CN116208793A

CN116208793A - Application program language synchronization method and display device

Info

Publication number: CN116208793A
Application number: CN202111446497.6A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 高鹏; 汤小娜; 李敏
Original assignee: Vidaa Netherlands International Holdings BV
Current assignee: Vidaa Netherlands International Holdings BV
Priority date: 2021-11-30
Filing date: 2021-11-30
Publication date: 2023-06-02

Abstract

The invention discloses an application program language synchronization method and display equipment, wherein the implementation method comprises the steps of monitoring a system language; and when the system language is monitored to be changed, executing a matched language synchronization mode according to the current state of the target application, wherein the language synchronization mode is used for updating the language of the target application into the system language. According to the method and the device, the target application can be automatically linked along with the change of the system language under any state, the user does not need to manually adjust the application language after switching the system language every time, and the user experience is improved.

Description

Application program language synchronization method and display device

Technical Field

The present invention relates to the field of display devices, and in particular, to an application program language synchronization method and a display device.

Background

An application program (App) is generally installed in the display device, the application program can display characters in an application page according to a language set by a user, in some scenes, the user can adjust a system language of the display device according to own use requirements, generally, the system language can better reflect the current language environment and language inertia of the user, the application program YouTube is taken as an example, for example, the user originally sets the system language and YouTube language to be english, then the user changes the system language to simplified chinese, so that the user is more prone to reading and browsing the simplified chinese currently, and the user is mainly used for spontaneously changing the language of the App from original english to simplified chinese after opening YouTube application. Therefore, if the linkage of the App language and the system language can be realized, namely, the application language is automatically and synchronously updated every time the system language is switched, the user does not need to manually change the language setting of the application, and the user experience is better.

Disclosure of Invention

In order to solve the technical problems in the background art, the invention provides an application program language synchronization method and display equipment, which can realize linkage between system languages and application program languages in the display equipment and realize synchronous updating of the languages of the application programs along with the change of the system languages in different states.

A first aspect of the present application provides a display device, including:

a display for displaying a user interface;

a controller for performing:

monitoring the system language;

and when the system language is monitored to be changed, executing a matched language synchronization mode according to the current state of the target application, wherein the language synchronization mode is used for updating the language of the target application into the system language.

In a first exemplary implementation manner of the first aspect, the controller is configured to perform the matched language synchronization pattern in the following manner:

if the current state is a foreground running state, controlling a display to display a prompt box on an application page, wherein the prompt box comprises information for inquiring whether to update the language of the target application to the system language, a confirmation control and a cancellation control;

if the selected operation of the confirmation control is received, closing the prompt bullet frame, controlling the target application to restart, and inquiring and loading the system language in the restarting process;

And if the selected operation of the cancel control is received, only closing the prompt flick frame.

In a second exemplary implementation manner of the first aspect, the controller is configured to perform the matched language synchronization pattern in the following manner:

if the current state is a background running state or a pre-loading state, firstly ending the background process of the target application in a silent mode, then restarting the background process, and controlling the background process to inquire and load the system language; the user does not feel the ending and restarting processes of the background process.

In a third exemplary implementation manner of the first aspect, the controller is configured to perform the matched language synchronization pattern in the following manner:

and if the current state is the non-running state, when receiving the operation of starting the target application by the user, controlling the target application to inquire and load the system language.

With reference to the second implementation manner of the first aspect, in a fourth exemplary implementation manner of the first aspect, after the ending of the background process of the target application by silence, the controller is further configured to perform:

detecting whether the available memory of the current system is sufficient;

Restarting the background process if the available memory of the system is detected to be sufficient;

and if the insufficient available memory of the system is detected, suspending restarting the background process until the sufficient available memory of the system is detected to be recovered.

