JPH07160634A - Multiwindow display system for on-line screen and image data - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To automatically read out the relative image data and display them overlaying on an on-line screen as a window when data are selected on the on-line screen. CONSTITUTION:When an operator designates a retrieving code for the data to be processed on an on-line screen, an on-line work program 13 starts a control file retrieving means 14. The means 14 uses the retrieving code as a key to retrieve a control file 12 for acquisition fo an image data number and starts an image data retrieving means 23. The means 23 uses the image data number as a key to retrieve a directory information file 22 for acquisition of a storing address and evolves the corresponding image data into an image memory 24 from an electronic filing device 4. An image data display control means 25 displays the image data in the memory 24 on the on-line screen overlayingly as a window.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a multi-window display system of an online screen and image data, and more particularly to an online screen in an online system in which a host computer and a terminal are connected via a communication line and the terminal has an electronic filing device. And a multi-window display method of image data.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art When processing data on an online screen using an online business program of a host computer, it may sometimes be necessary to refer to image data. For example, this may be the case when it is necessary to refer to a drawing when performing payment processing for construction, or when it is necessary to see a facial photograph when performing personnel processing for a company.

In the conventional screen display system, the online screen and the image data (offline screen) are different. Therefore, when the online screen is displayed on the terminal, the terminal sends a connection request to the host computer. Then, the online screen information is received from the online business program of the host computer and displayed on the display device. Further, when displaying the image data on the terminal, the image data stored in the optical disk or the like of the electronic filing device connected to the terminal is read out using the software for handling the image data and displayed on the display device. .

For this reason, when referring to the online screen and the image data, the two screens are displayed separately, or the terminal capable of multi-job displays the online screen in the primary job (front screen) and displays the screen. Switch to display image data in secondary job (back screen)
For example, by switching jobs, they are alternately displayed.

[0005]

In the above-mentioned conventional screen display method, when the online screen and the image data are separately displayed on two terminals, two terminals are first required, which is a resource problem. was there. Even if the resource problem is solved, online processing cannot be performed while referring to the image data unless the installation environment allows one operator to use two terminals at the same time.

Further, when the online screen and the image data are displayed on the screen of the primary job (front screen) and the screen of the secondary job (back screen) on the terminal capable of multi-job, each time the screen is referenced There has been a problem that the screen switching work is required for the operator and switching time is required.

Further, whether it is displayed on two terminals or one terminal, it is an operation that understands which image data is related to the data to be processed on the online screen. There is a problem that it takes a lot of time to find out what the related image data is if it is not a member.

In view of the above point, an object of the present invention is to automatically electronically file image data related to one data selected from a data group to be processed on an online screen. Another object of the present invention is to provide a multi-window display system of an online screen and image data which is read from the device and displayed as a window on the online screen.

[0009]

According to the multi-window display system for online screen and image data of the present invention, a host computer and a terminal are connected via a communication line, and an online filing apparatus is provided in the terminal. , An image data registration means for registering image data in the electronic filing device, a directory information file for storing directory information of the image data when the image data is registered by the image data registration means, and an online screen of an online business program. A management file that stores management information indicating a relationship between data to be processed and image data that needs to be referenced when processing the data, management file registration means for registering management information in the management file, and search for the management file Shit Management file search means for receiving the parameters of the image data, image data search means for receiving the parameters of the image data searched by the management file search means and searching the image data registered in the electronic filing apparatus, and the image data Image data display control means for displaying the image data searched by the data search means as a window so as to be superimposed on the online screen.

[0010]

The present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of an online system to which a multi-window display method of online screen and image data according to an embodiment of the present invention is applied. In this online system, a host computer 1 is connected to a terminal 2 through a communication line 3 to form a main part, and the terminal 2 has an electronic filing device 4
And the display device 5 and the input device 6 are connected.

The host computer 1 has a management file 1
2, management file registration means 11 for registering management information,
A management file 12 for storing management information indicating a relationship between data to be processed on the online screen of the online business program 13 and image data that needs to be referred to when processing the data, an online business program 13, and a management file 12. The management file search means 14 is included and receives the image data number as a parameter of the corresponding image data.

