JPH0227425A - Program selector - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To select an arbitrary program out of plural programs without being accompanied with a troublesome operation by continuously displaying a program name corresponding to the number of times of selection starting from the program name being in the greatest number of times of selection stored into a selecting frequency storing means. CONSTITUTION:When a arbitrary program is selected from plural programs displayed at a display device 1 with a program selecting means 2, the program name is stored into a selecting program name storing means 4 and the number of the times of the selection is added and stored into a selecting frequency storing means 7. A displaying control means 8 displays the program name selected beforehand by the program selecting means 2 at the peak position of the display device 1 and displays other program name being in the greatest number of times of the selection in the condition to continue to the program. In short, at the peak of the program name group displayed at the display device 1, the program name, in which the possibility to be presently selected is though to be the highest, is located, and from the next, the program name with the high selection frequency is successively located. Thus, the arbitrary program can be easily identified and selected.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Object of the Invention] (Industrial Field of Application) The present invention provides a method for selectively selecting a program from among programs for processing of each degree of order that are provided in a computer, word processor, etc. It relates to a program selection device.

(Prior Art) For example, a hand belt type computer is equipped with a plurality of processing programs, and by selecting one of these processing programs and having the computer execute it, the computer can perform various tasks. That's what I do. By the way, in order to select an arbitrary program from a plurality of programs provided on a computer, generally, each program name is displayed all at once on a display device (menu display), and multiple processing programs displayed on the menu are displayed. The cursor is placed on an arbitrary program name from among the names to select it.

However, the order of program names when the menu is displayed is preset, so if the program name you want to select is displayed later, move the cursor located at the top of the screen backwards. It's very cumbersome to have to move.

As a means to deal with this situation, for example, we focus on the general situation that the program to be selected is often a program that was recently executed on the computer, and then select the program in the order of the program selected last time. A configuration in which each program name is displayed in a menu is being considered.

In other words, by changing the order of program names displayed in the menu according to the recent program selection status,
This is intended to minimize the amount of movement of the cursor when selecting a program.

(Problem to be Solved by the Invention) However, in the case of the above-mentioned configuration, although the previously selected program name is displayed at the top of the menu, from then on, the program names selected two times before are sequentially displayed. If the program you are trying to select is not a recently selected program, you will not only be unable to easily identify the program name, but also have the disadvantage that you will have to move the cursor a long way to the position of the program name displayed later in the menu.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide a program selection device that allows any program to be selected from among a plurality of programs without any troublesome operations.

[Structure of the Invention] (Means for Solving the Problems) The present invention provides a display device that displays a plurality of program names at once, and selectively selects any program from among the programs displayed on the display device. A selection program selection means is provided, a selected program name storage means is provided for storing the program name selected by the program selection means, and the number of times the program name selected by the program selection means is added and stored is added. A storage means is provided, and the program name stored in the selected program name storage means is displayed at the top position of the display device, and program names corresponding to the number of selections stored in the selection number storage means are arranged in descending order of the number of selections. A display @ control means is provided for displaying the program name following the program name displayed at the top position.

(Function) When an arbitrary program is selected by the program selection means from among the plurality of programs displayed on the display device, the name of the program is stored in the selected program name storage means, and the number of times the program is selected is counted as the number of selections. It is added to the storage means and stored. Then, the display control means displays the program name previously selected by the program selection means at the top position of the display device, and executes another program name following this program for the number of times: C! The methods are displayed in descending order of the number of selections stored. In other words, at the beginning of the group of program names displayed on the display device is the previously selected program name that is considered to be most likely to be selected this time, and from the beginning after that first program name, the program name that is most likely to be selected this time is The program names with the highest number are placed in order.

(Embodiment) Hereinafter, an embodiment in which the present invention is applied to a hand belt type computer equipped with a plurality of programs such as an address book function or a calculation function will be described with reference to the drawings.

In FIG. 1, reference numeral 1 denotes a liquid crystal panel provided as a display for a hand belt type computer, which also serves as a display device in the present invention.

Reference numeral 2 denotes a human-powered keyboard, which also serves as program selection means in the present invention. Reference numeral 3 denotes a program execution unit mainly composed of a CPU, which executes the program when a program is selected using the keyboard 2 and an execution command is input. Reference numeral 4 denotes a selected program name storage memory serving as a selected program name storage means, which stores the program name selected by the keyboard 2. Also, 5
is an addition unit, which constitutes the selection number storage means 7 together with the selection number storage memory 6. When a program is selected by the keyboard 2, the selection number of each program stored in the selection number storage memory 6 is added. Add 1. In this case, the selected program name storage memory 4 and the selection number storage memory 6 are backed up by a battery (not shown), so that even in the event of a power outage, the previously selected program name and the selection number of each program are retained. It has become. Reference numeral 8 denotes a menu display order storage unit serving as display control means, which determines the order of program names to be displayed in the menu on the liquid crystal panel 1. That is, this menu display order storage section 8 stores the program name stored in the selected program name storage memory 4 at the top, and also stores the programs stored in the selection number storage memory 6 among the programs excluding the first program name. Program names corresponding to the number of selections are sequentially stored following the first program name in descending order of the number of selections. Then, the menu display order storage section 8 displays the stored program names as a menu in order from the top of the liquid crystal panel 1. Incidentally, the above-mentioned addition section 5 and menu display order storage section 8 are actually the C of the program execution section 3.
F'U is also used.

Next, the operation of the above configuration will be explained with reference to the flowchart in FIG. 2 and FIGS. 3 to 5 showing examples of menu displays.

