FIG. 3 is the data determination device in FIG. 1. FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the display control device in FIG. 1. FIG. In the figure, 1 is a display device, 2 is a position input device, 3 is a display information storage device, 4 is a data judgment device, 5 is a display control device, 6 is a data editing device, 401 is a data reading circuit, 4
02 is an area determination circuit, 403 is a higher order determination circuit, 404 is a higher order data extraction circuit, 501 is a data expansion circuit, 502
503 is a display memory, 503 is a data conversion circuit, 504 is a cursor generation circuit, and 505 is a data emphasis circuit. ・1, Attorney Susumu Uchihara (1, +, ' )\, +7゜th Figure 3

Claims (1)

[Claims] a display means for displaying display data and a cursor; a position input means for outputting input position information by specifying display data on the display means; display data displayed on the display means; and a display data display area. display information storage means for storing display information consisting of information and display relationship information between each display data, and display data that is related in a display area and display relationship with the display data indicated by the input position information. , data determining means for selecting all from the display information storage means and requesting highlighted display data for the display data, and reading display information from the display information storage means and matching the display data format to the display means. At the same time as outputting, to the display means,
display control means for outputting highlighted display data based on the highlighted display request obtained from the data determining means and outputting a cursor corresponding to the input position information obtained from the position input means; A data selection and editing device comprising a data editing means for editing display data, the display data selected by the data determining means being edited, and the display data being highlighted.