JPH04175960A - Communication control system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To receive sent information by a personal computer communication and to specify and select information on a screen at a real position on the screen by sending the sent information stored corresponding to a position indicated by an indicating means according to a table selected by a selecting means. CONSTITUTION:A personal communication terminal is equipped with a CPU 1, a graphic display 2 for displaying the terminal screen, and a display 2 and equipped with a touch panel 3 for specifying and selecting a position on the screen and a storage means 8 stored with tables containing information to be sent corresponding to the position on the display means 2 and plural pieces of image information to be displayed on the display means 2. Control is so performed that the tables and image information are selected, one by one, corresponding to the received information and the selected image information is displayed while the sent information stored corresponding to the indicated position is transmitted. Consequently, the position is specified on the display device to input the information to be transmitted.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to a communication method in an information processing apparatus that exchanges information with a remote location via a communication line.

[Conventional technology]

In conventional personal computer communication, the keyboard of a personal computer serving as a terminal is used as a means for inputting transmitted information, and the display device of the personal computer is used as a means for outputting received information from a remote terminal.

[Problem that the invention is trying to solve]

However, as an input means for information processing devices such as personal computers, in addition to the keyboard, there is an input means called a pointing device that allows you to specify and select a position. If we could create an input method that specifies and selects the above information at a real position on the screen, it would be possible to improve the man-machine interface of PC communication, but since the information input is positional information, , conventionally could not be used for communication with other communications.

It is also a typical example of computer communication. In BBS, etc., a menu-type screen is often displayed, and the operator selects an item from the menu to proceed with the process. For such processes, a position specification interface such as the one described above is useful. However, it has been desired to realize a communication terminal that is easy to use, especially for users who are allergic to keyboards and beginners.

[Means and effects for solving the problems] In order to solve the above problems, the communication control system of the present invention includes a communication means for transmitting and receiving information, a display means for displaying information, and a method for indicating a position on the display means. a table for storing information to be transmitted corresponding to a position on the display means;
a storage means for storing a plurality of pieces of image information to be displayed on the display means; and a storage means for storing a plurality of pieces of image information to be displayed on the display means;
a selection means for selecting the table and the image information one by one; controlling the display of the image information selected by the selection means; and receiving an instruction from the instruction means based on the table selected by the selection means. By providing a control means for controlling the transmitting information to be stored and transmitted in correspondence with the position, it is possible to input the information to be transmitted by specifying the position on the display device. .

〔Example〕

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a remote control communication terminal embodying the present invention.

In Fig. 1, 1 is a CPU which is the central processing unit of a personal computer that serves as a personal computer communication terminal, and 2 is a human-machine interface for the personal computer that displays various screens, and the terminal when operating as a personal computer communication terminal. A graphic display 3 is attached to the display 2 and is a touch panel for specifying and selecting a position on the screen.

In addition, 4 is a keyboard which is an input device of a personal computer, 5 is a printer which is an output device of a personal computer,
6 is a ROM that stores the basic software of the computer, 7 is a RAM of ζL that stores application software such as the computer's operating system and a computer communication terminal program, tables as shown in Figure 3, which will be described later, and 8 is a flowchart. 9 is a communication interface for communicating with a remote location.

Further, FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of the configuration of the entire communication system, in which 10 is a personal computer communication terminal implementing the present invention, 11 is a modem that converts the analog communication line and digital data in the personal computer, and 12 is a diagram showing an example of the configuration of the entire communication system. A remote host 13 is installed in a remote location and exchanges data with the PC communication terminal 10 via a communication line.
This is a communication line connecting the remote location 12 and the remote location 12.

Next, a part of the control flow of the embodiment of the personal computer communication system of the present invention will be explained according to the flowchart of FIG. The flowchart on the left side shows the flow of control on the computer communication terminal 10 side, and the flowchart on the right side shows the operation of the remote host 12. The arrows are the flow of information.

First, in order to connect the communication line 13, the PC communication terminal 10
From there, a connection request is made (step Sl).

In response to this, the remote host 12 accepts the connection (step S2). Next, the remote host 12 sends the processing menu character screen to the PC communication terminal 10 (Step S3), and the PC communication terminal 10 side receives the processing menu character screen and displays it on the screen, as shown in FIG. Step S4).

The remote host 12 also transmits a processing menu image screen display command (step 35).

The PC communication terminal 10 receives this processing menu image screen display command and extracts image screen information of the corresponding processing menu from a predetermined table (step S6).
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Here, FIG. 3 shows an example of a table for displaying a processing menu. In the figure, 14 to 17 are the contents of various information tables when the PC communication terminal is operating as a terminal, and 14 is identification information for identifying the image screen display command received from the remote host 12. , an image screen display command and a screen number, and by receiving information matching this identification information, displays the corresponding image screen and sets a table of corresponding position information and transmission character strings.

