JPH08123653A - Word processor equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Summary] [Purpose] The purpose is to facilitate the operation when dividing a screen, and to easily perform the operation when partially moving or copying a document between divided screens. [Structure] Position detecting means 101 for detecting a touched position on a display screen, and screen dividing means 102 for dividing the screen by displaying a vertical axis or a horizontal axis based on the position detected by the position detecting means 101. , And editing means 103 for editing an element between the divided screens, for example, copying and moving an element whose range is specified in the divided screen to another divided screen.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an information processing device, and more particularly to a screen division processing method for a display screen of a word processor device.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, the improvement of the function of a word processor is remarkable not only in the improvement of the conversion function by enhancing the dictionary but also in the operability at the time of editing a document. inside that,
Particularly, the screen division at the time of editing a document is effective for referring to another document, partial copying, and the like.

FIG. 11 (a) is a diagram showing a document creation screen of a conventional word processor, and FIG. 11 (b) is a diagram showing a keyboard of the conventional word processor. When the operator presses a key on the keyboard 403, characters, figures, etc. corresponding to the key are displayed on the display screen 401. When the operator presses a key corresponding to a character or a figure on the keyboard 403, the character, the figure or the like is displayed at the current position of the cursor 402, and the cursor 4
02 moves sequentially. By repeating this operation, the operator can edit characters, figures, and the like.

FIG. 12 shows a flow chart of screen division in a conventional word processor. The screen division processing in the word processor will be described below with reference to FIGS.

When an operator wants to refer to another document or copy / move a part of his / her document / other document at the time of editing a document, the screen is divided and the one of the divided screens is currently edited. It is necessary to display the document being displayed and to display the document to be referred to on the other split screen. In that case, the operator first specifies whether the display screen 401 is divided vertically or horizontally. The designation method is performed by pressing the function key 404 on the keyboard 403 to which the functions of vertical axis division / horizontal axis division are assigned in advance. Alternatively, it is specified whether the display screen 401 is divided into the vertical axis or the horizontal axis by clicking a predetermined area on the screen indicating the vertical axis division / horizontal axis division with a pointing device such as a mouse (step S501). ).

Next, when the vertical axis division is designated in the previous step S501, the vertical axis is displayed on the display screen 401. When the horizontal axis division is designated, the horizontal axis is displayed on the display screen 401 (step S502).

Finally, the position of the split axis is designated. When the screen is divided vertically, the horizontal key is moved up and down by operating the move key 405 on the keyboard 403. After the movement of the horizontal axis, the execute key 406 is pressed to fix the position of the horizontal axis. Alternatively, the horizontal axis is moved up and down by moving the mouse up and down, and the position of the horizontal axis is confirmed by clicking with the mouse.

When the screen is divided horizontally, the move key 405 on the keyboard 403 is operated to move the vertical axis to the left and right. After moving the vertical axis, a predetermined key is pressed to confirm the position of the vertical axis. Alternatively, the horizontal axis is moved left and right by moving the mouse left and right, and the position of the horizontal axis is confirmed by clicking the mouse (step S503).

[0009]

When a screen is divided by a conventional word processor, after specifying the vertical axis division / horizontal axis division, the division key is operated by operating the move key 405 on the keyboard 403 to the position to be divided. The screen was divided by moving and pressing a predetermined key.

When a mouse is supported as a pointing device, after the vertical axis division / horizontal axis division is designated, the division axis is moved to the position to be divided and a button on the mouse is clicked. The screen was divided by specifying the division position.

Therefore, it is necessary to move the division axis and determine the division position after the vertical division / horizontal division is designated and before the screen division is actually performed. Further, when the display screen 401 is already divided and the division position is changed, the above-described operation needs to be performed from the beginning.

Furthermore, when a document is partially copied or moved between divided screens, the cursor is moved to specify the range of the copy source or a part of the source document, and the copy is performed. It is necessary to move the cursor for designating the position of the destination or the destination and a predetermined operation for confirmation.

It is an object of the present invention to facilitate an operation when a screen is divided by a word processor and an operation when a document is partially moved or copied between divided screens.

