CN113076042B

CN113076042B - Local media resource access method and display device

Info

Publication number: CN113076042B
Application number: CN202110376584.2A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 张荣波; 侯进良; 片兆峰
Original assignee: Hisense Visual Technology Co Ltd
Current assignee: Hisense Visual Technology Co Ltd
Priority date: 2021-04-06
Filing date: 2021-04-06
Publication date: 2023-10-17
Anticipated expiration: 2041-04-06
Also published as: CN113076042A

Abstract

The application discloses a local media resource access method and display equipment, which are used for rapidly displaying local media resource classifications through an input list, supporting simultaneous display of classified media resources corresponding to multiple characters and improving user experience. The display device includes a display; a controller for performing: receiving user input for opening an input list, and controlling a display to display a user interface of the input list, wherein the user interface comprises a local media resource category control; and receiving user input for selecting the local media resource type control, and controlling a display to display the media resources corresponding to the local media resource type control in all the access storage devices.

Description

Local media resource access method and display device

Technical Field

The present application relates to the field of display technologies, and in particular, to a method for accessing a local media resource and a display device.

Background

In the related art, a user views Media resources of a storage device accessed by a USB interface of a display device, and typically views the corresponding storage device after the Media (local Media) is applied, if there are multiple storage devices, the user needs to manually switch to the corresponding storage device to view the Media resources, and the Media resources are divided into video, pictures and music, and the user needs to select to classify again or view Media information from all unclassified resources, so that the operation steps are long and complicated in linkage, and the user experience is poor.

Disclosure of Invention

The embodiment of the application provides a local media resource access method and display equipment, which can rapidly display local media resource classification through an input list, support simultaneous display of classified media resources corresponding to multiple symbols and improve user experience.

In a first aspect, there is provided a display device including:

a display;

a controller for performing:

receiving user input for opening an input list, and controlling a display to display a user interface of the input list, wherein the user interface comprises a local media resource category control;

and receiving user input for selecting the local media resource type control, and controlling a display to display the media resources corresponding to the local media resource type control in all the access storage devices.

In some embodiments, the local media asset categories include video, pictures, and music.

In some embodiments, the user input opening the input list is a user input by pressing a preset key on the control device.

In some embodiments, all media resource components accessing the storage device are displayed.

In some embodiments, the access storage device includes a usb disk, an internal hard disk, and/or a removable hard disk.

In a second aspect, there is provided a method for accessing a local media resource, including:

In the above embodiment, the embodiment of the present application performs unified classification management on all the accessed storage devices, and divides the input list into a plurality of local media resource category options, and in the corresponding classification, gathers the corresponding classified resources of all the accessed storage devices, so that when a user selects a certain local media resource category, the media resources of all the accessed storage devices are displayed in the same user interface, thereby greatly simplifying the operation flow of checking the local media and improving the user experience.

Drawings

FIG. 1 illustrates a usage scenario of a display device according to some embodiments;

fig. 2 shows a hardware configuration block diagram of the control apparatus 100 according to some embodiments;

fig. 3 illustrates a hardware configuration block diagram of a display device 200 according to some embodiments;

FIG. 4 illustrates a software configuration diagram in a display device 200 according to some embodiments;

a user interface schematic is shown schematically in fig. 5-10;

FIG. 11 illustrates a flow chart of a method of accessing a local media resource according to some embodiments;

FIG. 12 schematically illustrates a schematic diagram of a control device 100 according to some embodiments;

a user interface schematic diagram according to some embodiments is schematically shown in fig. 13-14.

Detailed Description

For the purposes of making the objects and embodiments of the present application more apparent, an exemplary embodiment of the present application will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings in which exemplary embodiments of the present application are illustrated, it being apparent that the exemplary embodiments described are only some, but not all, of the embodiments of the present application.

It should be noted that the brief description of the terminology in the present application is for the purpose of facilitating understanding of the embodiments described below only and is not intended to limit the embodiments of the present application. Unless otherwise indicated, these terms should be construed in their ordinary and customary meaning.

The terms "first," second, "" third and the like in the description and in the claims and in the above drawings are used for distinguishing between similar or similar objects or entities and not necessarily for describing a particular sequential or chronological order, unless otherwise indicated. It is to be understood that the terms so used are interchangeable under appropriate circumstances.

