JPS6347790A - Information display instructor - Google Patents

Abstract

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Description

Detailed Description of the Invention [Object of the Invention] (Industrial Application Field) The present invention relates to an information display and explanation device using a computer.

(Prior art) Conventionally, in various presentations such as paper presentations at academic conferences and lectures, key points of explanations, diagrams, graphs, etc. are presented for the purpose of improving communication between presenters and listeners, and presenters use these to improve communication between presenters and listeners. Explaining while pointing. This makes it possible to effectively advance the presentation while appealing to the visual and auditory senses of the mourners.

By the way, slide projectors, overhead projectors (OHP), and the like have conventionally been used as devices to support such processes. These systems project slide films or OHP films prepared in advance by the presenter onto a screen, but it takes time and money to make the film, and the frame-by-frame feeding and instructions during the presentation are not easy to use. It was a big burden.

Recently, attempts have been made to use a computer instead of these IIs and perform presentations by projecting the computer screen onto the screen.

At that time, a computer screen editor is used to create screens that correspond to conventional film. Instructions at the time of presentation are:
This is done by moving a cursor on the screen using a pointing device such as a mouse, digitizer, or joystick.

In such a conventional information explanation device using a computer, a cursor is displayed on the screen, and the explainer uses a pointing device to move the cursor to the position on the screen where he is currently giving the explanation. Pointing to the item shown there is done.

However, this method is not inconvenient if the explanation is one-way from the explainer to the explainee.
When the person being explained asks a question about an item displayed on the screen, there is a drawback that the questioner cannot immediately indicate the position of the necessary item on the screen.

(Problems to be Solved by the Invention) As described above, conventional information display and explanation devices using computers are effective when the explanation is one-sided, but when the listener asks questions or The disadvantage was that things could not go smoothly when doing so.

The present invention has been made based on the above-mentioned circumstances, and an object of the present invention is to provide an information display/explanation device that can smoothly proceed when a listener asks a question or engages in a discussion.

[Structure of the invention]

(Means for Solving the Problems) The present invention displays explanatory information accumulated in an information storage means on a screen of a display means, and places a predetermined mark at a position on the screen specified through a position specifying means. The information display and explanation device is characterized in that a plurality of the position specifying means are provided not only for the explainer but also for the explainee.

(Operation) According to the present invention, a plurality of position specifying means are provided so that they can be provided not only to the explainer but also to the explainee, so that the explainee can ask questions or give opinions through the provided position specifying means. You can specify the location on the screen that you want to point to when saying. When a position on the screen is specified, a mark is displayed at that position. This mark can be different from the locating means white if desired. This allows the marks to be clearly distinguished and the discussion to proceed smoothly.

(Embodiment) Hereinafter, an information display/explanation device U according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

As shown in FIG. 1, this device has a computer 1,
a storage device 2, a display device 3, a plurality of digitizers 48,
4b, 4c, and 4d are connected.

The computer 1 controls the display of the screen and the digitizers 4a to 4a.
CPtJ (Central Processing Unit M), main memory,
I10 controller, i! je memory, etc.

The memory storage 2 serves as an information storage means for storing explanatory information, and is constituted by, for example, a magnetic disk device.

The display device H3 serves as a display means for displaying the explanatory information stored in the storage device 2 under the control of the computer 1, and is composed of a CRT display, a projection display, or the like. In order to provide explanations to a large number of people to be explained, it is desirable that the display 8 and 3 be large-screen color displays.

Further, the digitizers 4a to 4d serve as position specifying means for specifying a position on the display screen of the display device 3, and, for example, the digitizer 4a12 is used by the person who is observing, and the digitizers 4b to 4d are used by the person being explained. These digitizers 4a to 4d are
Position information specified by the bevel 6 on the digitizer board 5 is output to the computer 1.

In the above configuration, for example, the second
Assume that an explanation screen as shown in the figure is displayed. This explanatory information is created in advance by the user and stored in the storage device 2. The mark M1 displayed at the position specified by the explainer using the digitizer 4a is displayed superimposed on the above explanation information under the control of the computer 1.

Further, at the top of the screen, a menu of various commands is displayed as shown in the figure. When the explainer moves the displayed mark M1 to the item "Next Page" and presses the Ben 6 firmly on the digitizer board 5, the computer 1
, the "next page display command" is input. When this command is input, the computer 1 reads the next page of explanatory information from the storage device 2 and displays it on the display device 3.

When the explainer moves the displayed mark M1 to the item "previous page" and presses the ben 6 firmly onto the surface of the digitizer board 5, a "previous page display command" is input to the computer 1. When this command is input, the computer 1 reads the explanatory information of the previous page from the storage device 2 and displays it on the display device 3.

