TWI455108B - Display Device and Display Control Method Thereof - Google Patents

Description

Display device and display control method

The invention provides a display device and a display control method.

With the development of society and the advancement of science and technology, the cost and price of consumer electronic products are declining. More and more families have multiple display devices (for example, digital photo frames) and traditional display devices (for example, digital photo frames). They only display digital content independently on their own display screens, and there is no data sharing and interaction between them, which makes the user feel monotonous, display content is single, and lacks fun.

In view of the above, it is necessary to provide a display device and a display control method that can be cooperatively displayed.

The display device of the present invention comprises a display unit; a storage unit; a communication unit for communicating with the external device; and a central processing unit including a group group modeling group for selecting and determining a plurality of external display devices. Forming a group for collaborative display, a group release module is used to cancel the group relationship of the external display device for collaborative display, and an execution object determination sub-module is used for selecting and determining among the groups to which the collaborative display belongs. a display device for displaying content; a display content determining sub-module for determining information of the current content to be displayed; a display mode determining sub-module for determining a display effect or display effect and display of the content to be displayed Start time; a judgment module for judging whether the collaborative display activity ends, if In the bundle, the group release module releases the group relationship of the external display device that performs cooperative display.

The display control method of the present invention is used for at least two display devices, each display device includes a display unit; a storage unit; a communication unit for communicating with the external display device; the method comprising the steps of: first, initiating a collaborative display activity The display device selects a display device that determines the current content to be displayed in the collaborative display group; secondly, the display device that initiates the collaborative display activity determines the information of the current content to be displayed; and the display device that issues the coordinated display command determines the information of the current content to be displayed; a display device that initiates a collaborative display activity determines a display manner of the content to be displayed; and then, a display device that initiates the collaborative display activity generates and transmits a display device including the current content to be displayed to the display device currently displaying the content An identifier, the content information to be displayed, and a cooperative display instruction of the display mode.

Compared with the prior art, the present invention can display content on a display device in a group formed, and can display predetermined content according to a specified display effect and display time, and the user can enjoy a dynamic and interesting display effect. .

10‧‧‧Central Processing Unit

20‧‧‧Communication unit

14‧‧‧ Input unit

16‧‧‧storage unit

18‧‧‧Display unit

100‧‧‧Group Management Unit

101‧‧‧Group component module

102‧‧‧Group Disarming Module

200‧‧‧Cooperative display control unit

201‧‧‧Instruction Generation Module

202‧‧‧Judgement module

1010‧‧‧Status determination submodule

1011‧‧‧Group members determine submodules

2010‧‧‧Execution object determination sub-module

2011‧‧‧Display Content Determination Sub-module

2012‧‧‧Display mode determination sub-module

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS Figure 1 is a schematic illustration of the synergistic display activity of the present invention.

2 is a hardware architecture diagram of the initiator of the present invention.

3 is a functional block diagram of a central processing unit of the present invention.

4 is a flow chart of collaborative display activities of the present invention.

5 is a flow chart of a method for controlling collaborative display within a group according to the present invention.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS Figure 1 is a schematic illustration of the synergistic display activity of the present invention. A display device 1a can be He displays the device 2 for communication, and can select a display device 2 in a communication connection state to form a group. The display device 1a can also control group members in the group to perform cooperative display, that is, control display content or display content and display mode of the display device 1a and the display device 2 in the group. For example, the display device 1a initiates a collaborative display activity, and sequentially sends a display command to display a "fish swimming" screen to the group members, thereby generating an effect of "a group of fish swimming between different display devices". In the present invention, the display device may be an electronic device such as a digital photo frame, and the display content may be a picture, a document, a video file, or a picture obtained by running a program. Hereinafter, the display device 1a that initiates the collaborative display activity will be referred to as an initiator for convenience of description, and the other display devices 2 will be referred to as external display devices.

2 is a hardware architecture diagram of the initiator of the present invention. The display device 1 includes a central processing unit 10, a communication unit 12, an input unit 14, a storage unit 16, and a display unit 18.

