TW201512849A - Cluster control system - Google Patents

Abstract

A cluster control system cooperates with a handheld touch device that sends out a controlling message relative to a touch action through a network, and includes a plurality of host computers. The controlling message includes a cursor moving command and/or an event operating command. Each of the host computers includes a screen, a network module, a storage module and a control module. The screen displays a graphical user interface (GUI) with a display coordinate and a cursor. The network module connects with the network to receive the controlling message. The storage module stores distribution information about the relative positions of the screens. The control module determines one of the host computers as a first host in a controlled state according to the display coordinate of each screen and the cursor moving command, thereby the first host executes the cursor moving command or the event operating command resulting from operating the handheld touch device conveniently.

Description

Clustered control system

The present invention relates to a steering system, and more particularly to a clustered steering system.

The computer host on the square will have a control device such as a mouse, keyboard, touch screen or button-type control interface. The user can conveniently control the computer host through the control device, so that the computer host can generate corresponding actions for the computer host. User use.

When there is a need to control multiple computer hosts, a common method is to install a control device for each computer host to control each computer host separately. However, this method is extremely inconvenient, so it is common to use a KVM Switch, and connect multiple computer hosts to the PC switch, and connect a set of keyboards, mice, and screens to the KVM switch. This allows the screen to display the output of one of these computer mainframes through the selection of the KVM switch, and can operate the host computer through the keyboard and mouse.

However, the use of the switch of the computer switch requires the user to control the computer switcher to switch the display host computer, which is inconvenient.

The invention provides a cluster type control system for the user to conveniently control one of the plurality of hosts without manually switching the host to be controlled.

The cluster control system of the embodiment of the present invention is used in combination with a touch handheld device, and the touch handheld device sends a control message in response to a touch action via the network, wherein the manipulation message includes a cursor movement instruction and an event operation instruction. Or a combination thereof. The clustered control system includes multiple hosts. At the same time, one of the first hosts of the plurality of hosts is in an operational state, and the other hosts are in a waiting state. Each host includes a screen, a network module, a storage module, and a control module. The graphical display interface is displayed on the screen. The graphical interface contains display coordinates and cursors. The network module is connected to the network to receive control messages via the network. The storage module stores distribution information, and the distribution information is related to the relevant positional relationship of the screens of the respective hosts. The control module determines, according to the display coordinates of each screen and the cursor movement instruction, that one of the hosts is in an operation state, and the first host in the operation state executes a cursor movement instruction or an event operation instruction according to the manipulation message.

According to the cluster control system configured above, the touch operation of the touch handheld device sends a corresponding control message, and then the control message is transmitted to the network module of the host through the network. The control module obtains the control message from the network module, so as to analyze and judge according to the manipulation message and designate one of the hosts to be in the operating state of the first host, so that the cursor on the first host moves to the corresponding coordinate corresponding to the manipulation message or Execute an event action instruction. Furthermore, if the cursor on the first host moves to another first host, the control module determines another first host according to the distribution information of the storage module, so that the original The first host transitions from the operational state to the wait state, while the other first host transitions from the wait state to the operational state. In this way, one of the plurality of hosts can be conveniently operated by the touch control device by touch, and the host to be controlled can be switched by the control module. In this way, the user can confirm the status of each host through the screen of each host, and can control one of the hosts without switching by itself, thereby improving the convenience.

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20‧‧‧Touch handheld device

30‧‧‧Network

31‧‧‧Regional Network

32‧‧‧Network route

33‧‧‧Wireless network sharing device

Figure 1 is a schematic diagram showing the architecture of a first embodiment of the present invention.

Figure 2 is a schematic diagram of another architecture of the first embodiment of the present invention.

Figure 3 is a schematic view showing the structure of a host according to a first embodiment of the present invention.

Figure 4 is a schematic view showing the state of use of one embodiment of the present invention.

Figure 5 is a schematic view showing the state of use of another embodiment of the present invention.

Figure 6 is a schematic view showing the state of use of one embodiment of the present invention.

Figure 7 is a schematic view showing the state of use of still another embodiment of the present invention.

