WO2015078257A1

WO2015078257A1 - Search information display device and method

Info

Publication number: WO2015078257A1
Application number: PCT/CN2014/089708
Authority: WO
Inventors: 张凤愉; 李阳; 李时斌; 吴海波
Original assignee: 乐视网信息技术（北京）股份有限公司
Priority date: 2013-11-27
Filing date: 2014-10-28
Publication date: 2015-06-04
Also published as: CN103631526A

Abstract

The present application relates to the technical field of display devices, and particularly to a search information display device and method, which are used to solve the problem that the information search speed of an existing smart television is slower. The search information display device which is provided in the embodiments of the present application comprises: a keyboard input box control which is used for receiving an operation in a keyboard area on a device screen, acquiring a character corresponding to the operation, determining a retrieval condition according to the acquired character, and sending the determined retrieval condition to a server which is connected to the device; and a search information display control which is used for receiving a retrieval result which is determined by the server connected to the device according to the retrieval condition, and conducting display in a search information display area on the device screen according to the retrieval result. By way of combining a keyboard control and an input box control into a keyboard input box control, the interaction between the keyboard control and the input box control is avoided, thereby increasing the search speed.

Description

Device and method for displaying search information

The present application claims priority to Chinese Patent Application No. 201310616369.0, filed on November 27, 2013, the entire disclosure of which is incorporated herein by reference. In the application.

Technical field

The present application relates to the field of display device technologies, and in particular, to an apparatus and method for displaying search information.

Background technique

The arrival of smart TV conforms to the trend of “high definition”, “networking” and “intelligence” of TV sets. When PCs (Personal Computers) have long been intelligent, and mobile phones and tablets are also intelligent in a large area, TVs have also become intelligent. Smart TVs usually have Internet, cable TV, PC, etc. The channel acquires video data and provides a simple user interface that allows users to view clear video on the big screen of a smart TV with a very simple operation.

Information search is an important function of smart TV. With information search, users of smart TVs can quickly get the information they need, such as videos they like to watch, news of interest, and more. As shown in FIG. 1 , the information search function of the existing smart TV is a keyboard control 101 (abbreviated as keyboard control 101) of the smart TV, an input box control 102 of the smart TV (referred to as input box control 102 for short), and search information of the smart television. The display control 103 (referred to as the search information display control 103) and the server connected to the smart TV are completed, and the search process includes:

The keyboard control 101 receives the operation of the keyboard area on the smart TV screen by the user through an external keyboard or mouse, acquires the character corresponding to the operation, and sends the acquired character to the input box control 102;

The input box control 102 receives the characters sent by the keyboard control 101, displays the acquired characters in the information retrieval input box on the smart TV screen, determines the retrieval condition according to the received characters, and transmits the determined retrieval conditions to the smart television connection. server;

The server determines the retrieval result according to the received retrieval condition, and sends the retrieval result to the search information display control 103;

The search information display control 103 displays the search result on the search information display area on the smart TV screen based on the received retrieval result.

The above process involves the interaction of the keyboard control 101 and the input box control 102, which results in a slower search speed.

Summary of the invention

The embodiment of the present invention provides an apparatus and a method for displaying search information, which are used to solve the problem that the existing smart TV displays the search information by involving the interaction between the keyboard control and the input box control of the smart TV, resulting in a slow search speed.

In a first aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides an apparatus for displaying search information, including:

a keyboard input box control, configured to receive an operation of a keyboard area on the screen of the device, acquire a character corresponding to the operation, and determine a retrieval condition according to the acquired character, and send the determined retrieval condition to the The server to which the device is connected;

And a search information display control for receiving a search result determined by the server connected to the device according to the search condition, and displaying the search information display area on the device screen according to the search result.

By synthesizing the keyboard control and the input box control into a keyboard input box control, the interaction between the keyboard control and the input box control is avoided, and the search speed is improved.

Preferably, the keyboard input box control is further configured to:

After acquiring the character corresponding to the operation, the acquired character is displayed in an information retrieval input box on the device screen.

In this preferred embodiment, the user of the device can be made to easily confirm whether the information he or she entered is correct by displaying the acquired character in the information retrieval input box on the device screen.

