JPH0625923U - Display device with touch panel - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Summary] [Purpose] Various setting conditions can be selected easily and efficiently according to the parts to be inspected, and the layout of the display screen and the creation of programs can be performed easily. To A CRT 12 provided with a plurality of display parts for displaying various setting conditions, and a first storage circuit 14 for storing a plurality of setting conditions corresponding to a predetermined display part among the display parts. , A comparison circuit 17 for judging whether or not the touch panel 16 is touched corresponding to the predetermined display portion.
And a plurality of setting conditions stored in the first storage circuit 14 in order according to the number of times the touch panel 16 is touched corresponding to the predetermined display portion, as a selection unit And a CPU 18 having a function.

Description

[Detailed description of the device]

[0001]

[Industrial applications]

 The present invention relates to a display device with a touch panel for selecting and setting various setting conditions required for automatic inspection of parts, for example, via the touch panel.

[0002]

[Prior art]

 For example, parts manufactured or assembled in a factory are subjected to various inspections such as whether or not they have predetermined dimensional accuracy and functions. In this type of inspection, automation and efficiency are desired, and automatic inspection devices that perform the inspection procedure according to a program stored in advance are widely used.

In this automatic inspection apparatus, it is necessary to change various setting conditions in the program corresponding to a new component when the type of the component is different or the specification of this component is changed. For this reason, conventionally, a method of changing each setting condition using a keyboard or a mouse (hereinafter referred to as the first method) and various selection items are simultaneously displayed on the display device to respond to desired items. A method (hereinafter, referred to as a second method) of performing a setting condition selection operation by touching the touch panel is known.

[0004]

[Problems to be solved by the device]

 However, in the first method described above, auxiliary devices such as a keyboard and a mouse attached to the display device are required, and it is practically impossible to arrange this kind of auxiliary device in the factory. It has been pointed out that it will be difficult due to the installation conditions and work environment.

Further, in the above-mentioned second method, a considerably large display area is required to display a plurality of selection items at the same time, and the screen occupation rate of the selection item display area is high, and the layout of the display screen is complicated. It will be something like. Therefore, it is conceivable to perform so-called overwriting, in which a plurality of selection items are displayed in a superimposed manner on the screen. However, there is a problem that complicated program creation work is required in order to display again the characters and lines that overlap under the overwrite part after the overwrite part is erased from the screen. .

The present invention solves this kind of problem and allows various setting conditions to be selected easily and efficiently in accordance with the parts to be inspected and the layout of the display screen and programs. It is an object of the present invention to provide a display device with a touch panel, which can easily perform the work of creating.

[0007]

[Means for Solving the Problems]

 In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, the present invention provides a display means having a plurality of display parts for displaying various setting conditions, and a plurality of display parts corresponding to predetermined display parts among the display parts. Storage means for storing the setting conditions of, a display part specifying means for judging whether or not the touch panel is touched corresponding to the predetermined display part, and a touch panel is touched for the predetermined display part. A selection means for sequentially displaying a plurality of setting conditions stored in the storage means on the display portion in accordance with the number of times.

[0008]

[Action]

 In the display device with a touch panel according to the present invention, when the operator touches the touch panel corresponding to a predetermined display portion provided on the display means, a plurality of setting conditions stored in the storage means causes the touch panel to touch. It is displayed in order on the predetermined display part according to the number of times. Therefore, if the contact of the touch panel is terminated at the time when the desired setting condition is displayed on the predetermined display region, the work of selecting the setting condition corresponding to the predetermined display region can be easily performed.

[0009]

【Example】

 An exemplary embodiment of a display device with a touch panel according to the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

In FIG. 1, reference numeral 10 indicates a display device with a touch panel according to this embodiment. This display device 10 includes a CRT (display means) 12 provided with a plurality of display parts (to be described later) for displaying various setting conditions, and a plurality of display parts corresponding to predetermined display parts among the display parts. A first storage circuit (storage means) 14 for storing the setting conditions of the above; a comparison circuit (display site identification means) 17 for determining whether or not the touch panel 16 is touched corresponding to the predetermined display site; A function as a selection unit that sequentially displays a plurality of setting conditions stored in the first storage circuit 14 on the display part according to the number of times the touch panel 16 is touched corresponding to a predetermined display part. And a CPU 18 having.

