JPH03186894A - Display device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To effectively display plural windows by providing a brightness control means for making the brightness of a window which is specified different from the brightness of a window which is not specified. CONSTITUTION:By inputting display data formed by a mouse 3 and a keyboard 4 in a computer 2, only the window specified by the mouse 3, etc., is displayed on a display 1 as it is, and the window other than the specified one is displayed on the display 1 after lowering the brightness. Therefore, the brightness of the window which is noticed in the case of displaying plural windows is made relatively high and the display of the window is made clear, and the other window is displayed to be inconspicuous by making the brightness of the other window relatively low. Thus, visual field is prevented from being narrowed because of the overlap of the windows and the limitation of a window area and many pieces of information are displayed so as to be easily understood.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Industrial Application Field] The present invention relates to a display device, for example, a display device that displays a plurality of windows in a pseudo three-dimensional manner in the scientific and technical fields such as programming and in the office processing field such as accounting. It is.

[Prior Art] Conventionally, there are two types of methods for displaying a plurality of windows: a multi-window as shown in FIG. 9, and a tiling window as shown in FIG. In the former case, a plurality of windows 50-1 to 50-n are stacked on the display 50 and displayed, and the normal - nourishing soil window 51-1 is displayed.
Only the whole can be seen. The latter is Display 5
0 is divided into multiple areas and each window is assigned to each area.

[Problem to be Solved by the Invention] However, in the above conventional example, although it is possible to display multiple windows at once in the former multi-window, the more the number of windows increases, the more the number of windows increases. , the number of overlapping parts increases, making it difficult to distinguish between the contents displayed in individual windows. This interferes with the original feature of multi-windows, which is to display multiple windows at once so that you can comprehensively understand or judge the content. Even in the latter type of tiling window, as the number of windows increases, the content that can be displayed decreases, causing problems with the above function.

Both methods classify and display a large amount of information in multiple windows, and it is difficult to say that they can support comprehensive intellectual work. In other words, it does not provide an excellent user interface on an expensive workstation. Specifically, the KJ method, which is a system analysis method that enumerates a large amount of data on multiple cards (windows), comprehensively analyzes the cards, and generates new ideas, and plainstorming can be displayed in windows using these methods. The system cannot support it.

The present invention eliminates the above-mentioned conventional drawbacks and provides a display device that effectively displays multiple windows.

[Means for Solving the Problem] The above-mentioned problem is a display device that displays a plurality of windows, and a window specifying means for specifying a specific window;
This is achieved by a display device comprising: brightness control means for making the brightness of the designated window different from the brightness of the non-designated window.

Here, the display device is further characterized in that the display device is a multi-window display device.

The display device is further characterized in that the display device is a tiling window display device.

[Operation] Therefore, according to the present invention, when displaying a plurality of windows, the brightness of the window of interest is made relatively high to make the display of that window clear, and the brightness of the other windows is made relatively low. It is possible to display a large amount of information in an easy-to-understand manner without narrowing the field of view due to overlapping windows or limiting the window area. With this pseudo-stereoscopic display device, by specifying the window that the user wants to view among multiple overlapping windows, the information of that window is clearly displayed with high brightness, and the content can be understood. By vaguely looking at the information on other windows that are displayed inconspicuously at low brightness, you can get an overview, and in a true sense, a lot of information can be shown on the display.

[Example] The present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of the workstation of this embodiment. In the figure, 1 is a display medium, 2 is a display medium, and 2 is a display.
3 is a computer main body including a pseudo-stereoscopic display device, 3 is a mouse which is a pointing device, and 4 is a keyboard which is an input device for text information and the like. Figure 2 shows display 1
A display example is shown in which windows 6 to 8 are displayed on the middle screen, and window 7 is displayed with high brightness.

This workstation uses mouse 3 and keyboard 4.
Using the pseudo-stereoscopic display device of the computer body 2, the graphic information and text information created in to be displayed. This display device allows the user to view the entire image with a particular window in the center.

Next, the display method, which is a function of the pseudo-stereoscopic display device, will be described. First, input the display data created using the mouse 3 and keyboard 4 into the computer 2, and display only the window specified using the mouse 3, etc. on the display L as it is, and display the other windows on the display 1 after lowering the brightness. do.

A control example of this embodiment will be explained in detail with reference to FIGS. 3 and 4.

