JPH08340585A - Operation guide device - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Abstract] [Purpose] To improve operability by providing different guides for every internal state when the user operates the equipment. [Arrangement] By providing the internal state determination means 4 and the guide display content selection means 5, it is possible to display operation guides in all states, and the information desired by the user can be selected by selecting or switching the items of the operation guides. To improve the operability. [Effect] It is possible to display a guide indicating the operation content in the state, and when there are many buttons to explain, the guide content can be classified by item, so the user can be provided with a guide that makes it easy to search for the desired information, and operability is improved. It is possible to improve.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an operation guide device for improving the operability of a device by a user.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, as electronic devices such as television receivers have become more complicated in function, a plurality of remote controls and buttons for operating the devices have been prepared. The user may press any button or remote to operate the device. It is causing confusion that I do not know what.

Further, a device has a plurality of internal states, and it has become difficult to perform an operation for transitioning to another state when the state is reached. Therefore, an operation guide for explaining the operation in more detail is needed.

A conventional operation guide device will be described below. FIG. 4 is a block diagram of a conventional operation guide device.

In FIG. 4, the conventional operation guide device is
An input device 1 for receiving an input from a user, and an input discriminating means 2 for discriminating a signal input by the input device.
And a mode discriminating means 3 for discriminating the current mode.
A guide display means 6 for displaying a main guide of the mode specified by the mode judging means, and an operation realizing means 7 for realizing an operation when a signal for performing an actual operation is judged by the input judging means, It is composed of an output device 8 which outputs by a guide or operation.

[0006]

However, in the above-mentioned conventional configuration, since the operation method corresponding to all states is not supported, there may occur a case where the operation method is not known depending on the state, or a transition to another state occurs. It was not a guide that clearly showed the operation for doing so, and was not a kind guide that the user could always know what he / she wanted to know.

The present invention is intended to solve the above-mentioned conventional problems, and it is an object of the present invention to improve the operability for the user by displaying operation guides in all states.

[0008]

In order to solve the above problems, the present invention provides an internal state determining means for determining the current internal state of the current mode specified by the mode determining means,
It has guide display content selection means for selecting an item of operation content to be known in order to display the operation guide in the internal state specified by the internal state determination means.

[0009]

With this structure, it is possible to realize an operation guide corresponding to any state in any mode.

[0010]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An operation guide device according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an operation guide device according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIGS. 2 and 3 are views showing one display example of the present invention.

In FIG. 1, reference numeral 1 is an input device such as a remote controller that receives an input from a user. Reference numeral 2 denotes an input discriminating means for discriminating the contents of the remote control button or the like input by the input device 1. Reference numeral 3 is a mode discriminating means for discriminating the mode at the time when an input is received from the input device 1. Reference numeral 4 is an internal state determination means for determining which state of the mode the current internal state of the device is determined by 3. Reference numeral 5 is a guide display content selection means for selecting an item of an operation to actually see from the operation guide of the internal state determined by the internal state determination means 4. Reference numeral 6 denotes a guide display means for displaying the operation guide selected by the guide display content selection means 5. Reference numeral 7 is an operation realizing means for performing an actual operation by the input of the input device 1. Reference numeral 8 denotes an output device for outputting the guide display means 6 and the operation realizing means 7. Here, the output device is a television receiver or a C
In a device such as an RT display, the display unit itself can be used as an output device.

2 and 3, 9 is a mode name,
A guide name indicating the internal state name and the number of pages. Reference numeral 10 is a guide operation guide for switching the guide. Reference numeral 11 is a guide item for switching the guide. 12
Is a remote control button name that can be pressed in the mode and state of guide name 9. Reference numeral 13 represents the operation content when the remote control button name 12 is pressed.

Next, the operation of FIG. 1 will be described with reference to FIGS. 2 and 3 for the actual operation. An example is a teletext-incorporated television. When the user inputs the "guide" button with the input device 1, the button input by the input determining means 2 is determined to be the "guide" button, and the mode determining means 3 determines the television mode to be "text broadcasting". When the "guide" button is input, the internal determination means 4 determines that the internal state of the television is "full screen". Then, a guide indicating a guide indicating an operation in the state determined by the guide display content selection unit 5 is extracted and output to the output device 8. FIG. 2 shows an example of output to the output device 8.
If the guide is output here, the guide display content selection means 5 waits for an input when the guide is displayed. When the input device 1 inputs the data through the input device 1 and "2 reserve" in FIG. 2 is selected, the guide is switched to a guide showing the operation contents for making a reservation in the full screen state of the current teletext mode. . If "3 other switching" is selected here, an operation guide for shifting from the current mode state to another mode is displayed. FIG. 3 shows an example in which the guide selected by the guide display means 6 is extracted and output to the output device 8. When a button other than the “guide” button is input by the first input device 1, the internal operation of the television is realized by the operation realizing means 7 after the input determining means 2 and the mode determining means 3, and the operation is performed by the output device 8. Output the contents.

As described above, according to the present invention, it is possible to prepare a guide indicating an operation content in any state in any mode and output a necessary guide, and it is easy to search for required information by switching the guide content. Therefore, the operability can be improved.

[0015]

As is apparent from the above description, according to the present invention, it is possible to display a guide indicating the operation content in any state in any mode, and when there are many buttons to be explained, the guide content can be displayed by item. Since the information can be classified, it is easy to search for the desired information and the operability for the user can be improved.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an operation guide device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a display example of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a display example of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a block diagram of a conventional operation guide device.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 input device 2 input discriminating means 3 mode discriminating means 4 internal state discriminating means 5 guide display content selecting means 6 guide display means 7 operation realizing means 8 output means 9 guide name 10 guide operation guide 11 guide item 12 remote control button name 13 operation content

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. An input device for receiving an input from a user, an input discriminating means for discriminating a signal input by the input device, a mode discriminating means for discriminating a current mode, and a guide by the input discriminating means. An internal state discriminating means for discriminating an internal state of the mode discriminated by the mode discriminating means when a signal for displaying is displayed, and a guide display means for displaying a guide in a state specified by the internal state discriminating means. An operation guide device comprising: output means for outputting by the guide display means; and operation realizing means for realizing an operation when a signal for performing an actual operation is discriminated by the input discriminating means. 2. The operation guide device according to claim 1, further comprising means for outputting a guide indicating an operation method for making a transition to another state in the operation guide in the state specified by the internal state determination means. 3. The operation guide device according to claim 2, wherein the desired guide information is switched by the guide display content selection means for selecting an item to be operated in the guide specified by the internal state determination means.