As shown in FIG. 2, the CRT 12 has first display portions 22a to 22f and second display portions 24a and 24b which are predetermined display portions. The second display portions 24a and 24a are provided. 24b is displayed in a color different from that of the first display portions 22a to 22f so that the operator can easily discriminate them. The CRT 12 is drive-controlled via the CRT controller 26, and the contents displayed on the screen of the CRT 12 are stored in the RAM 28. A touch panel 16 is attached to the display screen of the CRT 12, and an interface 30 and a latch circuit 32 for converting a position touched by an operator into an XY coordinate value is connected to the touch panel 16. The circuit 32 is connected to the comparison circuit 17.

XY coordinate values indicating the positions of the second display parts 24 a and 24 b previously stored in the second storage circuit 34 are input to the comparison circuit 17 via the register 36, and the operator is contacted. The comparison result with the XY coordinate value corresponding to the determined position is input to the CPU 18.

The CPU 18 is further connected to a memory buffer 38 for counting the contents currently displayed on the second display parts 24 a and 24 b, and a character font storage circuit 40. As shown in FIG. 3, the display contents count values (area numbers) of the buffers 1 to buffer n are stored in the memory buffer 38, and the buffers 1 to n are stored in the first storage circuit 14. The item contents corresponding to are stored. That is, the stored contents of item 1 corresponding to buffer 1 are shown in FIG. 4A. Area number 1 stores “ms”, area number 2 stores “sec”, and area number 3 stores “times”. The "final code" is stored. 4B and 4C also show the stored contents of items 2 and 3. Item 1 displayed by the buffer 1 corresponds to the second display region 24a, and item 2 displayed by the buffer 2 corresponds to the second display region 24b.

The second storage circuit 34 stores coordinate numbers 1 to n corresponding to the buffers 1 to n. As shown in FIG. 5A, the coordinate number 1 stores the XY coordinate value corresponding to the second display portion 24a, while the coordinate number 2 stores the XY coordinate value corresponding to the second display portion 24b. Remembered. Here, the coordinate values X ₁ , X ₂ , Y ₁ and Y ₂ are coordinate values at both ends of one diagonal line of the second display portions 24a and 24b, as shown in FIG. 5B.

Next, the operation of the display device 10 according to the present embodiment configured as described above will be described based on the flowchart of FIG.

After the screen display contents read from the RAM 28 by the CPU 18 are displayed on the CRT 12 and the setting data is displayed on the first display parts 22a to 22f (see step S1 and FIG. 2), the second display part 24a is displayed. , 24b, the contents of items 1 and 2 are displayed (step S2). Therefore, the process of displaying the item 1 on the second display portion 24a will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. 7. First, the contents of the buffer 1 are read from the memory buffer 38 (step S101). If the area number of item 1 stored in the buffer 1 is 0 (YES in step S102), the area number 1 is set (step S103), and the setting data stored in the area is displayed in the second display. It is displayed on the part 24a (step S104).

Since the display process of the second display portion 24b is performed in the same manner as the second display portion 24a, detailed description thereof will be omitted.

Next, when the operator touches the touch panel 16 (YES in step S3), the XY coordinate value corresponding to the input position of the touch panel 16 is detected via the interface 30 (step S4). The input position is determined based on this XY coordinate value (step S5). That is, in the flowchart of FIG. 8, after the coordinate number pointer and the buffer number pointer stored in the memory buffer 38 are first reset to 0 (step S201), the coordinate number 1 and the buffer number 1 are set (step S201). S202). Then, the coordinate value (X ₁ , X ₂ , Y ₁ , Y ₂ ) corresponding to the coordinate number 1 is read from the second memory circuit 34 (step S203), and this coordinate value is temporarily stored in the register 36 and compared. Introduced into circuit 17.

In the comparison circuit 17, the XY coordinate values (X, Y) corresponding to the input position on the touch panel 16 and the coordinate values (X ₁ , X ₂ , Y ₁ , Y ₂ ) corresponding to the coordinate number 1 are stored. Are compared (step S204). Here, if it is determined that the input position is included in the coordinate range corresponding to the coordinate number 1, it is determined that the operator has touched the second display portion 24a. On the other hand, if it is determined that the coordinate number pointer is not within the coordinate range corresponding to the coordinate number 1, it is determined whether or not this coordinate number pointer is the maximum (step S205). Is repeated, and when it is judged to be the maximum, the error flag is turned on (step S206).