The communication unit 12 is for communicating with an external device (for example, another display device 2). The communication unit 12 may be a wireless communication unit such as Bluetooth, or may be a wired communication unit such as RS232. The connection relationship between the display device 1 and the external device may be a wired connection or a wireless connection. The input unit 14 is configured to respond to a user input operation; the storage unit 16 provides a storage space for various materials inside the display device 1, and the data includes, but is not limited to, a picture, a document, a video file, etc.; the display unit 18 is used for Display of various materials and interfaces is implemented on the display device 1.

The central processing unit 10 includes a group management unit 100 and a collaborative display control unit 200.

The group management unit 100 is configured to select one or more external display devices in a communication connection state to form a group, and the group can be released. Collaborative display control unit 200 is used to control the display device in the group to perform collaborative display and determine whether the coordinated display ends.

The group management unit 100 includes a group group modeling group 101 and a group release module 102. The group group modeling group 101 is configured to determine an external display device that can be communicably connected, and select one or more selected from the external display device to form a group; a group release module 102 is used for cooperative display control The unit 200 determines that the external display device is released from the group after the collaborative display ends.

Each display device corresponds to a unique identifier (hereinafter referred to as the ID of the display device), and the communication unit 12 can detect the ID of the external display device that identifies the communication connection. Specifically, the group group 101 adds the IDs of the plurality of external display devices to a record (for example, a setting table) stored in the storage unit 16 in advance, and the group is specifically released for the group. The module 102 deletes the ID of the external display device from the record.

The collaborative display control unit 200 includes an instruction generation module 201 and a determination module 202. The command generation module 201 is configured to generate a cooperative display instruction including the display device identifier, the content information to be displayed, and the display mode, and send the instruction to the group member corresponding to the identifier; the determining module 202 is configured to determine the collaboration If the activity is over, please refer to the following description for the judgment method.

3 is a functional block diagram of a central processing unit of the present invention. The group group modeling group 101 includes a state determining sub-module 1010 and a group member determining sub-module 1011.

The status determining sub-module 1010 is configured to determine, by the communication unit 12, an external display device that is communicably connected, and identify an ID of the external display device; the group member determining sub-module 1011 is configured to select from the external display device Determine participation in collaborative display activities The ID of the display device. The determining manner may be that the selecting communication unit 12 detects all external display device determinations of the communicable connection, and the user operates through the input unit 14 to select a determination from the externally connectable display device or the group member determining sub-module 1011. The selection is determined randomly in the external display device of the communication connection.

The command generation module 201 includes an execution object determination sub-module 2010, a display content determination sub-module 2011, and a display mode determination sub-module 2012.

The execution object determining sub-module 2010 is configured to determine an ID of a display device that currently performs collaborative display, and the determining manner may be sequentially selected or randomly selected according to an ID arrangement order of the group members; the display content determining sub-module 2011 is used for Determining the information of the content to be displayed (for example, a name or a storage location, etc.), the determining manner may sequentially select or randomly select the content to be displayed according to an arrangement order of the content to be displayed; the display mode determining sub-module 2012 In another embodiment of the present invention, the display mode determining sub-module 2012 further determines a display start time of the content to be displayed. For example, the display effect is a level blind, and the display start time is 18:36:02. The determining module 202 determines whether the collaborative display activity is finished. According to an embodiment of the present invention, the ID of the display device that currently performs the coordinated display is sequentially selected according to an arrangement order of the group member IDs, and the determining module 202 determines to control the last group. The sending of the instruction of the group member to the collaborative display ends with the end of the collaborative display activity. According to another embodiment of the present invention, the ID of the randomly selected group member is determined as the ID of the group member currently performing the collaborative display, and the determining module 202 determines the user. A preset time (for example, 18:38:08) ends for the collaborative display event.

4 is a flow chart of collaborative display activities of the present invention. In one embodiment of the invention, the display device 1 that initiates the collaborative display activity in the collaborative display activity is uniquely determined. The party The method includes the steps: the group group modeling group 101 forms a group. (Step S21). The command generation module 201 generates and transmits an instruction to perform an intra-group coordinated display activity (step S22). The judging module 202 judges that the cooperative display activity is completed, and cancels the group (step S23).