When the explainer moves the displayed mark M1 to the item "Ben" and strongly presses Ben 6 onto the surface of digitizer board 5, a "Ben trajectory display command" is input to computer 1. When this command is input, the computer 1 overwrites the trajectory of Ben 6 on the digitizer board 5 on the above explanatory information.

Furthermore, if the mark M1 is moved to "Erase" and Ben 6 is strongly pressed, only the overwritten trajectory of Ben 6 is erased.

With each of the above commands, the explainer moves the mark M1 according to the flow of his/her explanation while giving the explanation.
When the explanation of a page is completed, the explanation proceeds in the following order: the next page is explained.

If you wish to provide supplementary explanation with simple diagrams or the like during the process, you can draw the diagram on the display device 3 by instructing the above-mentioned "Ben" command and drawing on the digitizer board 5.

Next, when the --way explanation is completed and questions etc. are to be accepted from the person to be explained, the explainer moves the mark M1 to the item "Permit instructions from person to be explained" and presses Ben 6 strongly. As a result, the computer 1 receives the instruction permission command from the person to be explained, so the computer 1
b to 4d are enabled to enable the person being explained to operate the screen. The reason why the explainee is allowed to operate the screen only when the explainer gives permission is to prevent the flow of the explanation from being disrupted if this is always allowed.

Now, permission to instruct the person to be explained is granted, and? ! ! When the explainer operates the digitizers 4b to 4d, marks M2 and M3 for the explainer are displayed in addition to the mark M1 for the explainer, as shown in FIG. 3, for example. Like the mark M1, these are superimposed and displayed on the explanation screen.

At this time, in order to clarify which ML expert is asking a question based on which mark, these marks M1 to M
3, it is desirable to be able to distinguish them by different colors and shapes.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing the flow of operation of this device. First, set the internal variable n of computer 1 to 1 (
11). This variable n indicates the digitizer number, and if this nth digitizer is enabled (12), the computer 1 reads the position blue water from the nth digitizer (13). , displays a predetermined mark on the n-th digitizer on the display device 3 (14).This mark is registered, for example, in the tablet table in the main memory of the computer 1.Here, when Ben 6 is pressed, (15), the command is determined and executed (16).Such scanning is repeated until rlN (the number of digitizers) is reached.
7.18), if n exceeds N, set it to n-1 again (18
゜11), repeat the same operation.

By the above procedure, when the person being explained asks a question regarding the content of the explanation, the person being explained can move the mark of the person being explained to the location of the related item displayed on the screen.

In addition, the present invention is based on the above-mentioned Act 5! It is not limited to falling.

For example, although a digitizer is used in the above embodiment as a position specifying means, other pointing devices such as a mouse, a joystick, etc. may also be used.

Further, a floppy disk device, an optical disk device, or the like may be used as the information storage device.

Further, the present invention may include screen editing commands such as cut and paste commands, figure drawing commands such as circles, straight lines, etc., but as in the previous embodiment, the person to be explained can freely use these commands. It is desirable to put some kind of restriction on this.

[Effects of the Invention] As explained above, according to the present invention, not only the explainer but also the explainer can point to any position on the screen, making questions and discussions smooth and effective. It is possible to achieve the effect that the process can be progressed in a consistent manner.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing the configuration of an information display explanation device according to an embodiment of the present invention, FIGS. 2 and 3 are diagrams showing the display screen of the device, and FIG. 4 is a diagram explaining the operation of the device. This is a flowchart for DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1... Computer, 2... Storage device, 3... Display device, 48-4d... Digitizer, 5... Digitizer board, 6... Pen. Applicant's representative Patent attorney Takehiko Suzue Figure 1 Figure 2 Figure 3 Figure 4

Claims (6)

[Claims] (1) Information storage means for storing explanatory information; display means for displaying the information stored in the information storage means on a screen; position designation means for designating a position on the screen; and position designation means for designating the position on the screen. 1. An information display and explanation device comprising a mark display means for displaying a predetermined mark at a position on a screen designated by the means, characterized in that the information display and explanation device comprises a plurality of the position designation means. (2) The information display and explanation device according to claim 1, wherein the mark display means displays different marks corresponding to each position specifying means. (3) The information display and explanation device according to claim 2, wherein the different marks have different shapes. (4) The information display and explanation device according to claim 2, wherein the different marks have different colors. (5) A command menu is displayed on the screen,
2. The information display and explanation device according to claim 1, wherein display contents are changed by specifying the command menu with the mark. (6) The information display/explanation device according to claim 1, wherein the position specifying means other than the specific position specifying means become operable only when permission for specifying the position is received.