[0014]

FIG. 1 shows a block diagram of the principle of the present invention. The position detection unit 101 detects a touched position on the display screen, and in the embodiment, the screen touch interface 206 that notifies the CPU 201 of the touched position coordinates corresponds to this.

The screen dividing means 102 is the position detecting means 10
The display screen is divided based on the position detected in 1. For example, the display screen is divided along the vertical axis or the horizontal axis so as to pass the position detected by the position detection unit 101. Further, the screen dividing means 102 is the position detecting means 1
The position detected by 01 is the top edge, bottom edge, left edge,
It is determined which of the right ends is closest, and when the judgment result is the upper end or the lower end, the display screen is divided by the vertical axis, and when the judgment result is the left end or the right end, the display screen is divided by the horizontal axis. It may be configured as follows.

If the touched position on the display screen is on the split axis displayed on the display screen, the position detecting means 101 detects the position on the display screen to be touched next, The screen dividing means 102 may be configured to divide the display screen based on the position on the display screen that is touched next.

The editing means 103 edits elements between the screens divided by the screen dividing means 102, for example, copying and moving the elements. Editing means 103
Among the elements in the first divided screen divided by the screen dividing means 102, the elements in the rectangular area determined by the first position and the second position detected by the position detecting means 101 are changed to the screen dividing means. The element in the rectangular area may be copied and moved to the third position detected by the position detecting means 101 in the second divided screen divided by 102.

[0018]

When the element displayed on the display screen in the word processor, for example, the document is edited, it is necessary to divide the display screen when referring to or copying another document. The operator designates the screen division (vertical axis division / horizontal axis division) and touches the position to be divided on the display screen.
The position detection unit 101 detects the touched position and notifies the screen division unit 102 of the coordinate information of the touched position.
The screen dividing unit 102 refers to the notified coordinate information, displays the vertical axis or the horizontal axis so as to pass the touched position, and divides the display screen.

When resetting the already-displayed split axis, the operator touches the split axis on the display screen. The position detecting means 101 detects the touched position, and if the division axis already displayed is the vertical axis, the screen dividing means 102.
Redisplays the vertical axis so as to pass the touched position and divides the display screen into the vertical axes. If the division axis that is already displayed is the horizontal axis, the screen division means 102 re-displays the horizontal axis so as to pass the touched position and divides the display screen into the horizontal axes.

Further, when copying or moving a document between the divided display screens, the range of the copy source of the copy source or the movement target of the transfer source is designated. As the designation method, the elements within the rectangular area formed at the positions of the two points detected by the position detection means 101 are set as the copy range or the movement range.
Next, the position detecting means 101 detects that the other divided screen is touched, determines the touched position as the copy destination or the move destination, and touches the copy range or the element within the move range. Insert in position.

[0021]

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing the overall configuration of a word processor of this embodiment. A central processing unit (hereinafter abbreviated as CPU) 201 controls the entire device by sequentially processing programs written in a memory 202. In addition to programs for editing processing, the memory 202 stores a character font used when displaying characters on the screen, a dictionary used for conversion during editing, and the like, which are sequentially read out as necessary. . The memory 202 is also used to temporarily store documents and the like created by the operator. The created document is stored in the external storage device 210 via the external storage interface 209, the document stored in the external storage device 210 is read to the memory 202 as necessary, and the editing work is performed by the operator. .

The operator carries out editing work using the keyboard 207 connected via the keyboard interface 208 while looking at the document displayed on the display screen 203. The display of the document is performed by the CPU 201 referring to the document stored in the memory 202 and transferring the character font stored in the memory 202 to a predetermined position in a VRAM (not shown). The image such as characters stored in the VRAM is read by the screen interface 204 and displayed on the display screen 203.

The created document data is transferred to the printer device 212 via the print interface 211, and the printer device 212 prints the document. The display screen 203 is provided with a screen touch mechanism 205 which is a touch panel overlaid on the display screen 203. When the display screen 203 is touched, the screen touch mechanism 205
Sends a control signal to the screen touch interface 206. The screen touch interface 206 is the display screen 2
The CPU 201 notifies the touched position coordinates on 03.