5 is a flow chart of a method for controlling collaborative display within a group according to the present invention. In an embodiment of the present invention, the determining module 202 is further configured to determine whether the next display device is required to perform coordinated display according to whether a predetermined time period has elapsed after the previous display command is issued, and the time period is two. The time interval during which the command is sent may be set by the user or preset by the display device 1 and saved in the storage unit 16. The following shows the content of the display as an example. The method includes the following steps:

The execution object determination sub-module 2010 of the initiator determines the ID of the display device currently co-displayed (step S31). The display content determining sub-module 2011 determines information of the currently to-be-displayed picture (step S32). The display mode determining sub-module 2012 determines the display mode of the picture to be displayed (step S33). The command generation module 201 generates and transmits to the display device a display command including the ID of the display device, the picture information to be displayed, and the picture display mode (step S34). The judging module 202 judges whether or not the cooperative display activity is ended (step S35), and if the determination result is "NO", the process proceeds to step S36, and if the determination result is "YES", the process returns to step S23. The determination module 202 determines whether the next display device is required to perform cooperative display (step S36). If the determination result is "NO", the process proceeds to step S36. If the determination result is "YES", the process returns to step S31.

10‧‧‧Central Processing Unit

100‧‧‧Group Management Unit

101‧‧‧Group component module

102‧‧‧Group Disarming Module

200‧‧‧Cooperative display control unit

201‧‧‧Instruction Generation Module

202‧‧‧Judgement module

1010‧‧‧Status determination submodule

1011‧‧‧Group members determine submodules

2010‧‧‧Execution object determination sub-module

2011‧‧‧Display Content Determination Sub-module

2012‧‧‧Display mode determination sub-module

Claims (6)

A display device comprising a display unit; a storage unit; a communication unit for communicating with an external display device; a central processing unit, the central processing unit comprising: a group group modeling group for selecting and determining a plurality of external display devices Forming a group for collaborative display; a group release module is used to cancel the group relationship of the external display device for collaborative display; the improvement is that the group group modeling group includes a state determination sub-module and a a group member determining sub-module for identifying, by the communication unit, an external device that determines a communicable connection, the group member determining sub-module for randomly selecting from the externally connectable display device Determining a display device that participates in the collaborative display activity; the central processing unit further includes: an execution object determining sub-module, configured to sequentially select or select the unique identifiers corresponding to the group members in the coordinated display group Randomly selecting a display device that determines the content to be currently displayed; a display content determining sub-module for determining a display mode determining sub-module, configured to determine a display effect of the content to be displayed and a display start time, and sequentially send the determined display content display effect to members in the group And a command for displaying the start time; a determination module for determining whether the coordinated display activity is completed, and if the end, the group release module cancels the group relationship of the external display device that performs the cooperative display. The display device of claim 1, wherein the determining module is further configured to determine whether the next display device is required to perform coordinated display, and if necessary, executing the object determining sub-module to determine the next display device. . The display device according to claim 1, wherein the connection relationship between the group members is a wired connection or a wireless connection. A display control method for at least two display devices, wherein a display device initiates a collaborative display activity, each display device includes a display unit; a storage unit; and a communication unit for communicating with the external display device; The method includes the steps of: the display device initiating the collaborative display activity determines the communicatively connected external display device through its communication unit, and identifies the identifier of the external display device; the display device initiating the collaborative display activity randomly selects the external device The display device sets up a collaborative display group; the display device that initiates the collaborative display activity selects a display device that determines the current content to be displayed in the collaborative display group; the display device that initiates the collaborative display activity determines the information of the current content to be displayed; initiates a coordinated display The active display device determines a display manner of the content to be displayed; the display device that initiates the collaborative display activity generates and transmits an identifier of the display device including the current content to be displayed to the display device currently displaying the content, Content to be displayed, Synergistic said display mode display instruction. The display control method according to claim 4, wherein the method further comprises the steps of: the display device initiating the collaborative display activity determines whether the collaborative display activity is ended; and if it is determined that the collaborative display activity is not over, determining whether the next need is needed. The display device performs cooperative display; if the determination result is “not required”, the step of determining whether the next display device is required to perform coordinated display is continued; if the determination result is “required”, returning to the determining the current content to be displayed is returned. The steps of the display device. The display control method of claim 4, wherein the method further comprises the steps of: Determine the display effect of the current content to be displayed and the display start time.