The terms "comprises," "comprising," and "having," and any variations thereof, are intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion, such that a product or apparatus that comprises a list of elements is not necessarily limited to all elements explicitly listed, but may include other elements not expressly listed or inherent to such product or apparatus.

The term "module" refers to any known or later developed hardware, software, firmware, artificial intelligence, fuzzy logic, or combination of hardware or/and software code that is capable of performing the function associated with that element.

Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram of a usage scenario of a display device according to an embodiment. As shown in fig. 1, the display device 200 is also in data communication with a server 400, and a user can operate the display device 200 through the smart device 300 or the control apparatus 100.

In some embodiments, the control apparatus 100 may be a remote controller, and the communication between the remote controller and the display device includes at least one of infrared protocol communication or bluetooth protocol communication, and other short-range communication modes, and the display device 200 is controlled by a wireless or wired mode. The user may control the display apparatus 200 by inputting a user instruction through at least one of a key on a remote controller, a voice input, a control panel input, and the like.

In some embodiments, the smart device 300 may include any one of a mobile terminal, tablet, computer, notebook, AR/VR device, etc.

In some embodiments, the smart device 300 may also be used to control the display device 200. For example, the display device 200 is controlled using an application running on a smart device.

In some embodiments, the smart device 300 and the display device may also be used for communication of data.

In some embodiments, the display device 200 may also perform control in a manner other than the control apparatus 100 and the smart device 300, for example, the voice command control of the user may be directly received through a module configured inside the display device 200 device for acquiring voice commands, or the voice command control of the user may be received through a voice control apparatus configured outside the display device 200 device.

In some embodiments, the display device 200 is also in data communication with a server 400. The display device 200 may be permitted to make communication connections via a Local Area Network (LAN), a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN), and other networks. The server 400 may provide various contents and interactions to the display device 200. The server 400 may be a cluster, or may be multiple clusters, and may include one or more types of servers.

In some embodiments, software steps performed by one step execution body may migrate on demand to be performed on another step execution body in data communication therewith. For example, software steps executed by the server may migrate to be executed on demand on a display device in data communication therewith, and vice versa.

Fig. 2 exemplarily shows a block diagram of a configuration of the control apparatus 100 in accordance with an exemplary embodiment. As shown in fig. 2, the control device 100 includes a controller 110, a communication interface 130, a user input/output interface 140, a memory, and a power supply. The control apparatus 100 may receive an input operation instruction of a user and convert the operation instruction into an instruction recognizable and responsive to the display device 200, and function as an interaction between the user and the display device 200.

In some embodiments, the communication interface 130 is configured to communicate with the outside, including at least one of a WIFI chip, a bluetooth module, NFC, or an alternative module.

In some embodiments, the user input/output interface 140 includes at least one of a microphone, a touchpad, a sensor, keys, or an alternative module.

Fig. 3 shows a hardware configuration block diagram of the display device 200 in accordance with an exemplary embodiment.

In some embodiments, display apparatus 200 includes at least one of a modem 210, a communicator 220, a detector 230, an external device interface 240, a controller 250, a display 260, an audio output interface 270, memory, a power supply, a user interface.

In some embodiments the controller comprises a central processor, a video processor, an audio processor, a graphics processor, RAM, ROM, a first interface for input/output to an nth interface.

In some embodiments, the display 260 includes a display screen component for presenting a picture, and a driving component for driving an image display, for receiving an image signal from the controller output, for displaying video content, image content, and components of a menu manipulation interface, and a user manipulation UI interface, etc.

In some embodiments, the display 260 may be at least one of a liquid crystal display, an OLED display, and a projection display, and may also be a projection device and a projection screen.

In some embodiments, the modem 210 receives broadcast television signals via wired or wireless reception and demodulates audio-video signals, such as EPG data signals, from a plurality of wireless or wired broadcast television signals.

In some embodiments, communicator 220 is a component for communicating with external devices or servers according to various communication protocol types. For example: the communicator may include at least one of a Wifi module, a bluetooth module, a wired ethernet module, or other network communication protocol chip or a near field communication protocol chip, and an infrared receiver. The display apparatus 200 may establish transmission and reception of control signals and data signals with the control device 100 or the server 400 through the communicator 220.

