Boots – shoes – and leggings
Patent
1990-11-21
1993-06-15
Black, Thomas G.
Boots, shoes, and leggings
364579, G06F 1500
Patent
active
052204995
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to an improvement in a user interface unit between a measuring unit and a user in an electronic measuring apparatus comprising an interface unit with respect to an object to be measured and the user interface unit connecting the measuring unit and the user to achieve systematization of automatic measurement.
DESCRIPTION OF THE RELATED ART
In recent years, to achieve systematization of automatic measurement, functions of an electronic measuring apparatus such as a spectrum analyzer are complicated, a number of functions are integrated, and the functions are diversified accordingly. In such an electronic measuring apparatus, processing associated with an interface with respect to a user and therefore software in computer control is diversified and complicated. Under these circumstances, users have a desire to achieve a measuring function of interest by using a desired operation system. Meanwhile, manufacturers of measuring devices are eager to supply a measuring device capable of satisfying the users+ needs as much as possible sooner.
As a technique of satisfying the above request, a user interface unit may be generalized. Such generalization of a user interface unit, however, has a problem in that operation members (individual operating means arranged on an operation panel) change in accordance with the type or application of measuring device and an operation procedure changes accordingly.
As conventional countermeasures against such software diversification, a number of man-machine interfaces and user interfaces have been invented. Examples of the inventions are Published Unexamined Japanese Patent Application No. 63-298616 (to be referred to as Prior Art 1 hereinafter) and Published Unexamined Japanese Patent Application No. 64-84322 (to be referred to as Prior Art 2 hereinafter).
Prior Art 1 aims at enabling, in an information processing system for executing processing by using an object (software object) such as a menu or an icon displayed on a screen, changes associated with the object without changing the system itself.
Prior Art 2 aims at freely changing, when users are to process set data by using a user program in an information processing system, individual input allowable values of desired set data of individual users in advance without changing the user program, and displaying the input allowable values on a screen to check in accordance with the input allowable values whether data input by users can be allowed.
Prior Arts 1 and 2 described above, however, have the following drawbacks
That is, even within a range assumed in accordance with the type of measuring device, the type of operation member to be used cannot be specified, and the type of measurement procedure and its hierarchical level to be used cannot be specified. In other words, the above basic problem in generalization is not solved at all.
In Prior Art 1, the manner in which a generated object is connected to input members or an input procedure of the information processing system is unknown.
In Prior Art 2, the input allowable values are set in correspondence with users and processed by a determining means. Since, however, such processing can be easily realized by setting a specific code of a user when the user is to utilize the system, the invention of Prior Art 2 is not special at all.
In addition, as a related art of a general measuring device, a technique called personal test automation (PTA) disclosed in "Anritsu Technical", No. 52, pp. 59 to 68 (September, 1986) and ANRITSU TECHNICAL REVIEW No. 9 as its English version is known.
That is, this PTA technique aims at effectively coping with systematization of automatic measurement, in which while programs of a user interface unit are fixed with respect to a measuring device, a memory card storing a new program in which a new measurement procedure is written is additionally used such that an execution name of the new program stored in the memory card is defined with respect to a specific operation member (more specifically,
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Anritsu Corporation
Black Thomas G.
Znelli Michael
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