JPH07110753A - Picture display controller - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To improve the operability of input, editorial proofreading and confirmation operations in document preparation by a Japanese input and editing device by dividing a document into plural parts and simultaneously displaying the plural parts in relation with the position of a row or a column during display. CONSTITUTION:A keyboard 6 is provided with a screen dividing key 601 for giving instructions for dividing a display part into plural pieces in a display device, a cursor key 602 for vertically and horizontally moving a cursor and a scroll key 603 for vertically and horizontally scrolling a display screen, etc. Then, when screen division is instructed, a cross-shaped cursor is immediately displayed on the display screen of the document and the document display screen is divided into four pieces and displayed by the cursor. Thus, in the case of dividing the document display screen into four pieces, the operation is quickened. Also, since the cross-shaped cursor is vertically and horizontally moved by the cursor key 602, the display screen is easily divided at a display head part and a display side part.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention divides a document in an amount exceeding the display range of the display means into a plurality of parts, and these parts are displayed by the display means such as the line position and column position of the characters of each divided part. The present invention relates to a display control device for a plurality of display portions that simultaneously display the character positions of each of the above.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In the conventional display, since a part of the document is displayed as it is, even if the part exceeding the display range of the display device is on the same line of the document or on the same page, At the same time, it could not be displayed on the display screen.

[0003]

Therefore, there is a Japanese input / editing device that reduces the size of the characters of the document to be displayed so as to display as wide a range as possible, but this is difficult to read. In addition, there was a defect that the operator's eyes were tired. Another method is to set a plurality of fixed display parts on the CRT screen and display the plural parts, but the display part is fixed.
Further, since a plurality of display portions are not associated with each other, the display portions cannot be changed to meet the editing purpose of the operator, and there is a drawback that it is troublesome to create a table or the like that crosses the display screen.

The present invention divides a document into a plurality of parts and displays the line position or the column position of the displayed character when displaying the document being input and proofread in a Japanese input editing device or the like. It is an object of the present invention to provide a display control device that enhances the operability of inputting, editing proofreading, and confirming work in document creation by a Japanese input editing device by displaying the plurality of parts at the same time.

[0005]

The above-mentioned object is to display the display screen on the display means by dividing the display screen into a plurality of display areas with a cross-shaped cursor having a length corresponding to each of the vertical and horizontal display range widths. Means, means for displaying the cursor by moving the cursor in the vertical or horizontal direction to change the size of these display areas, and interlocking display for interlocking and controlling adjacent display areas divided by the cross-shaped cursor Control means and means for performing processing such as editing and proofing in the display area divided by the cursor, or displayed on the display screen of the document, and arbitrarily displayed in the line direction or the column direction by the cursor key. A means for displaying a plurality of regions which are moved and are divided by a cursor having a length corresponding to a vertical or horizontal width dimension of the display screen; With reference to the display control information, a means for performing editing and proofreading in the display area, a means for storing display control information for associating line alignment or column alignment between a plurality of display areas, This is achieved by providing interlocking control means for interlocking the line position or the column position of the related character in the display of the other region in accordance with the input or editing state of the character in one region and controlling the display.

[0006]

When the screen division is instructed, the cross-shaped cursor is immediately displayed on the document display screen, whereby the document display screen is divided into four and displayed. Therefore, when the document display screen is divided into four, it can be quickly performed. Further, since the cross-shaped cursor is configured to move up, down, left and right by the cursor keys, the display screen can be easily divided by the front head and the ruled portion, and the table creation can be speeded up.

Further, since the cursor has a length corresponding to the vertical or horizontal dimension of the document display screen, when the document is divided and displayed, the divided portions and the left, right, top and bottom dividing directions are clarified, so that the dividing work can be performed quickly and accurately. Act to be able to.

[0008]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS In FIG. 1, reference numeral 1 is a central processing unit, and 2 is a random access memory, which holds various data such as programs for Japanese input, editing, display control and display control information for screen control. 3 Hana-Kanji conversion dictionary, 4
Is a storage device relating to a storage means for storing the created document, and stores the input document, programs and data,
It stores a dictionary. Reference numeral 5 is a character generation circuit for displaying and printing means for storing and generating character patterns, 6 is a keyboard for character input or control instruction means,
Reference numeral 7 is a display device related to means for displaying the input / edited state of characters, and 8 is a printing device related to means for printing the created document.