In some embodiments, the detector 230 is used to collect signals of the external environment or interaction with the outside. For example, detector 230 includes a light receiver, a sensor for capturing the intensity of ambient light; alternatively, the detector 230 includes an image collector such as a camera, which may be used to collect external environmental scenes, user attributes, or user interaction gestures, or alternatively, the detector 230 includes a sound collector such as a microphone, or the like, which is used to receive external sounds.

In some embodiments, the external device interface 240 may include, but is not limited to, the following: high Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI), analog or data high definition component input interface (component), composite video input interface (CVBS), USB input interface (USB), RGB port, or the like. The input/output interface may be a composite input/output interface formed by a plurality of interfaces.

In some embodiments, the controller 250 and the modem 210 may be located in separate devices, i.e., the modem 210 may also be located in an external device to the main device in which the controller 250 is located, such as an external set-top box or the like.

In some embodiments, the controller 250 controls the operation of the display device and responds to user operations through various software control programs stored on the memory. The controller 250 controls the overall operation of the display apparatus 200. For example: in response to receiving a user command to select a UI object to be displayed on the display 260, the controller 250 may perform an operation related to the object selected by the user command.

In some embodiments, the object may be any one of selectable objects, such as a hyperlink, an icon, or other operable control. The operations related to the selected object are: displaying an operation of connecting to a hyperlink page, a document, an image, or the like, or executing an operation of a program corresponding to the icon.

In some embodiments the controller includes at least one of a central processing unit (Central Processing Unit, CPU), video processor, audio processor, graphics processor (Graphics Processing Unit, GPU), RAM Random Access Memory, RAM), ROM (Read-Only Memory, ROM), first to nth interfaces for input/output, a communication Bus (Bus), and the like.

A CPU processor. For executing operating system and application program instructions stored in the memory, and executing various application programs, data and contents according to various interactive instructions received from the outside, so as to finally display and play various audio and video contents. The CPU processor may include a plurality of processors. Such as one main processor and one or more sub-processors.

In some embodiments, a graphics processor is used to generate various graphical objects, such as: at least one of icons, operation menus, and user input instruction display graphics. The graphic processor comprises an arithmetic unit, which is used for receiving various interactive instructions input by a user to operate and displaying various objects according to display attributes; the device also comprises a renderer for rendering various objects obtained based on the arithmetic unit, wherein the rendered objects are used for being displayed on a display.

In some embodiments, the video processor is configured to receive an external video signal, perform at least one of decompression, decoding, scaling, noise reduction, frame rate conversion, resolution conversion, image composition, and the like according to a standard codec protocol of an input signal, and obtain a signal that is displayed or played on the directly displayable device 200.

In some embodiments, the video processor includes at least one of a demultiplexing module, a video decoding module, an image compositing module, a frame rate conversion module, a display formatting module, and the like. The demultiplexing module is used for demultiplexing the input audio and video data stream. And the video decoding module is used for processing the demultiplexed video signal, including decoding, scaling and the like. And an image synthesis module, such as an image synthesizer, for performing superposition mixing processing on the graphic generator and the video image after the scaling processing according to the GUI signal input by the user or generated by the graphic generator, so as to generate an image signal for display. And the frame rate conversion module is used for converting the frame rate of the input video. And the display formatting module is used for converting the received frame rate into a video output signal and changing the video output signal to be in accordance with a display format, such as outputting RGB data signals.

In some embodiments, the audio processor is configured to receive an external audio signal, decompress and decode according to a standard codec protocol of an input signal, and at least one of noise reduction, digital-to-analog conversion, and amplification, to obtain a sound signal that can be played in the speaker.

In some embodiments, a user may input a user command through a Graphical User Interface (GUI) displayed on the display 260, and the user input interface receives the user input command through the Graphical User Interface (GUI). Alternatively, the user may input the user command by inputting a specific sound or gesture, and the user input interface recognizes the sound or gesture through the sensor to receive the user input command.

In some embodiments, a "user interface" is a media interface for interaction and exchange of information between an application or operating system and a user that enables conversion between an internal form of information and a form acceptable to the user. A commonly used presentation form of the user interface is a graphical user interface (Graphic User Interface, GUI), which refers to a user interface related to computer operations that is displayed in a graphical manner. It may be an interface element such as an icon, a window, a control, etc. displayed in a display screen of the electronic device, where the control may include at least one of a visual interface element such as an icon, a button, a menu, a tab, a text box, a dialog box, a status bar, a navigation bar, a Widget, etc.