Preferably, the search information display control is specifically configured to:

Receiving, by the server connected to the device, a retrieval result determined according to the retrieval condition, and segmenting the retrieval result; and performing segmentation on the segmented retrieval result as follows: segmenting the retrieval result And the obtained single-segment retrieval result is converted into media data that can be displayed by the device. Then, display is performed on the search information display area on the device screen according to the converted displayable media data.

In the preferred solution, the search information display control segments the search result; and displays the segmented search result segment by segment, shortening the time for converting the search result into displayable media data, further improving the search speed .

The retrieval result is segmented according to the size of the search information display area on the device screen or the number of information items displayed per screen.

In the present preferred embodiment, the retrieval result is segmented according to the size of the search information display area on the device screen or the number of information items displayed per screen, thereby making the segmentation of the retrieval result more accurate.

Preferably, the keyboard area on the screen of the device is adjacent to the search information display area on the screen of the device.

In the preferred solution, by setting the keyboard area on the screen of the device and the search information display area on the screen of the device to be adjacent, the user of the device is frequently avoided in the keyboard area and the search information display area. Moving between them can further speed up the retrieval.

In a second aspect, the embodiment of the present application provides a method for displaying search information, including:

Receiving, by the keyboard input box control of the display device, an operation of the keyboard area on the screen of the display device, acquiring a character corresponding to the operation, determining a search condition according to the acquired character, and transmitting the determined search condition to the user Describe the server to which the device is connected;

The search information display control of the display device receives a search result determined by the server connected to the display device according to the search condition, and displays the search information display area on the display device screen according to the search result.

Preferably, after the keyboard input box control of the display device acquires the character corresponding to the operation, the method further includes:

An information retrieval input box of a keyboard input control of the display device on a screen of the display device The obtained character is displayed inside.

Preferably, after the search information display control of the display device receives the search result, before the displaying according to the search result, the method further includes: the search information display control of the display device divides the search result segment;

The search display control of the display device is displayed on the display information display area on the display device screen according to the search result, including:

The search display control of the display device performs the following operations for the segmented retrieval result: converting the single segment retrieval result obtained by segmenting the retrieval result into the media data displayable by the device, according to the conversion The subsequent displayable media data is displayed on the search information display area on the display device screen.

Preferably, the search information display control of the display device segments the search result, including:

The search information display control of the display device segments the search result according to the size of the search information display area on the screen of the display device or the number of information items displayed per screen.

Preferably, the keyboard area on the screen of the display device is adjacent to the search information display area on the screen of the device.

DRAWINGS

1 is a schematic structural diagram of a smart television that implements an information search function in the background art;

2 is a schematic structural diagram of an apparatus for displaying search information according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of a method for displaying search information according to an embodiment of the present application;

4 is a schematic diagram showing a layout manner of a general smart television display area;

FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram of a device display area layout manner according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

6A is a schematic diagram showing a conversion processing time when the retrieval result is not segmented;

Fig. 6B is a diagram showing the conversion processing time when the retrieval result is segmented.

detailed description

Embodiments of the present application provide an apparatus and method for displaying search information.

The device for displaying search information provided by the embodiment of the present application includes: a keyboard input box control for receiving an operation of a keyboard area of a user on a device screen, acquiring a character corresponding to the operation, and determining a retrieval condition according to the acquired character, and determining The search condition is sent to the server connected to the device; the search information display control is configured to receive the search result determined by the server connected to the device according to the search condition, and display the search information display area on the device screen according to the search result.

By combining the keyboard control and the input box control into one control, the keyboard input box control, the interaction between the keyboard control and the input box control can be avoided, thereby improving the speed of information search.

It should be noted that the embodiment of the present application is not limited to the smart television, and all the devices having the functions of information retrieval and display retrieval information can adopt the method provided by the embodiment of the present application to improve the speed of information search.

The embodiments of the present application are described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

FIG. 2 is a schematic structural diagram of an apparatus for implementing display search information according to an embodiment of the present application. As shown in Figure 2, the device includes:

a keyboard input box control 201, configured to receive an operation of a keyboard area on a screen of the display device, obtain a character corresponding to the operation, and determine a retrieval condition according to the acquired character, and send the determined retrieval condition to a server connected to the device;

The search information display control 202 is configured to receive a search result determined by the server connected to the device according to the search condition, and display the search information display area on the screen of the device according to the search result.

