KR101181977B1 - Method for monitor capture of a measuring instrument - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method for storing a meter screen, and more particularly, to a method for storing a meter screen as a moving picture.
To this end, the measuring method screen storage method of the present invention comprises the steps of setting the screen area to be recorded among the screen of the measuring instrument, the step of converting and storing the screen of the set instrument to a video file when the set event signal is input; And converting the instrument screen information including measurement data, environment variables, and a measurement process into vector data and storing the compressed data.

Description

Method for monitor capture of a measuring instrument}

The present invention relates to a method for storing a meter screen, and more particularly, to a method for storing a meter screen as a moving picture.

An instrument is a device used to measure time or the quantity of an object.

Generally, the instrument is divided into general purpose instrument and dedicated instrument, and the general purpose instrument is used for measuring general electronic products, not for specific products such as oscilloscope, digital multimeter, signal analyzer, spectrum analyzer, etc. A dedicated instrument is a measuring instrument used only for a specific application, such as a prototype analyzer or a swr meter.

In particular, a large number of expensive high-frequency measuring equipment or luminance measuring equipment is used in the manufacturing industry of the electronics industry, such as mobile phone production line, display production line, and notebook production line. Increasingly, the necessity of indoor and outdoor verification experiments is increasing, and the number of structures that have been passed for several decades since their completion is gradually accumulating, and the introduction of precision safety diagnosis and maintenance measurement system for evaluating the status of current structures is rapidly increasing. There is a trend.

Measurement data on the specifications of the product or the status of the structure is data through a measuring instrument, and this data is analyzed and judged by an operation processing device such as a computer to identify and predict the quality and safety status of the target product or facility. Done.

If you want to save the screen about the measurement result during the control and operation of the instrument, most instruments capture and store the result as an image file. In the case of saving and managing as an image file, it is impossible to check the operation and setting process, and only the measurement screen or the fragmental content that is finally displayed on the instrument can be checked.

However, it is necessary to record all the information about the measurement environment setting and operation from the start of the test to the completion of the test since the result of the measurement is very different depending on the setting and the operation.

The problem to be solved by the present invention proposes a method that can store the recording of all processes from the measurement environment setting and operation, the progress, the results derived than when using the image capture method.

Another problem to be solved by the present invention is to propose a method to save the record of all the processes from the image capture method to the measurement environment setting and manipulation, progress, and results obtained, and to ensure the accuracy of the stored information do.

Another problem to be solved by the present invention is to propose a method for facilitating confirmation of results by adding a function for a specific event.

To this end, the measuring method screen storage method of the present invention comprises the steps of setting the screen area to be recorded among the screen of the measuring instrument, the step of converting and storing the screen of the set instrument to a video file when the set event signal is input; And converting the instrument screen information including measurement data, environment variables, and a measurement process into vector data and storing the compressed data.

In the fragmentary measurement screen stored in the existing image file according to the present invention, by storing a variety of measurement results and the overall screen of the measurement process, the effect of using the instrument can be dramatically improved.

By recording / saving the video of the operation and control of the instrument, the reliability and accuracy of the instrument is improved, and additionally storing subtitles and sound effects, so that the user can easily understand the image when checking the result.

In addition, by supporting the virtual mode, it is possible to report the results of the internal measurement that cannot be confirmed only by the instrument itself, and since the recording function can be controlled in response to an event, a partial simple auto testing function can be additionally implemented. .

1 is a flowchart illustrating a method of storing a measuring instrument screen as a video according to an embodiment of the present invention.
2 illustrates an example of recording the entire measurement screen according to an embodiment of the present invention.
3 illustrates an example of recording a selected area of a measuring screen according to an embodiment of the present invention.
4 illustrates an example of providing a user with a currently recorded screen according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The foregoing and further aspects of the present invention will become more apparent through the preferred embodiments described with reference to the accompanying drawings. Hereinafter will be described in detail to enable those skilled in the art to easily understand and reproduce through this embodiment of the present invention.

