JPH0877193A - Index display device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To provide an index display device which index-displays a commodity name list so that a commodity out of stock can be recognized beforehand by casting a glance at the commodity name list, and can save wasteful operation. CONSTITUTION: An LCD 1 and an arithmetic processing circuit 3 are provided. The LCD 1 displays plural index candidate characters assigned one-to-one to the individual commodity name list at a time. The arithmetic processing circuit 3 judges whether a commodity name beginning from the index candidate character of the commodity name list is written in the commodity name list or not for every commodity name list, and displays plural candidate characters on the LCD 1 at a time as changing a style of type respectively; namely, the index candidate character judged to bear the commodity name by full-line display and the index candidate character judged not to bear the commodity name by half-erased display.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an index display device for displaying indexes such as product names.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Generally, in a data processing device having a display unit, when a list of product names and the like is displayed on the display unit, for example, a product name list of Aieo order is created in advance, and the product name of "A" is first prepared. The list is displayed on the display unit, then the product name list of "i" is updated and displayed on the display unit, and then the product name list of "u" is updated and displayed on the display unit. The name list is updated and displayed one by one on the display unit.

[0003]

Therefore, even when the corresponding product name list is not filled with the corresponding product name, the corresponding product name list is not displayed until the product name list is displayed on the display section. It turns out that there was a needless operation by then.

The present invention is not limited to only product names, but a list of product names and the like can be displayed as an index, and a list of product names and the like for which the corresponding product or the like does not exist can be recognized at a glance in advance, which is wasteful. An object of the present invention is to provide an index display device capable of omitting operations.

[0005]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, a display unit and an arithmetic processing unit are provided, and the display unit simultaneously displays a plurality of index candidate characters assigned to each list in a one-to-one manner. Further, the arithmetic processing unit, for each list, a name determination unit that determines whether or not a name starting from an index candidate character of the list is described in the list, and an index that determines that the name is described. An index display characterized by having a character display means for displaying a plurality of index candidate characters on the display unit at the same time by differentiating the typeface between the candidate characters and the index candidate characters determined not to have names. Adopt equipment.

In the second aspect, the character display means is a solid line for an index candidate character which is determined to have a name, and a half-erased character for an index candidate character which is determined not to have a name. Thus, the index display device according to claim 1, wherein a plurality of index candidate characters are simultaneously displayed on the display unit.

In the third aspect, the index display device according to the first or second aspect is adopted, wherein the name is a product name.

[0008]

In the index display device according to the first aspect of the present invention, the list means a page such as a page in which the product name, the company name, the efficacy of the drug and the like are described.
In addition, index candidate characters are characters such as "A", "I", "U", "E", "O" in alphabetical order, and "A", "B", "C" in alphabetical order. Say.
In addition, the name means a product name starting with an index candidate character, a company name, a drug effect, etc., for example, a product name starting with "a".

According to the index display device of the first aspect, a plurality of index candidate characters are simultaneously displayed on the display unit in different typefaces depending on whether or not a name is written.
It is possible to recognize at a glance a list in which names such as product names are not listed. Therefore, it is possible to know that the name is not described without displaying the list in which the name is not described on the display unit, and unnecessary operation is avoided.

According to the index display device of the second aspect, when the name is described, the solid line display is performed, while when the name is not described, the half-erased display is performed. Therefore, the name is described from the typeface. You can instinctively know whether or not.

According to the index display device of the third aspect, when the list is the product name list, the presence or absence of the product name can be recognized at a glance without displaying the product name list.

[0012]

An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 shows the structure of an index display device according to an embodiment.

In FIG. 1, 1 is a liquid crystal display (LCD) as a display unit, 2 is a transparent touch panel as an operation unit arranged on the front surface of the LCD 1, and 3 is a calculation process as a calculation processing unit. Circuits 4 represent pens used when operating the touch panel 2. Arithmetic processing circuit 3
Is a key controller 31, a CPU 32, a ROM 33,
RAM 34, display controller 35 and video RAM 3
6 is the main component.

The LCD 1 is, as shown in FIGS. 3 and 4,
The product name lists L1 and L2 and the plurality of index candidate characters I1 and I2 are configured to be displayed in pairs. The product name list L1 in FIG. 3 is a product name list in which product names starting with the index candidate character “U” are described. As is clear from FIG. Since the name list L1 is being displayed, the display characters of the index candidate character "U" are other index candidate characters "A", "I", "E", "O".
Unlike, it is not framed. Further, the product name list L2 of FIG. 3 is a product name list in which product names starting with the index candidate character "a" are described, and as is apparent from FIG. 4, the display characters of the index candidate character "a" are:
Like the display character of the index candidate character “U” described above, it is not surrounded by a frame. In addition, a plurality of index candidate characters “A”, “I”, which are displayed in FIGS. 3 and 4,
The typefaces of “U”, “E”, and “O” are, as shown in an enlarged view in FIG. 5, index candidate characters “A”, “U”, and “E”.
Is a solid line character, while the index candidate characters “a” and “o” are half-erased characters. This means that the product name is listed in the product name list of index candidate characters displayed in solid lines, while
This indicates that the product name is not listed in the product name list of index candidate characters displayed in half-erased characters.

