Method for automatically generating graphically displayed indicating instruments

• US 7,602,407 B2
• Filed: 07/05/2005
• Issued: 10/13/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 09/17/2004
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Deutsches Zentrum Fã¼R Luft- Und Raumfahrt E.V.
• Original Assignee: Deutsches Zentrum Fã¼R Luft- Und Raumfahrt E.V.
• Inventors: Gotschlich, Jurgen, Gerlach, Torsten
• Primary Examiner(s): Tung; Kee M
• Assistant Examiner(s): Chu; David H
• Application Number:
  US11/575,104
• Publication Number:
  US 20080094418A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,561 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 345/643
• CPC Class Codes: G01D 7/00 Indicating measured values

Abstract

The invention relates to a method for automatically generating graphic display instruments for measured, regulation and/or control values, comprising the following steps: a) selection of a display instrument type; b) dynamic calculation of reproduction positions for reading-aid information in accordance with the type of display instrument that has been selected and with defined parameters; c) generation of the selected display instrument with the reading-aid positions in the calculated reproduction positions by means of respective classified generation objects; and d) display of the measured, regulation and/or control values in conjunction with the generated display instrument on a display.

Claims

1. A method for automatically generating graphically displayed indicating instruments for measured values, regulation values and/or control values, characterized by

a) selecting a type of indicating instrument;

b) dynamically calculating display positions for reading-aid information as a function of the type of selected indicating instrument and of defined parameters, characterized by dynamically establishing the display positions of scales, animated in rotary and/or translational fashion, as a function of the angle of rotation of the scale, and of the displacement of the scale from a centered arrangement into a first orientation, a check being made, at least for the first and last scale mark, as to whether scale marks and/or assigned scale inscriptions lie in a defined display area, and a scale inscription being displayed only when the assigned scale mark lies completely in the defined display area, and a scale mark being displayed only up to the point of intersection with the edge of the defined display area;

c) generating the selected indicating instrument with the reading-aid positions at the calculated display positions by means of respectively classified generation objects; and

d) indicating the measured values, regulation values and/or control values in conjunction with the generated indicating instrument on a display.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1, characterized by calculating the display position of inscriptions on circular scales as indicator-aid information in step b) in accordance with the following steps:

establishing the maximum inscription height (H_Max) and maximum inscription width (B_Max) of an inscription to be displayed;

determining a reference point (R(x, y)) of the inscription as a function of the maximum inscription width (B_Max), of the maximum inscription height (H_Max) of the radius (r) originating from a center of the circular scale to a provided unit circle for scale marks, and of the angular positions (α

) as parameters; and

defining a character point (Z(x, y)) as display position starting from which the inscription is indicated progressively upward and to the right of the character point (Z(x, y)), the character point (Z(x, y)) being offset from the reference point (R(x, y)) downward by half the maximum inscription height (H_Max) and to the left by half the maximum inscription width (B_Max).

3. The method as claimed in claim 2, characterized by determining the reference point (R_x) on the horizontal axis x of a local coordinate system for the display according to the formula

R_x=(r±

B_Max)×

sin(α

)

and of the reference point (Ry) on the vertical axis y according to the formula

R_y=(r±

H_Max)×

sin(α

).

4. The method as claimed in claim 1, characterized by calculating the display positions of scales, animated in rotary and/or translational fashion, in step b) in accordance with the following steps:

establishing the number of scale marks for a scale in a first orientation as a function of a defined visible display area for indicator-aid information and of the indicating instrument that is to be indicated, as a function of a defined interval division;

establishing the required number of scale marks for a scale rotated maximally starting from the first orientation;

determining a starting scale mark starting from which the scale is displayed, doing so from the displacement of a centered scale in a direction of the first orientation; and

displaying the scale marks starting from the starting scale mark, in which case, at least for the first and last displayable scale mark,

a) reference points are determined at least for the outer end points and the middle point of the scale mark as a function of the angle of rotation and the displacement of the scale in a first and/or second orientation, and

b) a check is made as to whether reference points lie outside the visible display area, in which case

c) a scale inscription is displayed only whenever the outer reference point assigned to the scale inscription lies inside the visible display area, and otherwise the scale mark is displayed up to the point of intersection with the edge of the visible display area.

5. The method as claimed in claim 1, characterized by dynamically calculating the display positions of visible scale marks in step b) in accordance with the following steps:

determining the ratio of the length of the scale to be displayed to a value range of the scale determined by a defined minimum value and maximum value;

establishing an offset between the minimum value and the first displayable scale mark and/or the last displayable scale mark and the maximum value, as a function of a defined interval division; and

displaying the scale marks beginning from the offset as a function of the interval division and the number of the scale marks to be displayed at a display position established by the determined ratio.