CN111182339A

CN111182339A - Method for playing media item and display equipment

Info

Publication number: CN111182339A
Application number: CN202010026615.7A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 高雯雯; 汪静娴
Original assignee: Hisense Visual Technology Co Ltd
Current assignee: Hisense Visual Technology Co Ltd
Priority date: 2020-01-10
Filing date: 2020-01-10
Publication date: 2020-05-19
Also published as: WO2021139045A1

Abstract

The embodiment of the invention relates to the technical field of display, in particular to a method and display equipment for playing media items, which integrate the functions of sending and receiving into a whole, do not need a user to select a resource platform corresponding to the media items, and use a built-in playing module to complete the playing of the media items. The method comprises the following steps: the method comprises the steps that a display device responds to a selection instruction of a user for a first media item, resource information of the first media item and identification information of a receiving module arranged in the display device are sent to a resource server, the resource information at least comprises URL information of the first media item, playable resources corresponding to the first media item and returned by the resource server are received, a playing module is started to play the first media item, and a playing interface is displayed.

Description

Method for playing media item and display equipment

Technical Field

The present invention relates to the field of display technologies, and in particular, to a method for playing a media item and a display device.

Background

The display device provides an operable interface to the user and presents a play interface to the user to play the media item in response to a user selection of the target media item.

However, corresponding to one target media item, the display device usually provides a plurality of resource platforms for publishing the target media item, and corresponding playing application programs are usually configured for playing corresponding to different resource platforms, which requires a user to continuously perform selection operations using a remote control device, resulting in frequent user operations and reduced user experience, and on the other hand, the display device may not have a corresponding playing application program installed therein, which cannot ensure normal playing of the media item.

Disclosure of Invention

The application provides a method for playing media items and display equipment, which integrate sending and receiving functions, and can complete the playing of the media items by using a built-in playing module without a user selecting a resource platform corresponding to the media items, thereby improving the user experience and improving the operation efficiency of the user.

In a first aspect, a method of playing a media item is provided, comprising:

presenting a graphical user interface containing a plurality of media items;

responding to a selection instruction of a first media item on the graphical user interface, and sending resource information of the first media item and identification information of a receiving module to a resource server, wherein the resource information at least comprises URL (uniform resource locator) information of the first media item;

and the receiving module receives the playable resources corresponding to the first media item returned by the resource server, starts a playing module to play the playable resources of the first media item, and displays a playing interface of the first media item.

In a second aspect, there is provided a display device comprising:

a display for displaying a graphical user interface containing a plurality of media items;

the user interface is used for receiving instructions input by a user;

the sending module is used for sending the resource information of the media item to the resource server;

the receiving module is used for receiving playable resources of the corresponding media items returned by the resource server;

a playing module for playing playable resources of the corresponding media item;

a controller for performing:

responding to a selection instruction of a first media item in the graphical user interface, and sending resource information of the first media item and identification information of the receiving module to a resource server through the sending module; the resource information at least comprises URL information of the first media item;

and controlling the receiving module to receive the playable resources corresponding to the first media item returned by the resource server, starting the playing module to play the playable resources of the first media item, and displaying a playing interface of the first media item on a display.

In a third aspect, a method of playing a media item is provided, comprising:

presenting a graphical user interface containing a plurality of media items;

in response to a selection instruction of a first media item on the graphical user interface, displaying a detail page of the first media item, wherein the detail page at least comprises a content introduction and a playing icon of the first media item;

responding to a selection instruction of the user for the playing icon, and sending resource information of the first media resource and identification information of a receiving module to a resource server, wherein the resource information at least comprises URL (uniform resource locator) information of the first media item;

and the receiving module receives the playable resources corresponding to the first media item returned by the resource server and starts the playing module to play the playable resources of the first media item.

In a fourth aspect, there is provided a display device comprising:

the user interface is used for receiving instructions input by a user;

the sending module is used for sending the resource information of the media item to the server;

the receiving module is used for receiving playable resources of the corresponding media items returned by the server;

the playing module is used for playing playable resources of the corresponding media items;

a controller for performing:

displaying a detail interface of a first media item in response to a selection instruction of the first media item in the graphical user interface; the detail interface at least comprises a content introduction and a playing icon of the first media item;

responding to a selection instruction of the playing icon in the detail interface, and sending the resource information of the first media item and the identification information of the receiving module to a resource server through the sending module; the resource information at least comprises URL information of the first media item;

and controlling the receiving module to receive the playable resources corresponding to the first media item returned by the resource server, and starting the playing module to play the playable resources of the first media item.

Drawings

In order to more clearly illustrate the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention, the drawings needed to be used in the description of the embodiments will be briefly introduced below, and it is obvious that the drawings in the following description are only some embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious for those skilled in the art to obtain other drawings based on these drawings without inventive exercise.