FIG. 2 shows the key arrangement of the keyboard 6 relating to the character input or control instruction means of FIG. In the figure, only the key names and symbols necessary for the explanation of this embodiment are shown.

Reference numeral 601 denotes a "screen division" key for instructing the display device 7 to divide the display portion into a plurality of parts, and 602 denotes a "cursor" key for moving the cursor up and down, left and right, 6
Reference numeral 03 is a “scroll” key for scrolling the display screen up and down, left and right, 604 is a numeric keypad, 605 is an “execute” key for instructing execution of the instructed function, 606 is a “cancel” key for canceling the instructed function, 607 , 608 are "sentence" and "sentence" keys for designating the beginning and end of a document in which characters are input, and 609 is a "line feed" key for changing the character input position to the next line of the relevant line when inputting characters. Reference numeral 610 is a character key portion. This character key part 610
The key name is not specified, but it is a JIS-compliant Kana keyboard. The description of the keys other than those described above will be omitted.

FIG. 3 shows a display example of the CRT display device 7 which is a display means for displaying the input and editing states of the characters shown in FIG.

In this embodiment, the number of lines in character conversion is 2
82 single-byte characters (character width: 12 dots) on lines 0 and 1
41 characters can be displayed in characters and full-width characters (character width is 24 dots). The number of display dots is 560 in the vertical direction and 1024 in the horizontal direction, and the device is capable of graphic display control in 1-dot units. Reference numeral 701 denotes an input edit screen column for displaying an input and edit state having 17 lines in character conversion and a size of 476 dots in number of dots. This part is divided into a plurality of parts, and the document to be displayed is also divided into a plurality of parts and displayed here. Numeral 702 is a digit display column having a size of one line in terms of digit display and character conversion indicating the existing digit of the cursor. Reference numeral 703 denotes a guidance display field having a size of two lines in character conversion, which displays a processing function name, an input state, an operation guide message, and the like during inputting and editing. Numeral 704 corresponds to the arrangement of the keys “1” to “9” of the ten-key pad 604,
3x3 used for various control commands, special character input, etc.
Or, 3 lines vertically in character conversion for virtual keys divided into 3 pieces,
This is a matrix display field having a width of 9 double-byte characters. When this column is unnecessary, this portion is divided into a vertical display column 702 and a guidance display column 703 for use.

4 (a)-(c) and 5 (a)-(b)
Shows a data processing flow by the central processing unit 1 for displaying a plurality of parts of a document and a display screen on the display device.

The processing from the normal input / edit state 101 will be described. First, in process 102, the "screen division" described above is performed.
By inputting the signal of the key 601, the process moves to the process 103, and the cross cursor 705 for dividing the display screen is displayed by the screen control program as shown in FIG. 4B. Here, the operator moves the cursor by operating the cursor key 602 so that the input edit screen field has a desired division number and size. In the present embodiment, in order to simplify the operation, if the intersection of the cross-shaped cursor is in the input edit screen field, it is divided into four parts. When the split and the cursor are completely out of the screen, the entire input editing screen column is displayed in the reduced size described below. In the process 104, the signal of the cursor key 602 is input, and when the movement of the cursor is finished, the “execute” key 605 is operated. By inputting the signal in the process 105, the next display magnification designation screen display process 106 is performed. become.

As shown in FIG. 4C, the display magnification designation screen displays the display magnification of each divided screen 70.
6, and the matrix display field is divided into three stages to display the virtual key 707 for designating the magnification. Here, the magnification of each display portion is designated. If the standard size is specified, the standard size is determined as an initial value so that no particular designation is necessary. In the present embodiment, the reduction is 1/3, but this reduction rate can be arbitrarily set to 1/2, 1/4, etc. according to the display means. Further, the cursor movement here improves the operability by moving from one point in the divided screen to one point in the immediately adjacent screen. When the designation signal is input in process 107 and the designation of the magnification is completed, the "execute" key 605 is operated. Therefore, by inputting the signal in process 108, the process proceeds to the next split screen association process.

