TWI469081B - Electronic device with less response time and method for reducing response time of an electronic device - Google Patents

Description

Electronic device and method capable of reducing operation response time

The present invention relates to an electronic device, and more particularly to an electronic device capable of browsing pictures and a method for reducing operation response time.

At present, electronic devices such as mobile phones, e-books, and electronic photo frames are more and more widely used by people. People often use electronic devices such as e-books and electronic photo frames to browse multimedia files such as text documents and pictures.

Currently, browsing a multimedia file is to display the playback after the user has browsed the operation and then retrieves the data stored in the memory for decoding. Due to the limited processor capacity of mobile phones and electronic photo frames, the response time will be slower when flipping through images with high resolution. For example, when you click to the next picture, the next picture will be displayed slowly. Therefore, after the user operates, it takes a while to respond, which affects the user's mood. Although it is possible to solve the above problems by arranging a powerful processor for an electronic device such as a mobile phone or an electronic photo frame, the cost of the electronic devices is greatly increased.

In view of the above, an electronic device and a method thereof capable of reducing an operation response time are provided, and the problems in the prior art can be solved at a small cost.

An electronic device includes a processing unit, a storage unit, an input unit, a display unit, and a temporary storage unit. The storage unit is configured to store a picture, and the plurality of pictures are used to form a plurality of albums. The input unit is configured to: the user operates the electronic photo frame to browse the picture, thereby generating a flip signal, and the temporary storage unit is configured to temporarily store the data. The processing unit also The method comprises: a query module, a call module, an instruction receiving module and a display control module.

The query module is configured to query the position of the picture currently displayed by the display unit in the storage unit. The calling module retrieves the image adjacent to the currently displayed image for decoding according to the position of the currently displayed image of the display unit that is queried by the query module, and updates the temporary storage unit according to the decoded data of the image, so that the calling module The temporary storage unit stores the current display picture, the previous picture of the currently displayed picture, and the decoded picture of the next picture. The command receiving module receives the flip signal of the input unit. The display control module is configured to determine whether the flipping signal is flipped up or down according to the flipping signal, and is updated in the display unit according to the decoded data of the previous image in the temporary storage unit when the flipping signal is the flipping signal Displaying, when the flipping signal is a downward flipping signal, the data decoded according to the next picture in the temporary storage unit is updated and displayed on the display unit.

A method for reducing operation response time, providing a storage unit for storing pictures and a temporary storage unit for temporarily storing data, the picture composing a plurality of albums, the method comprising the steps of: querying a location in a storage unit where the currently displayed picture is located Retrieving a picture adjacent to the current display picture in the storage unit for decoding, and updating the decoded picture data stored in the temporary storage unit according to the decoded data, so that the temporary storage unit stores The currently displayed picture, the previous picture of the currently displayed picture, and the decoded picture of the next picture; receiving a flip signal; and determining whether to flip up or down according to the received flip signal, and according to the flipping The decoded data of the previous picture in the temporary storage unit displays the previous picture, and when it is flipped downward, according to the temporary storage unit The decoded picture of the next picture shows the next picture.

Through the electronic device of the present invention and the method for reducing the response time of the operation, the picture that may be browsed is decoded and then transferred to the temporary storage unit, and the user's operation can be quickly responded when browsing the picture or other multimedia files.

Please refer to FIG. 1 , which is an internal structural diagram of a preferred embodiment of an electronic device according to the present invention. The electronic device 1 can be an electronic device having a picture display function, such as an electronic photo frame, an electronic book, or a mobile phone. The electronic device 1 includes at least one processing unit 10, a display unit 20, a storage unit 30, an interface unit 40, an input unit 50, a power source 60, and a temporary storage unit 70.

The interface unit 40 is configured to connect to an external storage device (not shown). The interface unit 40 can be a slot, a serial interface, or a wireless communication module. The external storage device can be used to expand an electronic device. A memory card such as an SD (Secure Digital) card or a CF (Compact Flash) card of a storage capacity may be an electronic device such as a digital camera or a computer that is connected to the interface unit 40 by wire or wirelessly. The power source 60 supplies power to various components of the electronic device 1. The input unit 50 is configured to generate a corresponding operation signal in response to a user's operation, and the input unit 50 can be a button, a touch pad, or the like. The storage unit 30 is for storing pictures. Among them, the picture constitutes multiple albums. The temporary storage unit 70 is configured to temporarily store the decoded data of the picture.

