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US 2003/0171832 A1Published application
System having a process element with a screen and an activation element for remote-controlled cancellation of a screen saver function
AssigneeSiemens Aktiengesellschaft
InventorAchim Knepper
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a system including at least one automatically controlled process element (1), in particular an automatically controlled process system, having at least one screen (4) for displaying status data or operational data of said process element (1). The display of the screen (4) is temporarily interrupted by a screen saver function and an activating element (5) is provided for remote-control cancellation of the screen saver function. The invention also relates to an activating element (5) for the system.
Claims19
A system, comprising:
- at least one automatically controlled process element having at least one screen to display state or operational data of the process element, the display of the screen being interrupted from time to time by a screen saver function;
- and
- an activation element, for remote-controlled cancellation of the screen saver function, having a detection region and activating the display of the screen when a person is detected in the detection region.
A system, comprising:
- at least one automatically controlled process element;
- at least one display associated with said process element;
- screen saver software for said display;
- and
- a detector operationally connected to said screen saver software yet physically external to and remote from said process element and said display, wherein said detector controls said screen saver software in accordance with a parameter, other than manual actuation, detected by said detector.
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A system, comprising:
- at least two automatically controlled process elements;
- at least two displays, each said display associated respectively with each said process element;
- screen saver software providing a screen saver function for said displays;
- and
- one detector operationally connected to said screen saver software yet physically external to and remote from said process elements and said displays, wherein said detector controls said screen saver software, in accordance with a parameter detected by said detector, to cancel the screen saver function for both said displays.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.