Fig. 1A is a schematic diagram illustrating an operation scenario between a display device and a control apparatus in an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 1B is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of the control device 100 in fig. 1A in an exemplary embodiment of the present application;

fig. 1C is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of the display device 200 in fig. 1A in an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 1D is a block diagram illustrating an architectural configuration of an operating system in a memory of the display device 200 according to an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 2A is a schematic diagram of an operable page presented by a display device in an embodiment of the present application;

2B-2F are schematic diagrams of display interfaces involved in selecting a resource platform corresponding to a media item in the prior art in the embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 3A is a schematic diagram of an initial interface presented to a user by a display device in an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 3B is a schematic diagram of a media item detail interface displayed by a display device according to an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram of a display device in an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating a process of playing a media item by a display device according to an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 6 is a flow chart illustrating playing a media item according to an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating a display device searching for a display device including a receiving module according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 8 is a schematic diagram of a same display screen of a display device for different media items in an embodiment of the present application.

Detailed Description

In order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the present invention clearer, the present invention will be described in further detail with reference to the accompanying drawings, and it is apparent that the described embodiments are only a part of the embodiments of the present invention, not all of the embodiments. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present invention.

Fig. 1A is a schematic diagram illustrating an operation scenario between a display device and a control apparatus. As shown in fig. 1A, the control apparatus 100 and the display device 200 may communicate with each other in a wired or wireless manner.

Among them, the control apparatus 100 is configured to control the display device 200, which may receive an operation instruction input by a user and convert the operation instruction into an instruction recognizable and responsive by the display device 200, serving as an intermediary for interaction between the user and the display device 200. Such as: the user operates the channel up/down key on the control device 100, and the display device 200 responds to the channel up/down operation.

The control device 100 may be a remote controller 100A, which includes infrared protocol communication or bluetooth protocol communication, and other short-distance communication methods, etc. to control the display apparatus 200 in a wireless or other wired manner. The user may input a user instruction through a key on a remote controller, voice input, control panel input, etc., to control the display apparatus 200. Such as: the user can input a corresponding control command through a volume up/down key, a channel control key, up/down/left/right moving keys, a voice input key, a menu key, a power on/off key, etc. on the remote controller, to implement the function of controlling the display device 200.

The control device 100 may also be an intelligent device, such as a mobile terminal 100B, a tablet computer, a notebook computer, and the like. For example, the display device 200 is controlled using an application program running on the smart device. The application program may provide various controls to a user through an intuitive User Interface (UI) on a screen associated with the smart device through configuration.

For example, the mobile terminal 100B may install a software application with the display device 200 to implement connection communication through a network communication protocol for the purpose of one-to-one control operation and data communication. Such as: the mobile terminal 100B may be caused to establish a control instruction protocol with the display device 200 to implement the functions of the physical keys as arranged in the remote control 100A by operating various function keys or virtual buttons of the user interface provided on the mobile terminal 100B. The audio and video content displayed on the mobile terminal 100B may also be transmitted to the display device 200, so as to implement a synchronous display function.

The display apparatus 200 may provide a network television function of a broadcast receiving function and a computer support function. The display device may be implemented as a digital television, a web television, an Internet Protocol Television (IPTV), or the like.

The display device 200 may be a liquid crystal display, an organic light emitting display, a projection device. The specific display device type, size, resolution, etc. are not limited.

The display apparatus 200 also performs data communication with the server 300 through various communication means. Here, the display apparatus 200 may be allowed to be communicatively connected through a Local Area Network (LAN), a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN), and other networks. The server 300 may provide various contents and interactions to the display apparatus 200. By way of example, the display device 200 may send and receive information such as: receiving Electronic Program Guide (EPG) data, receiving software program updates, or accessing a remotely stored digital media library. The servers 300 may be a group or groups of servers, and may be one or more types of servers. Other web service contents such as a video on demand and an advertisement service are provided through the server 300.

Fig. 1B is a block diagram illustrating the configuration of the control device 100. As shown in fig. 1B, the control device 100 includes a controller 110, a memory 120, a communicator 130, a user input interface 140, an output interface 150, and a power supply 160.

The controller 110 includes a Random Access Memory (RAM)111, a Read Only Memory (ROM)112, a processor 113, a communication interface, and a communication bus. The controller 110 is used to control the operation of the control device 100, as well as the internal components of the communication cooperation, external and internal data processing functions.

Illustratively, when an interaction of a user pressing a key disposed on the remote controller 100A or an interaction of touching a touch panel disposed on the remote controller 100A is detected, the controller 110 may control to generate a signal corresponding to the detected interaction and transmit the signal to the display device 200.

And a memory 120 for storing various operation programs, data and applications for driving and controlling the control apparatus 100 under the control of the controller 110. The memory 120 may store various control signal commands input by a user.

The communicator 130 enables communication of control signals and data signals with the display apparatus 200 under the control of the controller 110. Such as: the control apparatus 100 transmits a control signal (e.g., a touch signal or a button signal) to the display device 200 via the communicator 130, and the control apparatus 100 may receive the signal transmitted by the display device 200 via the communicator 130. The communicator 130 may include an infrared signal interface 131 and a radio frequency signal interface 132. For example: when the infrared signal interface is used, the user input instruction needs to be converted into an infrared control signal according to an infrared control protocol, and the infrared control signal is sent to the display device 200 through the infrared sending module. The following steps are repeated: when the rf signal interface is used, a user input command needs to be converted into a digital signal, and then the digital signal is modulated according to the rf control signal modulation protocol and then transmitted to the display device 200 through the rf transmitting terminal.