Optionally, the keyboard input box control 201 is further configured to:

After receiving the user's operation on the keyboard area on the screen of the device, and acquiring the character corresponding to the operation, the acquired character is displayed in the information retrieval input box on the device screen.

Optionally, the keyboard input box control 201 is specifically configured to:

Receiving operation of a keyboard area on the screen of the device by a user through a keyboard or mouse externally connected to the device.

Optionally, the keyboard input box control 201 is specifically configured to:

The determined search condition is sent to the server connected to the device by wireless communication; the search information display control 202 is specifically configured to: receive, by means of wireless communication, a search result determined by the server connected to the device according to the search condition.

Optionally, the search information display control 202 is specifically configured to:

Receiving a search result determined by the server connected to the device according to the retrieval condition, and segmenting the retrieval result; performing the following operations step by step for the segmented retrieval result: converting the single segment retrieval result obtained by segmenting the retrieval result into a device After the displayable media data is displayed, the converted displayable media data is displayed on the display information display area on the device screen.

Usually, there are many items of search information involved in the search result obtained by the user for one search, and it cannot be presented once in the search information display area of the device screen. The current practice is that after receiving the retrieval result sent by the server, the device converts all the received retrieval results into media data (such as pictures, video streams, etc.) that can be presented on the screen, due to the converted data. The amount of data is very large, it takes up a lot of device memory and greatly consumes the processing power of the device.

In a preferred embodiment of the present application, after the search result is received, the search information display control 202 segments the search result according to the search result; when the search information display control 202 displays the search information display area on the device screen, according to The segmented search result is performed piece by piece as follows: after converting the single segment search result into media data that can be displayed by the device, according to the converted The displayed media data is displayed in the search information display area on the device screen. This can reduce the memory usage of the device and the processing power consumption of the device. At the same time, since the search results are not required to be converted after all the search results are displayed, the retrieval speed is also improved.

Optionally, after the user displays the search result of the screen, the next segment of the search result may be processed when the user views the search result of the screen. This also reduces the waiting time for the user to view the next screen search result.

For example, 100 pieces of search information included in the search result obtained based on the search condition of the user. If the search information display control 202 converts all the retrieval results into media data that can be displayed by the device, the converted media data can reach 100 Mbytes (for example only), at least 100 Mbytes of the device is required, and the conversion processing time can reach 10 seconds. As shown in Figure 6A. That is, the user has to wait at least 10 seconds before seeing the retrieved information (this does not include the interaction time between the device and the processor before).

If the preferred embodiment of the present application is adopted, the search information display control 202 segments the search result after receiving the search result, and assumes that the search information display area on the device screen can display five icons on one screen, the search information display control 202 can The received search results will be in 20 segments: SEG1, SEG2, ..., SEG20, processed piece by piece. Thus, after the search information display control 202 converts a piece of search result into media data, it occupies about 100 Mbytes/20=5 Mbytes, and the conversion processing time is about 10 sec/20=0.5 sec, as shown in FIG. 6B. This greatly reduces the memory usage of the device and the processing power consumption of the device, and the waiting time of the user can be greatly shortened.

The search results are segmented according to the size of the search information display area on the device screen or the number of information items displayed per screen.

For example, if the search information display area on the device screen is small, the information items displayed per screen are less when the area of the display area occupied by each search information is constant. At this time, the search result can be divided into more. segment. Still take the above example as an example. According to the size of the conventional search information display area, five pieces of search information can be displayed per screen, but if the size of the search information display area is reduced, for example, only three pieces of information can be displayed per screen, the above search results can be divided into 34 paragraphs.

Or, consider that the search information display area on the device screen is a regular size, and each screen is displayed. The number of information items is 10 (in this case, the display area occupied by each search information will be reduced), and the above search result can be divided into 10 segments.

Generally, the size of the search information display area on the device screen, and the information items displayed on each screen are user-settable. Alternatively, the search information display control 202 may also determine the device set by the user before segmenting the search result. The search information on the screen displays the size of the area or the information items displayed on each screen, and segments the search results based on the determined information.

Optionally, the keyboard area on the device screen is adjacent to the search information display area on the display device screen.

