KR101061410B1 - Web browser acceleration system and method using graphic processing device in mobile terminal - Google Patents

Abstract

Web browser acceleration system using a graphics processing unit in a mobile terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention, the graphics processing unit (Graphic Processing Units: GPU); And a web browser configured to receive html of a web page from a web server and display the web page according to the html, wherein the web browser receives the html from the web server. In the case of including the text, a text display acceleration command for drawing the text is transmitted to the graphic processing apparatus.

Mobile, Web Browsers, Graphics Processors, Graphics Acceleration

Description

Web browser acceleration system and method using a graphic processing device in a mobile terminal {SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ACCELERATION OF MOBILE BROWSER BY USING GRAPHIC PROCESSOR ON MOBILEPHONE}

The present invention relates to a browser acceleration method using a graphics processing device in a mobile terminal, and in particular, a mobile terminal capable of processing a web browser by drawing a text, an image, or a polygon included in html of a web page. The present invention relates to a web browser acceleration method using a graphics processing device.

When surfing the web with a web browser on a mobile terminal, the processing speed of the browser is slow due to the low specification CPU and low memory. Also, these days, the browser screen is getting more complicated in mobile terminals, and as the resolution of the mobile phone increases, the web screen that the web browser has to process in the mobile phone is increasing.

In addition, when the web screen is generally several times larger than the size of the LCD screen, when the web screen is loaded, several times the screen of the LCD screen is displayed in off-screen memory and the partial screen is displayed on the LCD screen. Should give.

As web screens become more complicated in web browsers, user complaints about slow web browsers are accelerating.

In order to solve this problem, it is concluded that the existing method, which is a web browser that draws screens, can no longer display the screen quickly, so that the graphics processing device draws the web browser's drawing under the acceleration of the graphic processor. It is becoming necessary.

The present invention is to solve the above problems, the mobile terminal is equipped with a graphics processing device, the graphics processing device draws text, images, polygons contained in the html of the web page to improve the speed of the web browser display of the mobile terminal It is an object of the present invention to provide a web browser acceleration system and method using a graphics processing device in a mobile terminal capable of.

According to another embodiment of the present invention, according to the font on which the mobile terminal displays the text, the character set consisting of the character to which the font is applied is stored in the memory of the graphics processing apparatus for each font, and if necessary retrieves the character from the stored character set By using the above, it is an object of the present invention to provide a web browser acceleration system and method using a graphics processing device in a mobile terminal that can improve the web browser display speed of the mobile terminal without having to draw for each character.

According to another exemplary embodiment of the present invention, when a part of the first area displayed through a web browser is to be enlarged and displayed, a part of the first area is enlarged to a full screen and then provided to the area to be enlarged. When the drawing process is completed, it is replaced by this, and an object of the present invention is to provide a web browser acceleration system and method using a graphics processing apparatus in a mobile terminal that can provide a display screen to a user immediately.

In order to achieve the above object, a web browser acceleration system using a graphics processing apparatus in a mobile terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention, the graphics processing unit (Graphic Processing Units: GPU); And a web browser configured to receive html of a web page from a web server and display the web page according to the html, wherein the web browser receives the html from the web server. In the case of including the text, a text display acceleration command for drawing the text is transmitted to the graphic processing apparatus.

Web browser acceleration system using a graphics processing unit in a mobile terminal according to another embodiment of the present invention, the graphics processing unit (Graphic Processing Units: GPU); And a web browser configured to receive html of a web page from a web server and display the web page according to the html, wherein the web browser receives the html from the web server. When the image is included, an image display acceleration command for drawing the image is transmitted to the graphic processing apparatus.

Web browser acceleration system using a graphics processing unit in a mobile terminal according to another embodiment of the present invention includes a graphics processing unit (Graphic Processing Units: GPU); And a web browser for receiving the html of the web page from the web server and displaying the web page according to the html, wherein the web browser receives the html from the web server and the html. In the case of including the polygon, the polycon display acceleration command for drawing the polygon is transmitted to the graphic processing apparatus.