In some embodiments, the user interface 280 is an interface (e.g., physical keys on a display device body, or the like) that may be used to receive control inputs.

In some embodiments, a system of display devices may include a Kernel (Kernel), a command parser (shell), a file system, and an application program. The kernel, shell, and file system together form the basic operating system architecture that allows users to manage files, run programs, and use the system. After power-up, the kernel is started, the kernel space is activated, hardware is abstracted, hardware parameters are initialized, virtual memory, a scheduler, signal and inter-process communication (IPC) are operated and maintained. After the kernel is started, shell and user application programs are loaded again. The application program is compiled into machine code after being started to form a process.

Referring to FIG. 4, in some embodiments, the system is divided into four layers, from top to bottom, an application layer (simply "application layer"), an application framework layer (Application Framework) layer (simply "framework layer"), a An Zhuoyun row (Android run) and a system library layer (simply "system runtime layer"), and a kernel layer, respectively.

In some embodiments, at least one application program is running in the application program layer, and these application programs may be a Window (Window) program of an operating system, a system setting program, a clock program, or the like; or may be an application developed by a third party developer. In particular implementations, the application packages in the application layer are not limited to the above examples.

The framework layer provides an application programming interface (aPPlication programming interface, API) and programming framework for application programs of the application layer. The application framework layer includes a number of predefined functions. The application framework layer corresponds to a processing center that decides to let the applications in the application layer act. Through the API interface, the application program can access the resources in the system and acquire the services of the system in the execution.

As shown in fig. 4, the application framework layer in the embodiment of the present application includes a manager (manager), a Content Provider (Content Provider), and the like, where the manager includes at least one of the following modules: an Activity Manager (Activity Manager) is used to interact with all activities that are running in the system; a Location Manager (Location Manager) is used to provide system services or applications with access to system Location services; a Package Manager (Package Manager) for retrieving various information about an application Package currently installed on the device; a notification manager (Notification Manager) for controlling the display and clearing of notification messages; a Window Manager (Window Manager) is used to manage bracketing icons, windows, toolbars, wallpaper, and desktop components on the user interface.

In some embodiments, the activity manager is used to manage the lifecycle of the individual applications as well as the usual navigation rollback functions, such as controlling the exit, opening, fallback, etc. of the applications. The window manager is used for managing all window programs, such as obtaining the size of the display screen, judging whether a status bar exists or not, locking the screen, intercepting the screen, controlling the change of the display window (for example, reducing the display window to display, dithering display, distorting display, etc.), etc.

In some embodiments, the system runtime layer provides support for the upper layer, the framework layer, and when the framework layer is in use, the android operating system runs the C/C++ libraries contained in the system runtime layer to implement the functions to be implemented by the framework layer.

In some embodiments, the kernel layer is a layer between hardware and software. As shown in fig. 4, the kernel layer contains at least one of the following drivers: audio drive, display drive, bluetooth drive, camera drive, WIFI drive, USB drive, HDMI drive, sensor drive (e.g., fingerprint sensor, temperature sensor, pressure sensor, etc.), and power supply drive, etc.

In the related art, when a user wants to view Media resources of a storage device accessed to a display device through a USB interface, the user needs to find a Media APP (Media application) in a desktop starter and then open the storage device, select a drive letter and display the drive letter, and if a plurality of storage devices are accessed, the user needs to manually switch the drive letter in the Media APP and then view the Media resources of the corresponding storage device, which is complicated in steps.

For example: the user accesses one or more external storage devices of the display device. After turning on the display device, the parent is displayed as shown in fig. 5. An application (Apps) is opened on the Launcher and all applications are displayed as shown in fig. 6. When local Media (Media) is found and opened, the Media asset classification is displayed as shown in fig. 7. If the user wants to see the video class resource, the video is selected. If there is only one drive, such as the A drive of FIG. 8, the storage device A drive is opened directly. If there are multiple glyphs, such as the A glyphs and the B glyphs of FIG. 9, one of the glyphs is selected to be opened, the A glyphs are opened, as shown in FIG. 10, and the corresponding video is found to be ended. If the corresponding video is not found in the A character, the last page is returned, and the next character is jumped to, and if the B character continues to be checked until the corresponding video is found to be finished.