Next, the association of a plurality of display parts will be described. Here, associating is called “interlocking”, and not associating is called “independent”. In this embodiment, the associating is performed with respect to the adjacent display portions on the top, bottom, left and right.

In the process 109 of FIG. 5A, the interlocking designation screen display as shown in FIG. 5B is performed. A virtual key 708 is used to specify and input, but in the present embodiment, a target boundary 709 is highlighted by half-black and white, and a cursor movement key is used to indicate the next boundary with one input. I am trying. Also by looking at the display of this boundary,
The boundary is filled with a pattern of light dots for interlocking and a pattern of dark dots for independence so that interlocking and independence can be determined. By inputting an association signal in process 110 and inputting an "execute" key signal in process 111, the process moves to process 112, and simultaneously displays a plurality of parts as shown in FIG. The associated input and edit status is displayed. In the present embodiment, the left and right display portions are associated with the row position, and the upper and lower display portions are associated with the column position. Alternatively, it is possible to add a process for associating the digit positions on the left and right display portions.

FIG. 6 is a display control information table stored in the random access memory 2 in order to control the display by associating the row position and the column position in the screen divided into a plurality of parts. In this embodiment, the case of four screens of screen numbers 1 to 4 is illustrated. Reference numeral 201 denotes display unit size information, which indicates the number of lines and the number of columns of each part which can be displayed by a display device divided into a plurality of parts, and each value in the number of dots. Reference numeral 202 denotes a display magnification, which has a standard size of 1 and has a value such as ⅓ when reduced. Reference numeral 203 denotes interlocking information, and in this embodiment, up to two parts can be associated,
It has two pieces of data, and has function information (A means to associate a line position and B means a column position) associated with a linked screen number. Reference numeral 204 denotes the current display position information, which has the start position of the currently displayed character in the number of pages, lines and columns of the document. Reference numeral 205 denotes main screen information, which indicates where on the screen numbers 1 to 4 the display portion where the cursor is currently located. It is recorded by setting 1 at the screen number where the cursor is.

The contents of the display control information for the screen number 1 in FIG. 6 will be described as an example. First, the size of the display device is 10 lines in number and 20 columns in number (vertical 28 in dot number).
0 dots, 240 dots horizontally), the display magnification is standard size, the associated display part is line aligned with screen number 2 (display part on the right side), screen number 3 (display part on the bottom)
Is a digit alignment, and the first character currently displayed is the first page, first line, first digit of the document, and the cursor is present.

FIGS. 7 to 15 show changes in the display states of other display parts associated with each other by the scroll instruction of the main screen part or the input of characters.

FIG. 7 shows an entire page of a document to be displayed as an example. In this way, it is impossible to check the entire page of a large paper size on the display screen of the display device 7 at once. Therefore, in order to display the distant parts of the document at the same time, the display screen is divided and each of them is displayed. In order to simplify the expression, only the input / edit screen column 701 of FIG. 3 will be shown and described below.

An example of four divisions shown in FIG. 8 will be described. The cross margin indicated by 710 is the boundary of division. For ease of explanation, the illustration is made so that item numbers, product name fields, and sales for one year can be displayed, excluding the division boundaries. 711 is the first screen, 712 is the second screen, 713 is the third screen, and 714 is the fourth screen.

An example in which it is desired to confirm the sales amount of the product name cleaner of the document example shown in FIG. 7 on the display screen in FIGS. 8 to 10 will be described. First, move the cursor to the 3rd screen 713,
If the "up scroll" key 603 is entered here, the third
In the display area of the screen 713, display characters are rolled up line by line as shown in FIG. Here, until the cleaner's product name is displayed on the 3rd screen, the "scroll up" key 60
If 3 is entered, the product name column is sequentially rolled up and displayed as shown in FIG. At this time, the display of the fourth screen 714 is shown in FIG.
When it is associated as shown in the display control information of
By scrolling up the third screen 713, the first screen 71
1 has no effect because it is linked to the digit position, but the 4th screen 71
Since 4 is the interlocking of row positions, the display control program is controlled so that the fourth screen 714 becomes the same row as the display row of the third screen 713 is changed. As a result, when the product name of the cleaner is displayed on the third screen, the sales amount of the cleaner is displayed on the same line on the fourth screen 714. That is, by scrolling the item name column up to the target cleaner, the cleaner sales column can be displayed on the fourth screen 714.