Web browser acceleration method using a graphics processing apparatus in a mobile terminal according to another embodiment of the present invention, according to the font on which the mobile terminal displays the text, the memory of the graphics processing apparatus for each font set of the character set to which the font is applied Storing in; Determining, by the mobile terminal, whether a text character included in text to be displayed through a web browser is stored in a memory of the graphic processing apparatus; And displaying the text by using the character set stored in the memory of the graphic processing apparatus when the text character is stored in the memory of the graphics processing apparatus.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of accelerating a web browser using a graphics processing apparatus, the method including: displaying, by a web browser, a first area of an entire web page; Designating, by the web browser, a predetermined area of the first area as a second area, and receiving an enlargement command for the second area; Displaying, by the web browser, a temporary enlarged screen in which the second area of the first area of the web page is enlarged to a full screen; And generating, by the graphic processing apparatus, the drawing processing for the second area to generate a detailed enlarged screen, and replacing the temporary enlarged screen with the detailed enlarged screen.

Web browser acceleration system and method using a graphics processing device in a mobile terminal according to the present invention, the graphics processing device is mounted on the mobile terminal, the graphics processing device is mobile by drawing the text, images, polygons included in the html of the web page Provides the effect of improving the speed of the web browser display of the terminal.

Web browser acceleration system and method using a graphics processing apparatus in a mobile terminal according to another embodiment of the present invention, according to the font on which the mobile terminal displays the text, the character set consisting of the characters to which the font is applied graphics processing apparatus for each font By storing in the memory of the character, if necessary, by calling the characters from the stored character set, each character does not need to draw each one provides an effect that can improve the display speed of the web browser of the mobile terminal.

Web browser acceleration system and method using a graphics processing apparatus in a mobile terminal according to another embodiment of the present invention, if you want to enlarge and display a part of the first area displayed through the web browser, a part of the first area is a whole After providing the temporary enlarged screen enlarged to the screen, the drawing process for the area to be enlarged is replaced with this, thereby providing an effect of providing the display screen to the user immediately.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1 is a block diagram showing a process of a web browser according to an embodiment of the present invention.

When a user enters a web URL through a web browser, the web browser connects to the web server via HTTP through a cellular phone communication network. Then, the web server downloads the html of the web page of the URL, and the web browser receives it and parses it. Then, the layout of the screen page is formed and the screen layout of each item is determined.

By allocating the off-screen memory of the web page size, the content of the layout is first painted on the off-screen using shapes, and in the case of text, the characters are displayed in fonts, and in the case of images, the bitmap is displayed on the screen. Mark with.

After drawing the contents of the web page on the off-screen, the partial screen is displayed on the LCD according to the LCD screen size of the entire web page. Afterwards, when the user scrolls, only the right screen is displayed on the LCD.

2 is a block diagram illustrating a browser acceleration element of a graphics processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

An item that may be accelerated by the graphic processing device during the operation of the web browser is a display process of the web browser screen. That is, as shown in FIG. 2, among a web browser display through a graphic processing apparatus, a polygon display, a text display, an image display, and a partial screen display may be used. Can be divided into acceleration elements and accelerated.

In the polygon display, which draws the screen layout, the drawing can be accelerated by using the graphic processing unit.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, a web browser acceleration system using a graphics processing apparatus in a mobile terminal includes: a graphics processing unit (Graphic Processing Units: GPU); And a mobile terminal including a web browser.

The web browser receives the html of the web page from the web server and displays the web page according to the html. In particular, the web browser according to the embodiment of the present invention receives the html from the web server, and if the html includes a polygon (polygon), and transmits a polycon display acceleration command for drawing the polygon to the graphics processing apparatus.

In a web browser, drawing using shapes corresponds to clearing the entire screen, border, or outline. The drawing of the figure mainly includes a background drawing, a table box drawing, and the like. In fact, the graphics API used to draw it is called 'DrawRectangle', and drawing of a Rectangle is a function that is commonly found in graphic processing devices. Therefore, when the graphic drawing is processed by the graphic processing unit, the acceleration effect is great. Although it is different for each graphic chip, drawing of this figure can be implemented in a 3D graphic chip or by using 2D dedicated instructions.

