JP2006065443A - Data processing method and mobile communication terminal device - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce a load which is imposed on an application producer for incorporating a graphic data processing function into an application. <P>SOLUTION: An application 33 designates original graphic data and displaying conditions and requests a common graphic processing program 36 in a basic processing part to execute graphic processing. The common graphic processing program 36, which receives the request for the graphic processing, generates, based on the original graphic data, data for displaying by which displaying is made so that the displaying conditions designated in the request for the graphic processing may be satisfied. Then, the common graphic processing program 36 notifies the application 33 of the data for displaying. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to a data processing method and a mobile communication terminal device, and more particularly, in a mobile communication terminal device, a data processing method performed for display on a display unit, and a mobile communication terminal using the data processing method It relates to the device.

  2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, mobile communication terminal devices represented by mobile phone devices have been widely used. In such a mobile communication terminal device, in addition to the voice call function, basic functions such as a mail processing function (email creation, mail transmission / reception, display of received mail contents, etc.) are realized by a control program called a basic processing unit. Yes.

  In mobile communication terminal devices such as mobile phone devices, applications such as games and navigation created using an object-oriented language (for example, JAVA (registered trademark; the same shall apply hereinafter)) are stored on a server via a base station. It is performed to download from such as. Some of these applications translate the original image or enlarge, reduce or rotate the original image when displaying the image. In such a case, if the original image data is raster format image data (dot pattern data), it is difficult to easily enlarge, reduce, or rotate the display image without causing a sense of incongruity. For this reason, in particular, in an application that needs to enlarge, reduce, or rotate an original image, graphic data described in a vector format is used as image drawing data.

  In an application that employs graphic data as image drawing data, when the original image is translated, enlarged, reduced, or rotated in accordance with a user's instruction, the application itself translates or enlarges. Data processing (graphic processing) for reduction or rotation was performed.

  In the conventional technique described above, when an application adopts graphic data as image drawing data, the application needs to have a graphic processing function. For this reason, the creator of the application is burdened with incorporating means for performing a graphic processing function when the application is created.

  In addition, an application executed on a mobile communication terminal device is configured as a general-purpose executable file, and is generally created by compiling source code into an intermediate language instead of machine language. . When executing such an intermediate language program, the intermediate language is recognized as a machine language by a virtual machine program prepared for each model and executed. For this reason, when graphic processing is performed by an application, it is difficult to perform the processing quickly. For this reason, it has also been desired to speed up the graphic processing desired by the application.

  The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and an object of the present invention is to provide a data processing method capable of reducing the burden on an application creator imposed to incorporate a graphic data processing function into an application. And

  The present invention also provides a mobile communication terminal capable of processing desired graphic data in response to a request from an application created by reducing the burden on an application creator imposed to incorporate a graphic data processing function. An object is to provide an apparatus.

  The present invention relates to a data processing method performed for display on a display unit in a mobile communication terminal apparatus having a basic processing unit for providing a basic function, in which an application uses vector format original graphic data and display A graphic processing requesting step for designating a condition and requesting graphic processing to the common graphic processing unit in the basic processing unit; and the common graphic processing unit performing display satisfying the display condition based on the original graphic data A data processing method comprising: a graphic processing step for generating display data that can be displayed; and a display data notification step in which the common graphic processing unit notifies the display data to the application.

  In this data processing method, in a graphic processing request step, an application specifies original graphic data and display conditions and requests graphic processing from a common graphic processing unit in the basic processing unit. Such a common graphic processing unit processes graphic data described in a standard format such as SVG-T (Scalable Vector Graphics Tiny) so that it can be used by many applications. Is preferred. The original graphic data designated by the application needs to be graphic data described in a format that can be handled by the common graphic processing unit.

  Next, in response to the graphic processing request, the common graphic processing unit creates display data that can perform display satisfying the display condition specified in the graphic processing request based on the original graphic data in the graphic processing step. . The common graphic processing unit notifies the display data to the application in the display data notification step.

  As a result, the application can acquire display data obtained by performing desired graphic processing on the original graphic data without performing graphic processing by itself. For this reason, the creator of the application need not incorporate a means for performing the graphic processing function in the application.

  In the data processing method of the present invention, the display condition is drawn as a display area coordinate system for specifying the size of the display area and the position in the display area, and the graphic using the original graphic data. Information on the relationship between coordinates with the user coordinate system can be included.