First, in step S1, it is checked whether there is a request for stereoscopic display, and if there is no request, the process returns. Sometimes, step S
In step S2, the operator is requested to specify a window, and when the window is specified, the specified window is determined in step S3. The window coordinate value (xo) specified by the brightness control unit in step S4.

yo) and (xn, yn) to complete the registration of the stereoscopic display request. These coordinate values are stored in the brightness signal control section 24 of the display control device 20 shown in FIG. The brightness signal control unit 24 has a counter that counts the readout clock in the It is determined that the display has advanced to the corresponding area, and control is performed to increase the brightness signal 27 for the brightness signal generating section 26.

The brightness signal is at a normal level outside the designated area.

Furthermore, if the above-mentioned display control is explained according to the flowchart of FIG. 6, display data is input in step S10, and it is determined in step Sll whether or not the data is data of a designated window. Proceed to step S12 and increase the brightness. If it is outside the specified window, the display data is displayed with the same brightness.

Although the above-mentioned embodiment was realized using the hardware of the display device, it is also possible to realize it using software, which will be explained below.

As shown in FIG. 6, display control data 60 is prepared for each display data of each window 6-8. This display control data 60 is: 0 Window name 61. Coordinate data 62 that limits the area of the window. It consists of tone information 632 and color information 64. Therefore, as shown in FIG. 7, in step S7] it is determined which window the area pointed by the mouse is, and in step S72, the gradation level information 63 of the window is determined, for example, when the number of gradations is 256 as shown in FIG. from 100 to 200 (or the gradation information of other windows in the vicinity of the window)
3 from 100 to 50) and develops it on the screen according to the gradation changed in step S73, the brightness of the specified window changes from dark to bright.

The present invention is applicable not only to workstations but also to personal computers.

Further, in the above-described embodiment, the brightness of the designated window is increased, but the effects of the present invention can also be achieved by brightness control that lowers the brightness of windows that are not designated. Furthermore, by changing the brightness of each window one after another, it is possible to understand the contents of a plurality of windows in relation to each other. Furthermore, by vaguely looking at a plurality of inconspicuous windows, it is possible to get an overview of the displayed information. The present invention also includes these embodiments.

[Effects of the Invention] According to the present invention, a display device that effectively displays a plurality of windows can be provided.

That is, it is an appropriate solution to the major problem of workstation window systems, which is the limitation of display information. Since the brightness of multiple windows is changed on a window-by-window basis, when multiple windows are displayed in a hierarchy, the upper display appears to be three-dimensional, providing a screen configuration in which only a specific window is in focus. Also, even if you display a tiling window and divide each window into areas,
Only certain windows are clearly visible with high brightness, and other windows are low brightness and appear inconspicuous, making it easy to identify the windows.

Furthermore, similar effects can be achieved by a simple process of simply lowering the brightness, without performing hidden surface processing that requires a high CPU load, as in multi-window.

Therefore, the present invention makes it possible to expand the dimension of visual information on a display device that displays multiple windows, and to simply and efficiently realize a user interface that stimulates human imagination like never before. become.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

Figure 1 is a configuration diagram of the workstation of this embodiment, Figure 2 is a diagram showing an example of display when one window is displayed with high brightness, and Figure 3 is an example of registration of brightness control of one window. FIG. 4 is a configuration diagram of a display control device that executes brightness control; FIG. 5 is a control flowchart that executes brightness control; FIG. 6 is a configuration showing the structure of window display control data. Figure 7 is a flowchart for software control; Figure 8 is an explanatory diagram showing the gradation before and after the change; Figure 9;
FIG. 10 is a diagram showing an example of a conventional display of multiple windows. In the figure, 1...display, 2...calculator body,
4 3... Mouse, 4... Keyboard, 5... Display example, 20... Display control device, 24...
Brightness signal control section, 26... Brightness signal generation section, 60...
・Display control data, 61...Window name, 62...
Window coordinate data, 63... Gradation information, 64.
...It is color information. Figure 9 Figure 8 '110 Figure

Claims (3)

[Claims] (1) A display device that displays a plurality of windows, comprising window designation means for designating a specific window, and brightness control means for making the brightness of the designated window different from the brightness of windows that are not designated. A display device characterized by: (2) The display device according to claim 1, further characterized in that the display device is a multi-window display device. (3) The display device according to claim 1, further characterized in that the display device is a tiling window display device.