Equipment management device using touch panel, and method for generating management screen
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Solution Overview
Problem
In remote controllers with capacitive touch panels, displayed information about working conditions is often hidden by a user's finger during a touch operation, making it difficult for users to visually perceive changes in the displayed information, leading to uncertainty about the acceptance of their operations.
Innovation Solution
A facility management apparatus and method that utilize a touch panel with separate areas for graphic and text information, allowing changes in displayed information to be visually perceived by arranging and displaying first and second areas that adapt based on user operations, and generating working-control information accordingly.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If displayed information and control buttons are set in the same position on the touch panel, then the user can easily change working conditions by touching the displayed information, but the displayed information is hidden by the user's finger during touch operation, making it difficult to visually perceive changes
Solution Approach 1:
The control button is divided into two separate display areas: a first area displaying graphic information (such as icons or visual representations) and a second area displaying text information (such as parameter values or descriptions). When the user touches either area, the corresponding information is highlighted or emphasized, allowing the user to see the change without obscuring the entire control element with their finger.
Solution Approach 2:
The solution transitions from a single-dimensional display (where the entire control button occupies a fixed position) to a two-dimensional information presentation (separating graphic and text information into distinct areas). This allows different parts of the information to be visible at different times or emphasized differently, resolving the conflict between touch interaction and visual feedback.
2Loss of information
If the size of displayed information is increased so that a part extends off the user's finger, then the user can recognize changes in displayed information, but it is difficult to enormously increase the size of displayed information about all functions due to touch panel size limitations
Solution Approach 1:
Instead of uniformly increasing the size of all displayed information across the touch panel, the invention applies local enhancement by separating graphic and text information into distinct areas. The graphic information area can be made visually prominent while the text information area provides detailed information, allowing important information to be visible without requiring a large overall display area.
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AI summary
A facility management apparatus (20) that manages facility equipment includes a displayed-information generation unit (522), a touch panel (51), and a control information generation unit (523). The displayed-information generation unit (522) generates displayed information in which a first area that displays graphic information indicating a current working condition of the facility equipment and a second area that displays text information indicating the working condition are arranged and displayed, and causes the touch panel (51) to display the displayed information. When an operation is performed on any position in the first area and the second area that are displayed, the control information generation unit (523) generates control information for changing the working condition of the facility equipment based on the operation, and the displayed-information generation unit (522) changes the displayed information in the first area and the second area.