In this case, the drawing may be accelerated by 4 to 8 times when drawing using a 3D graphic module, and may be accelerated by about 10 to 50 times when drawing using a 2D graphic module.

3 is a block diagram illustrating a web browser text display acceleration method of a graphic processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

In the case of text, the font can be pre-loaded into the graphic processing device and drawn using the software, rather than drawing in software (S / W).

According to another embodiment of the present invention, a web browser acceleration system using a graphics processing apparatus in a mobile terminal, the graphics processing unit (Graphic Processing Units: GPU); And a mobile terminal including a web browser.

The web browser receives the html of the web page from the web server and displays the web page according to the html. In particular, the web browser according to the embodiment of the present invention receives the html from the web server, and if the html includes the text (text), and transmits a text display acceleration command for drawing the text (graphic) to the graphics processing apparatus.

In the case of a mobile terminal, drawing a vector font is considerably slower, so the font is often stored separately by size rather than this method. In general, if the graphics processing device has an acceleration function for vector fonts, the vector fonts can be directly drawn. If not, the fonts are drawn by the font size by size.

The suggested method is to classify vector fonts by size and to use alpha channel for letter shapes. The reason for using the alpha channel is to soften the outline of the text using anti-aliasing.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, first, according to a font for displaying text, the mobile terminal performs a step of storing or loading a character set composed of characters to which the font is applied in the memory of the graphic processing apparatus for each font.

Next, the mobile terminal determines whether the text characters included in the text to be displayed through the web browser are stored in the memory of the graphic processing apparatus.

Next, when the text characters are stored in the memory of the graphic processing apparatus, the text is displayed using the character set stored in the memory of the graphics processing apparatus.

If necessary, the character set stored for each font is preloaded to be cached and reused later. In the case of the character set cache stored for each font, a limit is placed on the memory at the same time, and this caches the character set stored for each font by the LRU (Least recently used) algorithm.

In addition, the character set stored for each font should be preloaded into the stack memory used by the graphic processing apparatus. In order for the graphic processing unit to use the character set stored for each font, the character set in the host must be loaded into the dedicated stack memory in advance.

Then we load the shape of the font glyph (alpha channel) for each character, holding the shape of the RGBA.

After the font-specific character set is loaded, the characters are drawn. Text is colored in the corresponding text area to specify the color and the text area is drawn with the Alpha channel in the desired location. When all the letters are drawn, the letters are displayed on the LCD screen.

Later, in the case of drawing the characters of the same font, the process of saving or loading the character set for each font is omitted, and only the process of drawing the characters after the coloring and displaying them on the screen can improve the processing speed.

This also varies from graphic chip to chip, but the image and the alpha channel can be drawn on a 3D graphics chip or a 2D dedicated command. In this case, when drawing with 3D graphics module, it will be accelerated by 5 ~ 10 times, and when drawing with 2D graphics module, it is expected to be very fast about 40 ~ 80 times.

In the case of a web page, a lot of images are included in addition to text. If such an image is loaded into the graphic processing apparatus and then drawn in the graphic processing apparatus, the processing speed may be greatly improved.

According to another embodiment of the present invention, a web browser acceleration system using a graphics processing apparatus in a mobile terminal, the graphics processing unit (Graphic Processing Units: GPU); And a mobile terminal including a web browser.

The web browser receives the html of the web page from the web server and displays the web page according to the html. In particular, the web browser according to an embodiment of the present invention receives the html from the web server, and if the html includes an image, and transmits an imagen display acceleration command for drawing the image to the graphics processing apparatus.

In a web browser, all pictures are displayed on the web screen using images. Icons such as menus mainly use images in GIF format, and in the case of high quality images, such as photos, images in JPG format are used.

In order to draw through a graphics processor, this image must be converted to RGB format. If there is a decoder of GIF / JPG in the graphics processing apparatus, it is converted into RGB format using the decoder. Otherwise, it is decoded into S / W and converted into RGB format.

Then, after loading the image into stack memory in the graphics processing unit, the image is drawn in the step of drawing a web page.

