Patent ID: 6417844
Filing Date: 2002-07-09
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
A data processing apparatus for collecting and displaying inputted data and storing the inputted data, the data processing apparatus comprising:data input devices each optionally inputting a respective one of a plurality of different kinds of data; a data storage device coupled to the data input devices to store data to be displayed in a common display area of a display screen as mutually associated data at designated addresses when the data are optionally inputted; a display storage device coupled to the data storage device to store the data stored in the data storage device as display data to be displayed in the display area; an erasing device that erases the inputted data; and a control device coupled to control the data input devices, the data storage device, the display storage device and the erasing device, wherein when the plurality of the associated different kinds of data stored in the data storage device are written in the display storage device as one screen of display data, the control device sets a writing order for the different kinds of inputted data, and the control device successively stores the different kinds of data in the display storage device according to the order and displays the different kinds of data in the display area, and when inputted data is to be erased, the erasing device is operated so that only the desired kind of inputted data displayed in the common display area is erased.