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US 6,750,878 B1Granted
Information display device for displaying guidance information on status of operation
AssigneeSharp Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsNomura Tatsuo, Fukuda Kohki, Yoshiura Syoichiro, Itoh Akihiko, Hasegawa Keiichi
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Abstract
An operation panel includes a mode which can selectively set the display form, whether new image information is formed by a dynamic image forming section, and a plurality of static image information are sequentially displayed in a display section together with static image information controlled in a guidance information control section, to thereby display for guidance to a user as continuous guidance image information, or the static image information controlled in the guidance information control section is displayed for guidance to a user as guidance image information.
Claims30
An information display device comprising:
- a display section for displaying guidance information of operation to an operator, regarding equipment to be operated;
- a guidance information control section for storing and controlling a plurality of said guidance information to be displayed in said display section;
- and
- a display control section for selectively displaying said guidance information controlled in said guidance information control section in said display section;
- wherein said guidance information includes a sketch drawing of the entire equipment to be operated and status information representing a status change of the equipment to be operated;
- when the status change occurs in said equipment to be operated, said display control section displays said status information with respect to the status change, by overlapping said status information on a part of said sketch drawing which has been displayed;
- and
- wherein said status information is a partially enlarged diagram of a portion of the equipment to be operated where the status change occurred.
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An information display device comprising:
- a display section for displaying guidance information of operation to an operator, regarding equipment to be operated;
- a guidance information control section for storing and controlling a plurality of said guidance information to be displayed in said display section;
- and
- a display control section for selectively displaying said guidance information controlled in said guidance information control section in said display section;
- wherein said guidance information includes a sketch drawing of the entire equipment to be operated and status information representing a status change of the equipment to be operated;
- when the status change occurs in said equipment to be operated, said display control section displays said status information with respect to the status change in the vicinity of a portion of said sketch drawing where the status change occurred, with said sketch drawing of the entire equipment to be operated being displayed;
- and
- wherein said status information is a partially enlarged diagram of a portion of the equipment to be operated where the status change occurred.
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An information display device comprising:
- a display section for displaying guidance information of operation to an operator, regarding equipment to be operated;
- a guidance information control section for storing and controlling a plurality of said guidance information to be displayed in said display section;
- and
- a display control section for selectively displaying said guidance information controlled in said guidance information control section in said display section;
- wherein said guidance information includes a sketch drawing of the entire equipment to be operated and status information representing a status change of the equipment to be operated;
- when the status change occurs in said equipment to be operated, said display control section displays said status information with respect to the status change, by overlapping said status information on a part of said sketch drawing which has been displayed;
- wherein said status information is a partially enlarged diagram of a portion of the equipment to be operated where the status change occurred;
- and
- wherein before displaying said status information, said sketch drawing displays a mark indicating a position where the status change has occurred.
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An information display device comprising:
- a display section for displaying guidance information of operation to an operator, regarding equipment to be operated;
- a guidance information control section for storing and controlling a plurality of said guidance information to be displayed in said display section;
- and
- a display control section for selectively displaying said guidance information controlled in said guidance information control section in said display section;
- wherein said guidance information includes a sketch drawing of the entire equipment to be operated and status information representing a status change of the equipment to be operated;
- when the status change occurs in said equipment to be operated, said display control section displays said status information with respect to the status change in the vicinity of a portion of said sketch drawing where the status change occurred, with said sketch drawing of the entire equipment to be operated being displayed;
- wherein said status information is a partially enlarged diagram of a portion of the equipment to be operated where the status change occurred;
- and
- wherein before displaying said status information, said sketch drawing displays a mark indicating a position where the status change has occurred.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.