Data display with continuous buffer
A graphical user interface that is capable of being used on a computing device, such as a vehicle diagnostic tool. The graphical user interface includes various buttons that when actuated causes the vehicle diagnostic tool to perform a corresponding functionality such as read diagnostic trouble codes and collect and display a data stream of diagnostic data of a vehicle. The graphical user interface also displays buffered data in a data window and the data may be moved using various input buttons.
1. A vehicle diagnostic tool having a plurality of diagnostic functionality, the vehicle diagnostic tool comprising:
a processor that processes the plurality of diagnostic functionality of the vehicle diagnostic tool;
a touchscreen display that displays information; and
a memory including a computer program that when executed by the processor provides a graphical user interface (GUI) on the touchscreen display, the GUI comprises:
a data stream window that displays diagnostic data received from a vehicle, the data stream window being repositionable within the GUI via a user using the touchscreen display;
a zoom window that displays a zoomed part of the data stream window, wherein the zoom window pops up when the diagnostic data in the zoom window is beyond a first predetermined threshold;
a load recording button, when actuated, causes a display of previously recorded data streams to the user, wherein the user is alerted if a previously recorded data stream includes data that is beyond a second predetermined threshold;
a time line having increments of time; and
a frame indicator that is positioned separate from the data stream window and translates along the time line to indicate the increments of time being viewed on the data stream window, wherein the frame indicator is capable of being moved along the time line by the user via the touchscreen display.
2. The vehicle diagnostic tool of claim 1 , further comprising:
a plurality of GUI buttons that causes the frame indicator to move along the time line in a first direction in time, a second direction in time or remains stationary in time.
3. The vehicle diagnostic tool of claim 1 , wherein the frame indicator indicates to the user that the diagnostic data in the data stream window is beyond predetermined parameters.
4. The vehicle diagnostic tool of claim 1 , wherein the zoom window is movable along the data stream window by the user using the touch screen display.
5. The vehicle diagnostic tool of claim 4 , wherein the frame indicator is also moved correspondingly when the zoom window is moved.
6. The vehicle diagnostic tool of claim 1 further comprising a record button and a play button.
7. The vehicle diagnostic tool of claim 1 , wherein the data stream window is configurable to show diagnostic data in bar graph form or waveform form.
8. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing processor executable instructions that include a graphical user interface on a computing device having a plurality of diagnostic functionality, the graphical user interface (GUI) comprising:
a data stream window that displays diagnostic data received from a vehicle, the data stream window being repositionable within the GUI via a user using the touchscreen display;
a zoom window that displays a zoomed portion of the data stream window, wherein the zoom window pops up when the diagnostic data in the zoom window is beyond a first predetermined threshold;
a time line having increments of time;
a load recording button, when actuated, causes a display of previously recorded data streams to the user, wherein the user is alerted if a previously recorded data stream includes data that is beyond a second predetermined threshold; and
a frame indicator that is positioned separate from the data stream window and translates along the time line to indicate the increments of time being viewed on the data stream window, wherein the frame indicator is capable of being moved along the time line by the user using a touchscreen display, the movement of the frame indicator correspondingly moves the zoom window.
9. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 8 , further comprising:
a plurality of GUI buttons that causes the frame indicator to move along the time line in a first direction in time, a second direction in time or remains stationary in time.
10. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 8 , wherein the frame indicator indicates to the user that the diagnostic data in the data stream window is beyond predetermined parameters.
11. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 8 , wherein the zoom window is movable along the data stream window by the user using the touch screen display.
12. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 11 , wherein the frame indicator is also moved correspondingly when the zoom window is moved.
13. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 8 further comprising a record button and a play button.
14. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 8 , wherein the data stream window is configurable to show diagnostic data in bar graph form or waveform form.
15. A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer readable medium encoded with program instructions that, when executed by a processor in a vehicle diagnostic tool having a touch screen display, cause the processor to execute a method comprising:
displaying on the touch screen display a recorded data stream window that contains vehicle diagnostic data, the data stream window corresponds to a time line of a recording time of the data stream window and repositionable within the touch screen display by a user;
zooming in a portion of the data stream window with a zoom window controlled by a processor of the vehicle diagnostic tool;
alerting a user by popping up the zoom window when the vehicle diagnostic data in the zoom window is beyond a first predetermined threshold;
receiving a selection, from a list, a previously recorded data stream window;
alerting the user when the previously recorded data stream includes data that is beyond a second predetermined threshold; and
controlling the display of the data stream window corresponding to the time line by moving a frame indicator that is positioned separately from the data stream window and that translates along the time line, the movement of the frame indicator correspondingly moves the zoom window.
16. The computer program product of claim 15 further comprising the step of:
alerting the user with the frame indicator that the zoom window contains diagnostic data that is beyond predetermined thresholds.
17. The computer program product of claim 15 further comprising the step of:
automatically recording the data stream window in a buffer that is stored in a memory of the vehicle diagnostic tool.
18. The computer program product of claim 15 further comprising the step of:
controlling the display of the data stream window by moving the zoom window which correspondingly moves the frame indicator that translates along the time line.