FIG. 3 shows a flowchart of the screen division process. The screen division processing will be described below with reference to the overall configuration diagram of FIG. First, the vertical axis division / horizontal axis division is designated. As a designation method, the keyboard 207
Press the key to which the function of vertical axis division / horizontal axis division above is assigned, or display screen 2 while watching display screen 203.
This is performed by touching a predetermined position indicating the vertical axis division / horizontal axis division on 03 (step S101).

Next, it waits until the display screen 203 is touched. When the display screen 203 is touched, the screen touch interface 206 notifies the CPU 201 of the touched position coordinates (step S102).

It is determined whether or not the notified position coordinates are positions in the display screen 203 at which the screen can be divided. For example, if the position touched by specifying the vertical axis division is near the right end or the left end in the display screen 203, it is determined that the screen division is impossible and the process returns to the previous step S102. Also,
If the touched position is not near the right end or the left end, it is determined that screen division is possible and the process proceeds to the next step (step S103).

If the vertical axis division is designated in step S101, the vertical axis is displayed so as to pass the touched position in the previous step S103, and the display screen 203 is divided. If horizontal axis division is specified, the horizontal axis is displayed so that the touched position is passed, and the display screen 203
Is divided (step S104).

Screen division is performed by the above processing.
4 (a) and 4 (b) are diagrams showing an actual operation on the screen, and FIG. 4 (a) shows an edit screen in a state where the screen is not divided. For example, assume that the point A 301 on the display screen 203 is touched after the horizontal axis division is designated. The horizontal axis of the display screen 203 is displayed so as to pass through the point A 301, and the horizontal axis 302 divides the screen into two as shown in FIG. 4B.

FIG. 5 shows a flowchart of another screen division process. The difference from the processing described with reference to FIG. 3 is that it is automatically determined whether it is vertical axis division or horizontal axis division.

First, screen division is designated. The designation method is performed by pressing a key on the keyboard 207 to which the screen division function is assigned, or by touching a predetermined position indicating the screen division on the display screen 203 while looking at the display screen 203 (step S201).

Next, it waits until the display screen 203 is touched. When the display screen 203 is touched, the screen touch interface 206 notifies the CPU 201 of the touched position coordinates (step S202).

From the position coordinates notified in the previous step S202, it is determined whether the vertical axis division or the horizontal axis division is performed.
As a determination method, first, it is determined whether the touched position is closer to the right end or the left end. For example, when the point B 303 on the display screen is touched as shown in FIG. 6A, the coordinate x from the left end is obtained because it is close to the left end. next,
It is determined whether the touched position is closer to the upper end or the lower end. Since the point B 303 is near the upper end, the coordinate y from the upper end is obtained. The obtained coordinates x and y are compared, and if x <y (when the touched position is closest to the left end among the upper end, lower end, left end, and right end), it is determined to be horizontal axis division, and x> y.
If the touched position is the closest to the upper end among the upper end, the lower end, the left end, and the right end, it is determined to be the vertical axis division.

When the point C 304 on the display screen is touched as shown in FIG. 6B, the coordinate x'from the right end is calculated because it is closer to the right end than the left end. Next, since the touched position is closer to the lower end than the upper end, the coordinate y ′ from the lower end is obtained. Compare the obtained coordinates x'and y ',
If x '>y' (when the touched position is closest to the lower end among the upper end, lower end, left end, and right end), it is determined to be vertical axis division, and x '<y' (the touched position is the upper end. , The bottom edge, the left edge, and the right edge are closest to the right edge), it is determined to be the horizontal axis division.

FIG. 6A shows the case where the left end and the upper end are close to each other.
Although (b) shows the case where the touched position is close to the right edge and the bottom edge, the vertical axis division / horizontal axis division can be similarly determined when the touched position is near the left edge and the bottom edge, or when the touched position is near the right edge and the top edge. (Step S203).

Here, in the present embodiment, when determining the vertical axis division / horizontal axis division, the absolute coordinate value from the left end or the right end,
Although the absolute coordinate values from the upper or lower edge were compared, the ratio obtained by the horizontal screen size (maximum coordinate value) and the absolute coordinate value from the left or right edge, and the vertical screen size (maximum coordinate value) and the upper edge Alternatively, the vertical axis division / horizontal axis division may be determined by comparing the ratios obtained from the absolute coordinate values from the lower end.