  Here, the information on the relationship between coordinates may include information on the origin position of the user coordinate system in the display area coordinate system. In this case, display data for displaying an image that is freely translated from the image represented by the original graphic data can be acquired. Therefore, it is possible to obtain display data for displaying an image having the size of the display area at an arbitrary position of the image represented by the original graphic data. For this reason, the panning function of the image represented by the original graphic data can be realized.

  Further, the information on the inter-coordinate relationship includes information on the rotation angle of the user coordinate system relative to the display area coordinate system, and a unit length in the user coordinate system with respect to a unit length in the display area coordinate system. At least one of the stretch rate information may be further included. In this case, display data for displaying an image obtained by arbitrarily rotating or enlarging or reducing the image represented by the original graphic data can be acquired. Therefore, display data for displaying an image that is arbitrarily rotated, enlarged, or reduced from the image represented by the original graphic data, and an image having the size of the display area obtained by adding parallel movement to these operations. Can be acquired.

  The data processing method of the present invention may further include a display step of performing display using the display data on the display unit in response to a request from the application.

  Here, prior to the display step, the application may further include a display data processing step for processing the display data. In this case, it is possible to display an image obtained by further applying desired processing to the display data of the processing result by the common graphic processing unit.

  In the data processing method of the present invention, the application is described in an intermediate language, and the basic processing unit is described in a machine language. In this case, the common graphic processing unit described in the machine language performs graphic processing, so that the graphic processing is performed more quickly than in the case where the application described in the intermediate language performs similar graphic processing. Can do.

  The mobile communication terminal apparatus of the present invention is a mobile communication terminal apparatus having a basic processing unit for providing a basic function, wherein the basic processing unit responds to a graphic processing request designating original graphic data and display conditions from an application. And generating a display data capable of performing display satisfying the display condition based on the original graphic data, and including a common graphic processing unit for notifying the display data to the application. It is a mobile communication terminal device.

  In this mobile communication terminal device, when an application designates original graphic data in vector format and display conditions and requests graphic processing from the common graphic processing unit in the basic processing unit, the common graphic processing unit is based on the original graphic data. Thus, display data that can perform display satisfying the display condition is created. Then, the common graphic processing unit notifies the application of display data that is a processing result.

  That is, the mobile communication terminal apparatus of the present invention can perform graphic processing using the above-described data processing method of the present invention. Therefore, according to the mobile communication terminal device of the present invention, processing of desired graphic data can be performed according to a request from an application created by reducing the burden on an application creator imposed to incorporate a graphic data processing function. It can be carried out.

  In the mobile communication terminal device of the present invention, the application is described in an intermediate language, and the basic processing unit is described in a machine language. In this case, the common graphic processing unit described in the machine language performs graphic processing, so that the graphic processing is performed more quickly than in the case where the application described in the intermediate language performs similar graphic processing. Can do.

  As described above, according to the data processing method of the present invention, it is possible to reduce the burden on the application creator imposed for incorporating the graphic data processing function into the application.

  Further, according to the mobile communication terminal device of the present invention, processing of desired graphic data is performed in response to an application request created by reducing the burden on the application creator imposed to incorporate the graphic data processing function. be able to.

  Hereinafter, an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS.

  1 and 2 schematically show a configuration of a mobile phone device 10 that is a mobile terminal device according to an embodiment. Here, FIG. 1A shows a front view of the appearance of the mobile phone device 10, and FIG. 1B shows a rear view of the appearance of the mobile phone device 10. FIG. 2 shows a functional block configuration of the mobile phone device 10.

  1 and 2, the mobile phone device 10 includes: (a) a mobile phone body 11 including a control unit 21, a transmission / reception unit 22 and a storage unit 23; and (b) a phone number control unit. An operation unit 12 having a numeric keypad for inputting to the control unit 21 and function keys for inputting various commands such as switching of operation modes to the control unit 21; and (c) an operation guide according to the command from the control unit 21. And a display unit 13 having a liquid crystal display device for displaying an operation status, a received message, and the like. Further, the cellular phone device 10 includes (d) a call speaker 14 that reproduces an audio signal transmitted from a communication partner during a call, a microphone 15 for inputting sound during a call, and (e) a control unit 21. A guidance speaker 16 for generating a ringtone or a guidance sound in response to a command, and (f) an antenna 17 connected to the transmission / reception unit 22 for transmitting / receiving a radio signal to / from a base station. ing.