Figure 8 is a schematic diagram of a control state of an embodiment of the present invention.

Figure 9 is a schematic view showing another control state of an embodiment of the present invention.

Figure 10 is a block diagram showing the structure of a second embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of a cluster control system 1 according to an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 2 is another schematic diagram of the architecture of the clustered control system 1 according to an embodiment of the present invention. Please refer to Figures 1 to 2 in combination. The clustered control system 1 can be used with a touch handheld device 20. Touch hand The holding device 20 can send a manipulation message in response to the touch action to the clustered manipulation system 1 via the network 30. The manipulation message contains a cursor movement instruction, an event operation instruction, or a combination thereof. That is to say, the manipulation message may separately include a cursor movement instruction or may separately include an event operation instruction, or may include both types of instructions at the same time, and the description of these instructions is described later.

FIG. 3 is a schematic structural diagram of a host according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in Figures 1 to 3, the clustered control system 1 includes a plurality of hosts 10. Each host 10 includes a screen 11, a network module 12, a storage module 13, and a control module 14 (as shown in FIG. 3). The screen 11, the network module 12 and the storage module 13 are respectively connected to the control module 14.

The screen 11 displays a graphical interface, and the graphical interface includes display coordinates and cursors. The graphical interface is an operation interface of the operating system of each host 10, and the operating system can be a computer operating system such as Windows or Linux. However, the embodiment of the present invention is not limited thereto, and may be, for example, an embedded operating system (such as Android). Wait. As shown in Fig. 1, the screen 11 of one embodiment of the present invention can be arranged in two dimensions. The two-dimensional arrangement means that a plurality of screens 11 are respectively disposed in the horizontal direction and the vertical direction, whereby the screen 11 is formed into a plane. In some embodiments, the screen 11 can be arranged in a one-dimensional manner (not shown), that is, the screen 11 can be provided with a plurality of screens 11 in a horizontal direction or a vertical direction. The screens 11 are arranged in close proximity (as shown in FIG. 1). In some embodiments, the screens 11 are arranged at a distance (as shown in FIG. 2).

Fig. 4 is a schematic view showing the state of use of the cluster type manipulation system 1 according to an embodiment of the present invention. Figure 5 is a cluster diagram of another embodiment of the present invention Schematic diagram of the state of use of the control system 1. Fig. 6 is a schematic view showing the state of use of the cluster type manipulation system 1 according to still another embodiment of the present invention. Fig. 7 is a view showing the state of use of the cluster type manipulation system 1 according to still another embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 3, the network module 12 is wirelessly connected to the network 30 to receive the manipulation information of the touch handheld device 20 via the network 30. The network module 12 can be a communication module that conforms to wireless transmission technologies such as a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) or Bluetooth, and can include a communication chip, a high frequency circuit, and an antenna. Figures 4 through 7 illustrate clustered control systems 1 of different network 30 topologies, respectively. As shown in FIG. 4, the touch handheld device 20 can be located in the same area as the network module 12 of each host 10 in the network 30. As shown in FIG. 5, the touch handheld device 20 can be located in a different area network with the network module 12 of each host 10, and the touch handheld device 20 is connected to the network module 12 of each host 10. The networks 31 are connected to one another via a network 30. As shown in FIG. 6, in some embodiments, the network module 12 of each host 10 of the clustered control system 1 of the present invention is connected to the network 30 via a network route 32. As shown in FIG. 7, in some embodiments, the network modules 12 of the hosts 10 of the present invention are partially connected to the network by way of the network route 32, and partially connected by the wireless network sharing device 33. To the Internet.

Referring to FIG. 3, the storage module 13 stores the distribution information between the screens 11, that is, the distribution information is related to the relative positional relationship of the screens 11 of the respective hosts 10. For example, the distribution information may be a positional relationship (such as the lower left and the right) of each screen 11 corresponding to the screen 11 adjacent thereto. Alternatively, the distribution information may assign a table to the locations of the screens 11.