The terminal 2 includes image data registration means 21 for registering image data in the electronic filing device 4,
The directory information file 22 for storing the directory information of the image data and the electronic filing apparatus 4 which receives the image data number and searches the image memory 2
4, image data search means 23 for expanding image data on the image data 4, image memory 24, and image data display control means 25 for displaying the image data searched by the image data search means 23 as a window so as to overlap the online screen. It is configured to include.

FIG. 2 is a conceptual diagram showing the contents of the directory information file 22. A plurality of sets of image data numbers and storage addresses are stored as directory information, and input / output to / from the electronic filing apparatus 4 is performed. It is an index part that is required when performing. That is, the directory information file 22 has the image data number as a key and has a storage address where the image data is stored as data.

FIG. 3 is a conceptual diagram showing the contents of the management file 12, one record corresponds to one data processed on the online screen, and a search code and a single or plural image data numbers. Multiple sets of management information are stored, the search code is the key, and the image data number is the data. It should be noted that, when registering the management information to the management file 12, the operator must not understand what the image data corresponds to the advance which data.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a display image of an online screen and image data on the display device 5.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a functional image of a window for displaying image data. The window is displayed at a certain position on the screen by the default value in the image data display control means 25. Each window in which the image data is displayed is displayed as a window as shown in FIG. 5, and a functional icon for operating the window is displayed in the outer frame of the window. These function icons perform their functions by the image data display control means 25 by attaching a cursor to the function icons with the input device 6 such as a mouse and clicking. Functions include moving windows, scrolling image data vertically and horizontally, and enlarging and reducing. If you click Exit, the window is closed.

Referring to FIG. 6, the process of the image data registration means 21 is the image data registration step S101.
An image data number generation step S102, a storage address acquisition step S103, a directory information storage step S104, and a registered image data end determination step S105.

Referring to FIG. 7, the process of the management file registration means 11 includes a search code acquisition step S201, an image data number acquisition step S202, a management information registration step S203, and a registration management information end determination step S204. .

Referring to FIG. 8, the process of displaying the image data in the multi-window display method of the online screen and the image data of this embodiment is performed by a search code receiving step S301, a management file searching means starting step S302, and a management File search (image data number acquisition) step S303, image data search means activation step S304, directory information file search (storage address acquisition) step S305, image data read step S306, image data expansion step S307, image data Window display step S308.

Next, the operation of the multi-window display system for the online screen and image data of the present embodiment thus constructed will be described.

In the terminal 2, the operator activates the image data registration means 21 to register the image data referred to during the online processing in the electronic filing device 4 (step S101). At this time, the image data registration means 21 generates, for example, an ascending sequence image data number (step S102), obtains a storage address of the image data (step S103), and which image data is stored in the optical disk of the electronic filing apparatus 4. In the directory information file 22, a set of the image data number and the storage address indicating which position is stored is stored in the directory information file 22 (step S104). The operator continues to step S101 until the image data to be registered is completed.
When S104 is repeated and the image data to be registered ends (YES in step S105), the process ends. As a result, the directory information file 22 stores a storage address for each image data number of the image data registered in the electronic filing device 4, as shown in FIG.

After the image data is registered, the operator operates the terminal 2
From the management file registration means 11 of the host computer 1
When is started, the management file registration means 11 acquires an arbitrary search code designated by the operator (step S20).
1) Obtain one or more image data numbers designated by the operator corresponding to the search code (step S20).
2) Register the management information including the search code and the image data number in the management file 12 (step S20).
3). The operator repeats steps S201 to S203 until the management information to be registered is completed, and when the management information to be registered is completed (Yes in step S204), the process is completed. As a result, as shown in FIG. 3, the management file 12 stores a single or a plurality of image data numbers for each search code of data to be processed on the online screen of the online processing program 13.

The operator operates the terminal 2 to the host computer 1
When the online business program 13 is started, the online business program 13 displays online screen information on the terminal 2
And an online screen is displayed on the display device 5.
The operator performs processing while looking at the online screen displayed on the display device 5.

When the operator specifies a search code for data to be processed on the online screen of the online business program 13 from the terminal 2, the online business program 13 of the host computer 1 receives the specified search code (step S301). , Management file search means 14
To activate and deliver the search code (step S30
2).