  The control unit 21 includes a central processing unit (CPU), a digital signal processing unit (DSP), and the like, and performs various data processing in order to realize various functions including general cellular phone functions. At the same time, operation control of the other components described above is performed. The configuration of software such as a program executed in the control unit 21 is as shown in FIG.

  That is, the software in the control unit 21 is (i) a basic processing unit that realizes a call function, a mail function, and a character input function, which are basic functions as a mobile phone device, and controls the various hardware resources described above. 31, (ii) an application 33 for providing a user with various contents such as a game, and (iii) an execution that is located between the basic processing unit 31 and the application 33 and provides an execution environment for the application 33 And an environment unit 32. Here, the execution environment unit 32 is a set of programs that provide software resources for executing applications such as command conversion between the application 33 and the basic processing unit 31 and management of the application 33. The basic processing unit 31 includes a common graphics processing program 36, and the execution environment unit 32 includes a graphics program 37 that the application 33 uses when displaying on the display unit 13. ing.

  Each program of the basic processing unit 31 and the execution environment unit 32 is described in machine language. In contrast, the application 33 is described in an intermediate language.

  The basic processing unit 31 and the execution environment unit 32 are mounted on the mobile phone device from the time of shipment of the mobile phone device 10 from the factory. On the other hand, the application 33 is installed after being downloaded from the transmission / reception unit 22 or the like by the operation of the operation unit 12 by the operator. Further, the number of applications in the mobile phone device 10 is not limited to one, but only one application 33 is schematically shown in FIG.

  Between the basic processing unit 31 and the execution environment unit 32, information such as a request, a response, an event occurrence, and the like is appropriately exchanged in relation to the application 33. Also, between the execution environment unit 32 and the application 33, various requests from the application 33 are notified to the execution environment unit 32, and responses and event occurrences are notified from the execution environment unit 32. .

  Next, graphic processing in the cellular phone device 10 configured as described above will be described.

As a premise, it is assumed that original graphic data to be subjected to graphic processing such as coordinate conversion processing such as translation, enlargement, reduction, rotation, and clipping processing has already been created. This original graphic data is described in a vector format in the user coordinate system (X _U , Y _U ). An example of a figure represented by such original graphic data is shown in FIG.

Further, it is assumed that the graphic image based on the original graphic data by the application 33 is displayed in the display area 13V (hereinafter referred to as “viewport”) 13V of the display unit 13 shown in FIG. Corresponding to this viewport 13V, viewport coordinate systems (X _V , Y _V ) are defined as shown in FIG. The viewport coordinate system (X _V, Y _V), the upper left corner of the viewport 13V to the origin O, in the right direction X _V direction in the viewport 13V, so that downward in the view port 13V is Y _V direction Is defined. Note that the viewport 13V, the length of the X _V direction is LX _V, intended length of Y _V direction is a rectangular area which is LY _V.

In the graphic processing in the mobile phone device 10, as shown in FIG. 6, first, the application 33 sends a graphic processing request to the common graphic processing program 36. In the graphic processing request, the original graphic data, the size of the viewport 13V (i.e., LX is the length of the X _V direction _V and Y _V direction length LY _V), and the viewport coordinate system (X _V, Y _V ) and the user coordinate system (X _U , Y _U ) are specified.

Here, the relationship between the viewport coordinate system (X _V , Y _V ) and the user coordinate system (X _U , Y _U ) includes the user coordinate system (X _V , Y _V ) in the viewport coordinate system (X _V , Y _V ). _U, contains information of the position of the origin O _U of Y _U). The relationship between the viewport coordinate system (X _V , Y _V ) and the user coordinate system (X _U , Y _U ) is the length unit in the X _V direction of the viewport coordinate system (X _V , Y _V ). The ratio S _X of the length unit in the X _U direction of the user coordinate system (X _U , Y _U ) to the user coordinate system for the length unit in the Y _V direction of the viewport coordinate system (X _V , Y _V ) ( X _U, Y _U direction ratio S _Y information unit of length Y _U), the viewport coordinate system (X _V, the user coordinate system for Y _V) (X _U, information of the rotation angle θ of the Y _U) Etc. are included as necessary. Incidentally, from the viewpoint of graphic processing, translation processing of the graphic by information on the position of the origin O _U are defined, scaling processing of the graphic by the information ratio S _X and the ratio S _Y is defined, also, the rotation angle θ This information defines the figure rotation process.