The user input interface 140 may include at least one of a microphone 141, a touch pad 142, a sensor 143, a key 144, and the like, so that a user can input a user instruction regarding controlling the display apparatus 200 to the control apparatus 100 through voice, touch, gesture, press, and the like.

The output interface 150 outputs a user instruction received by the user input interface 140 to the display apparatus 200, or outputs an image or voice signal received by the display apparatus 200. Here, the output interface 150 may include an LED interface 151, a vibration interface 152 generating vibration, a sound output interface 153 outputting sound, a display 154 outputting an image, and the like. For example, the remote controller 100A may receive an output signal such as audio, video, or data from the output interface 150, and display the output signal in the form of an image on the display 154, in the form of audio on the sound output interface 153, or in the form of vibration on the vibration interface 152.

And a power supply 160 for providing operation power support for each element of the control device 100 under the control of the controller 110. In the form of a battery and associated control circuitry.

A hardware configuration block diagram of the display device 200 is exemplarily illustrated in fig. 1C. As shown in fig. 1C, the display apparatus 200 may include a tuner demodulator 210, a communicator 220, a detector 230, an external device interface 240, a controller 250, a memory 260, a user interface 265, a video processor 270, a display 275, an audio processor 280, an audio output interface 285, and a power supply 290.

The tuner demodulator 210 receives the broadcast television signal in a wired or wireless manner, may perform modulation and demodulation processing such as amplification, mixing, and resonance, and is configured to demodulate, from a plurality of wireless or wired broadcast television signals, an audio/video signal carried in a frequency of a television channel selected by a user, and additional information (e.g., EPG data).

The tuner demodulator 210 is responsive to the user selected frequency of the television channel and the television signal carried by the frequency, as selected by the user and controlled by the controller 250.

The tuner demodulator 210 can receive a television signal in various ways according to the broadcasting system of the television signal, such as: terrestrial broadcasting, cable broadcasting, satellite broadcasting, internet broadcasting, or the like; and according to different modulation types, a digital modulation mode or an analog modulation mode can be adopted; and can demodulate the analog signal and the digital signal according to the different kinds of the received television signals.

In other exemplary embodiments, the tuning demodulator 210 may also be in an external device, such as an external set-top box. In this way, the set-top box outputs a television signal after modulation and demodulation, and inputs the television signal into the display apparatus 200 through the external device interface 240.

The communicator 220 is a component for communicating with an external device or an external server according to various communication protocol types. For example, the display apparatus 200 may transmit content data to an external apparatus connected via the communicator 220, or browse and download content data from an external apparatus connected via the communicator 220. The communicator 220 may include a network communication protocol module or a near field communication protocol module, such as a WIFI module 221, a bluetooth communication protocol module 222, and a wired ethernet communication protocol module 223, so that the communicator 220 may receive a control signal of the control device 100 according to the control of the controller 250 and implement the control signal as a WIFI signal, a bluetooth signal, a radio frequency signal, and the like.

The detector 230 is a component of the display apparatus 200 for collecting signals of an external environment or interaction with the outside. The detector 230 may include a sound collector 231, such as a microphone, which may be used to receive a user's sound, such as a voice signal of a control instruction of the user to control the display device 200; alternatively, ambient sounds may be collected that identify the type of ambient scene, enabling the display device 200 to adapt to ambient noise.

In some other exemplary embodiments, the detector 230, which may further include an image collector 232, such as a camera, a video camera, etc., may be configured to collect external environment scenes to adaptively change the display parameters of the display device 200; and the function of acquiring the attribute of the user or interacting gestures with the user so as to realize the interaction between the display equipment and the user.

In some other exemplary embodiments, the detector 230 may further include a light receiver for collecting the intensity of the ambient light to adapt to the display parameter variation of the display device 200.

In some other exemplary embodiments, the detector 230 may further include a temperature sensor, such as by sensing an ambient temperature, and the display device 200 may adaptively adjust a display color temperature of the image. For example, when the temperature is higher, the display apparatus 200 may be adjusted to display a color temperature of an image that is cooler; when the temperature is lower, the display device 200 may be adjusted to display a warmer color temperature of the image.

The external device interface 240 is a component for providing the controller 250 to control data transmission between the display apparatus 200 and an external apparatus. The external device interface 240 may be connected to an external apparatus such as a set-top box, a game device, a notebook computer, etc. in a wired/wireless manner, and may receive data such as a video signal (e.g., moving image), an audio signal (e.g., music), additional information (e.g., EPG), etc. of the external apparatus.

The external device interface 240 may include: a High Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) terminal 241, a Composite Video Blanking Sync (CVBS) terminal 242, an analog or digital Component terminal 243, a Universal Serial Bus (USB) terminal 244, a Component terminal (not shown), a red, green, blue (RGB) terminal (not shown), and the like.

The controller 250 controls the operation of the display device 200 and responds to the operation of the user by running various software control programs (such as an operating system and various application programs) stored on the memory 260.

As shown in fig. 1C, the controller 250 includes a Random Access Memory (RAM)251, a Read Only Memory (ROM)252, a graphics processor 253, a CPU processor 254, a communication interface 255, and a communication bus 256. The RAM251, the ROM252, the graphic processor 253, and the CPU processor 254 are connected to each other through a communication bus 256 through a communication interface 255.

