KR20060044848A - Method for generating a realistic progress indicator - Google Patents

Abstract

A method of displaying work progress is disclosed. According to the present invention, when a predetermined task is started, the task progress state displaying method includes performing partial task steps corresponding to the current task progress level among a predetermined number of partial task steps classified according to the task progress level up to the expected end time of the task. A step of checking, calculating a progress rate indicating the progress of work within the predetermined total work progress in the identified partial work step, and displaying the progress rate on the display screen indicating the progress of work. Accordingly, even when information on the actual progress of the work cannot be obtained, the progress of the work is realistically displayed to inform the user that the work is progressing at a predetermined speed, and the work is judged by the misjudgment of the progress of the work. Malfunctions such as terminating can be prevented.

Display, progress bar, task progress, random

Description

Method for generating a realistic progress indicator}

1 is a block diagram showing an apparatus for displaying a work progress status to which the present invention is applied;

2 is a view provided for explaining a job progress status display method according to the present invention; and

3 is a flowchart provided to explain a method of displaying a work progress state according to the present invention.

Description of the main parts of the drawing

110: memory 120: control unit

130: progress calculation unit 140: UI generation unit

150: display

The present invention relates to a work progress status display method, and more particularly, to a work progress status display method capable of calculating and displaying a work progress rate approaching a real work progress process when information on the work progress is insufficient.

Currently, various applications used in information processing devices such as computers, PDAs, and workstations are in progress for the user by using methods such as images, texts, and pop-up windows such as hourglasses while performing tasks instructed by the user. Indicates.

However, this method does not represent any information about how far the work is currently done, except for the ability to inform the user that the work is in progress.

Therefore, even if the task takes a certain time or more, it does not provide any information on how much the task is progressing, but only indicates that the task is currently in progress. Even if the work is actually being performed smoothly, it may lead to wrong judgment such as canceling the work due to lack of information.

In order to solve this problem, in addition to indicating that a task performed in an application is currently in progress, a method of using a progress bar is known as a method for indicating information on how much the task is performed.

In general, the progress bar is displayed as a rectangular bar in the horizontal direction, and the work progress is 0% and the work end is 100%, and the progress of the work is a progress value between 0% and 100%. In response to this, the color of the bar is generally changed continuously from left to right from light color to dark color, and when the work is finished, the color of the entire bar is changed to dark color.

Therefore, the user can visually and clearly recognize the degree of progress of the work so that human and machine communication can be performed smoothly and the work can be performed smoothly according to the accurate understanding of the progress of the user's work. do. In particular, when the time required to perform a task is long, it is necessary to use the progress bar to indicate the progress of the task in order to prevent a malfunction by the user's misjudgment.

However, if the information processing device cannot grasp the progress of the task at all, such as when the task is performed by an external application instead of an internal application or at the hardware level, a progress bar is used. There is a problem that is difficult to use the method to display the progress of the work.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in an effort to provide a method of displaying a work progress state in which a work progress state can be displayed more realistically when information on an actual work progress degree cannot be obtained.

In order to solve the above technical problem, the operation progress state display method according to the present invention, when a predetermined operation is started, a predetermined number of partial operation steps classified according to the progress of the operation until the expected end time of the operation Checking a partial work step corresponding to a current work progress degree, calculating a progress rate indicating the progress of the work within a predetermined total work progress in the identified partial work steps, and performing the work progress Displaying on the display screen indicating the degree.

Preferably, the method further includes setting a predetermined confirmation period waiting to confirm whether or not the operation is finished, and checking whether the operation is terminated during the confirmation period, and returning to the confirmation step if the operation is not completed. do.

Here, when the job is finished, it is preferable to further include the step of indicating the end of the job on the display screen.

In addition, the progress rate is preferably calculated by adding an increase amount randomly extracted within the total work progress.

Preferably, the progress, and the total work progress, are expressed using percentage values.

Hereinafter, with reference to the accompanying drawings will be described the present invention in more detail.

1 is a block diagram illustrating an operation progress state display apparatus to which the present invention is applied.

Referring to FIG. 1, the apparatus for displaying a job progress state includes a memory 110, a controller 120, a progress calculator 130, a UI generator 140, and a display 150.