15 is image screen information corresponding to the received information, and if the received information is the image screen display command + screen N○1, the upper image screen (Fig. 6) of the image screen information is displayed, and the image screen display command is If it is the 10th screen No. 2, the lower image screen (FIG. 10) is displayed.

16 is a table of position information for each image screen, and is a group of information indicating the range of the dotted line indicated at the starting point of the arrow in FIG. Further, 17 is a table of transmission character strings corresponding to each location information, and this transmission character string is transmitted when the corresponding position is selected.

Now, returning to Figure 4, the image screen information in the processing menu (6th
) is drawn on the screen in the state shown in FIG. 5, and the resulting screen becomes as shown in FIG. 7 (step S7).

Next, in order to select, for example, process 1, the operator touches the switch on the left side of process 1 displayed on the screen with his fingertip, as shown in FIG. 8 (step S8).

Here, the personal computer communication terminal refers to the position information table in FIG. 3, searches for the corresponding character string "rolcR" (step S9), and transmits it to the remote host 12 (step 510). The remote host 12 determines that process 1 has been designated by receiving ro I CRJ (step 5ll), transmits a process 1 character screen (step 512), and then sends a process 1 image screen display command (step 512). Step 514).

The personal computer communication terminal 10 first receives the processing 1 character screen and displays it on the screen, as shown in FIG. 9 (step 513).

Next, the process 1 image screen display command is received, and the image screen information of process 1 is extracted from the table in FIG. 3 (step 515), and the image screen information of process 1 (see FIG. The screen is drawn as shown in FIG. 11 (step 816).

Here, if the upper right menu switch is touched with a fingertip as shown in FIG. 12, rMENUCRJ is sent to the remote host as shown in the table of FIG. 3, and steps 83 to S7 are executed again. Processing menu screen (
Return to Figure 7).

[Other Examples]

In this embodiment, a touch panel is used as a means for specifying and selecting a position, but similar results can be obtained by using a light pen, a mouse, or the like.

Additionally, in this embodiment, upon receiving an image screen display command,
An image screen registered in advance on the communication terminal is displayed, and a prepared table containing position information and the like is set, but all of these may be sent from a remote host using a table transmission command. In this case, since the amount of data increases and the communication time becomes longer, a high-speed line may be used. According to this method, flexible communication applications can be created.

In addition, in this embodiment, image screen information is incorporated into various tables of the PC communication terminal, but image information generally has a large amount of data and takes up memory space, so image screen information is stored in external storage such as a hard disk. If you set this up and load and use it only when actually displaying it, you will be able to handle a wide variety of image screens.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As explained above, according to the present invention, there is provided a communication means for transmitting and receiving information, a display means for displaying information, an instruction means for indicating a position on the display means, and a position on the display means. A table for storing information to be transmitted in correspondence, a storage means for storing a plurality of image information to be displayed on the display means, and a storage means for storing a plurality of pieces of image information to be displayed on the display means; a selection means for selecting one by one, and controlling to display the image information selected by the selection means, and storing it in correspondence with the position indicated by the instruction means based on the table selected by the selection means. Since the present invention is provided with a control means for controlling the transmitted information to be transmitted, there is an effect that the information to be transmitted can be inputted by specifying a position on the display device.

In other words, communication terminals that conventionally required mostly keyboard operations can now be implemented with more human-like interfaces such as touch-based or mouse operations.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Fig. 1 is a block diagram of a personal computer communication terminal implementing the present invention, Fig. 2 is a configuration diagram of personal computer communication, Fig. 3 is a diagram showing an example of a display table for touch panel processing, and Fig. 4 is a personal computer communication diagram. A flowchart showing the flow of control of the terminal and the operation of the remote host. Figures 5, 7, 9, and 11 are diagrams showing examples of display screens. Figures 6 and 10 are image screen information. 8 and 12 are diagrams showing examples of selection operations. 1 is the CPU, 2 is the graphic display, 3 is the touch panel, 4 is the keyboard, and 6 is the ROM. 7 is a RAM, 8 is an external storage, 9 is a communication interface, 10 is a personal computer communication terminal, 11 is a modem, 12 is a remote host, 13 is a communication line, 14 is identification information, 15 is image screen information, 16 is location information 17 is a transmission character string. Figure 1 Figure 4 Figure 5 Figure 6 Figure 7 Figure 8 Figure 9 Figure 10 Figure 11

Claims (2)

[Claims] (1) Communication means for transmitting and receiving information, display means for displaying information, instruction means for indicating a position on the display means, and storing information to be transmitted corresponding to the position on the display means. storage means for storing a plurality of tables and image information to be displayed on the display means; selection means for selecting the tables and image information one by one according to information received from the communication means; Control is performed to display the image information selected by the selection means, and based on the table selected by the selection means, the stored transmission information is transmitted corresponding to the position specified by the instruction means. A communication control method characterized by comprising a control means for controlling. (2) A communication control system characterized in that the table stored in the storage means and the image information are received prior to the received information.