Typically, smart TVs have larger screens, such as 37 inches to 60 inches, or even larger. Whether the layout of each display area of the smart TV is reasonable or not directly affects the speed of information retrieval by the user. On the screen of the existing smart TV, the keyboard area is generally located at the bottom of the screen, and the information retrieval input box is located at the top of the screen. A common screen layout is shown in FIG. 4 . The top is the information retrieval input box, the middle is the search information display area, and the bottom is the keyboard area. Such a layout method will enable the user of the smart TV to input a character in the keyboard area, and the line of sight should continuously skip the large area of the search information display area in the middle to find the information retrieval input box, confirm that the input is correct, and then Continue to enter the next character.

Compared with small-screen devices such as mobile phones and computers, smart TVs are home-based large-screen devices. The above layout will cause visual fatigue for users of smart TVs. The user needs to constantly switch the line of sight between the keyboard area and the information retrieval input box, increasing the probability of misoperation and reducing the speed of retrieval.

With the preferred solution provided by the embodiment of the present application, the keyboard area on the smart TV screen and the search information display area on the smart TV screen are set adjacent to each other, for example, in four ways as shown in FIG. 5, when the user passes The keyboard or mouse trigger focus moves to a certain character in the keyboard area. By clicking the OK button or moving the focus, the keyboard input box control 201 determines the retrieval condition according to the received characters, and transmits the determined retrieval condition to the server connected to the smart TV. (For example, by calling the search page interface provided by the server), the requesting server returns the search results. The character selected in the user's focus frame appears in the information retrieval input box at the closest distance from the user's focus, and the cheaper user is fast. Multiple times, accurately select characters for searching.

Based on the same inventive concept, a method for displaying search information is also provided in the embodiment of the present application. The principle of solving the problem is similar to the device in the embodiment of the present application. Therefore, the implementation may refer to the implementation of the device, and the repetition is not Let me repeat.

FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of a method for displaying search information according to an embodiment of the present application. As shown in FIG. 3, the method includes:

S301: The keyboard input box control of the display device receives the operation of the keyboard area of the user on the screen of the display device, acquires characters corresponding to the operation, determines a retrieval condition according to the acquired characters, and sends the determined retrieval condition to the server connected to the display device. ;

S302: The search information display control of the display device receives the search result determined by the server connected to the display device according to the search condition, and displays the search information display area on the screen of the display device according to the search result.

Optionally, after the keyboard input box control of the display device acquires the character corresponding to the operation in step S301, the method further includes:

The keyboard input control of the display device displays the acquired characters in the information retrieval input box on the display device screen.

Optionally, after the search information display control of the display device receives the search result in step S302, before the displaying according to the search result, the method further includes: the search information display control of the display device segments the search result;

The search display control of the display device in step S302 displays the search information display area on the display device screen according to the search result, including:

The search display control of the display device performs the following operations step by step for the segmented retrieval result:

Converting the single-segment search result obtained by segmenting the search result into media data that can be displayed by the device;

Displayed in the search information display area on the display device screen according to the converted displayable media data.

Optionally, the search information display control of the display device segments the search result, including:

The search information display control of the display device segments the search results according to the following information:

The size of the search information display area on the display device screen; or

The number of information items displayed per screen.

Optionally, the keyboard input box control of the display device in step S301 receives the operation of the keyboard area of the user on the screen of the display device, including:

The keyboard input box control of the display device receives the operation of the keyboard area of the display device by the user through a keyboard or mouse externally connected to the display device.

Optionally, the keyboard input box control of the display device in step S301 sends the determined search condition to the server connected to the display device, including:

The keyboard input box control of the display device sends the determined retrieval condition to the server connected to the display device by wireless communication;

The search information display control of the display device in step S302 receives the search result determined by the server connected to the display device according to the search condition, and includes:

The search information display control of the display device receives the search result determined by the server connected to the device according to the retrieval condition by wireless communication.

Optionally, the keyboard area on the display device screen is adjacent to the search information display area on the device screen.

Those skilled in the art will appreciate that embodiments of the present application can be provided as a method, system, or computer program product. Thus, the present application can take the form of an entirely hardware embodiment, an entirely software embodiment, or an embodiment in combination of software and hardware. Moreover, the application can take the form of a computer program product embodied on one or more computer-usable storage media (including but not limited to disk storage, CD-ROM, optical storage, etc.) including computer usable program code.