The processing unit 10 further includes an instruction receiving module 101, a query module 102, a calling module 103, and a display control module 104.

When the display unit 20 of the electronic device 1 is displaying a picture. The display control module 104 generates a trigger command to the query module 102. The query module 102 should trigger the instruction to query the position of the picture currently displayed by the display unit 20 at the storage unit 30, for example, to query which album of the picture is in the picture. The retrieving module 103 retrieves the adjacent picture of the currently displayed picture from the storage unit 30 according to the position of the picture currently displayed by the display unit 20 in the storage unit 30, and according to the The picture decoded data update temporary storage unit 70 is configured such that the temporary display unit 70 stores the current picture and the previous picture of the current picture and the data decoded by the next picture.

In the preferred embodiment of the present invention, when the user performs an operation of flipping a picture through the input unit 50, the input unit 50 generates a flip signal. The command receiving module 101 is configured to receive the flip signal generated by the input unit 50. The display control module 104 determines whether the flipping signal received by the receiving module 101 is flipped up or down. When the page is flipped up, the display control module 104 stores the previous one according to the temporary storage unit 70. The data control after the picture is decoded displays the previous picture of the currently displayed picture on the display unit 20. When it is determined that the page is page down, the display control module 104 is based on the next page stored in the temporary storage unit 70. The data control after the picture is decoded displays the next picture of the currently displayed picture on the display unit 20.

When the display unit 20 updates the displayed picture, the display control module 104 simultaneously generates a trigger instruction, and the query module 102 immediately responds to the instruction and immediately queries the position of the currently displayed picture in the storage unit 30, and The retrieving module 103 stores the temporary storage unit 70 in addition to the current Displaying the deleted data of the picture other than the decoded picture, and retrieving the previous picture and the next picture of the picture currently displayed by the display unit 20 from the storage unit 30 for decoding and storing to the temporary storage unit. 70.

In other embodiments, when the updated display picture is a downward scrolling picture, after the picture display is updated, the previous picture of the updated picture at this time is the picture displayed before the update. Since the decoded data corresponding to the displayed picture before the update and the decoded data corresponding to the updated picture are already stored in the temporary storage unit 70, the retrieval module 103 only retrieves the current display from the storage unit 30. The next picture of the picture is decoded and stored in the temporary storage unit 70, and the decoded data of the previous picture of the picture displayed before the update in the temporary storage unit 70 is deleted. If the updated display picture is a flip picture, the next picture displayed after the update is the picture displayed before the update, and the decoded data corresponding to the currently displayed picture is already stored in the temporary storage unit 70, so The module 103 retrieves only the previous picture of the currently displayed picture from the storage unit 30, decodes it, stores it in the temporary storage unit 70, and deletes the decoded data of the next picture of the picture displayed before the update.

Therefore, the temporary display unit 70 always temporarily stores the currently displayed picture and the decoded picture of the previous picture and the next picture of the current picture. When the user flips through the picture, the decoded data of the previous picture or the next picture can be obtained from the temporary storage unit 70 regardless of the flipping or scrolling down, thereby quickly displaying the picture and reducing the operation response time.

If the picture currently displayed by the display unit 20 is the last one of the albums in the album, the next picture retrieved by the module 103 is the next one. The first of the album or the first of the album. If the picture currently displayed by the display unit 20 is the first picture of the album, the call module 103 retrieves the last/first picture of the previous album or the last picture of the album.

The electronic device 1 of the present invention decodes and stores the picture that may be displayed next in advance and stores it in the temporary storage unit 70. When the user operates the review picture, the image decoded data is retrieved from the temporary storage unit 70. The picture is displayed, thereby greatly increasing the display speed of the picture and reducing the response operation time of the electronic device 1.