This also varies from graphic chip to chip, but the 3D graphics chip can be used to draw images and alpha channels, or can be drawn using 2D-specific commands. Generally, the 3D graphics module includes a function of drawing by image scaling, but the 2D graphics module may not include such a function. In this case, when drawing with 3D graphics module, it will be accelerated by 5 ~ 10 times, and when drawing with 2D graphics module, it is expected to be very fast about 40 ~ 80 times.

Meanwhile, according to another exemplary embodiment of the present invention, a part of the web page displayed through the web browser can be enlarged. To this end, first, the web browser may perform the step of displaying the first area of the entire web page.

Next, the web browser may designate a predetermined area of the first area as the second area and receive an enlargement command for the second area.

Next, the web browser may perform the step of displaying a temporary enlarged screen in which the second area of the first area of the web page is enlarged to the full screen.

Finally, the graphic processing apparatus may complete the drawing process for the second area to generate a detailed enlarged screen and replace the temporary enlarged screen with the detailed enlarged screen.

Also, when drawing the contents of off-screen web pages into the LCD buffer, letting the software copy the contents of the memory rather than copying the contents of the memory is much faster without the CPU load, which is advantageous for multitasking.

If you have drawn the contents of a web page on the off-screen, you should display it on the LCD screen. In general, web pages are many times larger than LCD screens, so some of the off-screen web screens must be moved to the LCD screen frame buffer.

At this time, it is slow to copy memory by S / W method and slow when user scrolls web page.

So this also requires acceleration of the graphics processor.

This is expected to be about 10 to 40 times faster in H / W acceleration than S / W.

In addition, preferred embodiments of the present invention are disclosed for the purpose of illustration, those skilled in the art will be able to various modifications, changes, additions, etc. within the spirit and scope of the present invention, such modifications, changes, etc. fall within the scope of the claims Should be seen.

1 is a block diagram showing a processing procedure of a web browser according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2 is a block diagram showing a browser acceleration element of the graphics processing apparatus according to the embodiment of the present invention;

3 is a block diagram illustrating a browser text acceleration method of a graphic processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Claims (5)

Graphic Processing Units (GPU); And Receives the html of the web page from a web server and a web browser for displaying the web page according to the html; consisting of a mobile terminal comprising a, The web browser receives the html from the web server, and when the html includes text, transmits a text display acceleration command to the graphic processing apparatus to draw the text. Web browser acceleration system using a graphics processing device in a mobile terminal. Graphic Processing Units (GPU); And Receives the html of the web page from a web server and a web browser for displaying the web page according to the html; consisting of a mobile terminal comprising a, The web browser receives the html from the web server, and when the html includes an image, transmits an image display acceleration command to draw the image to the graphic processing apparatus. Web browser acceleration system using a graphics processing device in a mobile terminal. Graphic Processing Units (GPU); And Receives the html of the web page from a web server and a web browser for displaying the web page according to the html; consisting of a mobile terminal comprising a, The web browser receives the html from the web server, and if the html includes a polygon, transmits a polycon display acceleration command to draw the polygon to the graphic processing apparatus. Web browser acceleration system using a graphics processing device in a mobile terminal. Storing, by the mobile terminal, a character set composed of characters to which the font is applied in a memory of a graphic processing apparatus for each font, according to a font displaying text; Determining, by the mobile terminal, whether a text character included in text to be displayed through a web browser is stored in a memory of the graphic processing apparatus; And If the text characters are stored in the memory of the graphic processing apparatus, displaying the text using the character set stored in the memory of the graphics processing apparatus. How to accelerate your browser. Displaying, by the web browser, the first area of the entire web page; Designating, by the web browser, a predetermined area of the first area as a second area, and receiving an enlargement command for the second area; Displaying, by the web browser, a temporary enlarged screen in which the second area of the first area of the web page is enlarged to a full screen; And And a graphic processing apparatus completing a drawing process for the second area to generate a detailed enlarged screen and replacing the temporary enlarged screen with the detailed enlarged screen. Web browser acceleration method.

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