The arithmetic processing circuit 3 performs processing as shown in FIG. Hereinafter, this processing content will be described conceptually and then specifically described with reference to FIGS. 3 and 4.

First, all index candidate characters are displayed in solid lines (step 101).

Next, the product name in the product name list of index candidate characters is searched (step 102).

When it is determined that the product name is not listed in the product name list, the display characters of the index candidate character are changed to half-erased display (step 104).

On the other hand, when it is determined that the product name is not described in the product name list, or the above step 104
After executing, it is determined whether or not there are still index candidate characters (step 105).

When it is determined that the index candidate character remains, the process from step 102 onward is executed for the next index candidate character.

Then, when it is finally judged that no index candidate character remains, the processing is ended.

Specifically, the case where the index candidate characters to be displayed are "a", "i", "u", "e", and "o" will be described as an example. First, step 101 is executed. Then, all the display characters “A”, “A”, “U”, “E”, and “O” are displayed by solid lines at predetermined positions (see FIGS. 3 and 4) on the screen of the LCD 1.

Next, step 102 and step 103
Is executed to search the product name list to which the index candidate character “A” is assigned, and whether or not the product name is described in the product name list.

Assuming that the product name is described in this product name list, then step 105 is executed and the index candidate characters "i", "u", "e",
Since "o" remains, steps 102 and 103 are executed again.

Steps 102 and 1 at this time
In 03, the product name list to which the index candidate character “A” is assigned is searched, and it is searched whether or not the product name is described in this product name list.

Assuming that the product name is not listed in this product name list, then step 104 is executed and the display character of the index candidate character "a" is half-erased as shown in FIG. 3 and FIG. Change to display. Then, step 105 is executed, and the index candidate character “U” is still generated.
Since "E" and "O" remain, step 1 is performed again.
02 and step 103 are executed.

Thereafter, the index candidate character "U",
The processes similar to the above are sequentially performed for “D” and “O”, and as shown in FIGS. 3 and 4, the index candidate characters “A” and “U” are assigned to the product name list in which the product names are described. ”,“ E ”are displayed as solid lines,
On the other hand, the display characters of the index candidate characters “a” and “o” assigned to the product name list in which the product name is not described are displayed half-erased.

As described above, according to the present embodiment,
Since the display characters of the plurality of index candidate characters are simultaneously displayed by the solid line characters and the half-erased characters depending on whether or not the product name is described, the list in which the product name is not described can be recognized at a glance. Therefore, even if the product name list in which the product name is not described is displayed on the LCD 1, it is possible to know that the product name is not described, and unnecessary operation is avoided. Further, since the solid line is displayed when the product name is described and the half-erased display is displayed when the product name is not described, it is possible to intuitively recognize from the typeface whether or not the product name is described. Note that steps 102 and 103
However, in the name determining means referred to in the present invention, the step 10
Reference numerals 1 and 104 respectively correspond to the character display means according to the present invention.

In the above embodiments, the trade name is taken as an example, but it goes without saying that the present invention can also be applied to the company name or the efficacy of drugs. The different typeface may be a different typeface or the like.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram of an index display device according to an embodiment.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing the processing contents of an arithmetic processing circuit.

FIG. 3 shows an example of an LCD display screen.

FIG. 4 is another example of the LCD display screen.

FIG. 5 is an enlarged view of display characters of index candidate characters shown in FIGS. 3 and 4;

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 LCD (display unit) 3 Arithmetic processing circuit (arithmetic processing unit) Steps 102, 103 Name determination means Steps 101, 104 Character display means L1, L2 Product name list (list) I1, I2 Index candidate characters

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A display unit and an arithmetic processing unit, wherein the display unit simultaneously displays a plurality of index candidate characters assigned to each list in a one-to-one manner, and the arithmetic processing unit includes: For each list, the name determining means for determining whether or not the name starting from the index candidate character of the list is described in the list, the index candidate character determined to be included in the list, and the name are described. An index display device, comprising: a character display unit that displays a plurality of index candidate characters on the display unit at the same time by differentiating the typeface from the index candidate characters determined not to exist. 2. The character display means is a solid line for an index candidate character determined to have a name, and a half-erased character for an index candidate character determined to have no name.
The index display device according to claim 1, wherein a plurality of index candidate characters are simultaneously displayed on the display unit. 3. The index display device according to claim 1, wherein the name is a product name.