The present application is described with reference to flowchart illustrations and/or block diagrams of methods, apparatus (system), and computer program products according to embodiments of the present application. It will be understood that each flow and/or block of the flowchart illustrations and/or FIG. These computer program instructions can be provided to a processor of a general purpose computer, a special purpose computer, an embedded processor, or other programmable data processing device to produce a machine that enables Instructions executed by a processor of a computer or other programmable data processing device generate means for implementing the functions specified in one or more blocks of the flowchart or in a block or blocks of the flowchart.

The computer program instructions can also be stored in a computer readable memory that can direct a computer or other programmable data processing device to operate in a particular manner, such that the instructions stored in the computer readable memory produce an article of manufacture comprising the instruction device. The apparatus implements the functions specified in one or more blocks of a flow or a flow and/or block diagram of the flowchart.

These computer program instructions can also be loaded onto a computer or other programmable data processing device such that a series of operational steps are performed on a computer or other programmable device to produce computer-implemented processing for execution on a computer or other programmable device. The instructions provide steps for implementing the functions specified in one or more of the flow or in a block or blocks of a flow diagram.

While the preferred embodiment of the present application has been described, it will be apparent that those skilled in the art can make further changes and modifications to the embodiments. Therefore, the appended claims are intended to be interpreted as including the preferred embodiments and the modifications and

It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various modifications and changes can be made in the present application without departing from the spirit and scope of the application. Thus, it is intended that the present invention cover the modifications and variations of the present invention.

Claims

A device for displaying search information, characterized in that the device comprises:

a keyboard input box control, configured to receive an operation of a keyboard area on the screen of the device, acquire a character corresponding to the operation, and determine a retrieval condition according to the acquired character, and send the determined retrieval condition to the The server to which the device is connected;

And a search information display control for receiving a search result determined by the server connected to the device according to the search condition, and displaying the search information display area on the device screen according to the search result.
The device of claim 1 wherein said keyboard input box control is further configured to:

After acquiring the character corresponding to the operation, the acquired character is displayed in an information retrieval input box on the device screen.
The device according to claim 1, wherein the search information display control is specifically configured to:

Receiving, by the server connected to the device, a retrieval result determined according to the retrieval condition, and segmenting the retrieval result; and performing segmentation on the segmented retrieval result as follows: segmenting the retrieval result After the obtained single-segment retrieval result is converted into the media data displayable by the device, the converted displayable media data is displayed on the search information display area on the device screen.
The device according to claim 3, wherein the search information display control is specifically configured to:

The retrieval result is segmented according to the size of the search information display area on the device screen or the number of information items displayed per screen.
The device according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein said keyboard area on said device screen is adjacent to said search information display area on said device screen.
A method for displaying search information, the method comprising:

a keyboard input box control of the display device receives the operation of the keyboard area on the display device screen And acquiring a character corresponding to the operation, and determining a retrieval condition according to the acquired character, and transmitting the determined retrieval condition to a server connected to the display device;

The search information display control of the display device receives a search result determined by the server connected to the display device according to the search condition, and displays the search information display area on the display device screen according to the search result.
The method of claim 6, wherein after the keyboard input box control of the display device acquires the character corresponding to the operation, the method further includes:

The keyboard input control of the display device displays the acquired character in an information retrieval input box on the display device screen.
The method according to claim 6, wherein after the search information display control of the display device receives the search result and before displaying according to the search result, the method further comprises: searching by the display device An information display control segments the search result;

The search display control of the display device is displayed on the display information display area on the display device screen according to the search result, including:

The search display control of the display device performs the following operations for the segmented retrieval result: converting the single segment retrieval result obtained by segmenting the retrieval result into the media data displayable by the device, according to the conversion The subsequent displayable media data is displayed on the search information display area on the display device screen.
The method according to claim 8, wherein the search information display control of the display device segments the search result, including:

The search information display control of the display device segments the search result according to the size of the search information display area on the screen of the display device or the number of information items displayed per screen.
A method according to any one of claims 6 to 9, wherein said keyboard area on said display device screen is adjacent to said search information display area on said device screen.