The ROM252 stores various system boot instructions. When the display apparatus 200 starts power-on upon receiving the power-on signal, the CPU processor 254 executes a system boot instruction in the ROM252, copies the operating system stored in the memory 260 to the RAM251, and starts running the boot operating system. After the start of the operating system is completed, the CPU processor 254 copies the various application programs in the memory 260 to the RAM251 and then starts running and starting the various application programs.

And a graphic processor 253 for generating various graphic objects such as icons, operation menus, and user input instruction display graphics, etc. The graphic processor 253 may include an operator for performing an operation by receiving various interactive instructions input by a user, and further displaying various objects according to display attributes; and a renderer for generating various objects based on the operator and displaying the rendered result on the display 275.

A CPU processor 254 for executing operating system and application program instructions stored in memory 260. And according to the received user input instruction, processing of various application programs, data and contents is executed so as to finally display and play various audio-video contents.

In some example embodiments, the CPU processor 254 may comprise a plurality of processors. The plurality of processors may include one main processor and a plurality of or one sub-processor. A main processor for performing some initialization operations of the display apparatus 200 in the display apparatus preload mode and/or operations of displaying a screen in the normal mode. A plurality of or one sub-processor for performing an operation in a state of a standby mode or the like of the display apparatus.

The communication interface 255 may include a first interface to an nth interface. These interfaces may be network interfaces that are connected to external devices via a network.

The controller 250 may control the overall operation of the display apparatus 200. For example: in response to receiving a user input command for selecting a GUI object displayed on the display 275, the controller 250 may perform an operation related to the object selected by the user input command.

Where the object may be any one of the selectable objects, such as a hyperlink or an icon. The operation related to the selected object is, for example, an operation of displaying a link to a hyperlink page, document, image, or the like, or an operation of executing a program corresponding to the object. The user input command for selecting the GUI object may be a command input through various input means (e.g., a mouse, a keyboard, a touch panel, etc.) connected to the display apparatus 200 or a voice command corresponding to a voice spoken by the user.

A memory 260 for storing various types of data, software programs, or applications for driving and controlling the operation of the display device 200. The memory 260 may include volatile and/or nonvolatile memory. And the term "memory" includes the memory 260, the RAM251 and the ROM252 of the controller 250, or a memory card in the display device 200.

In some embodiments, the memory 260 is specifically used for storing an operating program for driving the controller 250 of the display device 200; storing various application programs built in the display apparatus 200 and downloaded by a user from an external apparatus; data such as visual effect images for configuring various GUIs provided by the display 275, various objects related to the GUIs, and selectors for selecting GUI objects are stored.

In some embodiments, memory 260 is specifically configured to store drivers for tuner demodulator 210, communicator 220, detector 230, external device interface 240, video processor 270, display 275, audio processor 280, etc., and related data, such as external data (e.g., audio-visual data) received from the external device interface or user data (e.g., key information, voice information, touch information, etc.) received by the user interface.

In some embodiments, memory 260 specifically stores software and/or programs representing an Operating System (OS), which may include, for example: a kernel, middleware, an Application Programming Interface (API), and/or an application program. Illustratively, the kernel may control or manage system resources, as well as functions implemented by other programs (e.g., the middleware, APIs, or applications); at the same time, the kernel may provide an interface to allow middleware, APIs, or applications to access the controller to enable control or management of system resources.

A block diagram of the architectural configuration of the operating system in the memory of the display device 200 is illustrated in fig. 1D. The operating system architecture comprises an application layer, a middleware layer and a kernel layer from top to bottom.

The application layer, the application programs built in the system and the non-system-level application programs belong to the application layer. Is responsible for direct interaction with the user. The application layer may include a plurality of applications such as a setup application, a post application, a media center application, and the like. These applications may be implemented as Web applications that execute based on a WebKit engine, and in particular may be developed and executed based on HTML5, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), and JavaScript.

Here, HTML, which is called HyperText Markup Language (HyperText Markup Language), is a standard Markup Language for creating web pages, and describes the web pages by Markup tags, where the HTML tags are used to describe characters, graphics, animation, sound, tables, links, etc., and a browser reads an HTML document, interprets the content of the tags in the document, and displays the content in the form of web pages.

CSS, known as Cascading Style Sheets (Cascading Style Sheets), is a computer language used to represent the Style of HTML documents, and may be used to define Style structures, such as fonts, colors, locations, etc. The CSS style can be directly stored in the HTML webpage or a separate style file, so that the style in the webpage can be controlled.

JavaScript, a language applied to Web page programming, can be inserted into an HTML page and interpreted and executed by a browser. The interaction logic of the Web application is realized by JavaScript. The JavaScript can package a JavaScript extension interface through a browser, realize the communication with the kernel layer,

the middleware layer may provide some standardized interfaces to support the operation of various environments and systems. For example, the middleware layer may be implemented as multimedia and hypermedia information coding experts group (MHEG) middleware related to data broadcasting, DLNA middleware which is middleware related to communication with an external device, middleware which provides a browser environment in which each application program in the display device operates, and the like.

The kernel layer provides core system services, such as: file management, memory management, process management, network management, system security authority management and the like. The kernel layer may be implemented as a kernel based on various operating systems, for example, a kernel based on the Linux operating system.