A display example associated with the digit position will be described with reference to FIGS. For example, when it is desired to confirm the sales amount of the product name cleaner at 59 degrees on the display screen, the cursor is moved to the second screen 712, and the "left scroll" key 603 is input so that the year display field becomes 59 years. The display range of the second screen 712 is moved by 16 digits (the digit to be moved in this scroll can be set to 1 digit, 1 full-width character (2 digits), or 8 full-width characters (16 digits) during high-speed scrolling) Then, as shown in FIG. 11, the display for 59 years appears in the display area.
At this time, as shown in the display control information of FIG. 6, the fourth screen 714 is interlocked with the digit alignment, so that the sales column is sequentially scrolled to the left, and the second screen 712 displays the year display column. The sales amount that has been displayed are displayed on the fourth screen 714. By scrolling left until the entire display field for FY 1959 appears on the display screen, the sales of the cleaner can be scrolled left while the digit positions match, and the desired display can be performed as shown in FIG. You can also immediately check the month of the cleaner number.

An example of changing the screen display state while inputting characters will be described with reference to FIGS. 13 to 15. For ease of explanation, it is assumed that the washing machine of item No. 30 has only the product name and no sales data is input, as shown in FIG. When data of the sales of the washing machine in 1983 until March 1983 is input, the display screen is as shown in FIG. 14, and the next character input area is outside the display. In this case, the Japanese input editing apparatus of this embodiment automatically scrolls left so that the inputtable portion appears on the display portion. In this embodiment, 16-digit block scrolling is performed, and the display screen is as shown in FIG. At this time, the 4th screen 7 automatically scrolled
The second screen 712 linked with 14 is also scrolled so that there is a digit position. Therefore, it is possible to input data as it is in April of 1984. You can also refer to the year column as it is. Compared to the case of automatically scrolling, the divided display portion (the second screen 712 in this example) works together, so that the input operation becomes extremely easy.

16 and 17 show the outline of the interlocking control portion of the display control program for controlling such a display screen. The cursor and scroll directions on these screens are omitted unless otherwise necessary.

Display screen control as shown in FIGS. 8 to 10 will be described.

The central processing unit 1 accepts the key input in the processing 113 and discriminates the key contents in the processing 114 to 116. By inputting the “up scroll” key 603, the process 115 is followed by the scroll subroutine 117.

As shown in FIG. 17, the scroll subroutine 117 first checks in step 1171 whether or not upward scrolling is possible. This is to determine whether or not there is room for scrolling up on the corresponding display section. For example, when the corresponding display section displays the bottom line of the last page,
In process 1172, the abnormal sound generation process is performed and the process ends. If possible, the screen is scrolled up in process 1173, the process proceeds to process 1174, the display control information table shown in FIG. 6 is referred to, and in process 1175, it is checked whether there is a screen to be interlocked and interlocked. If there is a screen to be displayed, in process 1176, it is determined whether the line alignment control is performed because the present example is upward scrolling, and in process 1177, the screen is scrolled up. In this example, item number 3 of screen number 3 in FIG.
2 corresponds to “4” and “A”, and the fourth screen 714 is scrolled up.

In the case of the display screen control shown in FIGS. 10 to 12,
The same control is performed when the "left scroll" key 603 is input. The display control information table referred to at this time is “2” and “B” of 1 of item number 3 of screen number 4,
Display control for digit alignment.