At the time the instrument was first manufactured, video recording was not technically or hardware feasible. Nowadays, however, it is possible to store video from the instrument in terms of hardware performance or video technology.

However, when storing large data such as a video, the HDD takes up a lot of space and has a large overhead compared to image storage. However, it is possible to minimize the shortcomings with a compression algorithm that has high compression efficiency and fast operation speed when storing images such as MPEG-4. It is also very efficient at reducing file size when saving as vector graphics.

Hereinafter, a method of storing a measuring instrument screen as a video will be described.

The present invention operates a measuring instrument to select whether to save the image quality, storage location, partial or full-screen storage, storage time, continuous storage, and delete the existing video file for the video recording.

In addition, the present invention can be set to start video recording when a set event occurs. In the context of the present invention, an event may occur using a hot key during the actual test. The user can select an event to set from a plurality of event lists on the option setting screen. In this regard, in addition to the events provided by default, various events can be added as basic events.

In addition, each event may be set to perform a unique operation. In other words, screen capture and caption addition can be set for event A, and caption stock price and intermediate result display and storage can be set for event B. FIG.

As described above, an event may be classified into a basic event and a message event.

Basic events include terminal connection attempts by instrument requests, terminal connection completions by instrument requests, terminal connection errors due to connection attempts, environment settings at the start of the test, changes in progress during the test by the user's settings, test intermediate results, and graphs ( Intermediate result point setting or intermediate result recording time setting according to a test item), test end, test result, recording end at the end of the test, and set recording time end.

In addition, according to the present invention, an event can be added by selecting a desired message from a message list used for a test, and an operation (screen gap, subtitle addition, intermediate result display / save, etc.) can be set for the selected message. The selected or added event is stored, and the user generates or generates an event by setting / controlling the instrument, or the instrument generates an event in response to a message received from the terminal during the test and processes the set operation.

In connection with the present invention, a message event may include a terminal connection attempt (terminal response), terminal terminal completion (terminal response), terminal terminal termination (terminal response), terminal reconnection message, terminal handover message, terminal configuration mode message (Security, etc.), This includes changing instrument settings (output power control messages, etc.) by specific messages.

1 is a flowchart illustrating a method of storing a measuring instrument screen as a video according to an embodiment of the present invention. Hereinafter, a method of storing a measuring instrument screen as a video according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to FIG. 1.

In step S100 the instrument detects the operation. In step S102, the measuring instrument determines whether the detected operation is a video recording start right command. If the detected operation is the start command of moving picture recording, the process moves to step S106, and if the detected operation is not the start command of moving picture recording, the process moves to step S104.

In step S104, the measuring instrument moves to step S106 when a video recording start event occurs. That is, the user can command the video recording when a specific event occurs or immediately by operating the instrument. If the event is set to record immediately when an event occurs, video recording starts immediately. If it is set to record when a specific event occurs, the instrument monitors when the event occurs and starts recording when the event occurs.

In step S106, the instrument starts recording video. The instrument can save the recorded video to internal or external memory, depending on the settings. That is, the measuring instrument may store the recorded video on the HDD or the external memory. In addition to video storage, the instrument may display a separate display unit to notify a user whether a video is recorded, and may display various information such as a total storage space of the memory and a storage space that can be stored.

In step S108 the instrument determines whether an event occurs. The measuring instrument moves to step S110 when an event occurs, and moves to step S112 when an event does not occur.

In the context of the present invention, the event may include stopping / pause of recording, etc. generated from the outside, such as a user, and may include inserting / recording subtitle files of a specific sound generated inside the measuring instrument. Or changes in various measured values that can be measured inside the instrument, changes in the state of the terminal to be measured, and changes in the instrument state. Parameter changes may be included in the event.

In step S110 the instrument processes the generated event and moves to step S112.

In step S112, the measurement unit determines whether the completion of video recording is required, and when the completion is requested, the process moves to step S114 to complete video storage.

In connection with the present invention, the measuring device may store the recorded video in real time, or store the video stored in the temporary memory when the completion of video recording is required. That is, the present invention may separately configure a storage space for temporarily storing the recorded video and a storage space for finally storing the recorded video.

