Patent ID: 7962893
Filing Date: 2011-06-14
Classification: G01N,G06F

Abstract:
1. A computer system for assisting in a creation of an automatic sampler control program including a sequence of operational commands, wherein: The computer system has access to a definition file in which a plurality of instructional sentences are written in a natural language and each instructional sentence is associated with one or more operational commands corresponding to that instructional sentence, and the computer system further comprises: a central processing unit; a memory; an input assistant for selecting one of sentence input lines in each of which an instructional sentence can be written, for selecting an instructional sentence, for inputting a parameter, and for entering an output command; a candidate selection assistant acting in response to a selection of one sentence input line, to read a plurality of instructional sentences from the definition file and display the read-out instructional sentences as candidates; a program creator acting in response to a selection of one of the instructional sentences displayed as the candidates, to create the control program by reading one or more operational commands corresponding to the selected instructional sentence from the definition file and then writing the read-out operational commands in the control program in accordance with an order of the instructional sentences written in the sentence input lines; a parameter-setting assistant acting in response to an input of a parameter of one operational command included in the control program, to associate the inputted parameter with the aforementioned one operational command; and an outputter acting in response to the output command, to output the control program in a predetermined file format.