The kernel layer also provides communication between system software and hardware, and provides device driver services for various hardware, such as: provide display driver for the display, provide camera driver for the camera, provide button driver for the remote controller, provide wiFi driver for the WIFI module, provide audio driver for audio output interface, provide power management drive for Power Management (PM) module etc..

A user interface 265 receives various user interactions. Specifically, it is used to transmit an input signal of a user to the controller 250 or transmit an output signal from the controller 250 to the user. For example, the remote controller 100A may transmit an input signal, such as a power switch signal, a channel selection signal, a volume adjustment signal, etc., input by the user to the user interface 265, and then the input signal is transferred to the controller 250 through the user interface 265; alternatively, the remote controller 100A may receive an output signal such as audio, video, or data output from the user interface 265 via the controller 250, and display the received output signal or output the received output signal in audio or vibration form.

In some embodiments, a user may enter user commands on a Graphical User Interface (GUI) displayed on the display 275, and the user interface 265 receives the user input commands through the GUI. Specifically, the user interface 265 may receive user input commands for controlling the position of a selector in the GUI to select different objects or items.

Alternatively, the user may input a user command by inputting a specific sound or gesture, and the user interface 265 receives the user input command by recognizing the sound or gesture through the sensor.

The video processor 270 is configured to receive an external video signal, and perform video data processing such as decompression, decoding, scaling, noise reduction, frame rate conversion, resolution conversion, and image synthesis according to a standard codec protocol of the input signal, so as to obtain a video signal that is directly displayed or played on the display 275.

Illustratively, the video processor 270 includes a demultiplexing module, a video decoding module, an image synthesizing module, a frame rate conversion module, a display formatting module, and the like.

The demultiplexing module is configured to demultiplex an input audio/video data stream, where, for example, an input MPEG-2 stream (based on a compression standard of a digital storage media moving image and voice), the demultiplexing module demultiplexes the input audio/video data stream into a video signal and an audio signal.

And the video decoding module is used for processing the video signal after demultiplexing, including decoding, scaling and the like.

And the image synthesis module is used for carrying out superposition mixing processing on the GUI signal input by the user or generated by the user and the video image after the zooming processing by the graphic generator so as to generate an image signal for display.

The frame rate conversion module is configured to convert a frame rate of an input video, for example, convert a frame rate of an input 60Hz video into a frame rate of 120Hz or 240Hz, where a common format is implemented by using, for example, an interpolation frame method.

And a display formatting module for converting the signal output by the frame rate conversion module into a signal conforming to a display format of a display, such as converting the format of the signal output by the frame rate conversion module to output an RGB data signal.

A display 275 for receiving the image signal from the video processor 270 and displaying the video content, the image and the menu manipulation interface. The display video content may be from the video content in the broadcast signal received by the tuner-demodulator 210, or from the video content input by the communicator 220 or the external device interface 240. The display 275, while displaying a user manipulation interface UI generated in the display apparatus 200 and used to control the display apparatus 200.

And, the display 275 may include a display screen assembly for presenting a picture and a driving assembly for driving the display of an image. Alternatively, a projection device and projection screen may be included, provided display 275 is a projection display.

The audio processor 280 is configured to receive an external audio signal, decompress and decode the received audio signal according to a standard codec protocol of the input signal, and perform audio data processing such as noise reduction, digital-to-analog conversion, and amplification processing to obtain an audio signal that can be played by the speaker 286.

Illustratively, audio processor 280 may support various audio formats. Such as MPEG-2, MPEG-4, Advanced Audio Coding (AAC), high efficiency AAC (HE-AAC), and the like.

The audio output interface 285 is used for receiving an audio signal output by the audio processor 280 under the control of the controller 250, and the audio output interface 285 may include a speaker 286 or an external sound output terminal 287, such as an earphone output terminal, for outputting to a generating device of an external device.

In other exemplary embodiments, video processor 270 may comprise one or more chips. Audio processor 280 may also comprise one or more chips.

And, in other exemplary embodiments, the video processor 270 and the audio processor 280 may be separate chips or may be integrated with the controller 250 in one or more chips.

And a power supply 290 for supplying power supply support to the display apparatus 200 from the power input from the external power source under the control of the controller 250. The power supply 290 may be a built-in power supply circuit installed inside the display apparatus 200 or may be a power supply installed outside the display apparatus 200.

On the basis of fig. 1A to 1D, it should be noted that the display device generally displays thereon operable pages of various types of multimedia resources that can be selected or searched, so as to query the detail information of the multimedia resources (such as the introduction of the multimedia resources, the actors corresponding to the multimedia resources, the director, and the introduction of the film type), and the operable pages generally arrange and display the corresponding multimedia resources in a matrix form.

In the prior art, the display device may play the corresponding media item based on the user's selection.

Referring to fig. 2A-2F, the display device presents the operable interface shown in fig. 2A to the user, and in response to the selection operation or input operation performed by the user through the control device, the display device receives, from the user, for a media item: after the selection instruction of the movie X is received, jumping to the display interface shown in fig. 2B, and presenting a plurality of selectable resource platforms, namely resource platform X, resource platform Y, and resource platform Z, for issuing the movie X to the user, when it is determined that the user selects the resource platform X to play the movie X based on the control device.

