DATA EDITING APPARATUS, DATA EDITING METHOD, AND DATA EDITING PROGRAM

• US 20170364223A1
• Filed: 02/27/2015
• Published: 12/21/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 02/27/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
• Inventors: ISHIKURO, Toru
• Granted Patent: US 10,203,850 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 19/042 using digital processors G05B19/05 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 2219/13004 Programming the plc
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/532 Query formulation, e.g. graphical querying
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/048 Interaction techniques based on graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0484 for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/147 using display panels

Abstract

A data editing apparatus has: a storage unit which stores first and second project data; a temporary screen data creating unit which creates temporary screen data based on screen data selected from among a first group of screen data; a temporary label list creating unit which creates a temporary label list including a label written in the temporary screen data; a temporary data changing unit which replaces the label written in the temporary screen data and the temporary label list with a label which does not overlap with the label written in a second label list, when the label written in the temporary screen data and the temporary label list is written in the second label list; and a project data adding unit which adds allocation information written in the changed temporary screen data and temporary label list to the second label list.

Claims

1. A data editing apparatus comprising:

a storage unit to store first project data including;

a first group of screen data; and

a first label list having allocation information for associating a label and a device name written in the first group of screen data with each other written therein, and second project data including;

a second group of screen data; and

a second label list having allocation information for associating a label and a device name written in the second group of screen data with each other written therein;

a temporary screen data creating unit to create temporary screen data based on screen data selected from among the first group of screen data;

a temporary label list creating unit to create a temporary label list based on allocation information in the first label list including a label written in the temporary screen data;

a temporary data changing unit to replace a label written in the temporary screen data and the temporary label list with a label that does not overlap with the label written in the second label list, when a label written in the temporary screen data and the temporary label list is written in the second label list; and

a project data adding unit to add the changed temporary screen data to the second project data, and to add the allocation information written in the changed temporary label list to the second label list.

2. The data editing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the temporary data changing unit includes:

a temporary label list changing unit to replace the label written in the temporary label list with a label that does not overlap with the label written in the second label list when the label written in the temporary label list is written in the second label list; and

a temporary screen data changing unit to replace the label to be changed by the temporary label list changing unit with the label changed by the temporary label list changing unit, in the temporary screen data.

3. The data editing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a temporary label list adding unit to create allocation information including a label or device name that has not been written in the temporary label list and add the allocation information to the temporary label list, when the label or device name written in the temporary screen data is not written in the temporary label list.

4. The data editing apparatus according to claim 3, wherein

the temporary label list adding unit includes:

a temporary screen data searching unit to search for and extract a label written in the temporary screen data;

a label list searching unit to search the first label list using the label extracted by the temporary screen data searching unit; and

an allocation information adding unit to create allocation information representing that the label extracted by the temporary screen data searching unit is not associated with a device name, and add the allocation information to the temporary label list, when allocation information including the label extracted by the temporary screen data searching unit is not written in the first label list.

5. The data editing apparatus according to claim 4, wherein

the temporary screen data searching unit searches for and extracts a device name written in the selected screen data, and

the allocation information adding unit creates a label that does not overlap with the label written in the temporary label list and creates allocation information for associating the device name extracted by the temporary screen data searching unit with the created label to add the allocation information to the temporary label list, and replaces the extracted device name written in the temporary screen data with the created label.

6. A data editing method comprising:

a temporary screen data creating step of creating temporary screen data based on screen data selected from among a first group of screen data in first project data including the first group of screen data and a first label list having allocation information for associating a label and a device name written in the first group of screen data with each other written therein;

a temporary label list creating step of creating a temporary label list based on the allocation information in the first label list including the label written in the selected screen data;

a temporary data changing step of replacing the label written in the temporary screen data and the temporary label list with a label that does not overlap with the label written in a second label list, when the label written in the temporary screen data and the temporary label list is written in the second label list in second project data including a second group of screen data and the second label list having allocation information for associating a label and a device name written in the second group of screen data with each other written therein; and

a project data adding step of adding the changed temporary screen data to the second project data and adding the allocation information written in the changed temporary label list to the second label list.

7. A data editing program to cause a computer to execute:

a temporary screen data creating step of creating temporary screen data based on screen data selected from among a first group of screen data in first project data including the first group of screen data and a first label list having allocation information for associating a label and a device name written in the first group of screen data with each other written therein;

a temporary label list creating step of creating a temporary label list based on the allocation information in the first label list including the label written in the selected screen data;

a temporary data changing step of replacing the label written in the temporary screen data and the temporary label list with a label that does not overlap with the label written in a second label list, when the label written in the temporary screen data and the temporary label list is written in the second label list in second project data including a second group of screen data and the second label list having allocation information for associating a label and a device name written in the second group of screen data with each other written therein; and

a project data adding step of adding the changed temporary screen data to the second project data and adding the allocation information written in the changed temporary label list to the second label list.