The control module 14 determines whether one of the hosts 11 is the first host 101 according to the display coordinates and the cursor movement command of each screen 11, and the first host 101 is in an operating state, and the remaining hosts 11 are in a waiting state. Therefore, the first host 101 that is in the operational state executes the cursor movement instruction or the event operation instruction according to the manipulation message. That is to say, the control module 14 of each host 10 determines that one of the hosts 10 is the first host 101 through the manipulation message, and causes the first host 101 to enter an operation state, and the remaining host 10 enters a waiting state. Therefore, the control module 14 executes a cursor movement instruction, an event operation instruction, or a combination thereof on the first host 101 by manipulating the message. The host 11 has only one host 11 as the first host 101 at the same time. That is to say, the user controls one host 11 (ie, the first host 101) via the touch handheld device 20 at the same time.

The event operation instruction may be a keyboard input instruction, a left-click command, a right-click command, or a scroll instruction. The invention is not limited thereto.

In this case, the cursor movement command corresponds to the touch slip direction and the slip amount on the touch handheld device 20, that is, the user touches the touch handheld device 20 and simultaneously on the touch handheld device 20. Slip, whereby the cursor can be moved corresponding to the slip direction and the slip amount.

In this case, the control modules 14 of each host 10 are connected to each other by the network module 12, so that each control module 14 can obtain the display coordinates of the screen 11 of the own screen 11 and other hosts 10. The display coordinates of the screens 11 connected thereto are normalized by the control modules 14 to be uniform coordinates, so that the coordinates of the unified coordinates of the screens 11 connected to the respective hosts 10 are the same. among them, The normalization system first obtains the display coordinates of each screen 11 to calculate the ratio of the range of each display coordinate to the range of the unified coordinates, and then enlarges or reduces the display coordinate range of each screen 11 into a unified coordinate range. In this embodiment, as an example, if the display coordinates of one of the screens 11 are 800*600, the control module 14 corresponding to the screen 11 of the screen 11 takes the display coordinate range (800*600), and the control module 14 Calculate the difference between the coordinate range of the display and the uniform coordinate range (such as 1200*900). In this embodiment, the magnification is 1.5 times. Therefore, the screen 11 enlarges its display coordinate to a unified coordinate according to the ratio (such as 1.5 times). Thereby, the coordinates of each screen 11 are unified, so that the cursor moves at the same speed when moving, without the cursor moving speed of each screen 11 being different. The above-mentioned formalization procedure is not limited thereto, and other methods that are easy to think are also the technical features to be protected by the present invention.

When the user slides on the touch handheld device 20, the cursor movement command of the slip direction and the slip amount is transmitted to the control module 14 of each host 10 via the control message, and is calculated by the control module 14 The cursor movement command is used to map the cursor movement command to the unified coordinates on the screen 11, so that the cursor on the screen 11 can be moved by the user on the touch handheld device 20.

Each control module 14 calculates a cursor movement command as a cursor path corresponding to the unified coordinate. When the cursor of the first host 101 in the operating state moves along the cursor path beyond its own unified coordinates, and according to the screen distribution information, it straddles the unified coordinates of the second host 102 of one of the hosts 10 in the waiting state, The first host 101 is converted to a wait state, The second host 102 transitions to an operational state, and the control module 14 of the second host 102 maps the cursor path on the unified coordinates to its own display coordinates and moves the cursor thereon.

In the initial use, the first host 101 may be fixed by one of the hosts 10, that is, fixedly by the leftmost and uppermost in FIG. 7 as the initial first host 101, and the present invention is not For this reason, the location of the last last cursor may be stored by the storage module 13 to determine the first host 101.