The management file search means 14 searches the management file 12 using the delivered search code as a key to obtain a corresponding single or plural image data numbers (step S303), and the image data search means 23 of the terminal 2 is operated. Upon activation, the image data number is delivered (step 304).

The image data search means 23 searches the directory information file 22 using the image data number delivered from the management file search means 14 as a key,
The storage address of each image data is acquired (step S305).

Subsequently, the image data search means 23
Image data is read from the electronic filing device 4 based on the acquired storage address (step S306), developed on the image memory 24 (step S307), and the control is passed to the image data display control means 25.

The image data display control means 25 displays the image data expanded on the image memory 24 as shown in FIG.
As shown in FIG. 5, the online screen is displayed as a window by overlapping (step S308).

In the above embodiment, the management file registration means 11, the management file 12 and the management file search means 14 are provided on the host computer 1 side, but these do not necessarily have to exist on the host computer 1 side. Instead, it may be provided on the terminal 2 side.

[0031]

As described above, according to the present invention, the image data registration means, the directory information file, the image data search means, the image data display control means, the management file, the management file registration means and the management file search means are provided, and online. By specifying the search code of the data to be processed on the screen, the image data related to the search code is automatically read from the electronic filing device and displayed as a window on the online screen. When it is referred to, it is not necessary to separately display it on two terminals, and since only one terminal is required, the desired environment can be realized with few resources.

Further, since it is not necessary to switch jobs and display them alternately on a terminal capable of multi-jobs, there is an effect that operability is improved and switching time is unnecessary.

Furthermore, even if the user does not understand which image data is related to the data to be processed on the online screen, the related image data is automatically displayed. Related image data can be displayed and referenced in a short time, and the operability is significantly improved.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a multi-window display system of an online screen and image data according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a conceptual diagram showing contents of a directory information file in FIG.

FIG. 3 is a conceptual diagram showing contents of a management file in FIG.

4 is a diagram showing a display image of an online screen and image data displayed on the display device in FIG.

5 is a diagram showing a window function of the image data in FIG.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing the processing of the image data registration means in FIG.

FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing the processing of the management file registration means in FIG.

FIG. 8 is a flowchart showing a process at the time of displaying image data in the multi-window display method of the online screen and the image data of the present embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 host computer 2 terminal 3 communication line 4 electronic filing device 5 display device 6 input device 11 management file registration means 12 management file 13 online business program 14 management file search means 21 image data registration means 22 directory information file 23 image data search means 24 Image memory 25 Image data display control means

Claims (5)

[Claims] 1. An online system in which a host computer and a terminal are connected via a communication line and an electronic filing device is provided in the terminal, and image data registration means for registering image data in the electronic filing device, and the image data. The relationship between the directory information file that stores the directory information of the image data when registering the image data by the registration means, the data that is processed on the online screen of the online business program, and the image data that needs to be referenced when processing the data is described. A management file for storing the management information shown, a management file registration means for registering the management information in the management file, a management file searching means for searching the management file and receiving parameters of the corresponding image data, and the management file An image data searching means for receiving the parameters of the image data searched by the searching means and searching the image data registered in the electronic filing device; and an image data searching means for superposing the image data searched by the image data searching means on an online screen. A multi-window display system for an online screen and image data, characterized by having an image data display control means for displaying as a window. 2. The multi-window display system for online screen and image data according to claim 1, wherein the parameter of the image data is an image data number. 3. The terminal includes the image data registration means, the directory information file, the image data search means, and the image data display control means, and the host computer controls the management file and the image data display control means. The multi-window display system for an online screen and image data according to claim 1, further comprising a management file registration means and the management file search means. 4. The terminal, the image data registration means, the directory information file, the image data search means, the image data display control means, the management file, the management file registration means, the The multi-window display method of the online screen and image data according to claim 1, further comprising a management file search means. 5. The online screen according to claim 1, wherein the image data retrieved by said image data retrieval means is expanded on an image memory, and said image data display control means displays the image data expanded on said image memory. And multi-window display method with image data.