In order to solve the technical problem that the step of checking the local media resource is complicated, the embodiment of the application provides a method for accessing the local media resource.

In connection with fig. 11, the method comprises the steps of:

step S111: an instruction to open the input list is received through the user interface, the instruction being input by a user operating the control device.

The input list of the display device can quickly show all channels accessed to the display device, and the display device generally has a plurality of Universal Serial Bus (USB) interfaces to support reading and playing media resources accessed to the storage device. An Input List menu is an important entry for a user to operate physical Input or virtual Input switching in the development of a display device, and a USB interface is connected to a storage device as one of the physical inputs, and can be added to the Input List as a sub-item.

In some embodiments, the storage device includes a U disk, an internal hard disk, and/or a removable hard disk.

In some embodiments, the user interface may receive an instruction from a user to open an input list by pressing an input key on a control device as shown in FIG. 12.

In some embodiments, in FIG. 5, a user may select the Input List control 51 to Input an instruction to open the Input List.

Step S112: controlling a display to display a user interface of an input list, the user interface including a local media asset class control;

on the basis of Input customization of Android display equipment, unified classification management is carried out on all storage equipment accessed through a USB interface, the storage equipment is divided into multiple categories of sub-items in an Input List, and in the corresponding classification, corresponding classification resources of all access storage equipment are summarized.

In some embodiments, the local media asset categories include video, photos, and music.

In some embodiments, the local media asset class may also include files, such as documents, and the like. The local media asset class may also include files marked by the user, such as collections.

As shown in fig. 13, the display device may provide a user interface diagram of settings to the display, the user interface including a presentation area 131, the presentation area 131 being an input list. The presentation area 131 includes controls 1311-1317 provided for the user, the controls 1311-1317 being TV (television signal), HDMI (High Definition Multimedia Interface ) 1, HDMI2, AV (digital signal source), local video (DMP-video), local photo (DMP-photo), and local Music (DMP-Music), respectively. The user interface also includes a selector 132 that indicates that either control is selected. The current selector 132 indicates that the local video asset is selected.

It should be noted that controls, which are visual objects displayed in the display areas of the user interface in the display device 200 to represent corresponding contents such as icons, thumbnails, video clips, links, etc., can provide the user with various conventional program contents received through data broadcasting, and various application and service contents set by the content manufacturer.

The presentation form of the control is typically diversified. For example, the controls may include text content and/or images for displaying thumbnails related to the text content, or video clips related to the text. As another example, the control may be text and/or an icon of an application.

It should be noted that the selector is used to indicate that any control has been selected, such as a focus object. In one aspect, the control may be selected or controlled by controlling movement of the display focus object in the display device 200 according to user input through the control apparatus 100. Such as: the user may select and control controls by directional keying movement of the control focus object between controls on the control device 100. On the other hand, the movement of each control displayed in the display apparatus 200 may be controlled to cause the focus object to select or control the control according to the input of the user through the control device 100. Such as: the user can control the controls to move left and right together through the direction keys on the control device 100, so that the focus object can select and control the controls while the position of the focus object is kept unchanged.

The identification form of the selector is typically diversified. By way of example, the location of the focus object is achieved or identified by magnifying the control, by setting the control background color, or by changing the border line, size, color, transparency, outline, and/or font of the text or image of the focus control.

Step S113: an instruction to open the local media asset class entered by a user operating the control device is received through the user interface.

In some embodiments, the user enters an instruction to open a media asset class by selecting a local media asset class control.

Step S114: and controlling a display to display the media resources corresponding to the local media resource category control in all the access storage devices.

In some embodiments, the DMP (data management platform ) is a platform that integrates and integrates decentralized multiparty data into a unified technology platform, and normalizes and subdivides the data so that users can push the subdivision results to existing interactive marketing environments. According to the embodiment of the application, the DMP is used for integrating and subdividing the data scattered in a plurality of disk symbols, and the disk symbols are used as classification standards to display the media files of the same category in the same user interface.

In some embodiments, in fig. 13, after the user presses the confirm key on the control device, the display device provides another user interface diagram in response to the entered instruction, as shown in fig. 14.