Further, the display device determines whether a play application program of the resource platform X is installed, and if it is determined that the play application program of the resource platform X is installed, jumps to the display interface shown in fig. 2C, and plays the movie X on the play application program of the resource platform X; and if the resource platform X playing application program is determined not to be installed, jumping to a display interface shown in the figure 2D, and performing online playing in the browser. In addition, if the display device determines that a usable browser is not installed, the display device jumps to an interface where the resource platform X playing application program can be downloaded to download the resource platform X playing application program.

Thus, the display device needs to continuously respond to the operation of the user based on the control device, and as can be seen from fig. 2E and fig. 2F, when exiting the current display interface and jumping back to the display interface shown in fig. 2A, the user needs to continuously use the control device to perform key exiting operation, which is tedious in operation, and once the operation is too fast, the user may return to the initial interface when the display device is turned on, which results in poor user experience and reduces the user's desire to use, even more, when the display device cannot timely respond to the key operation sent by the user based on the control device, the display device may display a black screen error report shown in fig. 2F.

Fig. 3A, fig. 2A and fig. 3B are diagrams schematically illustrating that the display device 200 provides a corresponding operable interface by operating the control apparatus 100 in the present application.

In fig. 3A, an initial interface of a display device is shown, when a user triggers selection of a specific application on the display device by operating a control device, an operable graphical user interface shown in fig. 2A is presented, in which various types of media items are displayed, and the user is enabled to input a desired media item by himself by operating the control device.

Next, the display device displays a detail interface corresponding to the media item selected by the user in response to the user's operation on the operable interface, as shown in fig. 3B. The detailed interface includes movie introduction information of the media item, director information, actor information, genre information of the media item, and the like, and provides a selectable play button for the user to click and trigger a play instruction of the media item.

It should be noted that, in response to the user selecting a media item on the operable graphical user interface shown in fig. 2A, the display device may trigger a play instruction of the media item directly when the user clicks the corresponding media item based on the control device key without presenting a detail interface of the media item.

In the following, a method for playing a media item in an embodiment of the present application is described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings:

referring to fig. 4, a layered schematic diagram of a display device in the embodiment of the present application is shown, in which the display device is mainly divided into two layers for Processing, namely an application layer and a development tool layer, where the application layer includes an application program of a sending module and a receiving module, and the application program is stored in a Central Processing Unit (CPU) of the display device and corresponds to a System partition of a Read Only Memory (Read Only Memory) portion.

In this application, referring to fig. 5, a description is given by taking a display device as both a transmitting end and a receiving end of data:

the display device determines that a user selected a media item: when a media item a is received, a sending module of the display device sends Resource information to a Resource server, and the selected identification information of a receiving module built in the display device, where the Resource information at least includes Uniform Resource Locator (URL) of the media item a.

The resource information is obtained by packaging URL information of a media item A returned by a media source server into an information format which can be identified by the resource server by a display device, and when the display device determines that the user selects the media item A, the display device triggers the media item information of the media item A to be obtained from the media source server, wherein the media item information comprises the URL information of the media item A.

And after receiving the resource information sent by the sending end of the display device and the identification information of the receiving module, the resource server returns the playable resource corresponding to the media item A to the receiving end of the display device based on the identification information of the receiving module, and further, the receiving module of the display device starts a built-in playing module to play the playable resource.

The following describes in detail a process of playing a media item in the embodiment of the present application with reference to fig. 6:

s601: the display device presents an actionable interface to the user that includes a number of selectable media items.

In particular, the display device provides the user with an operable interface containing a plurality of media items divided by type, so that the user can select the media item desired to be played on the operable interface based on the control device, or can trigger further operations through input operations on the control device.

For example, referring to fig. 3A and fig. 2A, when the user selects 4Know in fig. 3A, the user jumps to the operable interface shown in fig. 2A, where 4Know is an application in the display device in the present application for presenting the operable interface to the user, and further, the user may perform input or selection through the control device in the operable interface shown in fig. 2A to trigger further operation.

S602: the display device determines that a user selected a first media item.

After presenting the operable interface to the user, the display device triggers the selection operation in response to the selection operation of the first media item on the operable interface by inputting part or all of the Chinese name, pinyin and abbreviation of the first media item through the control device or selecting the first media item by operating the control device.

It should be noted that, in this application, in one mode, when a user selects a first media item, the display device directly triggers to acquire a playable resource corresponding to the first media item and play the playable resource; in another mode, after the user selects the first media item, the display device displays a detail interface of the first media item, where the detail interface includes content introduction, poster information, type information, and a play icon of the first media item, and after it is determined that the user clicks the play icon through a control device, the display device triggers an operation of acquiring a playable resource corresponding to the first media resource, and plays the first media resource.

S603, the display device initializes a session control (session) tool for monitoring the network state change.

Specifically, after determining that a user selects a first media item to play, a display device initializes a session control session tool to monitor a network state change, where the network state change includes a network connection state between a sending module built in the display device and a receiving module built in the selected display device, where the network connection between the sending module and the receiving module specifically includes: the network connection state between the sending module and the resource server, and the network connection state between the resource server and the receiving module.

S604: and the display equipment searches in a set area range and displays an equipment set comprising the receiving module in the area range.

Specifically, the display device searches in a set area range, and displays a device set including the receiving module in the area range, where the set area range may be a range covered by a local area network, or a set area range in the local area network coverage area range. Further, displaying the equipment set containing the receiving module in the set area range.