The control of the display screen at the time of character input shown in FIGS. 13 to 15 will be described. First, in the state of FIG. 13, the sales amount of the washing machine in 1983 is input. As the control of the program, after the process 116 is determined to be the character key 610, the process 118 determines the cursor position to determine whether scrolling is necessary. In this example, scrolling is not necessary until the sales amount for March of 1983 is input. Therefore, the input character is displayed in process 121 through process 120, and the cursor is displayed in the next input position in process 122. When the state shown in FIG. 14 is input, the next input character cannot be input and displayed without scrolling to the left, so the determination processing 118 of FIG. 16 moves to the scroll subroutine 119 to automatically perform scrolling. As a result, the screen shown in FIG. 15 is displayed. At this time, also in the scroll control, the digit alignment control is performed as described above, and the year column is also synchronized and scroll-controlled.

[0032]

As described above, according to the present invention, when the screen division is instructed, the cross-shaped cursor is immediately displayed on the document display screen and the document display screen is divided into four parts. When divided into four, it can be done quickly.
Further, since the cross-shaped cursor is configured to move up, down, left, and right by the cursor keys, the display screen can be easily divided by the table head and the rule part, and the table can be created quickly.

Further, since the cursor has a length corresponding to the vertical or horizontal width dimension of the document display screen, when the document is divided and displayed, the divided portion and the left, right, top and bottom dividing directions become clear, so that the dividing work can be performed quickly and accurately. You will be able to.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a Japanese input editing device.

FIG. 2 is a key layout diagram of a keyboard.

FIG. 3 is a display state diagram of a display screen.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a data processing flow for dividing a document display screen into a plurality of cover screens and a display screen.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a data processing flow for dividing a document display screen into a plurality of cover screens and a display screen.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a display control information table.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing an example of a specific document display screen.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing an example of a display screen of a specific document.

FIG. 9 is a diagram showing an example of a display screen of a specific document.

FIG. 10 is a diagram showing an example of a display screen of a specific document.

FIG. 11 is a diagram showing an example of a display screen of a specific document.

FIG. 12 is a diagram showing an example of a display screen of a specific document.

FIG. 13 is a diagram showing an example of a display screen of a specific document.

FIG. 14 is a diagram showing an example of a display screen of a specific document.

FIG. 15 is a diagram showing an example of a display screen of a specific document.

FIG. 16 is a diagram showing a data processing flowchart of a display control program.

FIG. 17 is a diagram showing a data processing flowchart of a display control program.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 ... Central processing unit, 2 ... Random access memory, 6 ...
Keyboard, 7 ... Display device, 117 ... Scroll subroutine, 1174 ... Display control information table reference processing, 1
176 ... Process for determining necessity of interlocking screen scroll, 1177 ...
Coordinated scroll processing.

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. An image display control device comprising a character input means, a character editing / proofreading means, a display means for displaying a character input / edit state, and a storage means for storing a created document. A means for displaying the display screen by dividing it into a plurality of display areas with a cross-shaped cursor having a length corresponding to the vertical or horizontal display range width, and the cursor for changing the size of these display areas. It has means for moving vertically or horizontally and displaying it, and interlocking display control means for interlocking and controlling adjacent display areas divided by the cross cursor, and editing in the display area divided by the cursor. An image display control device comprising means for performing processing such as calibration. 2. The device according to claim 1, wherein the means for moving the cursor has a function of moving the intersection of the cross-shaped cursor to the outside of the display screen of the document processing, and the intersection is left and right. An image display control device for displaying a vertically divided two-division display area, and displaying an upper and lower two-division display area. 3. An image display control device comprising a character input means, a character editing / proofing means, a display means for displaying a character input / edit state, and a storage means for storing a created document, Displays multiple areas displayed on the document display screen, moved arbitrarily in the row or column direction by the cursor keys, and divided by the cursor having a length corresponding to the vertical or horizontal width dimension of this display screen. Means, means for performing editing and proofreading in the divided area, means for storing display control information for associating line alignment or column alignment between a plurality of display areas, and the display control By referring to the information, the line position or column position of the related character can be linked and displayed in accordance with the input / editing status of the character in one area in the display of the other area. An image display control device, comprising: interlocking control means for controlling display.