As shown in fig. 14, the display device may provide a user interface diagram of a local video resource to the display, the user interface including presentation areas 141-143, presentation areas 141-143 being an a-drive presentation area, a B-drive presentation area, and a C-drive presentation area, respectively. The A-drive presentation area 141 includes controls 1411-1413, with controls 1411-1413 being video A1, video A2, and video A3, respectively. The B-drive presentation area 142 includes controls 1421 and 1422, with controls 1421-1422 being video B1 and video B2, respectively. C-letter presentation area 143 includes controls 1431-1434, controls 1431-1434 being video C1, video C2, video C3, and video C4, respectively. The user interface also includes a selector 144 that indicates that either control is selected. The current selector 144 indicates that video A1 is selected. When the user presses the confirm key on the control device, video A1 may be turned on.

Finally, it should be noted that: the above embodiments are only for illustrating the technical solution of the present application, and not for limiting the same; although the application has been described in detail with reference to the foregoing embodiments, it will be understood by those of ordinary skill in the art that: the technical scheme described in the foregoing embodiments can be modified or some or all of the technical features thereof can be replaced by equivalents; such modifications and substitutions do not depart from the spirit of the application.

The foregoing description, for purposes of explanation, has been presented in conjunction with specific embodiments. However, the illustrative discussions above are not intended to be exhaustive or to limit the embodiments to the precise forms disclosed above. Many modifications and variations are possible in light of the above teaching. The embodiments were chosen and described in order to best explain the principles and the practical application, to thereby enable others skilled in the art to best utilize the embodiments and various embodiments with various modifications as are suited to the particular use contemplated.

Claims

1. A display device, characterized by comprising:

a display;

a universal serial bus interface for accessing at least one memory device;

a controller for performing:

receiving user input of an input list, controlling a display to display a user interface of the input list, wherein the user interface comprises at least one input channel control, at least one local media resource category control and a selector, the user input of the input list is input by a user through pressing a preset key on a control device, and the local media resource categories comprise video, photos, music, documents and media resources marked by the user;

the selector is used for indicating that the control is selected, the selector selects or controls the control according to the movement of the display focus object in the display equipment controlled by the user through the input of the control device, or the selector controls the movement of the control in the display equipment according to the input of the control device to enable the focus object to select or control the control;

the selector is used for realizing or identifying the position of the focus object by magnifying the control, or is used for realizing or identifying the position of the focus object by setting the background color of the control, or is used for identifying the position of the focus object by changing the border line, the size, the color, the transparency, the outline, the font and the like of the text or the image of the focus control;

receiving user input of selecting local media resource type controls, integrating and subdividing media resources scattered in the storage device by using a data management platform by taking a disk symbol as a classification standard, obtaining media resource corresponding to the local media resource type controls under different disk symbols, controlling a display to display a media resource user interface, wherein the media resource user interface comprises at least one disk symbol display area, the disk symbol display area comprises a disk symbol name and a control of the local media resource type controls in the disk symbol corresponding to the media resource, and the user input of selecting the local media resource type controls is that a user moves the selector to the position of the local media resource type controls through a control device and presses a confirmation key of the control device.

2. The display device according to claim 1, wherein the storage device comprises a U-disk, an internal hard disk and/or a removable hard disk.

3. A method for accessing a local media resource, comprising:

the selector is used for indicating that the control is selected, the selector selects or controls the control according to the movement of the display focus object in the display equipment controlled by the input of the control device by the user, or the selector controls the movement of the control in the display equipment according to the input of the control device by the user so that the focus object selects or controls the control;

receiving user input of selecting local media resource type controls, integrating and subdividing media resources scattered in storage equipment by using a data management platform by taking a drive letter as a classification standard to obtain local media resource type controls corresponding media resource under different drive letters, controlling a display to display a media resource user interface, wherein the media resource user interface comprises at least one drive letter display area, the drive letter display area comprises drive letter names and controls corresponding to the media resource by the local media resource type controls in the drive letter, and the user input of selecting the local media resource type controls is that a user moves the selector to the position of the local media resource type controls through a control device and presses a confirmation key of the control device.

4. A method according to claim 3, wherein the storage device comprises a usb disk, an internal hard disk and/or a removable hard disk.