For example, referring to fig. 7, when the display device 1 searches in a set area range, the device set including the receiving module in the set area range may be: display device 1, display device 2, display device 3, display device 4, display device 5.

S605: and the display device responds to a selection instruction of the display device in the device set and connects the display device based on the identification information of the receiving module in the display device.

The method includes the steps that after a display device including a receiving module is searched in a set area range, a device set including the receiving module is obtained, further, in response to an operation instruction of a user, the receiving module of the display device is determined to be selected, identification information of the receiving module of the display device is further obtained, the display device is connected based on the identification information of the receiving module in the display device, specifically, a sending module of the display device tries to establish connection with a resource server, and the receiving module of the display device tries to connect with the resource server.

It should be noted that, in an actual operation process, the display device may establish a connection with a receiving module of a selected device based on a selection of a user for different devices in the device set.

For example, continuing with the description in S604, after the obtained device set, the user selects the receiving module of the display device 1, that is, the display device 1 is simultaneously used as the sending end and the receiving end of the information, and the display device 1 obtains the identification information of the receiving module of the display device 1 and establishes the connection based on the identification information.

Therefore, the display device integrates the sending module and the receiving module, and the display device is used as an information sending end and also used as an information receiving end, so that the limitation that the display device can only be used as the receiving end to passively receive or only used as the sending end to send messages is broken, the playing process of the media item is smoother, and the user experience is better.

S606: and judging whether the connection between the sending module and the receiving module of the display device is successful, if so, executing S612, and otherwise, executing S607.

Specifically, the sending module of the display device sends information to the resource server, and detects whether the receiving module of the display device receives information returned by the resource server, if so, the sending module and the receiving module are proved to be successfully connected, and the operation defined in step S612 may be executed, otherwise, the operation defined in step S607 is executed for further processing.

S607: the display device periodically attempts reconnection in a set time length period, and records the waiting time.

Specifically, when the connection between the built-in sending module and the built-in receiving module fails in the current state, the display device performs periodic reconnection attempts with a set time length as a period, and records a time length of waiting for connection, where the set time length may be configured by itself based on actual operation needs and is not described herein again.

For example, when the display device determines that the sending module and the receiving module cannot establish connection, the display device periodically sends a message to the resource server through the sending module in a set period of 3S, detects the connection condition and detects whether the message returned by the resource server is received to judge whether connection is established and record the duration of waiting for connection.

S608: and judging whether the duration of the waiting connection reaches a set threshold value, if so, executing S609, otherwise, executing S606.

Specifically, the display device sets a threshold value for the connection waiting duration, and performs determination based on the recorded connection waiting duration, and if it is determined that the recorded connection waiting duration is greater than the set threshold value, performs the operation defined in S609, otherwise performs the operation defined in S606, and further determines whether the connection is successful.

S609: and the display equipment abandons the operation and returns to the initial operable interface.

Specifically, when the display device determines that the connection waiting time reaches the set threshold, the display device does not continue to periodically try to reconnect, but exits from the current waiting state, returns to the initial operable interface, displays the current connection failure to the user, and then continues to respond to the user operation to execute the relevant operation.

S610: and the display equipment sends the media item information for acquiring the first media item to a media source server.

Specifically, after determining that a user selects to play a first media item, a display device sends a request for acquiring media item information of the first media item to a media source server, where the media item information includes information such as a duration, an author, a media type, and URL information of the first media item, the media source server includes at least one piece of media item information of the first media item provided by different play sources, where different pieces of media item information carry different pieces of URL information, and the media source server returns the media item information of the first media item provided by any one play source to the display device after receiving the request of the display device.

For example, in the present application, after the display device sends the media item information for acquiring the first media item to the media source server based on the first media item selected by the user, the display device receives the media source server and returns: https:// www.youtube.com/tv? launch & t 0& v 1bbGYJmW3 bw; and address information, wherein the duration, author, media type and URL information of the first media item can be acquired based on the address information.

S611: and the display equipment encapsulates the obtained media item information into resource information which can be identified by the media resource server, wherein the resource information at least comprises URL (uniform resource locator) information of the first media item.

Specifically, after sending a request for acquiring media item information of a first media item to a media source server, a display device receives address information issued by the media source server, and acquires the media item information of the first media item based on the address information, where the media item information specifically includes information such as a duration, an author, a media type, and URL information of the first media item, and further, the display device encapsulates the media item information based on a protocol stack type corresponding to a resource server to generate resource information that can be identified by the resource server.

S612: and the display equipment sends the identification information of the receiving module and the resource information to the resource server.

After the display device determines that the connection between the sending module and the receiving module is successful, the display device sends the identification information of the receiving module and the generated resource information to the resource server, the resource server can determine the information of the first media item requested to be acquired by the display device based on the resource information, search for the corresponding playable resource, and determine the display device for receiving the playable resource based on the identification information of the receiving module.

S613: and the receiving module of the display equipment receives the playable resources corresponding to the first media item, which are returned by the resource server.

Specifically, the display device controls the receiving module to receive the playable resource corresponding to the first media item returned by the resource server based on the identification information of the receiving module.