Upon receiving the graphic processing request, the common graphic processing program 36 determines the size of the viewport 13V specified in the graphic processing request, the viewport coordinate system (X _V , Y _V ), and the user coordinate system (X _U , Y _U ) Graphic processing is performed based on the relationship. That viewport coordinate system (X _V, Y _V) based on the information on the position of the origin O _U in, parallel movement processing related original graphic data. Further, the enlargement / reduction processing for the original graphic data is performed based on the information of the ratio S _X and the ratio S _Y. Further, rotation processing relating to the original graphic data is performed based on the information of the rotation angle θ. Then, clipping processing is performed based on the size of the viewport 13V.

  In addition to the coordinate conversion processes such as the parallel movement process, the enlargement / reduction process, and the rotation process, the common graphic processing program 36 performs a clipping process for obtaining a graphic that enters the viewport 13V based on the graphic after the coordinate conversion. . As a result, display data for display on the viewport 13V is obtained.

Here, in the case where the original graphic data specified in the graphic processing request expresses the graphic shown in FIG. 4, the viewport coordinate system (X _V , Y _V ) and the user coordinate system (X _U , The graphic represented by the display data, which is the result of the graphic processing by the common graphic processing program 36, will be described with respect to some examples of the relationship with Y _U ).

(1) When the viewport coordinate system (X _V , Y _V ) matches the user coordinate system (X _U , Y _U ) (see FIG. 7A), it is shown in FIG. 7B. Display data representing such a figure is obtained as a result of graphic processing by the common graphic processing program 36.

(2) Compared with the above (1), when only the origin position is different between the viewport coordinate system (X _V , Y _V ) and the user coordinate system (X _U , Y _U ) (FIG. 8A). 8B, display data representing a graphic as shown in FIG. 8B is obtained as a result of graphic processing by the common graphic processing program 36. Such translation process, the corresponding viewport coordinate system to the amount of translation (X _V, Y _V) User coordinate system in (X _U, Y _U) while continuously changing the origin O _U position of, it is carried out Thus, display data for panning is sequentially obtained.

(3) Compared with the above (2), when the ratio S _X and the ratio S _Y larger than 1 are specified and the enlargement of the figure is further specified (see FIG. 9A), FIG. The display data representing the graphic as shown in B) is obtained as a result of the graphic processing by the common graphic processing program 36.

(4) Compared with the above (2), when the ratio S _X and the ratio S _Y smaller than 1 are specified and the graphic reduction is further specified (see FIG. 10A), The display data representing the graphic as shown in B) is obtained as a result of the graphic processing by the common graphic processing program 36.

  (5) Compared with the above (2), when the rotation angle θ is specified and the figure rotation is specified (see FIG. 11A), the figure as shown in FIG. Display data to be represented is obtained as a result of graphic processing by the common graphic processing program 36.

  Returning to FIG. 6, the graphic processing result obtained as described above is sent from the common graphic processing program 36 to the application 33. The application 33 that has received the graphic processing result uses the graphics program 37 of the execution environment unit 32 to display the graphic image represented by the display data as the graphic processing result on the viewport 13V. Thereafter, the application 33 appropriately processes the display data in accordance with the user's image processing command, and displays the processed image on the viewport 13V.

  As described above, in the present embodiment, the application 33 designates original graphic data and display conditions, and requests graphic processing from the common graphic processing program 36 in the basic processing unit 31. Upon receiving this graphic processing request, the common graphic processing program 36 creates display data that can perform display satisfying the display conditions specified by the graphic processing request, based on the original graphic data. Then, the common graphic processing program 36 notifies the application 33 of display data.

  As a result, the application 33 can acquire display data obtained by performing desired graphic processing on the original graphic data without performing graphic processing by itself. Therefore, the creator of the application 33 does not need to incorporate a means for performing graphic processing functions in the application 33, and can reduce the burden on the application creator imposed for processing graphic data.

  In the present embodiment, the display conditions specified in the graphic processing request include information on the size of the display area and the coordinate relationship between the viewport coordinate system and the user coordinate system. The coordinate relationship information includes information on the origin position of the user coordinate system in the viewport coordinate system. Therefore, it is possible to acquire display data for displaying an image that is freely translated from the graphic image represented by the original graphic data. Therefore, it is possible to obtain display data for displaying an image having the size of the viewport 13V at an arbitrary position of the graphic image represented by the original graphic data.

  In this embodiment, the information on the relationship between coordinates includes information on the rotation angle of the user coordinate system with respect to the viewport coordinate system, and the unit length in the user coordinate system with respect to the unit length in the viewport coordinate system. It is assumed that at least one piece of information on the expansion / contraction rate is further included as necessary. Therefore, the application 33 can acquire display data for displaying an image obtained by arbitrarily rotating, enlarging or reducing the graphic image represented by the original graphic data.