The memory 110 stores data including a program necessary to perform the method of displaying a work progress state according to the present invention. In addition, the memory 110 stores data necessary for generating a work progress display screen for indicating a work progress state through a progress bar displayed on the display 150 to be described later.

The controller 120 controls the overall work progress display device. In addition, the control unit 120, when receiving information indicating the start and end of the task from a predetermined task execution subject such as an external application or hardware, the progress calculation unit for generating a progress bar for indicating the progress of the operation according to the present invention 130 and the UI generator 140 is controlled.

The progress calculation unit 130 calculates a percentage value indicating the progress of the operation under the control of the control unit 120. That is, the progress calculation unit 130 divides the percentage value of 100% corresponding to the end of the task into a predetermined number N of task substeps, predicts the end time of the corresponding task, and predicts it from the start time of the task (0). The total work period between the completed end times is divided by the partial work durations corresponding to the work partial steps, respectively, to calculate the total amount of partial work UL _N progressed during each work duration. In addition, the progress calculation unit 130 checks the corresponding partial step according to the progress of the current work and randomizes the progress indicating the degree of progress of the current work within the corresponding partial step within the limit of the partial work progress amount UL _N. Calculate as

The UI generating unit 140 configures the progress calculated by the progress calculating unit 130 using the data stored in the memory 110 as a progress bar-type screen including a moving image including characters and figures, and displays the display 150. ).

2 is a diagram illustrating an example of a display screen including a progress bar displaying a work progress state.

The UI generating unit 140 may display a job status display screen including a progress bar displaying a job progress rate as shown in FIG. 2 on the display 150 through a popup window. Referring to FIG. 2, when the progress calculated by the progress calculating unit 130 is, for example, “59%”, the progress bar generated by the UI generating unit 140 may display the calculated progress visually in the horizontal direction. The color of the rectangular bar marked with is changed from the left to the darker color by the amount corresponding to "59%", and the text "59%" is displayed directly inside to convey information clearly and visually. .

The display unit 150 displays a progress bar screen generated by the UI generator 140. The user may check the progress of the currently performed task while viewing the progress bar screen displayed on the display unit 150, and input a necessary command by operating an input device (not shown).

3 is a flowchart provided to explain a method of displaying a work progress state according to the present invention.

When a task start command is input by a user and a corresponding task is started from a predetermined task performer such as an external application or hardware, the controller 120 controls the progress calculating unit 130 and the UI generating unit 140 to "0." A job status display screen indicating a job progress rate of "%" is displayed on the display 150 (S310), indicating that the job is started.

On the other hand, the control unit 120 calculates the total time required on the average job according to the characteristics of the job. In addition, the control unit 120 sets a confirmation period to wait for a predetermined period to confirm the end of the work progress before calculating the work progress rate to be displayed next time. The total required time according to the characteristic of the task may be calculated by accumulating the execution time of the corresponding task by the type of the task and storing it in the memory 110 and averaging it.

The controller 120 waits for a predetermined period of time according to a predetermined confirmation period (S320) and confirms whether the corresponding task is completed (S330).

If the job is not completed, the control unit 120 controls the progress calculation unit 130 to check the partial step to which the current degree of progress of the current job belongs by referring to the time taken from the time when the job started to the present time (S340), The progress is calculated in a random manner within the limit of the partial work total progress amount (UL _N ) in the corresponding partial step (S350), and generates a work progress display screen according to the calculated progress by controlling the UI generation unit 140 Display on the display 150 (S360).

The calculation of the progress rate is performed by randomly extracting the work progress increase amount, and adding the increase amount calculated to the already displayed progress rate to calculate the work progress rate to be displayed next time.

For example, it estimates the total work time as 26 seconds, sets the verification period to 1 second, and divides the total work amount from "0%" to "100%" into four sub-steps, and then performs the total sub-work at each sub-step. If the quantity (UL _N ) is set to "UL ₁ = 75%", "UL ₂ = 90%", "UL ₃ = 99%" and "UL ₄ = 100%" respectively, step 1: (0% -75 %), Stage 2: (76% -90%), Stage 3: (91% -99%), Stage 4: (100%). In addition, the partial time required in each step is set to 12 seconds in the first step, 2 seconds in the second step, and 7 seconds in the third step, respectively.