Referring to FIG. 2, a flow chart of a method for reducing an operation response time in a preferred embodiment of the present invention. First, after the display unit 20 updates the displayed picture, the query module 102 queries the position of the picture currently displayed by the display unit 2 in the storage unit 30 (S201); the retrieval module 103 retrieves the picture from the storage unit 30. The picture adjacent to the currently displayed picture is decoded, and the temporary storage unit 70 is updated according to the decoded data of the picture, so that the temporary display unit 70 stores the current picture, the previous picture of the currently displayed picture, and the next picture. The data decoded by the picture is specifically: deleting the decoded picture of the picture other than the currently displayed picture decoded data originally stored in the temporary storage unit 70, and recalling the previous picture of the currently displayed picture of the display unit 20 in the storage unit 30. And the next picture is decoded and stored in the temporary storage unit 70; or, when the updated display picture is flipped up, the calling module 103 retrieves the previous display currently displayed by the display unit 20 from the storage unit 30. The picture is decoded and stored in the temporary storage unit 70, and the decoded data of the next picture of the display picture before the display is updated is deleted from the temporary storage unit 70; when the update displays the picture When turning down the retrieval module The first picture currently displayed by the display unit 20 is retrieved from the storage unit 30 for decoding, and then stored in the temporary storage unit 70, and the decoded data of the previous picture of the picture displayed before the display is updated from the temporary storage unit 70. Deleting (S202); the command receiving module 101 receives a flipping signal (S203); the display control module 104 determines whether the flipping signal is flipped up or down according to the flipping signal, and is based on the flipping signal when the flipping signal is the flipping signal The data decoded by the previous picture in the storage unit 70 is updated and displayed on the display unit, and the data decoded according to the next picture in the temporary storage unit is performed on the display unit when the flip signal is a downward flip signal. The display is updated (S204).

1‧‧‧Electronic device

10‧‧‧Processing unit

20‧‧‧ display unit

30‧‧‧storage unit

40‧‧‧Interface unit

50‧‧‧ input unit

60‧‧‧Power supply

70‧‧‧Scratch unit

101‧‧‧Instruction Receiver Module

102‧‧‧Query Module

103‧‧‧Receive module

104‧‧‧Display Control Module

S201‧‧‧Query the location in the storage unit where the currently displayed picture is located

S202‧‧‧Retrieving the picture adjacent to the current picture for decoding, and updating the decoded picture data stored in the temporary storage unit, so that the current display picture and the previous picture of the currently displayed picture are stored in the temporary storage unit And the decoded data of the next picture

S203‧‧‧ Have you received the flipping signal?

S204‧‧‧ is judged to be flipped up or down according to the received flip signal, and correspondingly displays the previous picture or the next according to the decoded information of the previous picture or the next picture in the temporary storage unit image

1 is a hardware structural diagram of an electronic device according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

2 is a flow chart of a method for reducing an operation response time in a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

S201‧‧‧Query the location in the storage unit where the currently displayed picture is located

S202‧‧‧Retrieving the picture adjacent to the current picture for decoding, and updating the decoded picture data stored in the temporary storage unit, so that the current display picture and the previous picture of the currently displayed picture are stored in the temporary storage unit And the decoded data of the next picture

S203‧‧‧ Have you received the flipping signal?

S204‧‧‧ is judged to be flipped up or down according to the received flip signal, and correspondingly displays the previous picture or the next according to the decoded information of the previous picture or the next picture in the temporary storage unit image

Claims (12)