Figure 8 is a schematic diagram of the independent control state of the present invention. Figure 9 is a schematic view showing another control state of the independent type of the present invention. Referring to FIGS. 8-9, when the user touches the touch handheld device 20, the touch handheld device 20 then transmits a manipulation command to each host 10 to determine the first host 101. Here, as shown in FIG. 8, initially, the first host 101 is the host 10 of the screen 12 on the left side as shown. Therefore, when the user slides on the touch handheld device 20, the cursor path 112 of the cursor 111 on the screen 12 of the first host 101 moves corresponding to the touch handheld device 20. The user can control the graphical interface of the screen 12 of the first host 101 through the touch handheld device 20 . Because the stored information of the control module 14 has the corresponding relationship between the first host 101 and the other hosts 10, when the cursor path 112 exceeds the boundary of the first host 101, the control module 14 of the first host 101 will first make the cursor path 112 The arriving adjacent host 10 is the second host 102 (as shown in FIG. 9), and transmits the coordinates of the cursor 111 to the unified coordinates of the first host 101 to the second host 102, so that the second host 102 is in the waiting state. Turning to the operating state, while the cursor 111 of the first host 101 is The coordinates are transmitted to the corresponding coordinates of the second host 102, whereby the cursor of the first host 101 is moved to the second host 102 without interruption. When the cursor is moved from the first host 101 to the second host 102, the first host 101 is switched from the operating state to the waiting state. In this way, it is convenient to control the plurality of hosts 10 through the touch handheld device 20, and there is no need to manually switch the host 10 to be controlled. Furthermore, each host does not need to be equipped with a keyboard or a mouse, etc., thereby saving installation resources. And save installation space. Therefore, when there are multiple security hosts, and the screens of the security hosts simultaneously display the monitoring screen, the monitoring personnel can control the security host by controlling the touch handheld device 20, thereby improving the convenience of the control and saving the installation. the cost of.

FIG. 10 is a schematic structural diagram of one of a master-slave cluster operating system according to an embodiment of the present invention. Referring to FIG. 10, in this embodiment, each host 10 includes a screen 11, a network module 12, a storage module 13, and a control module 14, and is similar to the previous embodiment. One of the hosts 10 is a master 103, and each of the other hosts 10 is a controlled machine 104. The master 103 and each controlled machine 104 are connected to each other via the network 30, and the host computer The network module 14 of 103 is connected to the touch handheld device 20 via the network 30 to receive the manipulation message. The storage module 13 of the main control unit 103 stores a distribution information related to the relative positional relationship of the screens 11 of the respective hosts 10. The control module 14 of the main control unit 103 receives the control message, and determines that one of the hosts 10 is the first host 101 and enters the operation state according to the display coordinates of the respective screens 11 and the cursor movement command, thereby transmitting the control. The message to the first host 101 causes the first host 101 to execute a cursor movement instruction or the event operation instruction according to the manipulation message.

Here, the first host 101 may be one of the masters 103 or one of the controlled machines 104, and is not limited thereto. That is to say, after the master 103 obtains the control message from the touch handheld device 20, the master 103 or one of the controlled devices 104 can be designated as the first host 101.

In addition, the control module 14 of the main control unit 103 normalizes the display coordinates to a unified coordinate, and the coordinate coordinates of the unified coordinates of the host computers 10 are the same. The normalization method in this embodiment is the same as the previous embodiment, and details are not described herein again. Therefore, the control module 14 calculates a cursor path 112 for calculating the cursor movement command to correspond to the unified coordinate. When the cursor 111 of the first host 101 in the operation state moves along the cursor path 112, it exceeds its own unified coordinate and crosses the information according to the screen distribution information. When the unified coordinates of the second host 102 in the host 10 are waiting, the first host 101 is switched to the waiting state, the second host 102 is converted into the operating state, and the second host 102 is controlled by the control module of the host 103. The cursor path 112 on the mapped unified coordinates is moved over the display coordinates of the cursor 111 on its own display coordinates. That is, after the main controller 103 specifies that one of the hosts 10 is the first host 101, the cursor 111 of each screen 11 is controlled according to the manipulation message, so that the cursor path 112 moves corresponding to the manipulation message, when the cursor path 112 When the unified coordinates of the first host 101 are exceeded, the main control unit 103 specifies that the second host 102 enters the operating state from the waiting state through the control module 14, and transmits the coordinates of the unified coordinates of the cursor 111 to the second host 102, so that the second The host 102 has moved the cursor corresponding to the control module 14 of the master 103, and at the same time, the first host 101 is switched from the operating state to the waiting state.