  In the present embodiment, the application 33 processes display data, which is a result of graphic processing, as necessary. For this reason, it is possible to display on the display unit an image obtained by further applying desired processing to the display data of the processing result by the common graphic processing program 36.

  In the present embodiment, the application 33 is described in an intermediate language, and the basic processing unit 31 including the common graphic processing program 36 is described in a machine language. Since the common graphic processing program 36 described in the machine language performs graphic processing, the graphic processing can be performed quickly compared to the case where the application 33 described in the intermediate language performs similar graphic processing. it can.

  In the present embodiment, the description format required as the original graphic data is not particularly defined, but a standard graphic data description format such as SVG-T can be adopted.

  In the above embodiment, the present invention is applied to a mobile phone device. However, it is needless to say that the present invention can be applied to a mobile terminal device other than the mobile phone device.

  As described above, the data processing method of the present invention can be applied to graphic data processing in a mobile communication terminal device. The mobile communication terminal apparatus of the present invention can be applied to a mobile communication terminal apparatus in which an application using graphic data is executed.

It is a figure which shows schematically the external appearance structure of the mobile telephone apparatus which concerns on one Embodiment of this invention. FIG. 2 is a functional block diagram of the mobile phone device of FIG. 1. It is a figure which shows roughly the structure of the software which operate | moves with the control part of FIG. It is a figure for demonstrating original graphic data. It is a figure for demonstrating a viewport. It is a sequence diagram for demonstrating the graphic process in the mobile telephone apparatus of FIG. It is a figure which shows the example (the 1) of the result of a graphic process. It is a figure which shows the example (the 2) of the result of a graphic process. It is a figure which shows the example (the 3) of the result of a graphic process. It is a figure which shows the example (the 4) of the result of a graphic process. It is a figure which shows the example (the 5) of the result of a graphic process.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 ... Mobile phone apparatus (mobile terminal device), 11 ... Mobile phone main body, 12 ... Operation part, 13 ... Display part, 13V ... Viewport, 14 ... Speaker for call, 15 ... Microphone, 16 ... Speaker for guidance, 17 ... Antenna, 21 ... Control part, 22 ... Transmission / reception part, 23 ... Storage device, 31 ... Basic processing part, 32 ... Execution environment part, 33 ... Application, 36 ... Common graphic processing program (common graphic processing part), 37 ... Graphic Program.

Claims (9)

In a mobile communication terminal device having a basic processing unit for providing a basic function, a data processing method performed for display on a display unit,
A graphic processing requesting step in which an application designates original graphic data described in a vector format and display conditions, and requests graphic processing from the common graphic processing unit in the basic processing unit;
A graphic processing step in which the common graphic processing unit creates display data capable of performing display satisfying the display condition based on the original graphic data;
A data processing method comprising: a display data notification step in which the common graphic processing unit notifies the application of the display data.   The display condition includes coordinates of a display area coordinate system for specifying the size of the display area and a position in the display area, and a user coordinate system for drawing a graphic using the original graphic data. The data processing method according to claim 1, wherein inter-relationship information is included.   The data processing method according to claim 2, wherein the information on the relationship between coordinates includes information on an origin position of the user coordinate system in the display area coordinate system.   The information on the relationship between the coordinates includes information on the rotation angle of the user coordinate system with respect to the display area coordinate system, and the expansion / contraction rate of the unit length in the user coordinate system with respect to the unit length in the display area coordinate system The data processing method according to claim 3, further comprising at least one of the following information.   The data processing method according to any one of claims 1 to 4, further comprising a display step of performing display using the display data on the display unit in response to a request from the application.   The data processing method according to claim 5, wherein the application further includes a display data processing step of processing the display data prior to the display step.   The data processing method according to claim 1, wherein the application is described in an intermediate language, and the basic processing unit is described in a machine language. In a mobile communication terminal apparatus having a basic processing unit for providing basic functions,
The basic processing unit can perform display satisfying the display condition based on the original graphic data in response to a graphic processing request specifying original graphic data and display conditions described in a vector format from an application. A mobile communication terminal apparatus comprising: a common graphic processing unit that creates display data and notifies the display data to the application. 9. The mobile communication terminal apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the application is described in an intermediate language, and the basic processing unit is described in a machine language.

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