When the power of the convenience store is turned on, a menu as shown in FIG. 3(a) is displayed on the liquid crystal panel 1 (step Sl). In other words, this computer has an address book program and a business card management program.

It is equipped with six programs: a scheduler program, a clock program, a calculation program, and a help function program. They are displayed in order horizontally. Here, each number from [1] to [6] corresponds to the order in which each program displayed in the menu has been selected up to the present time, and in this example, the number of times each program has been selected at the present time is As shown in Figure 3(b), the address book program is the most common.
It has been 5 times. The address book program is one in which when one of the name, address, or telephone number of a registered person is input as a search key, other items are searched and displayed. Further, the business card management program is a program that manages the date of receipt of the business card, matters written on the business card, notes, etc. The scheduler program is a program that manages interview dates and times, names of interviewees, business trip dates, and the like. The clock program is a program that displays the current time in various parts of the world on the liquid crystal panel 1. Calculation program is 71! computer by operating keyboard 2! This is a program used with the same specifications as *. The help function program is a program for explaining how to use each of the above programs. Note that the cursor is positioned at number [1] displayed on the liquid crystal panel 1 when the power is turned on or when the program by the combiator is finished.

Now, to select, for example, a clock program from this state, use keyboard 2 to move the cursor to number [1].
to number [4] and press the selection button on the keyboard 2 (step S2). Then, the selected program name is stored in the selected program name storage memory 4 (step 83). Next, the addition section 5 reads out the selection number "4" corresponding to the clock program from among the selection numbers stored in the selection number storage memory 6 (step S4
), and the calculation result "5" obtained by adding "1" to the selection number "4" is stored again in the selection number storage memory 6 (step S5). Then, the program execution unit 3 executes the selected program, that is, the clock program (step S8).

When the program execution section 3 finishes executing the clock program, the menu display order storage section 7 displays the selected program name, that is, the clock program name "Clock" stored in the selected program name storage memory 4 on the liquid crystal panel. Step S7), next to the number [1] displayed in No. 1, the programs are displayed in descending order of the number of selections stored in the selection number storage memory 6 among the programs excluding the clock program. The program name is displayed (step 5ll). As a result, each program is collectively displayed on the liquid crystal panel 1 in the order shown in FIG. 4(a). In other words, the last selected clock program name "Clock" will be displayed next to the number [1], and
Next to [2] to [6] are “Address Book J” according to the number of selections.
, "Business card management".

"Scheduler", "Calculation", and "Help function" are displayed, and in this case, the number of times each program is selected is as shown in FIG. 4(b).

Next, if you want to select a business card management program, for example,
Place the cursor on [3] and press the selection button on keyboard 2. Then, the number of selections corresponding to the business card management program is incremented by 1, and when the execution of the business card management program is completed, each program is displayed as a menu on the liquid crystal panel 1, as shown in FIG. 5(a). Ru. In other words,
Next to number [1], "Business Card Management", which is the name of the last selected business card management program, is displayed, and numbers after number [2] indicate the number of times the program has been selected so far (see Figure 5 (b)). Program names corresponding to the number of selections are displayed in order.

In short, according to the above configuration, the name of the previously selected program is displayed at the top of the menu display, so in situations where the previously selected program is often selected consecutively, the program can be easily identified. The operation of moving the cursor one by one to select the program can be minimized. What's more, the program names are displayed in the menu following the first program name in the order of the programs selected most often, so even if the program you select is different from the program you selected last time, the program names will be displayed in the order in which you selected them. Compared to the conventional display example, the amount of movement of the cursor can be generally reduced.

In the above embodiment, the order of the program names displayed on the menu on the LCD panel 1 when the power is turned on is in the order of the number of selections made up to that point. may be displayed at the top of the menu screen.

In addition, the present invention is not limited to what is described above and shown in the drawings, but can be implemented with various modifications within the scope of the gist, such as being applied to a word processor or a 8-child notebook. .

[Effects of the Invention] As is clear from the above description, the present invention allows the display control means to display the program name stored in the selected program name storage means at the top position of the display device, and also to display the program name stored in the selection number storage means. Since the program name corresponding to the most selected number of times is displayed on the display device following the program name displayed at the top position, the program to be selected is the same as the previously selected program. If so, you can easily identify and select the program name displayed at the top of the display. In addition, even if the program you are trying to select is different from the program you selected last time, the display order of program names is based on the number of times you have selected the program so far, so you can easily identify and select any program. can.

Therefore, it is possible to select any program from among a plurality of programs without any troublesome operations, which is an excellent effect.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

The drawings show one embodiment of the present invention; FIG. 1 is an overall block diagram, FIG. 2 is a flowchart for explaining the operation, and FIGS. 3 to 5 are diagrams showing different menu display examples. It is. In the figure, 1 is a liquid crystal panel (display device), 2 is a keyboard (
4 is a selected program name memory (selected program name memory); 5 is an adder; 6 is a selection number memory; 7 is a selection number memory; 8 is a menu display order memory (display control means); ). Applicant: Toshiba Corporation

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A display device for selectively selecting a program from among a plurality of programs, including a display device that displays the names of the plurality of programs at once, and a display device for selecting an arbitrary program from among the programs displayed on the display device. A program selection means for uniformly selecting a program, a selected program name storage means for storing the program name selected by the program selection means, and a selection for adding and storing the number of selections of the program name selected by the program selection means. a number of times storage means, and displaying the program names stored in the selected program name storage means at the top position of the display device, and program names corresponding to the number of selections stored in the selection number storage means in descending order of the number of selections; and display control means for displaying the program name following the program name displayed at the top position.