In this way, it is convenient to operate through the touch handheld device 20 The plurality of hosts 10 are controlled, and the host 10 to be controlled is not required to be manually selected. Furthermore, each host does not need to be equipped with an operating device such as a keyboard or a mouse, thereby saving installation resources and saving installation space. Therefore, when there are multiple security hosts, and the screens of the security hosts simultaneously display the monitoring screen, the monitoring personnel can control the security host by controlling the touch handheld device 20, thereby improving the convenience of the control and saving the installation. the cost of.

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Claims (10)

A cluster-type control system is used in conjunction with a touch handheld device that sends a control message in response to a touch action via a network, wherein the control message includes a cursor movement command and an event operation command Or a combination thereof, the clustered control system includes: a plurality of hosts, wherein at the same time, one of the hosts of the hosts is in an operational state, and the other hosts are in a waiting state, and each of the hosts includes: a screen displaying a graphical interface, the graphical interface including a display coordinate and a cursor; a network module connected to the network to receive the control message via the network; a storage module, storing a distribution information, the distribution information is related to the relative positional relationship of the screens of the hosts; and a control module, determining, according to the display coordinates of the screen and the cursor movement instruction, one of the hosts is The operation state, the first host of the operation state executes the cursor movement instruction or the event operation instruction according to the manipulation message. The clustering control system of claim 1, wherein the control module of each of the hosts normalizes the display coordinates to a unified coordinate, and the unified coordinates of each of the hosts have the same coordinate range. The clustering control system of claim 2, wherein each of the control modules calculates the cursor movement instruction as a cursor path corresponding to the unified coordinate, and the cursor of the first host in the operation state follows the cursor path When the mobile phone moves beyond the unified coordinates of the user and according to the picture distribution information to the unified coordinates of a second host of the hosts in the waiting state, the first host transitions to the waiting state, the second host Converting to the operational state, and the control module of the second host maps the cursor path on the unified coordinate to the display coordinates of the unit and moves the cursor thereon. The cluster control system of claim 1, wherein the event operation instruction is a keyboard input instruction, a left-click command, a right-click command, or a scroll instruction. The clustering control system of claim 1, wherein the screens of the hosts are arranged in one or two dimensions. A cluster-type control system is used in conjunction with a touch handheld device that sends a control message in response to a touch action via a network, wherein the control message includes a cursor movement command and an event operation command Or a combination thereof, the clustered control system includes: a plurality of hosts, wherein at the same time, one of the hosts of the hosts is in an operational state, and the other hosts are in a waiting state, and each of the hosts includes: a screen displaying a graphical interface, the graphical interface including a display coordinate and a cursor; and a network module connected to the network, wherein one of the hosts is a master, and the other Each of the hosts is a controlled machine, and the master and the controlled machines are connected to each other via the network, and the network module of the host is connected to the touch via the network. Controlling the handheld device to receive the control message; wherein the master controller further comprises: a storage module, storing a distribution information, the distribution information is related to the relative positional relationship of the screens of the hosts; and a control module, Determining, according to the display coordinate of the screen and the cursor movement instruction, one of the hosts is the operation state, and transmitting the manipulation message to the first host of the operation state, so that the first host is configured according to the first host The cursor movement instruction or the event operation instruction is executed by the manipulation message. The clustering control system of claim 6, wherein the control module of the main controller normalizes the display coordinates to a unified coordinate, and the coordinates of the unified coordinates of each of the hosts are the same. The clustering control system of claim 7, wherein the control module calculates a cursor path corresponding to the cursor coordinate corresponding to the unified coordinate, and moves the cursor of the first host in the operation state along the cursor path. And the first host is converted to the waiting state, and the second host is converted, when the unified coordinates are exceeded and the information is distributed according to the screen to the unified coordinates of a second host of the hosts in the waiting state. For the operational state, the control module of the master computer maps the cursor path on the unified coordinate to the display coordinates of the second host and moves the cursor thereon. The clustering control system of claim 6, wherein the event operation instruction is a keyboard input instruction, a left-click command, a right-click command, or a scroll instruction. The clustering control system of claim 6, wherein the screens of the hosts are arranged in a one-dimensional or two-dimensional manner.