If it is determined in the previous step S203 that the vertical axis is divided, the vertical axis is displayed so as to pass the touched position in step S202, and the display screen 203 is divided. If it is determined that the horizontal axis is divided, the horizontal axis is displayed so as to pass the touched position, and the display screen 203 is divided (step S204).

FIG. 7 shows a flowchart of the process of re-dividing the screen. First, it waits until the display screen 203 is touched. When the display screen 203 is touched, the screen touch interface 206 notifies the CPU 201 of the touched position coordinates (step S301).

Next, it is determined whether or not the position touched in the previous step S301 is on the split axis displayed on the display screen 203. If it is on the division axis, the next step S303
If not on the division axis, the process returns to the previous step S301 (step S302).

If the touched position is on the divided axis, the touch of the display screen 203 is waited for again. When the display screen 203 is touched, the screen touch interface 206 notifies the touched position coordinates (step S).
303).

It is determined whether or not the notified position coordinates are positions on the display screen 203 at which the screen can be divided. For example, if the position touched by specifying the vertical axis division is close to the right end or the left end in the display screen 203, it is determined that the screen division is impossible and the process returns to the previous step S303. Also,
If the touched position is not near the right end or the left end, it is assumed that screen division is possible and the next step S305.
(Step S304).

If the split axis initially displayed is the vertical axis, the vertical axis is displayed so as to pass the position touched in the previous step S304, and the display screen 203 is split. If the initially displayed split axis is the horizontal axis, the horizontal axis is displayed so as to pass the touched position, and the display screen 203 is split (step S305).

By the above processing, the screen is re-divided. 8A and 8B are diagrams showing an actual operation on the screen, and FIG. 8A shows an edit screen in a state where the screen is already divided. For example, assume that a point D 305 on the horizontal axis displayed on the display screen 203 is touched. Then, when the E point 306 which is several lines below the D point 305 is touched, the horizontal axis is redisplayed so as to pass through the E point 306, and the screen is divided into two as shown in FIG. 8B. It

FIG. 9 shows an editing process such as moving / copying between the documents displayed on each of the divided screens when the display screen 203 is already divided.
The screens already divided are referred to as a divided screen 1 and a divided screen 2, respectively.

First, designation of movement / copying is performed. As a designation method, a key on the keyboard 207 to which a moving or copying function is assigned is pressed, or the display screen 2 is displayed.
It is performed by touching a predetermined position indicating movement / copying on the display screen 203 while looking at 03 (step S40).
1).

Next, the range to be moved or copied is specified. As a method of specifying the range, for example, when moving the contents of the document displayed on the split screen 1,
The moving range of the document displayed in is touched by touching the start point and the end point. That is, the document in the rectangular area formed by the touched start point and end point is set as the moving target or the copying target (step S402).

Then, it waits until the display screen 203 is touched. When the display screen 203 is touched, the screen touch interface 206 notifies the CPU 201 of the touched position coordinates (step S403).

In step S403, it is determined whether the touched position is on the split screen 1 or the split screen 2. If it is split screen 1, move within the same split screen /
Since it is copying, the process advances to step S409 to perform normal moving / copying processing. If the touched position is within the split screen 2, it is moved / copied between the split screens and the process proceeds to the next step S405 (step S404).

Next, it is determined whether the document displayed in the split screen 1 is the same document as the document displayed in the split screen 2. If they are the same document, step S407.
If it is another document, the process proceeds to step S406 (step S405).

When the document displayed in the split screen 1 and the document displayed in the split screen 2 are other documents, the control of the document is switched. Since the two documents are different documents, the document memory area and the management area stored in the memory 202 exist separately. For example, since data such as the number of digits and format are unique to each document, when transferring control from the own document to another document, it is necessary to switch these data to the data of another document. By switching this data, it becomes possible to switch from the own document displayed in the split screen 1 to the environment and document area of another document displayed in the split screen 2 (step S40).
6).

The moving object or the copying object designated in the range in step S402 is moved or copied to the moving destination / copying destination specified in step S403, and the process ends (step S407).