A second aspect of the present application provides an application program language synchronization method, including:

monitoring the system language;

In a first exemplary implementation manner of the second aspect, the executing the matched language synchronization pattern according to the current state of the target application includes:

if the current state is a foreground running state, displaying a prompt box on an application page, wherein the prompt box comprises information for inquiring whether to update the language of the target application to the system language, a confirmation control and a cancellation control;

In a second exemplary implementation manner of the second aspect, the executing the matched language synchronization pattern according to the current state of the target application includes:

In a third exemplary implementation manner of the second aspect, the executing the matched language synchronization pattern according to the current state of the target application includes:

With reference to the second implementation manner of the second aspect, in a fourth exemplary implementation manner of the second aspect, after the ending of the background process of the target application by silence, the method further includes:

detecting whether the available memory of the current system is sufficient;

In the implementation manner of the above example, the system language is monitored so as to quickly capture the change of the system language, and when the change of the system language is monitored, the current state of the target application needs to be considered, wherein the target application refers to an application program which needs to be in language linkage with the system language, the current state can include a foreground running state, a background running state and an unoperated state, and for the application program supporting the preloading function, the current state also includes a preloading state, and when the target application is in different states, the language synchronization mode is different, so that the matched language synchronization mode needs to be executed according to the application state, the language of the target application is synchronized into the updated system language, the target application can be automatically linked with the change of the system language in any state, the user does not need to manually adjust the application language after switching the system language each time, and the user experience is improved.

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In order to more clearly illustrate the embodiments of the present invention or the technical solutions in the prior art, the following description will briefly explain the drawings required for the embodiments, and it is apparent that the drawings in the following description are only some embodiments of the present invention and that other drawings can be obtained according to these drawings without inventive effort for a person skilled in the art.

FIG. 1 illustrates a usage scenario of a display device;

fig. 2 exemplarily shows a hardware configuration block diagram of the control apparatus 100;

fig. 3 exemplarily shows a hardware configuration block diagram of the display apparatus 200;

fig. 4 exemplarily shows a software configuration diagram in the display device 200;

FIG. 5 (a) is a schematic diagram illustrating a display device setup page;

FIG. 5 (b 1) is a schematic diagram illustrating a current language settings sub-page when the system language is not switched;

FIG. 5 (c) is a schematic diagram of a display interface for exemplary language listings;

FIG. 5 (b 2) is a schematic diagram illustrating a language settings sub-page after the system switches to the target language;

FIG. 5 (b 3-1) is a schematic diagram illustrating a language settings sub-page supporting a specified target application when performing system language settings;

FIG. 5 (b 3-2) is a schematic diagram of a display interface for an application list;

FIG. 5 (b 3-3) is a diagram illustrating the change of the language settings sub-page when the submitted target application set is empty;

FIG. 5 (b 3-4) is a diagram illustrating the change of the language settings sub-page when the submitted target application set is a non-empty set;

FIG. 5 (b 3-5) is a diagram illustrating the change of the language settings sub-page when the submitted target application set is a corpus;

FIG. 6 illustrates a UI change diagram when language linkage functionality is enabled within an application;

FIG. 7 illustrates a flow chart of an application language synchronization method;

fig. 8 illustrates a UI schematic showing a prompt box displayed by a display device.

Detailed Description

For purposes of clarity and implementation of the present application, the following description will make clear and complete descriptions of exemplary implementations of the present application with reference to the accompanying drawings in which exemplary implementations of the present application are illustrated, it being apparent that the exemplary implementations described are only some, but not all, of the examples of the present application.

It should be noted that the brief description of the terms in the present application is only for convenience in understanding the embodiments described below, 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-described figures are used for distinguishing between similar or similar objects or entities and not necessarily for limiting a particular order or sequence, 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.

As shown in fig. 4, the system of the display device is divided into three layers, an application layer, a middleware layer, and a hardware layer, from top to bottom.

The application layer mainly comprises common applications on the television, and an application framework (Application Framework), wherein the common applications are mainly applications developed based on Browser, such as: HTML5 APPs; native applications (Native APPs);

the application framework (Application Framework) is a complete program model with all the basic functions required by standard application software, such as: file access, data exchange, and the interface for the use of these functions (toolbar, status column, menu, dialog box).

Native applications (Native APPs) may support online or offline, message pushing, or local resource access.

The middleware layer includes middleware such as various television protocols, multimedia protocols, and system components. The middleware can use basic services (functions) provided by the system software to connect various parts of the application system or different applications on the network, so that the purposes of resource sharing and function sharing can be achieved.

The hardware layer mainly comprises a HAL interface, hardware and a driver, wherein the HAL interface is a unified interface for all the television chips to be docked, and specific logic is realized by each chip. The driving mainly comprises: 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.

The above embodiments introduce the content of the hardware/software architecture, the functional implementation, etc. of the display device. In one implementation, a user may set a system language in a setting page of the display device, where a language setting option provides a language list for the user, where the language list includes language types of different countries and regions, and the user selects one language from the language list and sets the language as the system language, and then the display device displays text information in a UI interface, such as a menu, a homepage, and the like, according to the language type indicated by the system language.

In an exemplary implementation, as in the setting page of the display device illustrated in fig. 5 (a), several setting options, such as image setting, sound setting, network setting, language setting, bluetooth setting, etc., are displayed in the setting page, after the user triggers "language setting" through the remote controller, a language setting sub-page shown in fig. 5 (b 1) is displayed, and the current language 51 is displayed by default in the language setting sub-page, for example, the current language 51 is "simplified chinese" in fig. 5 (b 1), and a expansion control 52 is also displayed in the language setting sub-page, for example, the expansion control 52 is displayed as ">", and after the user triggers the ">" control through the remote controller, the language list 53 shown in fig. 5 (c) is displayed.

In an exemplary implementation, the language categories in the language list 53 may be ordered according to specified ordering rules, such as ordering the current language first in the language list 53, and the subsequent language may be ordered according to rules such as general/popularity of the language, user language context/habit, etc., so that the user selects the desired target language from the language list 53.

In an exemplary implementation, the language types to be displayed in the language list 53 may be filtered according to a specified filtering rule, for example, to filter out a rare language, a language that is never used by the user, a language with a far regional deviation, a language that does not conform to the language environment and habit of the user, etc., so as to clean the language list 53, and facilitate the user to quickly locate and screen out the target language.

In one exemplary implementation, a search field is also provided in the language list 53 to allow the user to quickly find the target language by entering keywords for the language.

In an exemplary implementation, the language types in the language list 53 may be displayed in the real language, and the language types are remarked in the current language, for example, englist (English), traditional chinese (traditional chinese), deutsch (german), etc., so as to adapt to users with different language requirements, and avoid an embarrassing scenario that the user cannot accurately select the target language because he cannot understand the current language.

In an exemplary implementation, for example, when the user needs to switch the system language from the current "simplified chinese" to "English", the target language "englist" in the language list 53 is triggered by the remote control, and the "englist" is changed to a selected state, such as being presented as "v" (checked) in fig. 5 (c). The system language and the application language are both single-choice and do not support multi-choice, namely, the system or the application is only displayed in one language, and the situation that the display of the other part of the languages is not uniform, namely, the language A is used for the part of the characters, and the language B is used for the part of the characters.

In an exemplary implementation, a first confirmation control 531 and a first cancellation control 532 are also included in the interface of the language list 53. Whether the user selects the target language or not, the user only needs to trigger the first cancellation control 532 through the remote controller, and the current language replacement process is cancelled, so that the current language is kept unchanged; after the user selects the target language, if the first confirmation control 531 is triggered by the remote controller, the controller generates a language switching instruction according to the target language and issues the language switching instruction to the language management module, and the language management module responds to the language switching instruction to switch the system language to the target language, so that the reset of the system language is realized. After the system language is switched to the target language, the language setting sub-page is changed to the effect of the example of fig. 5 (b 2), the current language 51 is changed to "englist" in fig. 5 (b 2), and other text information in the page is also displayed in English.

In one implementation, at least one application program (App) may be installed in the display device, where the App program generally supports user setting of a desired App language, and the App language may be loaded by the application program when started, so that text information in an application page may be displayed according to the App language.

In an exemplary implementation, the system language and the application language may be set independently (in a non-linkage mode), and a specific application language setting page may be configured in each App, and UI display and user operation adaptability of the application language setting page may refer to the foregoing system language setting, where the system language and the application language may be the same or different, for example, the user sets the system language to simplified chinese and sets the YouTube language to english.

In an exemplary implementation, the system language and the application language may be linked, so that the system language and the application language are always consistent, and when the system language is updated, the application language needs to be synchronously switched to the latest system language.

In order to avoid that the user always needs to manually switch the App language of the common application program when the system language is changed, the linkage relation between the system language and the App language is preferably established, and the App language is synchronously updated when the system language is changed. In a language linkage implementation mode, when an application process is started, inquiring the current system language of the display equipment, loading the system language and synchronously updating the App language setting.

In an exemplary implementation manner, when a linkage relation between a system language and an application language is established, target applications mapped by the system language can be preset, namely, in application programs installed on a display device, which applications need to be in language linkage with the system (namely, corresponding to the target applications), and which applications implement language independence (namely, a non-linkage mode and corresponding to the non-target applications), so that when the system language is updated, the language of the target applications is updated in a targeted manner, and the language of the non-target applications is not interfered and influenced.

In one exemplary implementation, the display device may maintain a dynamic list of applications that have identification information recorded therein, such as the name, ID, etc., of the application that the display device is currently installing. The identification information of the new application is inserted into the application list every time the display device is successfully installed with a new application, and the identification information of the uninstalled application is removed from the application list every time the display device uninstalls an application.

In an exemplary implementation, on the basis of fig. 5 (b 1), a modified language setting sub-page referring to fig. 5 (b 3-1) is further displayed with information one for asking the user whether to turn on the language linkage function, and a first switch control 54 is provided in the page. If the user triggers the off state of the first switch control 54 (the first switch control 54 is a gray effect), the language linkage function of the system and the application is closed, the application list is not displayed, and the user cannot select any target application from the application list.

In an exemplary implementation, if the user triggers the on state of the first switch control 54 through the remote controller, the UI changes to the effect of fig. 5 (b 3-2), the first switch control 54 is turned on, and the application list 55 maintained by the system pops up in the page, and the application list 55 displays the identification information of all applications currently installed in the device, where each application's identification information corresponds to one selection control 551, for example, if the user selects YouTube, the selection control 551 corresponding to YouTube is switched to the selected state. Optionally, because the number of applications installed on the display device may be greater, in order to facilitate a user's one-touch quick full selection, the application list 55 may be further provided with a full selection control 552, and after the user triggers the full selection control 552, all the selection controls 551 in the application list are in a selected state.

In an exemplary implementation, a second validation control 553 and a second cancel control 554 are also provided in the application list 55. If the user triggers the second confirmation control 553 after selecting from the application list, or if the user selects the target application but eventually triggers the second cancellation control 554, the submitted target application set is an empty set, i.e. the target application is not selected; if the user selects one or more target applications from the application list, and triggers the second confirmation control 553, the submitted target application set is a non-empty proper subset of the application list; if the user triggers the full selection control 552 and the second confirmation control 553 in sequence, the submitted target application set is the full set of application lists. Thus, the target application set is a subset of the application list, i.e., the system language and the application language may be zero mapped, one-to-one mapped, or one-to-many mapped.

In an exemplary implementation, referring to the example of fig. 5 (b 3-3), if the user confirms that the submitted target application set is an empty set, the application list is automatically closed, and operation prompt information 555, such as "pause no application linked with the system language, and reselection control 556 are displayed in the language setting sub-page, and you can reselect at any time. If the user triggers the reselection control 556 in the page of FIG. 5 (b 3-3), the application list is again popped up for the user to select the target application from. In another exemplary implementation, if the user confirms that the submitted target application set is an empty set, the application list is automatically closed and the first switch control 54 is switched to the closed state illustrated in FIG. 5 (b 3-1), by default, to close the language linkage function when the user does not specify any target application. If the user wants to reselect the target application, the first switch control 54 may be turned on again.

In an exemplary implementation, if the user confirms that the submitted target application set is a non-empty set, then, as in the example of fig. 5 (b 3-4), the application list is automatically closed, and the control 556 and the selected application prompt 557 are reselected in the language setting sub-page, where the selected application prompt 557 displays identification information of all the target applications that the user has confirmed to select in the application list, so that the user views the selected application, for example, the user selects only one YouTube in the application list, and only the "YouTube" application is displayed in the selected application prompt 557. If the user triggers the reselection control 556 in 5 (b 3-4), the application list is again popped up to support the user's modification, reset, and update of the target application set.

In an exemplary implementation, referring to the example of fig. 5 (b 3-5), if the user triggers the full selection control 552 in the application list, and the submitted target application set is the full set, the application list is automatically closed, and the control 556 and the full selection prompt 558 are reselected in the language setting sub-page, where the full selection prompt 558 is, for example, "language linkage between all apps currently installed by the device has been started", so as to avoid the situation that the selected application prompt 557 is too long due to the excessive application installation by the display device. If the user triggers the reselection control 556 in 5 (b 3-5), the application list is again popped up to support the user's modification, reset, and update of the target application set.

The foregoing embodiment is a language setting sub-page in the system setting by the user, setting the system language and the target application set. In other possible implementation manners, referring to the example of fig. 6, only the cloud-view aurora application is taken as an example, all other application programs can refer to the example, and the sub-graph (a) in fig. 6 shows a language setting page of the cloud-view aurora application, wherein the language setting page supports a user to specify an application language from a multi-language environment, for example, the user can position and search through a search column or a language list, an option is provided in the page, the option is a following system language, the option is equivalent to a switch of a language linkage function configured in the application, and if the user does not select the following system language, namely, the cloud-view aurora is considered as a non-target application, and the cloud-view aurora language is not linked with the system language; if the user selects "follow system language" and the first switch control 54 is also currently in the on state, the cloud-based aurora becomes the target application, and the "cloud-based aurora" is automatically added to the target application set.

As an example, assuming that the user sets the language setting sub-page of the system to the display state of fig. 5 (b 3-4) before selecting the "follow system language" option, that is, the target application set is { YouTube }, the selected application prompt 557 also needs to be changed synchronously as the target application set is updated to { YouTube, cloud view polar }, as shown with reference to sub-graph (b) in fig. 6. It can be seen that, when the first switch control 54 is in the on state, each time the user selects to follow the system language in an App, a target application is newly added to both the target application set and the selected application prompt information 557; similarly, each time the user deselects to follow the system language in an App, the target application set and the selected application prompt 557 will each prune one target application. Therefore, the target application set and the selected application prompt information 557 can be dynamically changed and updated based on the operation of the user in the system language setting and the application language setting, so that precise control and transformation of the UI can be realized. It should be noted that, the selection manner, language setting and configuration manner of the language linkage function of the target application set are not limited to the schemes provided in the embodiments and the drawings of the application.

When the system language is updated, it is necessary to determine which target applications are linked with the system language and which non-target applications keep the language unchanged, so that it is determined that the target applications are one of the preconditions for realizing language linkage, and then the application decides what kind of language synchronization mode is implemented according to the actual running state of the target applications when the system language is changed, so as to achieve the purpose of language linkage.

In one exemplary implementation, for an application that does not add a preload (reload) function, three states are included, a foreground running state (started), a background running state (suspended), and a non-running state (stop), respectively; for an application program supporting the preloading function, such as a browser, four states are included, namely, a preloaded state (preloaded), a foreground running state (started), a background running state (suspended), and a non-running state (stop).

In the above-mentioned language linkage mode, when the application program is in a stored state, if the system language changes, when the user starts the application program, the application process will query the system language currently recorded by the system, load the language category indicated by the system language, and synchronously update the language setting of the application program.

The foregoing language linkage manner has the following defects in actual implementation: when the application program is in a started state, if the system language changes, the started application program does not respond to the state, namely, the application program cannot autonomously execute the action of synchronizing the language in the state, the user must first exit the application program, switch the application program into a stopped state, and then restart the application program, so that the purpose of language linkage can be achieved in the mode, operation coordination of the user is still needed in the state, and the user experience is poor.

And when the application program is in the suspend state or the reloaded state, if the system language changes, even if the user restarts the application program, the application program cannot synchronously update the self App language into the system language, namely language linkage is not feasible in the suspend state or the reloaded state.

The suspended refers to that the application process is in the background and the execution of the code is stopped, the system automatically moves the application into the state, and no notification is made to the application before the execution, when the application is in the state, the memory is still resident, but no program code is executed, and when the system generates a low memory alarm, the system clears the application process in the suspended state from the memory, so that sufficient memory support is provided for the application running in the foreground.

The preload is a configurable preloading mode of some application programs, and by declaring the resources to be downloaded in advance to the browser, the resources can be immediately executed when being really used, so that the consumption of a standby network is not needed, the network overhead is reduced, the resource loading speed and the response speed of the application programs are improved, and the preloaded is the state of the application programs when preloading the resources before formally entering a started state.

In an exemplary implementation manner, the application program language synchronization scheme provided by the application program language synchronization method monitors the system language in real time, and when monitoring the broadcasting of the change of the system language, adaptively matches and executes a corresponding language synchronization mode according to the current state of the target application so as to update the language of the target application to the system language, thereby realizing that the application program can be linked with the system language in any state. The application program language and the system language can be consistent or different, the target application is an application program which needs to be linked with the system language in the application programs installed on the display equipment, and a user can select the target application according to actual use habits and requirements.

In an exemplary implementation, referring to fig. 7, an application language synchronization method is illustrated, the method being performed by a controller 250 of a display device, the method comprising the following program steps:

And S1, monitoring the system language.

In an exemplary implementation, the controller 250 may be configured with a system language management module, where the system language management module is configured to record and update a system language according to a user operation, and the system language management module may monitor a change in the system language, and may broadcast a message of the change in the system language to the controller 250 when it is monitored that the system language is changed.

And S2, executing a matched language synchronization mode according to the current state of the target application when the system language is monitored to be changed. The language synchronization mode is used for updating the language of the target application to the system language.

When the controller 250 receives a message broadcast that the system language changes, it acquires the target application selected by the user in advance, and queries the current state of each target application, where the current state may include a preloaded state (preloaded), a foreground running state (started), a background running state (suspended), and a non-running state (stop), and for different application states, the following language synchronization modes may be matched and executed.

If the target application is in the foreground rather than the background, i.e. the target application is in the foreground running state (started), executing the first language synchronization mode, the first language synchronization mode comprising steps S201A-S201D:

Step S201A, the display is controlled to display a prompt flick frame on the application page.

In an exemplary implementation, referring to the prompt box 80 illustrated in fig. 8, the prompt box 80 includes information for asking the user whether to update the language of the target application to the system language, for example, the current language of the target application (for example, youTube) is english, and the system language is updated to simplified chinese, and the prompt box 80 displays the information in the english language, for example, asking "Change language to simplified Chinese? ". Optionally, in the prompt box 80, the target application may be restarted to load and update the language to meet the user's language preference, for example, "YouTube will restart to update your prererences" is shown in fig. 8, so that the user can update the self-application language to english after learning YouTube restart, and synchronization and linkage between YouTube language and system language are implemented.

In an exemplary implementation, the query information in prompt box 80 indicates a target language to switch to, e.g., simplified Chinese (simplified Chinese) in which the target language follows the system language in FIG. 8, to highlight the contrast between the text languages and thereby make the query more visual, reference is made to the query information illustrated in FIG. 8, e.g., query whether "Change language to" is available Simplified Chinese? "that is, words in the query information indicating the target language are displayed in the target language.

In an exemplary implementation, referring to the prompt box 80 illustrated in fig. 8, the prompt box 80 further includes a Confirm control 81 (i.e., "Confirm Change" in fig. 8) and a Cancel control 82 (i.e., "Cancel" in fig. 8), and the text in the control in the prompt box 80 is also displayed in the current language.

Step S201B, whether a selection operation of the confirmation control is received. If the user selects and triggers the confirmation control 81, i.e. the user agrees to the language linkage, allowing the target application to perform the language synchronization, executing step S201C; if the selected operation of the confirmation control is not received, that is, the user selects and triggers the cancel control 82, which indicates that the user does not agree with the language linkage, step S201D is executed.

And step S201C, closing the prompt bullet box, controlling the restart of the target application, and inquiring and loading the system language in the restarting process.

As an example, assume that the current language of YouTube is simplified chinese, the system language is updated to english, if YouTube is not restarted, the application language cannot be refreshed, but remains simplified chinese, only YouTube is restarted, and the YouTube application program can query the system language management module for the latest system language in the starting process and complete loading and updating of its application language along with the system language, so that the application language of YouTube is switched to english after restarting.

Step S201D, only closing the prompt box.

If the user selects the cancel control 82 in the prompt box 80, the language linkage is not triggered, and the current language synchronization flow is canceled, namely, the prompt box 80 is closed.

In one exemplary implementation, after the prompt box 80 is closed, it may be displayed again in the application page of the target application at the next system language change.

In an exemplary implementation, the language habit and the requirement of the user may change, for example, when the user uses YouTube this time, the user wants to keep the language environment, so the cancel control 82 in the prompt box 80 is selected, and when you tube is used next time, the user may prefer to use the system language, that is, the language preference of the user changes, optionally, after the user triggers the cancel control 82 to close the prompt box 80, the language linkage fails this time, after the target application is started next time (i.e. enters a started state), the prompt box 80 may be automatically displayed again in the application page of the target application, so as to inquire whether the user changes the application language to the current system language again.

If the target application is in the background, but not in the foreground, i.e. the target application is in a preloaded state (preloaded) or in a background running state (booted), executing a second language synchronization mode, wherein the second language synchronization mode comprises steps S202A to S202C:

in step S202A, the background process of the target application is terminated by silence.

Step S202B, restarting the background process of the target application.

Step S202C, the background process of the target application is controlled to inquire and load the system language.

When the target application is in a pre-loaded state or a suspended state, the application simulates and triggers the exiting action of the target application, namely, the background process of the target application is ended in a silent mode, wherein the silent mode means that the background process exits silently, the UI and the sound playing have no obvious change, and the user has no perception on the exiting and restarting processes of the background process of the application. After the background process of the target application exits in a silent mode, restarting is needed, the system language is queried from the system language management module during restarting, and the application language is synchronously updated according to the system language.

In an exemplary implementation, the controller 250 may also have an application management module configured therein for managing each application in the display device, including, but not limited to, recording the current state of each application, memory operation management, and the like. After step S202A, before step S202B, determining, by the application management module, a current system available memory according to the system memory and the memory consumption of the currently running (including foreground and background) application program, and detecting whether the system available memory is sufficient; if the available memory of the system is sufficient, the application management module can directly restart the background process of the target application; if the available memory of the system is insufficient to restart the target application, the background process of the target application is paused, during which time, the memory can be released after some application programs exit, and when the sufficient recovery of the system memory is detected, the application management module can restart the background process of the target application.

For clarity, this application gives an exemplary example, for example, the system memory is 1024MB, the memory consumption is 768MB, then theoretically the available memory of the system is 256MB, assuming that the YouTube background process needs to consume 300MB of memory, it is obvious that the available memory of the system is insufficient, only the YouTube background process can be paused and restarted, then the user exits the video call application, and the memory is released by 200MB, then the available memory of the system rises to 456MB, then the available memory of the system is sufficient to support the memory consumption of the YouTube background process, and the YouTube background process can be restarted.

For another example, if the system memory is 1024MB and the memory consumption is 540MB, the theoretically available system memory is 484MB, and if the YouTube background process needs to consume 300MB of memory, it is obvious that the available system memory is sufficient, and no waiting is needed, so that the application management module directly pulls up the YouTube process in the background.

If the target application is in the running state (stop), executing a third language synchronization mode, wherein the third language synchronization mode includes step S203:

step S203, when receiving the operation of starting the target application by the user, controlling the target application to query and load the system language.

When the target application is in an unoperated state (stop), i.e. the target application process does not exist, tracking user operation, if an operation instruction for starting the target application input by a user is received, automatically querying a system language in the starting process by the target application, synchronously updating the application language according to the system language, and after the target application is started (i.e. enters a started state), the user can see the characters displayed in the system language in the application page, so that the linkage between the system language and the application language is realized.

According to the method and the device for synchronizing the target application, the system language is monitored so as to quickly capture the change of the system language, when the change of the system language is monitored, the matched language synchronizing mode is executed according to the application state, so that the language of the target application is synchronized into the updated system language, the target application can automatically link with the change of the system language in any state, the synchronization efficiency of the target application along with the system language is improved, the user does not need to manually adjust the application language after switching the system language each time, and the use experience of the user level is improved. And the method also supports the user to update the selected target application through the system language setting and/or the application language setting, so as to determine which applications keep language independence and which applications need to be synchronously updated along with the switching of the system language, so as to determine whether the application languages are linked or not and the language synchronization mode implemented during the linkage, thereby enabling the switching of the application languages to be more efficient and flexible and improving the user experience on language functions.

The application is mainly focused on synchronization and linkage of the application language and the system language, and the specific implementation manner of running and management of the application program is not limited. The method and the device are not limited to specific language types, and support switching among various languages. The language of the system and the application program in the application is changed, only the language category used by the text is changed, and other languages such as page framework, page content and the like are unchanged. The UI provided by the application is only exemplary, and does not limit the display of the UI of the actual product, so that appropriate modifications and extensions can be made to the UI such as the prompt box, and the design and application of the actual product should be in particular subject to.

In an exemplary implementation, the present invention further provides a computer storage medium, where a program may be stored, where the program is executed, where the program includes program steps of an application program language synchronization method according to an embodiment of the present application. The computer storage medium may be a magnetic disk, an optical disk, a Read-Only Memory (ROM), a random access Memory (Random Access Memory, RAM), or the like.

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 present application has been described in detail with reference to the foregoing embodiments, it should 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 corresponding technical solutions from the scope of the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present 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 for displaying a user interface;

a controller for performing:

monitoring the system language;

2. The display device of claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to perform the matched language synchronization pattern as follows:

3. The display device of claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to perform the matched language synchronization pattern as follows:

4. The display device of claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to perform the matched language synchronization pattern as follows:

5. A display device as recited in claim 3, wherein after quiescing a background process ending the target application, the controller is further configured to perform:

detecting whether the available memory of the current system is sufficient;

6. A method for synchronizing an application program language, comprising:

monitoring the system language;

7. The method of claim 6, wherein said executing the matched language synchronization pattern based on the current state of the target application comprises:

8. The method of claim 6, wherein said executing the matched language synchronization pattern based on the current state of the target application comprises:

9. The method of claim 6, wherein said executing the matched language synchronization pattern based on the current state of the target application comprises:

10. The method of claim 8, wherein after quiescing a background process ending the target application, the method further comprises:

detecting whether the available memory of the current system is sufficient;