JP3314905B2 - Screen information reference playback device - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention maps character and numerical information to a node or a line-shaped object on a screen, and uses the shape information such as the shape, color, and size of each object, and the arrangement coordinates using attribute information. The present invention relates to a screen information reference reproduction unit that defines, executes, and reproduces a scenario for generating and transitioning a screen generated and displayed, and references and updates mapping source information by screen operation.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In conventional applications, screen information to be displayed must be created in advance before a scenario is defined, or a procedure for reading the latest data and creating a screen must be described by a program. It is.

Further, in the conventional visualization system, in order to refer to and update the information of the mapping source of the screen object, the user interactively maps the information of the mapping source to each screen object or describes the information by a program. It is necessary to.

[0004]

Conventionally, there is no apparatus for defining and reproducing a scenario without a user preparing screen information in advance.

Further, by simply designating an attribute information generation method, the attribute information referred to by the method, and the parameters of the method, the generation information is used to automatically control the operation for referencing and updating the mapping source information. Conventionally, there is no such device.

[0006] The present invention has been made in view of the above,
It is an object of the present invention to provide a screen information reference / reproducing apparatus which creates or reproduces a screen at any time by allowing a user to describe a definition regarding when and in what order a definition relating to a graphic expression is to be executed.

[0007]

In order to achieve the above object, according to the present invention, a real object which is a group of information to be displayed on a screen and the real object are mapped and displayed on the screen. A visualization information database that holds definition information for converting to display information and display objects that have attribute values of the converted results, and converts display information into graphic objects when a command from the screen is received. Means for displaying the scene as a scene on the screen, and when the user instructs the screen display of the scene, a mode for displaying already converted display information as it is as a graphic object, and a mode for converting the latest entity object using the conversion definition Select one of the modes to create a new display object, convert it to a graphic object, and display it. A screen information reference / playback apparatus, wherein an operation command for a graphic object displayed on the screen is received, and upon receiving the command, a real object corresponding to the graphic object is stored in the visualization information database. And a mapping source information reference means for displaying detailed information of the searched entity object on a screen.

[0008] The present invention according to claim 2 is based on claim 1.
In the invention described in the above, when an update operation is performed on the detailed information of the real object displayed by the operation command from a screen, the content of the real object held in the visualization information database is updated. The point is to do.

Further, the present invention according to claim 3 provides the invention according to claim 1.
In the invention described in (2), the gist is that the scenario is expressed by combining one or more node type and line type objects.

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[0014]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a scenario definition playback device to which a screen information reference playback device according to the first embodiment of the present invention is applied. The scenario definition reproducing apparatus shown in FIG. 1 includes a scene definition scenario 1, a scene transition scenario 3, a scenario translator 5, a visualization information database (DB) 7, an attribute information generation method 9,
A real object (E-Object) 11, a display object (R-Object) 13, a graphical user interface (GUI) (hereinafter referred to as GUI input / output means) 15,
It has a GUI device 17.

In the scenario definition reproducing apparatus configured as described above, the end user operates the GUI input / output means 1
The macro definition of the execution order of the mapping definition is described as a scene definition scenario 1 and the execution or reproduction timing of the scene definition scenario 1 is described and input as a scene transition scenario 3 by an interactive input means comprising the GUI 5 and the GUI device 17.

Each of the input scenarios is interpreted interactively by the scenario translating unit 5 and converted into an attribute information generating method 9. Entity (E-Objec)
t) 11 are characters and numerical information that are the source of visualization, and are converted into a display object (R-Object) 13 by the attribute information generation method 9. The generated display object (R-Object) 13 is displayed on the GUI device 17 via the GUI input / output unit 15. The generated display object (R-Object) 13 can be saved as a result,
A screen can be displayed by describing the reproduction trigger in a scenario.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a method of converting information from a real object (E-Object) 11 to a display object (R-Object) 13 in the scenario definition reproducing apparatus of FIG. 1 to generate screen information. The scenario translator 5 sets a mapping definition indicating the correspondence between the mapping source attribute and the mapping destination attribute, and a method applied to the mapping source attribute value. By executing these, the entity object (E-Objec) is set.
Information conversion is performed from t) 11 to a display object (R-Object) 13 to generate screen information.

The attribute information generation method 9 has patterns such as fixed value designation, threshold value designation, equal division designation, etc.
In the case of a threshold specification pattern, the threshold or the like is input as a parameter. For example, “The attribute B of the real object is mapped to the size attribute of the display object (R-Object) 13, the threshold specification pattern of the attribute information generation method 9 is selected, and the threshold is set to 15 or more. If the attribute B of the entity object has a value of 30 at the time of execution, the information generation method will display The size 5 is set in the size attribute of the object (R-Object) 13.

FIG. 3 shows an example of the definition of the scene definition scenario 1 and the scene transition scenario 3.

In the above-described scenario definition reproducing apparatus, the user can simply specify the attribute information generation method, the attribute information to be referred to by the attribute information generation method, and the parameters of the attribute information generation method. Is selected, attribute information relating to the shape and arrangement of the screen object required for visualization is created using the attribute information of the display entity, and the information is mapped on the screen object of the GUI device 17 to thereby display the display entity. When developing an application that graphically expresses by using node type and line type objects, the macro definition of the execution order of the mapping definition can be described and input as a scene definition scenario, and the scene definition scenario execution or playback trigger as a scene transition scenario. .

FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a screen information operation automatic control device to which a screen information reference / reproduction device according to a second embodiment of the present invention is applied. The screen information operation automatic control device shown in the figure includes a visualization information database 7, an entity object (E-Object) 11, a display object (R-Object) 13, an attribute information generation method 9, a mapping definition translator 19, and a GUI input. Output means 15, GUI
It has a device 17. Entity Object (E-Object) 11
Is character / numerical information that is a source of visualization.

The object information displayed on the screen is
It is generated as a display object (R-Object) 13 by the attribute information generation method 9 operated based on the mapping attribute. In this case, the ID for identifying the mapping source entity object (E-Object) 11 is inherited and saved on the display object (R-Object) 13. The generated screen object is transmitted through the GUI input / output unit 15 to the GUI.
It is displayed on the I device 17.

In the screen information operation automatic control device shown in FIG. 4, as shown in FIG.
As a result, information is converted from a real object (E-Object) 11 to a display object (R-Object) 13. And
At this time, the ID for identifying the mapping source entity object (E-Object) 11 is inherited, and the display object (R-Objec) is taken over.
t) Store on 13.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an example of object class attributes and method definitions in the screen information operation automatic control device of FIG. As shown in the figure, an entity object (E-Object) 11 has entity object attribute information indicating an identification attribute, a self attribute, a relationship attribute indicating a relationship with another entity object, an additional attribute, and the like. (R-Object) 13 has display object attribute information indicating an object label, an object color, an object size, an object shape, an X coordinate indicating a display position, a Y coordinate, and the like.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing the flow of mapping source information reference by operating a screen object in the screen information operation automatic control device shown in FIG. The screen object selected by the end user by the screen operation is created from the display object (R-Object) 13, and the display object (R-Object) 13 includes a mapping source real object (E-Object) 11. Is stored. Its ID
To find the entity object (E-Objec
t) Detailed information of 11 can be obtained and displayed on the GUI device 17 via the GUI input / output means 15.

In the screen information operation automatic control device described above,
The user simply selects the attribute information generation method, the attribute information referred to by the attribute information generation method, and the parameters of the attribute information generation method, selects a display entity that is an arbitrary information unit, and uses the attribute information of the display entity. Then, attribute information relating to the shape and arrangement of the screen object required for visualization is created, and the information is mapped onto the screen object of the GUI device 17, so that the display entity is represented graphically by node-type and line-type objects. By automatically controlling the operation for referencing and updating the mapping source information of the graphically represented screen object, it is possible to easily develop a mapping source information operation application for the screen object.

[0027]

As described above, according to the present invention,
Users can define the scenario for screen generation and transition, interactively or pre-registered, and describe the scenario to execute and play.
An application that generates various expression patterns can be easily developed. Further, it is possible to facilitate function verification and time reduction when creating an application, and to facilitate and shorten application creation after function confirmation.

Further, according to the present invention, not only can the user selectively extract an appropriate information unit from character and numerical information by simply writing a conversion script, and can display it as a screen object. , The displayed screen object can be arbitrarily selected and the mapping source information of the screen object can be referenced and updated.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of a scenario definition playback device to which a screen information reference playback device according to a first embodiment of the present invention is applied.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a method for converting display object information from a real object and generating screen information in the scenario definition reproducing device of FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of a definition of a scene definition scenario and a scene transition scenario used in the scenario definition reproducing device of FIG.

FIG. 4 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of a screen information operation automatic control device to which a screen information reference and playback device according to a second embodiment of the present invention is applied.

FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating an example of an object class attribute and a method definition in the screen information operation automatic control device in FIG. 4;

6 is a diagram showing a flow of mapping source information reference by operating a screen object in the screen information operation automatic control device shown in FIG. 4;

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Scene definition scenario 3 Scene transition scenario 5 Scenario translation part 7 Visualization information database 9 Attribute information generation method 11 Entity object (E-Object) 13 Display object (R-Object) 15 GUI input / output means 17 GUI device

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Claims (3)

(57) [Claims] 1. An information processing apparatus comprising: a real object which is an information group to be displayed on a screen; definition information for mapping the real object and converting the real object to display information for display on the screen; and attribute values of the converted result. A visualization information database holding display objects, and means for converting display information into graphic objects and displaying the scenes on the screen as a scene upon receiving a command from the screen. When instructing, either the mode in which already converted display information is displayed as it is as a graphic object, or the mode in which a new display object is generated from the latest entity object using the conversion definition and then converted to a graphic object and displayed A screen information reference / reproduction device that allows the user to select Accepts an operation command for by graphic objects, in response to reception of the command,
Screen information reference reproduction means, comprising: mapping source information reference means for retrieving a substance object corresponding to the graphic object from the visualization information database and displaying detailed information of the retrieved substance object on a screen. apparatus. 2. A means for updating the contents of the real object stored in the visualization information database when an update operation is performed on the detailed information of the real object displayed by the operation command from a screen. 2. The screen information reproduction / reference device according to claim 1, wherein: 3. The screen information reference / reproduction apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the scenario is represented by combining one or more node type and line type objects.