JP2020193918A - Fish detector - Google Patents

Abstract

To solve a problem that a typical fish detector has a display device with a display style such that underwater information is illustrated using a water depth axis and a time axis, which makes it difficult for a user who does not know how to read a display content (such as a beginner) to understand the display content.SOLUTION: Underwater information acquired by a fish detector is displayed on a display device in the form of a sentence or a character string in a language such as Japanese using an interactive type user interface that is familiar as seen in an electronic mail, chat, and the like, thereby providing a fish detector easy-to-understand for a user. A display content is a sentence edition of an analysis result of information acquired by an underwater sensor for fish detection, for example, "fish has been detected at a water depth of about 5 meters." For operation of the fish detector, the fish detector provided here also allows for an instruction in a sentence or character string using an input style of the interactive type user interface as in the electronic mail and chat.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 2

Description

The present invention relates to an information display method and an operation method of a fish finder.

The fish finder is used in fisheries and fishing as a device for analyzing the existence, quantity, type, etc. of a school of fish in water by reflecting ultrasonic waves.

The problem to be solved is that the display format of the display device of a general fish finder is a format in which underwater information is illustrated by the water depth axis and the time axis, and users who do not know how to read the displayed contents (beginners). Etc.), which is difficult to understand.

According to the present invention, it is most important to convert underwater information acquired from a fish finder into sentences and character strings and display them on a display device using a widely used conversational user interface such as e-mail or chat. It is the main feature.

Beginners without knowledge of fishfinders by displaying the information acquired from the water by the fishfinder as characters and sentences in languages such as Japanese using a conversational user interface instead of the conventional graphical display. We will provide a fish finder that is easy to understand and use even for users such as.

Regarding the operation of the fish finder, we will provide a fish finder that is easy for users to handle by realizing commands in characters and sentences in languages such as Japanese using the input format of the conversational user interface.

FIG. 1 is an explanatory diagram showing a system configuration of a fish finder. FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram showing a display screen of the fish finder.

The purpose of providing a fish finder with a user interface that is easy for users who do not have knowledge about fish finder is realized by the following system configuration.
(1) Underwater sensor for fish finder (ultrasonic oscillator and data transmitter / receiver)
(2) Display device (mainly uses general-purpose information and communication devices such as smartphones and tablets. When displaying information, install and use a unique application for our fishfinder. Conversational user interface such as mail, chat, and SNS. You may also use your own general-purpose application)
(3) Send and receive data by connecting the underwater sensor for fish finder and the display device wirelessly or by wire.

FIG. 1 shows the system configuration of the device of the present invention, where 1 is a display device and 2 is an underwater sensor for fish finder. The display device and the underwater sensor for fish finder shall be connected wirelessly or by wire to transmit and receive data.
A general-purpose information communication device (smartphone, tablet, etc.) can be used as the display device.
The data acquired from the underwater sensor for fish finder shall be converted into characters or sentences and displayed by a unique application implemented in the display device.

FIG. 2 shows an example of screen display, and 6 display screens display information of a fish finder as sentences and character strings by an application having a conversational user interface.
As an example, the information obtained by verbalizing the data acquired from the fish finder underwater sensor as characters or sentences is displayed as 7 balloons (1).
The operation by the user shall be input in the 8-character input field. However, the input shall correspond to character input, voice input, menu selection method input, and the like. The input characters, that is, the operation commands, are reflected on the screen display as in 9 balloons (2).
The response from the fishfinder system to the operation command shall be displayed on the screen as shown in 10 balloons (3).
Notifications from the fishfinder system and operation commands from the user are displayed in history as described above, and when the amount of notifications and operation commands exceeds the screen display area, the display shall be adjusted by scrolling as appropriate.

As an example of the notification content of 7 balloons (1) in Fig. 2, the result of analyzing the information acquired from the fish finder underwater sensor is edited in a textual manner, such as "A school of fish was detected near a depth of 5 m." It will be the one that was done.

Claims (1)

A fish finder that uses a conversational user interface that is popular in emails and chats for displaying information acquired from the water by the fish finder or for operating commands of the fish finder.