Accordingly, when it is determined that the second display portion 24a is contacted, it is determined whether or not the error flag is ON (step S6), and this error flag is OFF (NO in step S6). If so, the display content counter of item 1 is incremented by 1 (step S7). Therefore, if "ms" (area number 1) is previously displayed on the second display portion 24a, the display is changed to "sec" (area number 2). If the content when the display content counter is incremented by 1 is not the "final code" (NO in step S8), the process returns to step S2 and the desired setting data is displayed on the second display portion 24a. Until then, the above steps are repeatedly performed. The area number corresponding to the selected setting data remains stored in the buffer. On the other hand, when the content when the display content counter is incremented by 1 is "final code", the area number is returned to 1 (steps S8 and S9).

Since the setting data changing operation of the second display portion 24b is performed in the same manner as the above-mentioned second display portion 24a, detailed description thereof will be omitted.

In this case, in this embodiment, every time the comparison circuit 17 detects that the operator has touched the second display portion 24a, the contents of item 1 which are the selection display contents of the second display portion 24a. (See FIG. 4A), that is, “ms”, “sec”, and “times” are sequentially displayed on the second display portion 24a. Therefore, for example, so-called overwriting, in which the entire contents of item 1 are displayed so as to overlap each other in the screen of FIG. 2, can be avoided, and after this overwriting part is erased from the screen, the overwriting is performed. The effect is that it is possible to eliminate the work of creating a complicated program for redisplaying the characters and lines that overlap under the portion.

Moreover, since a plurality of setting data “ms”, “sec”, and “times” can be sequentially displayed on the single second display portion 24a, a considerably large number of setting data are displayed on the CRT 12. Even if it becomes necessary to display, the advantage that the display layout on the CRT 12 becomes easy is obtained.

The second display portion 24b also has the same effect as that of the second display portion 24a.

[0025]

[Effect of device]

 The display device with a touch panel according to the present invention has the following effects and advantages.

When the touch panel is touched corresponding to a predetermined display part provided on the display means, a plurality of setting conditions stored in the storage means are set to the predetermined display part according to the number of touches on the touch panel. Since the display conditions are sequentially displayed, it is possible to effectively avoid the overlapping of the setting conditions that occur when a plurality of setting conditions are simultaneously displayed on the display means. Therefore, it becomes unnecessary to display the setting conditions on the display unit in an overlapping manner or to create a complicated program for removing the overlapping portion and displaying the other setting conditions again. This simplifies the layout of the display area and simplifies screen display and program creation work.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic structural explanatory view of a display device with a touch panel according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram of a CRT included in the display device.

FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram of a memory buffer included in the display device.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram of items stored in a first memory circuit which constitutes the display device.

FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram of coordinate data stored in a second memory circuit that constitutes the display device.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart for explaining the operation of the display device.

FIG. 7 is a flowchart for displaying items in FIG.

8 is a flowchart for input position determination in FIG.

[Explanation of symbols]

 10 ... Display device 12 ... CRT 14 ... Storage circuit 16 ... Touch panel 17 ... Comparison circuit 18 ... CPU 22a-22f, 24a, 24b ... Display part 34 ... Storage circuit 38 ... Memory buffer 40 ... Character font storage circuit

 ─────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continuation of the front page (72) Inventor Ichiro Kono 1-10-1 Shin-Sayama, Sayama-shi, Saitama Honda Engineering Co., Ltd.

Claims (1)

[Scope of utility model registration request] 1. Display means provided with a plurality of display parts for displaying various setting conditions, and storage means for storing a plurality of setting conditions corresponding to predetermined display parts among the display parts. A display part specifying means for determining whether or not the touch panel is touched corresponding to the predetermined display part; and a storage part for storing in the storage part according to the number of times the touch panel is touched corresponding to the predetermined display part. A display device with a touch panel, comprising: a selection unit that sequentially displays a plurality of set conditions that are set on the display portion.