US 2019/0102069 A1 · SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONFIGURING AND PRESENTING A DISPLAY NAVIGATION HIERARCHY IN A PROCESS PLANT

Abstract

Techniques for configuring layouts and display view hierarchies and presenting display views in an operating environment of a process plant according to the layouts and display view hierarchies include providing graphical user controls at a graphical display configuration application for defining a layout. The layouts indicate a manner in which divide one or several display screens into one or several display regions, where each display region presents a display view that includes indications of process control elements. The graphical display configuration application also includes graphical user controls for defining a display view hierarchy of the display views by assigning levels of detail to the display views and designating some of the display views as subviews of other display views. An operator application obtains the defined layout and display view hierarchy and presents the display views at an operator workstation according to the obtained layout and/or display view hierarchy.

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Dependent claims

A method for presenting an operator display in accordance with a layout, the method comprising:

obtaining, by a computing device executing an operator application in an operating environment of a process plant, a plurality of display views depicting control elements included in the operating environment of the process plant;
obtaining, by the operator application, a layout for presenting the plurality of display views, wherein the layout divides a user interface into one or more display regions and defines a display view type for each of the one or more display regions for presenting the plurality of display views;
presenting, via a user interface of the computing device, the one or more display regions according to the layout;
and
presenting, via the user interface, one or more of the plurality of the display views in the one or more display regions according to the display view type for each display region.

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A computing device for an operator display in accordance with a layout, the computing device comprising:

one or more processors;
a user interface;
and
a non-transitory computer-readable medium coupled to the one or more processors, the user interface, and the communication unit, the non-transitory computer-readable medium storing an operator application thereon executing in an operating environment of a process plant that, when executed by the one or more processors, causes the computing device to:
obtain a plurality of display views depicting control elements included in the operating environment of the process plant;
obtain a layout for presenting the plurality of display views, wherein the layout divides a user interface into one or more display regions and defines a display view type for each of the one or more display regions for presenting the plurality of display views;
present, via the user interface, the one or more display regions according to the layout;
and
present, via the user interface, one or more of the plurality of the display views in the one or more display regions according to the display view type for each display region.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Systems and methods for configuring and presenting a display navigation hierarchy in a process plant

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Systems and methods for configuring and presenting a display navigation hierarchy in a process plant

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Abstract

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