For example, continuing with the description in S610, after the media item information of the first media item is obtained based on the address information returned by the media source server, the display device generates resource information based on the media item information, and sends the resource information and the identification information of the selected receiving module to the resource server, and the playable resource returned by the resource server is obtained, for example:

“https://r5---sn-i3beln7d.googlevideo.com/videoplayback？expire"。

s614: and the receiving module of the display equipment enables a built-in playing module to play the playable resource.

After a receiving module of the display device obtains a playable resource corresponding to a first media item returned by the resource server, a built-in playing module is started to play the first media item, and a playing interface of the first media item is displayed.

It should be noted that, after the display device responds to a selection instruction of the user for a second media item on the graphical user interface, and sends resource information of the second media item and identification information of a receiving module built in the display device to a resource server, where the resource information at least includes URL information of the second media item, the display device receives a playable resource corresponding to the second media item returned by the resource server, starts a playing unit in the receiving module to play the second media item, and displays a playing interface of the second media item, where the playing interface of the first media item is uniform in display style with the playing interface of the second media item.

In addition, the display device obtains the playable resources corresponding to the first media item returned by the resource server based on the different media item information of the first media item, and when the playing module is started to play the first media item, the display style of the playing interface of the first media item displayed on the display is consistent.

For example, referring to fig. 8, the display device uses a unified display screen for the playable resources corresponding to different media items or the playable resources obtained based on information of different media items, and the display styles of the display devices are consistent for different media items.

While preferred embodiments of the present invention have been described, additional variations and modifications in those embodiments may occur to those skilled in the art once they learn of the basic inventive concepts. Therefore, it is intended that the appended claims be interpreted as including preferred embodiments and all such alterations and modifications as fall within the scope of the invention.

It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various changes and modifications may be made in the present invention without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention. Thus, if such modifications and variations of the present invention fall within the scope of the claims of the present invention and their equivalents, the present invention is also intended to include such modifications and variations.

Claims

1. A display device, comprising:

the user interface is used for receiving instructions input by a user;

a controller for performing:

2. The display device of claim 1, wherein the controller is specifically to:

responding to a selection instruction of a second media item in the graphical user interface, and sending resource information of the second media item and identification information of the receiving module to a resource server through the sending module; the resource information at least comprises URL information of the second media item;

controlling the receiving module to receive the playable resources corresponding to the second media item returned by the resource server, starting the playing module to play the playable resources of the second media item, and displaying a playing interface of the second media item on a display;

and the display style of the playing interface of the first media item is unified with that of the playing interface of the second media item.

3. The display device of claim 1, wherein the controller is specifically to:

responding to a selection instruction of a first media item in the graphical user interface, generating resource information of the first media item which can be identified by the resource server based on media item information of the first media item returned by a media source server, and sending the resource information to the resource server through the sending module.

4. The display device of claim 3, wherein the media source server includes at least one media item information for a first media item from a different playback source;

the media source server returns media item information for the first media item provided by any of the playback sources.

5. The display device of claim 1, wherein the receiving module is controlled to receive the playable resource corresponding to the first media item returned by the resource server based on identification information of the receiving module.

6. A display device, comprising:

the user interface is used for receiving instructions input by a user;

a controller for performing:

7. The display device of claim 6, wherein the controller is specifically configured to:

based on the media item information of the first media item containing any URL information returned by the media source server, generating resource information of the first media item which can be identified by the resource server; the media source server has at least one media item information of the first media item, and different media item information carries different URL information.

8. The display device of claim 7, wherein the controller is specifically to:

and based on different media item information of the first media item, after a playable resource corresponding to the first media item returned by the resource server is acquired, when the playing module is started to play the first media item, the display styles of the playing interfaces of the first media item displayed on the display are consistent.

9. The display device of claim 1, wherein the controller is specifically to:

searching in a set area range, and displaying a device set which contains a receiving module in the area range;

and responding to a selection instruction of the display device in the device set, and connecting the display device based on the identification information of the receiving module in the display device.

10. A method of playing a media item, comprising:

presenting a graphical user interface containing a plurality of media items;

11. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

responding to a selection instruction of a second media item on the graphical user interface, and sending resource information of the second media item and identification information of a receiving module to a resource server, wherein the resource information at least comprises URL (uniform resource locator) information of the second media item;

the receiving module receives the playable resources corresponding to the second media item returned by the resource server, starts a playing module to play the playable resources of the second media item, and displays a playing interface of the second media item;

12. The method of claim 10, wherein said sending resource information for the first media item to a resource server comprises:

and generating resource information of the first media item which can be identified by the resource server based on the media item information of the first media item returned by the media source server, and sending the resource information to the resource server through the sending module.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the media source server comprises at least one media item information for a first media item provided from a different playback source;

14. The method of claim 10, wherein the receiving module is controlled to receive the playable resources corresponding to the first media item returned by the resource server based on the identification information of the receiving module.

15. A method of playing a media item, comprising:

presenting a graphical user interface containing a plurality of media items;

16. The method of claim 14, wherein the method further comprises:

the method comprises the steps of generating resource information of a first media item which can be identified by a resource server based on media item information of the first media item including any URL information returned by the media source server, wherein the media item information of at least one first media item exists in the media source server, and different media item information carries different URL information.

17. The method of claim 16, further comprising:

18. The method of claim 15, further comprising: