CN117768704A

CN117768704A - Display equipment and media asset playing method

Info

Publication number: CN117768704A
Application number: CN202310255118.8A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 范传恒
Original assignee: Juhaokan Technology Co Ltd
Current assignee: Juhaokan Technology Co Ltd
Priority date: 2023-03-16
Filing date: 2023-03-16
Publication date: 2024-03-26

Abstract

Some embodiments of the application provide a display device and a media playing method, where the display device includes a display and a first processor, and the first processor is configured to: receiving a starting instruction of a display window, and acquiring first media information and second media information corresponding to the display window; the display window is used for displaying a first multimedia resource corresponding to the first media information and a second video corresponding to the second media information in sequence, and acquiring and displaying the first multimedia resource based on a first access address in the first media information; acquiring a first frame picture according to a second access address in the second media information, displaying the first frame picture after the media information of the first multimedia resource is displayed, and synchronously acquiring a second video according to a third access address in the second media information; after the second video is started, the first frame picture is controlled to disappear so as to display the played second video; the condition that the screen is black due to poor drawing performance of the hardware of the display equipment is reduced, and user experience is improved.

Description

Display equipment and media asset playing method

Technical Field

The application relates to the technical field of display, in particular to a display device and a media playing method.

Background

As the application scenes of the display device are more and more abundant, the application scenes of media assets capable of being shown on the display device are more and more abundant, and taking carousel display screen protection (screen saver for short) as an example, the video asset display device can be used for protecting a display of the display device and can also be used for showing rich video resources for users.

Taking the state of the display equipment for carousel display of the screen saver as an example, each video resource serving as the screen saver is played in a circulating way; in the process of circularly playing video resources, the video resources may have poor drawing performance due to the influence of corresponding hardware of different types of display equipment, so that a black screen phenomenon appears in the switched video when playing, and the user experience is influenced.

Disclosure of Invention

The application provides a display device and a media resource playing method, which can be used for solving the technical problem that different hardware display devices can generate a black screen phenomenon in the process of displaying a screen saver.

In a first aspect, some embodiments of the present application provide a display device comprising a display and a first processor, the display and the first processor being communicatively coupled, the first processor being configured to:

receiving a starting instruction for starting a display window, and acquiring first media information and second media information of the corresponding display window; the display window is used for displaying a first multimedia resource corresponding to the first media information and a second video corresponding to the second media information in sequence, wherein the first media information comprises a media information type of the first multimedia resource and a first access address; the second media information comprises a video identifier for representing the media type of the second video as the video, a second access address of a first frame picture of the second video and a third access address of the second video;

Acquiring and displaying a first multimedia resource based on the first access address;

acquiring a first frame picture according to the second access address, and displaying the first frame picture after the first multimedia resource media resource is displayed, wherein when acquiring and displaying the first frame picture according to the second access address, acquiring a second video according to a third access address synchronously;

and after the second video is started, controlling the first frame picture to disappear so as to display the played second video.

In a second aspect, some embodiments of the present application provide a server comprising a second processor configured to:

determining a first multimedia resource, a second video, and first media information corresponding to the first multimedia resource and second media information corresponding to the second video, wherein the first media information comprises a media type and a first access address of the first multimedia resource; the second media information comprises a video identifier for representing the media type of the second video as the video, a second access address of a first frame picture of the second video and a third access address of the second video;

receiving a starting request for displaying a window sent by a display device, and sending first media information and second media information corresponding to the starting request to the display device.

In a third aspect, some embodiments of the present application provide a media playing method, which is applied to a display device, and includes the following steps:

Some embodiments of the application provide a display device and a media playing method, where the display device includes a display and a first processor, and the first processor is configured to: receiving a starting instruction for starting a display window, and acquiring first media information and second media information of the corresponding display window; the display window is used for displaying a first multimedia resource corresponding to the first media information and a second video corresponding to the second media information in sequence, wherein the first media information comprises a media information type of the first multimedia resource and a first access address; the second media information comprises a video identifier for representing the media type of the second video as the video, a second access address of a first frame picture of the second video and a third access address of the second video; acquiring and displaying a first multimedia resource based on the first access address; acquiring a first frame picture according to the second access address, and displaying the first frame picture after the first multimedia resource media resource is displayed, wherein when acquiring and displaying the first frame picture according to the second access address, acquiring a second video according to a third access address synchronously; after the second video is started, the first frame picture is controlled to disappear so as to display the played second video; the condition that the screen is black due to poor drawing performance of the hardware of the display equipment is reduced, and user experience is improved.

Drawings

In order to more clearly illustrate the embodiments of the present application or the technical solutions in the prior art, the drawings that are required in the embodiments or the description of the prior art will be briefly described below, it being obvious that the drawings in the following description are only some embodiments of the present application, and that other drawings may be obtained according to these drawings without inventive effort for a person skilled in the art.

FIG. 1 illustrates an operational scenario between a display device and a control apparatus of some embodiments of the present application;

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

fig. 3 shows a hardware configuration block diagram of a display device 200 of some embodiments of the present application;

FIG. 4 illustrates a software configuration diagram in a display device according to some embodiments of the present application;

FIG. 5A is a timing diagram illustrating a method for playing media assets in a display device according to some embodiments of the present application;

FIG. 5B is a timing diagram illustrating a method of playing media in a display device according to some embodiments of the present application;

FIG. 6 is a partial schematic diagram of a screen saver corresponding to video content in some embodiments of the present application;

fig. 7A is a schematic diagram illustrating a display device playing a first frame of the screen media asset in fig. 6 according to some embodiments of the present application;

Fig. 7B is a schematic diagram illustrating a display device playing the first frame picture of fig. 7A to reach a preset fourth time-long transition switching screen resource according to some embodiments of the present application;

FIG. 7C is a schematic diagram illustrating a display device playing the first frame of the picture of FIG. 7A to transition to a screen saver according to some embodiments of the present application for a preset first period;

FIG. 7D is a schematic diagram illustrating a transition to a screen saver by a display device playing the first frame of the picture of FIG. 7A for a preset third duration according to some embodiments of the present application;

FIG. 8 is a timing diagram illustrating a method for playing media assets in a display device according to some embodiments of the present application;

FIG. 9 is a timing diagram illustrating a method for playing media assets in a display device according to some embodiments of the present application;

FIG. 10 is a timing diagram illustrating a method for playing media in a server and a display device according to some embodiments of the present application;

fig. 11 is a timing diagram illustrating a method for playing media in a server and a display device according to some embodiments of the present application.

Detailed Description

For the purposes of making the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the exemplary embodiments of the present application more apparent, the technical solutions in the exemplary embodiments of the present application will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the exemplary embodiments of the present application, and it is apparent that the described exemplary embodiments are only some embodiments of the present application, but not all embodiments.

All other embodiments, which can be made by one of ordinary skill in the art without undue burden from the present application, are intended to be within the scope of the present application based on the exemplary embodiments shown in the present application. Furthermore, while the disclosure has been presented in terms of an exemplary embodiment or embodiments, it should be understood that various aspects of the disclosure can be practiced separately from the disclosure in a complete subject matter.

It should be understood that 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 objects and not necessarily for describing a particular sequential or chronological order. It is to be understood that the data so used may be interchanged where appropriate, such as where appropriate, for example, implementations other than those illustrated or described in accordance with embodiments of the present application.

Furthermore, the terms "comprise" and "have," 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 those elements expressly listed, but may include other elements not expressly listed or inherent to such product or apparatus.

The display device provided in the embodiment of the application may have various implementation forms, for example, may be a television, an intelligent television, a laser projection device, a display (monitor), an electronic whiteboard (electronic bulletin board), an electronic desktop (electronic table), and the like. Fig. 1 and 2 are specific embodiments of a display device of the present application.

Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram of an operation scenario between a display device and a control apparatus according to an embodiment. As shown in fig. 1, a user may 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 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 device 200 by inputting user instructions through keys on a remote control, voice input, control panel input, etc.

In some embodiments, a smart device 300 (e.g., mobile terminal, tablet, computer, notebook, etc.) 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 display device may receive instructions not using the smart device or control device described above, but rather receive control of the user by touch or gesture, or the like.

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.

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.

As shown in fig. 3, the display apparatus 200 includes at least one of a modem 210, a communicator 220, a detector 230, an external device interface 240, a first processor 250, a display 260, an audio output interface 270, a memory, a power supply, and a user interface.

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

The display 260 includes a display screen component for presenting a picture, and a driving component for driving an image display, a component for receiving an image signal from the first processor output, displaying video content, image content, and a menu manipulation interface, and a user manipulation UI interface.

The display 260 may be a liquid crystal display, an OLED display, a projection device, or a projection screen.

The 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.

A user interface, which may be used to receive control signals from the control device 100 (e.g., an infrared remote control, etc.).

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.

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, etc. The input/output interface may be a composite input/output interface formed by a plurality of interfaces.

The modem 210 receives broadcast television signals through a wired or wireless reception manner, and demodulates audio and video signals, such as EPG data signals, from a plurality of wireless or wired broadcast television signals.

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

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

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

The 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.

A "user interface" is a media interface for interaction and exchange of information between an application or operating system and a user, which enables conversion between an internal form of information and a user-acceptable form. 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 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, as shown in fig. 4, the system is divided into four layers, from top to bottom, an application layer (application layer), an application framework layer (Application Framework layer), a An Zhuoyun row (Android run) and a system library layer (system runtime layer), and a kernel layer.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The display device may have various implementation forms, taking smart television as an example, with development of technology and improvement of user requirements, the smart television has various different models, and corresponding parts of the smart televisions with different models are different or all different hardware components, where the smart television has hardware for drawing video resources, hardware for acquiring server resources, hardware for providing voice recognition, and the like, and the above hardware may have some identical components, and may also have different components.

Taking the state that the intelligent television displays the screen saver as an example, each video resource serving as the screen saver can be played circularly; in the process of circularly playing video resources, the video resources are affected by corresponding hardware of different models of the intelligent television, the situation that the drawing performance of the video resources is poor possibly exists, when the switched video is played, the intelligent television is enabled to have a black screen phenomenon in the process of displaying a screen saver due to drawing delay and the like, and the user experience is affected.

For example, in the smart tv a, the hardware for drawing video resources includes a chip X and the like; in the intelligent television B, hardware for drawing video resources comprises a chip Y and the like, wherein the capability of drawing video of the chip X is higher than that of the chip Y; if the intelligent television A and the intelligent television B draw the video resource M at the same time, the time length used by the intelligent television A is 100 milliseconds, the time length used by the intelligent television B is 200 milliseconds, and if the intelligent television A and the intelligent television B draw the video resource N at the same time, the time length used by the intelligent television A is 300 milliseconds, and the time length used by the intelligent television B is 850 milliseconds, wherein the video resource M and the video resource N are different.

It should be understood that when the same video resource is drawn, there is a difference in drawing delay between different smart televisions corresponding to different hardware, and this drawing delay generally affects the user experience by presenting a black screen presentation during the process of displaying the screen saver.

In combination with the above description of the display device, in order to reduce the influence of hardware on the process of displaying a screen saver on the display device, the embodiment of the application provides a display device and a media playing method, where the display device includes a display and a first processor, and the first processor is configured to: receiving a starting instruction of a display window, and acquiring first media information and second media information corresponding to the display window; the display window is used for displaying a first multimedia resource corresponding to the first media information and a second video corresponding to the second media information in sequence, and acquiring and displaying the first multimedia resource based on a first access address in the first media information; acquiring a first frame picture according to a second access address in the second media information, displaying the first frame picture after the media information of the first multimedia resource is displayed, and synchronously acquiring a second video according to a third access address in the second media information; after the second video is started, the first frame picture is controlled to disappear so as to display the played second video; the condition that the screen is black due to poor drawing performance of the hardware of the display equipment is reduced, and user experience is improved.

Fig. 5A shows a timing diagram of a method of playing media in a display device according to some embodiments of the present application, as shown in fig. 5A, the display device including a display and a first processor, the display being communicatively coupled to the first processor, the first processor being configured to perform the steps of:

S511, receiving a starting instruction for starting the display window, and acquiring first media information and second media information of the corresponding display window.

The display window is used for displaying the first multimedia resource corresponding to the first media information and the second video corresponding to the second media information in sequence.

It should be understood that the display window displays the first multimedia resource corresponding to the first media information first, and then displays the second video corresponding to the second media information, where the display window includes, but is not limited to, a screen saver window and a carousel window.

In some embodiments, the display window may also define the location of the media display, and, illustratively, when the display window is a window for display screen saver initiation, the location of the display window may cover the entire display; the display window is used for polling to play advertisements, the position of the display window can be positioned at one corner of the display, and the display window is used for polling to play exercise and fitness videos, and the display window can be positioned at one side of the display.

In some embodiments, when the media asset type of the first multimedia asset is a picture, displaying the first multimedia asset on a first layer of a display window; or when the media asset type of the first multimedia asset is video, displaying the first multimedia asset on a second layer of the display window, wherein the first layer is positioned above the second layer.

In some embodiments, after the first multimedia resource media display is finished, displaying the first frame picture on the first layer, and after the first frame picture disappears, displaying the second video on the second layer; wherein the first layer is located above the second layer.

In some embodiments, when displaying a picture, the picture is acquired by the picture playing component and displayed on a first layer of the display window location, and when displaying a video, the video is acquired by the video playing component and played on a second layer of the display window location.

The first media information comprises media information type and first access address of the first multimedia resource; the second media asset information comprises a video identifier for representing the media asset type of the second video as the video, a second access address of a first frame picture of the second video and a third access address of the second video.

It should be understood that the first multimedia resource (may also be referred to as a first media resource) may be a picture resource, a moving picture resource, or a video resource, and in this embodiment, the media resource type of the first multimedia resource is not limited.

By way of example, the first multimedia asset may be one of a single frame image, a graphics interchange format (Graphics Interchange Format, abbreviated GIF), a video.

It should be understood that the media asset type corresponding to the second media asset information is video.

In some embodiments, the media asset information, such as the first media asset information and the second media asset information, may be obtained in a list form, where each list item includes at least a media asset type and an access address, if the media asset type is a picture, the access address corresponding to the list item includes only a link of the picture, and if the media asset type is a video, the access address corresponding to the list item includes a link of a first frame picture of the video and a video link.

In some embodiments, if the media asset type is video, the access address in the list item may include first frame data and video link, where the first frame data may be a first frame picture directly, and if the first frame picture is supported by the display device hardware, the first frame picture is stored directly in the list item corresponding to the media asset information, so that efficiency of acquiring the first frame picture is improved.

S512, based on the first access address, acquiring and displaying the first multimedia resource.

S513, acquiring the first frame picture according to the second access address, and displaying the first frame picture after the display of the first multimedia resource media resource is finished.

While step 513 is performed, step 514 is performed to acquire and display the first frame picture according to the second access address while synchronously acquiring the second video according to the third access address.

In the process of playing the first frame of picture, obtaining a second video corresponding to the second media information according to a third access address in the second media information, obtaining the corresponding second video through the third access address,

in some embodiments, the display device further includes a local memory, the local memory being a memory on the display device, the local memory for storing the second video acquired from the server, the second video being stored in the local memory in the display device, such that the display device can determine whether the second video has completed acquisition by determining a cache of the local memory.

And S515, after the second video is started, controlling the first frame picture to disappear so as to display the played second video.

The first frame picture is controlled to fade from clear bright to fuzzy dim, so that the first frame picture is completely disappeared, and the first frame picture is controlled to fade.

After the second video is started, the first frame picture is controlled to disappear in step 515 to display the played second video, and the first processor of the display device is further configured to control the first frame picture to disappear to display the played second video if the following conditions exist, where each condition includes:

after the playing time length of the first frame picture reaches a preset first time length, the first frame picture is controlled to disappear so as to play the second video, wherein the preset first time length is a preset time length representing the starting of the second video.

Or after the player is detected to start playing the second video, controlling the first frame picture to disappear so as to display the played second video.

Or after the playing time length of the first frame picture reaches the preset first time length and the player is detected to start playing the second video, controlling the first frame picture to disappear so as to display the played second video, wherein the preset first time length is the preset time length for representing the second video to start playing.

It should be appreciated that when the first frame picture is controlled to disappear, the first frame picture may be determined by at least one of the following two conditions, one is that the playing time length of the first frame picture reaches the time length of the second video start-up, and the other is that the player is detected to start playing the second video.

In some embodiments, the method further includes determining whether the second video has been downloaded according to the third access address by controlling the player to start playing the second video in the disappearance of the first frame picture, that is, when the playing duration of the first frame picture reaches a preset first duration, and the second video is not detected to the local memory, continuing to play the first frame picture, where the preset first duration is a preset duration representing the second video playing.

In some embodiments, if the player starts playing the second video for more than a preset second period of time, at this time, if the first frame of picture disappears to display that the played second video has video differences for the naked eye of the user, smooth transition cannot be achieved, the phenomenon that the player starts playing the second video overtime is reduced by setting the preset second period of time, and user experience is improved.

In some embodiments, the playing time length of the first frame picture can reach a preset second time length, and the local memory is provided with other media information, the first frame picture in the other media information is played, and a third video corresponding to the other media information is downloaded according to the media access address in the other media information, wherein the preset second time length is longer than the preset first time length; or if the playing time of the first frame of picture reaches the preset second time and the local memory does not have other media information, playing the local media.

In some embodiments, the display window is first started and the display device is connected to a server network, and first media asset information for playing a first multimedia asset and second media asset information for playing a second video are received from the server; if the display window is not started for the first time, or the display device is not connected with the server, the first media asset information and the second media asset information are determined based on the local media asset for playing.

For example, in a display window displaying a screen saver, fig. 5B shows a timing diagram of a method for playing media in a display device according to some embodiments of the present application, where the display device includes a display and a first processor, and the display is communicatively connected to the first processor, and the first processor is configured to perform the following steps:

s521, responding to a starting instruction of the display window display screen saver, and acquiring media information for playing the screen protection media.

The media information comprises a first frame picture of the screen protection media information and a media information access address, wherein the first frame picture is a first frame picture of the corresponding screen protection media information, and the media information access address is a download address corresponding to the screen protection media information.

In some embodiments, the media asset information may include information about the screen saver asset, not only the first frame picture and the media asset access address, but also a video of the screen saver asset with a preset first-time duration, a name of the screen saver asset, or a number of the screen saver asset, where the preset first-time duration is less than the duration of the screen saver asset.

In some embodiments, if the media information includes a first frame picture of the screen-protection media asset, a media asset access address, and a video of a preset first-broadcast duration, for example, the video of the preset first-broadcast duration is a video of 300 ms, and the corresponding duration of the screen-protection media asset is 1 minute and 15 seconds.

The start instruction for the screen saver may be input by a user or may be triggered by the display device in response to a specific setting.

In some embodiments, if the start instruction of the screen saver is input by the user, the start instruction may be input by the user through a control device (for example, to be controlled) or may be input through a smart device (for example, a mobile phone); the user input mode may be various, for example, if the user inputs a start command of the screen saver through the remote controller, the user inputs the start command through a mechanical key on the remote controller, or the user inputs the start command through voice through a voice recognition control on the remote controller.

In some embodiments, if the start instruction of the screen saver is triggered by the display device in response to a specific setting, the specific setting may be that the display device does not receive any instruction in the first preset waiting duration, or that the display device is in a state of waiting for use in the second preset waiting duration, or that the display device does not receive any instruction in the third preset waiting duration, and is in a state of waiting for use, where there may be no correlation between the first preset waiting duration, the second preset waiting duration, and the third preset waiting duration. Each of the above specific settings may trigger a start instruction for the screen saver.

The display device responds to the start instruction of the screen saver under the above conditions to acquire media information, wherein the media information is related information of the screen saver media information played after responding to the start instruction, and the media information at least comprises a first frame picture of the screen saver media information, if the screen saver information is acquired from a server through a network, the media information comprises the first frame picture of the screen saver media information and a media information access address, and if the screen saver information is acquired through a memory of the display device, the media information can comprise the first frame picture of the screen saver media information and the media information.

In some embodiments, the media resource access address may also be the video itself of the media resource, that is, the screen saver media resource may be directly provided to the display device, and the screen saver media resource may be the screen saver media resource obtained from the server through the network, mainly including dynamic images and videos; the screen maintenance resource can also be stored in a memory of the display device and can be at least one of video, dynamic images or pictures.

It should be understood that screen protection media resources obtained from the server through the network are mainly dynamic images and videos; the screen saver asset stored in the memory of the display device may be at least one of video, motion pictures or pictures.

In some embodiments, the media information for playing the screen protection media information obtained by the display device may be a plurality of media information, and the media information may be one category or a mixture of a plurality of categories, and the category corresponding to the media information may be one or more of a landscape category, a food category, a building category, and the like.

In some embodiments, the management of the media information can be facilitated by adding a serial number or a code to the media information, where the serial number or the code may be provided by the server before the media information is acquired from the server, or may be provided to each piece of media information after the display device acquires the media information.

S522, playing the first frame picture corresponding to the media information based on the media information corresponding to the preset playing strategy.

It should be understood that the display device may set a playing mode of the screen protection media asset, where the playing mode of the screen protection media asset may be a single screen protection media asset cyclic playing mode, or may be a list cyclic mode of a corresponding list of screen protection media assets, where the playing mode of the screen protection media asset corresponds to a preset playing policy.

That is, based on the preset playing policy, the media information corresponding to the screen protection media information to be played can be determined, the first frame picture corresponding to the media information is displayed or played, and the display of the display device displays the playing first frame picture.

If only one piece of media information is available in the display device for playing the screen protection media information, the media information to be selected based on the preset playing strategy is the media information; if a plurality of media information are available in the display device for playing the screen protection media information, the media information corresponding to the screen protection media information to be played can be determined based on a preset playing strategy.

If the preset playing strategy is single screen media asset cyclic playing, the media asset information which is required to be selected as the first screen media asset to be played through the preset playing strategy is used, and the screen media asset corresponding to the media asset information is cyclically played; if the preset play strategy is the list circulation screen media asset, selecting a screen media asset list to be played through the preset play strategy, and determining media asset information of the first screen media asset to be played in the screen media asset list.

The hardware with drawing function in the display device draws higher speed for pictures than for video.

In the embodiment of the application, the first frame picture in each screen protection media asset is extracted; and the first frame picture is drawn and displayed, so that in response to a start instruction of the screen saver, for each screen saver resource, the first frame picture corresponding to each screen saver resource is firstly displayed on a display, and good visual experience is provided for a user.

Fig. 6 is a schematic diagram of a portion of a screen saver corresponding to video content in some embodiments of the present application, as shown in fig. 6, a first frame picture 1-1 of the screen saver, a frame picture 1-2 of a preset first duration, a frame picture 1-3 of a preset third duration, and a frame picture 1-4 of a preset second duration, where the preset second duration is longer than the preset third duration.

Fig. 7A is a schematic diagram showing that, according to some embodiments of the present application, a first frame picture is played by a display device of the screen protection resource in fig. 6, and as shown in fig. 6 and 7A, no matter whether hardware of the display device for drawing the screen protection resource is used for drawing the screen protection resource is completed or not, the first frame picture is played on the display screen first, and for each screen protection resource to be played, the first frame picture (i.e. 1-1) is played first, so that a black screen phenomenon caused by the drawing delay of the hardware of the display device is reduced.

As shown in fig. 5B, further includes: s523, downloading screen protection media assets corresponding to the media information according to the media asset access address corresponding to the media information.

In the process of playing the first frame of picture, downloading screen protection media assets corresponding to the media information according to media asset access addresses corresponding to the media information, and storing the screen protection media assets in a local memory, so that the display equipment can determine whether the screen protection media assets are downloaded or not through judging the cache of the local memory.

S524, if the playing time of the first frame of picture reaches the preset first time, and the screen protection media asset is detected to be downloaded to the local memory, the first frame of picture is faded out, and the screen protection media asset is smoothly transited to the playing screen.

When the playing duration of the first frame picture reaches the preset first time, it can be determined that the first frame picture can fade out, and after the first frame picture fades out, smooth transition to the screen protection media asset corresponding to the first frame picture is required, so that whether the screen protection media asset corresponding to the first frame picture is downloaded is required to be determined.

The fading-out of the first frame picture is a process of gradually changing the picture of the first frame picture being displayed from clear brightness to fuzzy darkness so as to completely disappear, and in the process of fading the first frame picture, smooth transition of the first frame picture and the screen protection media resource is ensured by smoothly transiting to the corresponding screen protection media resource, and the smooth transition cannot be recognized by a user in an open hole state.

For example, the preset first duration is set to 150 milliseconds, that is, after the first frame of picture is continuously played for 150 milliseconds, the first frame of picture needs to be subjected to fade processing, and smoothly transited to the screen saver video.

In some embodiments, the display device further comprises a local memory, which is a memory on the display device for storing screen saver assets obtained from the server or for storing screen saver assets that have been downloaded locally.

It should be understood that, when the playing duration of the first frame of picture reaches the preset first duration, whether the screen protection media asset is already downloaded to the local memory or not needs to be detected, and when the screen protection media asset is detected to be already downloaded to the local memory, smooth transition to the screen protection media asset can be realized while the first frame of picture is faded out.

Fig. 8 is a timing chart illustrating a method for playing media assets in a display device according to another embodiment of the present application, as shown in fig. 8, in step 524, the first frame of picture is faded out, and the screen saver asset is smoothly transited to be played, which is needed to be implemented after the screen saver asset is detected to be downloaded to the local memory, and if the screen saver asset is not downloaded to the local memory, the first processor is further configured to:

and S525, if the playing time length of the first frame of picture reaches the preset first time length and the screen protection media asset is not detected to the local memory, continuing to play the first frame of picture.

The playing time length of the first frame of picture reaches the preset first time length, and the screen protection media asset is not detected to the local memory, so that the display equipment can be provided with more waiting time length for downloading the screen protection media asset corresponding to the first frame of picture by continuously playing the first frame of picture.

In some embodiments, after step 525, in the process of continuing to play the first frame picture, if the play duration of the first frame picture reaches the preset third duration, the screen saver corresponding to the first frame picture is not downloaded to the local memory yet, which may be regarded as the failure of downloading the screen saver, and when the continuous play duration of the first frame picture reaches the preset fourth duration, the next screen saver is switched; the preset third time length is longer than the preset first time length, and the preset fourth time length is longer than the preset third time length.

For example, the preset first duration is 150 ms, the preset third duration is 300 ms, the preset fourth duration is 30 seconds, the first frame of picture is played for 150 ms, even when the first frame of picture is played for 300 ms, no screen protection media asset is detected to the local memory, the first frame of picture can be regarded as the failure of downloading the screen protection media asset, and when the continuous playing duration of the first frame of picture reaches 30 seconds, the next screen protection media asset is switched. If the screen saver resource is not detected to the local memory when the first frame of picture is played for 300 milliseconds, the next screen saver resource is directly switched, and the visual experience of screen flashing of the user can be brought.

Fig. 7B is a schematic diagram illustrating that, according to some embodiments of the present application, when the first frame picture in fig. 7A is played by the display device and reaches a preset fourth time period, as shown in fig. 7B, the first frame picture is switched to the first frame picture of the next screen media resource when the continuous playing duration of the first frame picture in fig. 7A reaches the preset fourth time period.

It should be understood that the first frame picture corresponding to the next screen saver can be obtained from the server, or can be stored in a memory of the display device, and can be at least one of the first frame picture of the video, the first frame picture of the dynamic picture, or the picture.

After step 525, continuing to play the first frame of picture, if the playing duration of the first frame of picture reaches the preset third duration, downloading the screen protection media asset corresponding to the first frame of picture to the local memory, fading out the first frame of picture, and smoothly transiting to the screen protection media asset.

That is, when the first frame video playing duration reaches the preset third duration, the first frame picture is faded out, and the operation of the screen media resource is smoothly transited to, so that the experience feeling of the user is not obvious, that is, the difference between the preset third duration and the preset first duration is not large. For example, the first duration is preset to be 150 milliseconds, the third duration is preset to be 300 milliseconds, the first frame of picture is faded out when the screen saver video is 150 milliseconds, and the first frame of picture is smoothly transited to the playing screen protection media asset, and the first frame of picture is faded out when the screen saver video is 300 milliseconds, and the screen saver video is smoothly transited to the playing screen protection media asset, so that the difference of visual experience brought to a user is not large.

Fig. 7C illustrates a schematic diagram of a display device playing the first frame picture of fig. 7A according to some embodiments of the present application reaching a preset first time period and transitioning to a screen saver resource, and fig. 7D illustrates a schematic diagram of a display device playing the first frame picture of fig. 7A according to some embodiments of the present application reaching a preset third time period and transitioning to a screen saver resource, as shown in fig. 7C and fig. 7D, whether transitioning to a screen saver resource at a preset first time period or transitioning to a screen saver resource at a preset third time period, where a difference in visual experience for a user is small.

In some embodiments, if the playing duration of the first frame of picture reaches the preset first duration and the screen protection media information is not detected in the local memory, whether other media information exists in the local memory can be continuously determined, if the other media information exists in the local memory, the first frame of picture in the other media information is played, and the screen protection media information corresponding to the other media information is downloaded according to the media access address in the other media information; and if the local storage does not have other media asset information, playing the local media asset, wherein the other media asset information is acquired from the server.

In some embodiments, if the playing duration of the first frame of picture reaches the preset third duration and the screen protection media information is not detected in the local memory, whether other media information exists in the local memory can be continuously determined, if the other media information exists in the local memory, the first frame of picture in the other media information is played, and the screen protection media information corresponding to the other media information is downloaded according to the media access address in the other media information; and if the local storage does not have other media asset information, playing the local media asset, wherein the other media asset information is acquired from the server.

The first case is the two cases described above: if the playing time length of the first frame of picture reaches the preset first time length and the screen protection media asset is not detected to the local memory, in the second case: if the playing time of the first frame picture reaches the preset third time and the screen protection media information is not detected to the local memory, at this time, switching and playing of the first frame picture in other media information can be adopted when the preset first time and the preset third time reach the time that the user can receive visually, or the first frame picture can be adopted by fading out and is switched into the first frame picture in other media information, or the first frame picture in other media information is faded out and is faded in, so that the picture switching is too short or too hard, and comfortable and smooth video transition experience is provided for the user.

S526, if the playing time of the first frame of picture reaches the preset second time, and other media information is provided in the local memory, the first frame of picture in the other media information is played, and screen protection media corresponding to the other media information is downloaded according to the media access address in the other media information.

The preset second time period is longer than the preset first time period.

And when the playing time length of the first frame picture reaches the preset second time length, other media information is arranged in the local memory, the first frame picture in the other media information is played, and the first frame picture of the fade-out screen protection media information can be switched to the first frame picture in the other media information, or the first frame picture of the fade-out screen protection media information is adopted to fade in the first frame picture in the other media information, so that comfortable and smooth video transition experience is provided for a user.

In some embodiments, the preset second time period is longer than the preset third time period, and the first frame of picture in other media information is switched and played under the second preset time period, so that the visual experience of the user is improved. For example, the preset first duration is 150 ms, the preset third duration is 300 ms, the preset second duration is 5 seconds, when the first frame picture of the screen protection media asset is continuously played for 5 seconds, the first frame picture of other media asset information is switched, and the visual effect provided for the user is higher than the effect of the first frame picture of the screen protection media asset which is continuously played for 150 ms or 300 ms and then is switched to the first frame picture of other media asset information.

It should be understood that other media asset information herein is obtained from the server.

S527, if the playing time of the first frame of picture reaches the preset second time, and the local memory does not have other media information, the local media is played.

Wherein, the local media resource can be one of local video, local dynamic diagram and local picture,

in some embodiments, it may be determined whether a local video or a local dynamic image exists, if so, the local video or the local dynamic image is played, and if not, the local image is played.

In some embodiments, whether a local video or a local dynamic image exists or not may be determined first, if so, a first frame image of the local video or the local dynamic image is played, and when the playing duration of the first frame image reaches a preset first duration, the first frame image is faded out, and the transition is smoothly performed to play the local video or the local dynamic image.

It should be understood that the video in the local media asset may have drawing delay in the drawing process, and if the drawing delay exists in the drawing process of the local video, the user visual experience is improved by playing the first frame of picture first.

In some embodiments, if the screen saver media asset playing abnormality is detected in the process of playing the screen saver media asset corresponding to the media asset information, the local media asset is played based on the media asset information of the local media asset. The abnormal screen protection media resource playing is that the abnormal screen protection media resource appears or the abnormal screen protection media resource appears in the playing process, for example, the playing time of the screen protection media resource is too long, etc.

If the screen protection media asset does not play for a long time, if the screen protection media asset corresponds to the media asset information acquired through the server, switching to local video play; and if the local video is played, switching the local picture to play.

Fig. 9 is a timing chart illustrating a method for playing media assets in a display device according to another embodiment of the present application, as shown in fig. 9, in step 522, based on that the media asset information corresponding to the preset playing policy is a plurality of, a first frame picture corresponding to the media asset information is played, and step 523, a screen saver media asset corresponding to the media asset information is downloaded according to a media asset access address corresponding to the media asset information, where the first processor is further configured to perform the following steps:

s5221, determining current media information in the media information based on a preset playing strategy.

It should be understood that the display device may set a playing manner of the screen saver to determine a corresponding preset playing policy, where the preset playing policy may be a single screen saver cyclic playing, or may be a list cycle of a corresponding list of screen saver.

If only one piece of media information is available in the display device for playing the screen protection media information, the media information is current media information based on a preset playing strategy; if the screen protection media information is stored in a list form, the current media information can be the first media information in the list or can be one media information selected from the list based on a preset selection strategy.

S5222, playing the first frame picture in the current media information.

S5223, downloading the current screen protecting media asset corresponding to the current media asset information according to the media asset access address in the current media asset information.

And downloading the current screen protection media asset corresponding to the current media asset information in the process of playing the first frame of picture in the current media asset information.

S5224, when the current screen media asset playing is finished, determining the next media asset information based on a preset playing strategy, and playing the first frame of picture in the next media asset information.

S5225, downloading the next screen protection media asset corresponding to the next media asset information according to the media asset access address in the next media asset information.

For each screen protection media resource to be played, the first frame picture of the screen protection media resource is played first, and the screen protection media resource is transited to the screen protection media resource, so that the condition that the screen protection media resource is black due to poor drawing performance of the display equipment hardware is reduced, and the user experience is improved.

In the process of step 5223, the occurrence of other play errors can be reduced through the set anomaly detection, and corresponding operations are provided.

If the playing time length of the first frame of picture reaches the preset first time length and the screen protection media asset is not detected to the local memory, continuing to play the first frame of picture; if the playing time length of the first frame of picture reaches the preset third time length, the screen saver resource corresponding to the first frame of picture is not downloaded to the local memory yet, and the screen saver resource is considered to be failed to download, and when the continuous playing time length of the first frame of picture reaches the preset fourth time length, the next screen saver resource is switched; the preset third time length is longer than the preset first time length, and the preset fourth time length is longer than the preset third time length.

If the playing time length of the first frame picture reaches the preset second time length and other media information is contained in the local memory, the first frame picture in the other media information is played; if the playing time length of the first frame of picture reaches the preset second time length and the local memory does not have other media information, the local media is played, the first frame of picture of each screen media acquired in advance is displayed, then the screen media is played in a transition mode, the condition that the screen media is black due to poor drawing performance of hardware of the display equipment is reduced, user experience is improved, abnormal processing is provided, and the use performance of the display equipment is improved.

Fig. 10 is a timing diagram of a method for playing media in a server and a display device according to some embodiments of the present application, where, as shown in fig. 10, the server includes a second processor configured to perform the following steps:

s610, determining a first multimedia resource, a second video, and first media information corresponding to the first multimedia resource and second media information corresponding to the second video.

The media assets in the server can be uploaded by server maintenance personnel with different classifications, or can be obtained from other servers through preset classification rules and the like corresponding to media asset requirements.

S620, receiving a starting request for displaying a window sent by the display device, and sending first media information and second media information corresponding to the starting request to the display device.

The embodiment of the application also provides a media asset playing method which is applied to the display equipment and comprises the following steps:

In some embodiments, if the display window is set for broadcasting the screen saver in turn, responding to a start instruction of the window to set the screen saver, and acquiring each piece of media information for broadcasting the screen saver, including first media information and second media information which are displayed in sequence, wherein the second media information includes a first frame picture of the screen saver and an access address of the screen saver;

based on media information corresponding to a preset playing strategy, playing a first frame picture corresponding to the media information, and downloading screen protection media information corresponding to the media information according to a media information access address corresponding to the media information;

if the playing time length of the first frame of picture reaches the preset first time length, and the screen protection media asset is detected to be downloaded to the local memory, the first frame of picture is faded out, and the screen protection media asset is smoothly transited to the playing screen.

Fig. 11 shows a timing chart of a media playing method in a server and a display device according to some embodiments of the present application, where the media playing method includes the following steps as shown in fig. 11:

S710, the server determines the media asset and the media asset information corresponding to the media asset.

If the type of the media asset is a picture, the media asset information comprises a media asset access address; if the type of the media asset is video, the media asset information comprises a first frame picture of the media asset and a media asset access address.

The media information corresponding to the media information comprises first media information and second media information, wherein the first media information comprises media information type and first access address of a first multimedia resource; the second media asset information comprises a video identifier for representing the media asset type of the second video as the video, a second access address of a first frame picture of the second video and a third access address of the second video.

S720, the display device responds to the starting instruction of the display window to acquire the first media information and the second media information for playing.

And S730, the display equipment acquires and plays the first multimedia resource based on the first access address in the first media resource information.

And S740, acquiring the first frame picture according to the second access address, and displaying the first frame picture after the display of the first multimedia resource media resource is finished.

Meanwhile, S750 synchronizes the acquisition of the second video according to the third access address when acquiring and displaying the first frame picture according to the second access address.

And S760, after the second video is started, controlling the first frame picture to disappear so as to display the played second video.

According to the method and the device for displaying the second video corresponding to the second media information, when the second video corresponding to the second media information is displayed, the first frame picture of the second video acquired in advance is displayed, then the second video is displayed in a transition mode, the condition that the media information is black due to poor drawing performance of hardware of display equipment is reduced, and user experience is improved.

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;

a first processor communicatively coupled to the display, the first processor configured to:

receiving a starting instruction for starting a display window, and acquiring first media information and second media information corresponding to the display window; the display window is used for displaying a first multimedia resource corresponding to the first media information and a second video corresponding to the second media information in sequence, wherein the first media information comprises a media information type and a first access address of the first multimedia resource; the second media information comprises a video identifier for representing that the media type of the second video is video, a second access address of a first frame picture of the second video and a third access address of the second video;

acquiring and displaying the first multimedia resource based on the first access address;

acquiring the first frame picture according to the second access address, and displaying the first frame picture after the first multimedia resource media asset is displayed, wherein when acquiring and displaying the first frame picture according to the second access address, the second video is synchronously acquired according to the third access address;

2. The display device of claim 1, wherein the first processor is further configured to:

after the playing time length of the first frame picture reaches a preset first time length, controlling the first frame picture to disappear so as to play the second video, wherein the preset first time length is a preset time length representing the starting of the second video; or (b)

After the fact that the player starts to play the second video is detected, the first frame picture is controlled to disappear, so that the played second video is displayed; or (b)

And after the playing time length of the first frame picture reaches a preset first time length and the player is detected to start playing the second video, controlling the first frame picture to disappear so as to display the played second video, wherein the preset first time length is a preset time length representing the second video playing start.

3. The display device of claim 1, wherein the first processor is further configured to:

when the playing time length of the first frame picture reaches a preset first time length, and the second video is not detected to the local memory, continuing to play the first frame picture, wherein the preset first time length is a preset time length representing the starting of the second video; or (b)

Playing the first frame of picture in the other media information according to the media access address in the other media information when the playing time of the first frame of picture reaches a preset second time length, wherein the preset second time length is longer than the preset first time length; or (b)

And if the playing time length of the first frame of picture reaches the preset second time length and the local memory does not have other media information, playing the local media.

4. The display device of claim 1, wherein the first processor is further configured to:

determining display positions of the first multimedia resource and the second video based on the display window;

when the media asset type of the first multimedia asset is a picture, displaying the first multimedia asset on a first layer of the display window; or alternatively

And when the media asset type of the first multimedia asset is video, displaying the first multimedia asset on a second layer of the display window.

5. The display device of claim 4, wherein the first processor is further configured to:

Determining a display position of the second video based on the display window;

after the first multimedia resource media resource display is finished, displaying the first frame picture on the first image layer, and after the first frame picture disappears, displaying the second video on the second image layer;

wherein the first layer is located above the second layer.

6. The display device of claim 1, wherein the acquiring the first and second asset information corresponding to the display window, the first processor is configured to:

if the display window is started for the first time and the display device is connected with a server through a network, receiving first media information for playing the first multimedia resource and second media information for playing the second video from the server;

if the display window is not started for the first time, or the display device is not connected with the server, the first media asset information and the second media asset information are determined based on the local media asset for playing.

7. A server, comprising:

a second processor configured to:

Determining a first multimedia resource, a second video, and first media information corresponding to the first multimedia resource and second media information corresponding to the second video, wherein the first media information comprises a media type and a first access address of the first multimedia resource; the second media information comprises a video identifier for representing that the media type of the second video is video, a second access address of a first frame picture of the second video and a third access address of the second video;

receiving a starting request for displaying a window sent by a display device, and sending the first media information and the second media information corresponding to the starting request to the display device.

8. A media resource playing method is characterized by comprising the following steps:

9. The media asset playing method of claim 8, further comprising:

10. The media asset playing method of claim 8, further comprising:

when the playing time length of the first frame picture reaches a preset first time length, and the second video is not detected to the local memory, continuing to play the first frame picture, wherein the preset first time length is a preset time length representing the starting of the second video;

and playing the first frame of picture in the other media information when the playing time of the first frame of picture reaches a preset second time length, wherein the local memory is provided with other media information, and downloading a third video corresponding to the other media information according to the media access address in the other media information, wherein the preset second time length is longer than the preset first time length.