The present invention manages a video file stored in a measuring instrument so that the memory storage capacity can be operated without error and supports moving, deleting, and copying of an existing video.

The present invention can select and play one of a plurality of video files stored in the measuring instrument, and provides a copy function of a file to easily check the stored video using an external PC or the like. The external PC provides information on the copied video file according to the user's request.

2 to 4 illustrate selection regions according to various recording options according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2 illustrates an example of recording the entire measurement screen according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 3 illustrates an example of recording a selected area of the measurement screen according to an embodiment of the present invention.

According to FIG. 2, the measurement screen includes items such as a measurement environment, a setting, a progress status, a result and a progress status, and a menu, and the recorded screen corresponds to the entire screen of the measurement instrument.

In contrast, FIG. 3 records only an area corresponding to a result and a progress state of the entire screen of the measuring instrument including items such as a measurement environment, a setting, a progress state, a result and a progress state, and a menu. Of course, other regions other than the regions corresponding to the result and the progress state may be recorded, or additional regions including the regions corresponding to the result and the progress state may be recorded according to the user's setting.

4 illustrates an example of providing a currently recorded screen to a user by using a partial region of the display unit. That is, as mentioned in FIG. 2, the entire screen being recorded is reduced and provided to the user by using a part of the display unit. Therefore, the user can obtain information about the screen currently being recorded by receiving the corresponding screen.

In addition, the present invention separately processes the operation process as necessary and adds it to the video as a subtitle so that it can be confirmed what the action is actually done. The user can easily check the current progress status by providing the subtitles with the results and phenomenon occurring in the middle of the operation.

By setting a specific event as a condition, when a corresponding event occurs during the execution process, a specific sound is inserted into the recorded video so that a user can easily confirm that a specific event has occurred when checking the video.

In addition, the present invention converts the information of the screen that can be output on the screen, such as the respective measurement data, environment variables, and converts the data into a vector data (vector data) to be stored as a file. After that, a function of playing back the corresponding files stored by using a dedicated playback device will be implemented. In this way, the file size can be reduced by converting the data into vector data.

In general, two methods are used. The Lester method is a method of making an image with a minimum unit of pixels, such as paint or Photoshop. Common screen captures, screen video savings, etc.

On the other hand, the vector method is a method of filling colors by drawing lines and shapes by mathematical methods such as Illustrator and CorelDraw. It is difficult to apply the natural gradient color used in the raster method because the various lines, shapes, and colors that make up the image are stored mathematically, but the size of the saved file is small and the image size is changed even if the image size is changed. No damage

When the image of the Lester is enlarged or reduced to some extent and the enlargement is repeated again, the boundary is broken without being detailed, but the vector method has the advantage of showing the details even if the image is enlarged or reduced.

While the present invention has been particularly shown and described with reference to exemplary embodiments thereof, it will be understood by those of ordinary skill in the art that various changes in form and details may be made therein without departing from the scope of the present invention .

Claims (6)

Setting a screen area to be recorded among the screens of the measuring instrument;
Converting the screen of the set instrument into a video file and storing the screen when the set event signal is input; And
And converting the instrument screen information including measurement data, environment variables, and measurement procedures into vector data and compressing and storing the instrument screen information.
The method of claim 1, wherein the converting and storing the video file comprises:
And storing and inserting a specific sound into the video file when a set event occurs.
The method of claim 2, wherein the converting and storing the converted video file comprises:
A method of storing an instrument screen, characterized by inserting and storing a corresponding subtitle when a set event occurs.
The method of claim 3, wherein the converting and storing the video file comprises:
And displaying the stored measurement screen using a separate display unit in real time.
According to claim 1, The measuring instrument screen to be recorded,
Method of storing the measuring screen, characterized in that any one of the full screen of the measuring instrument or a part of the screen of the measuring instrument.
6. The method of claim 5,
And recording information including a change in a measured value, a change in a state of a meter, and a change in a measurement parameter.

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