Here, the checking period, the division of the partial steps and the total partial work progress are preferably calculated according to the characteristics of the corresponding work, and are predefined according to the type of the job and stored in the memory 110 or using a general method of statistics. By making predictions, you can properly reflect the actual progress of your work.

Table 1 below shows the estimated total work time required, the partial steps corresponding to the time according to the checking period, the work progress rate, and the randomly calculated work progress increase amount according to the example.

Confirmation period (1 second) Partial steps Job Progress (%) % Increase 0 One 0 0 One One 11 11 2 One 15 4 3 One 21 6 4 One 31 10 5 One 33 2 6 One 40 7 7 One 44 4 8 One 49 5 9 One 58 9 10 One 65 7 11 One 73 8 12 2 83 10 13 2 85 2 14 3 91 6 15 3 93 2 16 3 93 0 17 3 94 One 18 3 95 One 19 3 97 2 20 3 98 One 21 3 98 0 22 3 99 One 23 3 99 0 24 3 99 0 25 3 99 0 26 4 100 0

Referring to Table 1, the work progress increase amount was extracted as a random number between "0" and "11", and thus it can be seen that the work progress also increases randomly.

On the other hand, if the progress rate is calculated and displayed, the control unit 120 returns to step S320 and waits for a predetermined confirmation period (S320), and checks again whether the operation is completed (S330).

When the result of the check is completed, the control unit 120 controls the progress calculation unit 130 and the UI generation unit 140 to calculate the progress rate as “100%” regardless of the currently displayed progress rate and to display it on the work progress display screen. To display (S370).

For example, referring to Table 1, when the progress of the job currently displayed on the work progress display screen corresponds to "85%", if the control unit 120 receives a signal for notifying the end of the job during the confirmation period of 1 second, 120 immediately proceeds to step S370 to display a work progress display screen notifying the end of the job "100%".

However, if the job is not finished during the confirmation period, since 1 second has elapsed again from the progress rate displayed on the current work progress display screen, it can be seen that the current step proceeds to step 3 since the work required in step 2 exceeds 2 seconds. have.

Therefore, the progress calculation unit 130 increases the progress increase amount to "91% so that the progress can be calculated within the total partial work progress (UL ₃ = 99%) corresponding to the third stage, that is, between 91% and 99%. -85% = 6% "to" 99% -85% = 14% "to extract randomly. The increase amount extracted in Table 1 is 6%, and thus the progress calculated corresponds to 91%.

As described above, according to the method of displaying the work progress status according to the present invention, when information on the progress of the actual work cannot be obtained, the predicted progress is calculated according to a predetermined method to realistically represent the work progress. It is possible to inform the user that the work is progressing at a predetermined speed, and to prevent a malfunction such as terminating the work due to a misjudgment caused by the suspicion of whether or not the work is progressing, thereby contributing to smoother human-machine communication.

Although the present invention has been described in detail through the representative embodiments, those skilled in the art can make various modifications without departing from the scope of the present invention with respect to the embodiments described above. Will understand. Therefore, the scope of the present invention should not be limited to the described embodiments, but should be defined by the claims below and equivalents thereof.

Claims (5)

Checking a partial work step corresponding to a current work progress degree among a predetermined number of partial work steps classified according to the progress of work up to an expected end time of the work when a predetermined work is started; Calculating a progress rate indicating the progress of the work within the predetermined total work progress in the identified partial work steps; And And displaying the progress rate on a display screen indicating the degree of progress of the work. The method of claim 1, Setting a predetermined confirmation period waiting to confirm whether the operation has ended in advance, checking whether the operation has ended during the confirmation period, and returning to the confirmation step if not finished; How to display the work progress status. The method of claim 2, And displaying the end of the job on the display screen when the job is finished. The method of claim 1, And the progress rate is calculated by adding a randomly increased increase amount within the total work progress. The method of claim 1, And the progress rate and the total work progress amount are expressed using percentage values.

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