An electronic device includes a processing unit, a storage unit, an input unit, and a display unit. The storage unit is configured to store a plurality of pictures, and the plurality of pictures constitute a plurality of albums, and the input unit is used for user operation. The electronic device performs a browsing of the image to generate a flipping signal. The electronic device further includes: a temporary storage unit for temporarily storing the data; the processing unit further includes: a query module, configured to query the display unit The position of the currently displayed picture in the storage unit; a call module, according to the position of the picture currently displayed by the display unit queried by the query module, retrieves the picture adjacent to the currently displayed picture for decoding, and according to the picture The decoded data update temporary storage unit, wherein the temporary storage unit stores the current display picture, the previous picture of the currently displayed picture, and the decoded picture of the next picture; and an instruction receiving module, configured to receive the a flipping signal of the input unit; and a display control module for determining whether to flip up or down according to the flipping signal And when the flipping signal is the flipping signal, the data decoded according to the previous image in the temporary storage unit is updated and displayed on the display unit, and when the flipping signal is the downward flipping signal, according to the next in the temporary storage unit The decoded data of the picture is updated and displayed on the display unit. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the calling module retrieves a picture adjacent to the currently displayed picture for decoding, and updates the temporary storage unit according to the decoded data of the picture: deleting the temporary storage The decoded data of other pictures other than the currently displayed picture decoding data originally stored in the unit And the previous picture and the next picture currently displayed by the display unit are retrieved from the storage unit and decoded to be stored in the temporary storage unit. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the calling module retrieves a picture adjacent to the currently displayed picture for decoding, and updates the temporary storage unit according to the decoded data of the picture: the call When the display control module updates and displays the previous picture, the previous picture of the currently displayed picture of the display unit is retrieved from the storage unit, decoded, stored in the temporary storage unit, and the picture displayed before the display is updated. The decoded data of the next picture is deleted from the temporary storage unit; when the display control module updates and displays the next picture, the calling module retrieves the next display picture of the display unit from the storage unit. The picture is decoded and stored in the temporary storage unit, and the decoded data of the previous picture of the picture displayed before the update is deleted from the temporary storage unit. The electronic device according to claim 1, wherein if the currently displayed picture is the last one of the albums, the next picture captured by the module is the next picture, which is followed by The first of the next album or the first of the album. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein if the currently displayed picture is the first picture of the album, the neighboring picture retrieved by the module is the previous picture, and then The last one of the previous album, the first one, or the last one of the album. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the input unit is a button or a touch pad. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the electronic device is one of an electronic photo frame, a mobile phone, or an electronic book. A method for reducing the response time of an operation, providing a storage unit for storing The picture and a temporary storage unit are used for temporarily storing data, and the picture constitutes a plurality of albums. The improvement comprises the steps of: querying a location in a storage unit where the currently displayed picture is located; and recalling the current display in the storage unit. The adjacent picture of the picture is decoded, and the decoded picture data stored in the temporary storage unit is updated according to the decoded data, so that the current display picture and the current display picture are stored in the temporary storage unit. The picture and the decoded picture of the next picture; receiving a flip signal; and determining whether to flip up or down according to the received flip signal, and according to the previous picture in the temporary storage unit when flipping upward The decoded data displays the previous picture, and when it is flipped downward, the next picture is displayed according to the decoded data of the next picture in the temporary storage unit. The method for reducing an operation response time according to claim 8, wherein the step retrieves a picture adjacent to the current display picture in the storage unit for decoding, and updates the temporary storage unit according to the decoded data. The decoded picture data stored in the method includes the steps of: deleting the decoded data of the other pictures other than the currently displayed picture decoded data originally stored in the temporary storage unit; and recalling the previous picture of the currently displayed picture of the display unit from the storage unit The picture and the next picture are decoded and stored in the temporary storage unit. The method for reducing an operation response time according to claim 8, wherein the step retrieves a picture adjacent to the current display picture in the storage unit for decoding, and updates the temporary storage unit according to the decoded data. The stored decoded picture data includes the following steps: when the update display is to scroll up the picture, the calling module is from the storage list The meta-picture retrieves the previous picture of the currently displayed picture of the display unit, decodes it, stores it to the temporary storage unit, and deletes the decoded data of the next picture of the display picture before switching display from the temporary storage unit; when the update is displayed When the picture is scrolled down, the calling module retrieves the next picture displayed by the current display unit from the storage unit, decodes it, stores it in the temporary storage unit, and switches the previous picture of the displayed picture before the display. The decoded data is deleted from the temporary storage unit. The method for reducing the response time of the operation, as described in claim 8, wherein if the currently displayed picture is the last one of the albums, the step is to retrieve the picture adjacent to the currently displayed picture in the storage unit for decoding. If the adjacent picture is the next one, the first picture of the next album or the first picture of the current album is called for decoding. The method for reducing the response time of an operation as described in claim 8, wherein if the currently displayed picture is the first picture of the album, the step is to retrieve the picture adjacent to the currently displayed picture in the storage unit for decoding. If the adjacent picture is the previous one, the last one or the first one of the previous album or the last one of the album is called and decoded and stored in the temporary storage unit.