By the above processing, movement / copying etc. between the divided screens are performed. 10 (a), (b),
FIG. 10C is a diagram showing an actual copying operation on the screen, and FIG. 10A shows a state in which the screen has already been divided. Two tables are displayed on the split screen 1 (top split screen). FIG. 10B shows a state in which the copy target is specified, and the inside of a rectangular area formed by two points (F point 307 and G point 308) on the display screen 203 touched by the operator is copied. Be the target. Figure 10
(C) shows a state in which the copy target is copied to the copy destination. Operator is the destination of split screen 2 (lower split screen)
By touching an H point 309 in the area, the copy target whose range is specified is copied to the H point.

In the above description, a document is used as an object to be edited, but it goes without saying that it may be an element such as a figure.

[0053]

According to the present invention, when the display screen is divided, the only operation is to touch the display screen after designating the vertical axis division / horizontal axis division, and the operation procedure is greatly reduced. Was done.

Further, the vertical axis division / horizontal axis division is designated in order to automatically determine the vertical axis division or the horizontal axis division by the only operation of touching the display screen after designating the screen division. It became possible to omit the procedure to do.

Further, when a document is partially copied or moved between divided screens, an operation for designating a part of the copy source or the transfer source document is performed twice on the display screen. It becomes possible by touch, and since the operation for designating the position of the copy destination or the move destination is made possible by one touch on the display screen, the operation procedure for partial copying and partial movement is greatly reduced. It was

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the principle of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an overall configuration of a word processor of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing a screen division process.

FIG. 4A is a diagram showing a state before the screen is divided, and FIG. 4B is a diagram showing a state after the screen is divided.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing another screen division process.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a method of automatically determining horizontal axis division / vertical axis division.

FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing a process of re-dividing a screen.

FIG. 8A is a diagram showing a state where the screen is already divided, and FIG. 8B is a diagram showing a state where the screen is divided again.

FIG. 9 is a flowchart showing a process of moving / copying between divided screens.

10A is a diagram showing a state in which a screen has already been divided, FIG. 10B is a diagram showing a state in which a copy target is specified, and FIG. 10C is a copy target being a copy destination. It is a figure which shows the copied state.

11A is a diagram showing a document creation screen of a conventional word processor, and FIG. 11B is a diagram showing a keyboard of the conventional word processor.

FIG. 12 is a flowchart showing a conventional screen division process.

[Explanation of symbols]

 101 position detecting means 102 screen dividing means 103 editing means 201 central processing unit (CPU) 202 memory 203 display screen 204 screen interface 205 screen touch mechanism 206 screen touch interface 207 keyboard 208 keyboard interface 209 external storage interface 210 external storage device 211 printing Interface 212 Printer device

Claims (7)

[Claims] 1. A position detecting means for detecting a touched position on the display screen, and a screen dividing means for dividing the display screen based on the position detected by the position detecting means. Word processing device. 2. The screen division means displays the division axis of the vertical axis or the horizontal axis so as to pass the position detected by the position detection means and divides the display screen. The word processor device according to claim 1. 3. The position detecting means detects the next touched position on the display screen if the touched position on the display screen is on a split axis displayed on the display screen. 2. The word processor device according to claim 1, wherein the screen dividing unit divides the display screen based on a position on the display screen that is touched next time. 4. The screen dividing means is arranged such that the position detected by the position detecting means is the upper end, the lower end, the left end,
It is determined which of the right ends is closest, and when the determination result is the upper end or the lower end, the display screen is divided by the vertical axis, and when the determination result is the left end or the right end, the display screen is displayed by the horizontal axis. The word processor device according to claim 1, wherein the word processor device is divided. 5. A position detecting means for detecting a touched position on the display screen, a screen dividing means for dividing the display screen based on the position detected by the position detecting means, and a screen dividing means for dividing the display screen. And a editing means for editing the document between the display screens, the word processing device. 6. The editing means determines an area based on the position detected by the position detecting means, and the elements in the area are displayed in the divided display screen except the area where the area is set. The word processor device according to claim 5, wherein copying or moving is performed to a position detected by the position detecting means. 7. The rectangular area defined by the first position and the second position detected by the position detecting means among the elements in the first divided screen divided by the screen dividing means. Elements in the rectangular area are copied or moved to the third position detected by the position detecting means in the second divided screen divided by the screen dividing means. The word processor device according to claim 6.