WO2022001408A1 - Character display method, character display apparatus, and terminal device - Google Patents

Abstract

Provided are a character display method, a character display apparatus, and a terminal device, which relate to the technical field of terminals. The character display method comprises: during the process of a terminal device displaying a character in a first font, if a target character cannot be displayed in the first font, the terminal device acquiring second outline information of the target character from a second font packet, wherein the second outline information is used for displaying the target character in a second font (S801); the terminal device identifying, according to the second outline information, each character unit in the target character, and position information of each character unit in the target character (S802); and the terminal device displaying the target character in the first font according to sub-outline information, corresponding to the first font, of each character unit, and the position information (S803). By means of the provided character display method, a terminal device can avoid abnormal font display to a certain extent.

Description

Character display method, character display device and terminal equipment

This application claims the priority of the Chinese patent application with the application number 202010598200.7 and the application title "Character Display Method, Character Display Device and Terminal Equipment", which was submitted to the State Intellectual Property Office on June 28, 2020, the entire contents of which are incorporated by reference in this application.

technical field

The present application relates to the technical field of terminals, and in particular, to a character display method, a character display device and a terminal device.

Background technique

The operating system of the terminal device usually has its own system font package, such as the Hei font package, the Kai font package, the Song font package, and so on. In addition, the terminal device can also install themed font packages according to user instructions, such as the Youyuan font package, the Chinese Xingkai font package, and the Huakang Doll body font package.

At present, the system font package includes almost all Chinese characters, but the theme font package is usually made according to the GB2312 standard, which only contains 6763 commonly used Chinese characters. Therefore, when the terminal device uses the theme font to display Chinese characters, when the Chinese character to be displayed is a rare character that is not included in the theme font package, the terminal device will not be able to display the rare character, or can only display the rare character according to the system font. Causes the font to display abnormally.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

The present application provides a character display method, a character display device and a terminal device, which can solve the problem of abnormal font display in the terminal device to a certain extent.

To achieve the above object, the application adopts the following technical solutions:

In a first aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides a character display method, which is applied to a terminal device, and the method includes:

In the process of displaying the characters in the first font, if the target character cannot be displayed in the first font, the second outline information of the target character is obtained from the second font package, and the second outline information is used to display in the first font. The second font displays the target character;

According to the second outline information, identify each character unit in the target character, and the position information of each character unit in the target character;

The target character is displayed in the first font according to the sub-outline information of each character unit corresponding to the first font and the position information.

With the character display method provided in this embodiment, when the terminal device encounters a character that cannot be displayed in the first font, it can identify each character unit and each character unit included in the character according to the existing second outline information of the character position information within the character. And according to the preset sub-outline information of each character unit corresponding to the first font, and the position information, the character is displayed intelligently in the first font, which avoids the problem of abnormal font display in the terminal device to a certain extent, and improves the user's experience. Text reading experience.

In some embodiments of the first aspect, displaying the target character in the first font according to the sub-contour information corresponding to the first font for each character unit and the position information, includes:

According to the sub-contour information and the position information, determine the first contour information of the target character;

The target character is displayed in the first font according to the first outline information.

In some embodiments of the first aspect, the character display method further includes storing the first outline information in a first font package corresponding to the first font.

It can be understood that when the terminal device encounters the target character again, the first outline information of the target character can be directly called from the first font package, which is beneficial to improve the display efficiency of the terminal device.

In some embodiments of the first aspect, displaying the target character in the first font according to the sub-contour information corresponding to the first font for each character unit and the position information, includes:

determining the display area of the target character in the display interface;

According to the position information, determine the display position of each character unit in the target character in the display area;

Each character unit is displayed in the first font at a corresponding display position according to the sub-contour information to display the target character.

It can be understood that by directly displaying each character unit included in the character display area in the first font, the target character is displayed, the process of generating outline information is avoided, and the target character can be displayed quickly.

In some embodiments of the first aspect, the sub-contour information is determined according to a plurality of basic characteristic characters in a first font package corresponding to the first font, and the plurality of basic characteristic characters include the target character each character unit in .

In some embodiments of the first aspect, the method further comprises:

obtaining third outline information of the plurality of basic characteristic characters from the first font package, where the third outline information is used to display the plurality of basic characteristic characters in the first font;

The sub-contour information is determined according to the third contour information.

In a second aspect, this embodiment provides a character display device, which is applied to a terminal device, and the character display device includes:

The information acquisition unit, in the process of displaying the characters in the first font, if the target character cannot be displayed in the first font, acquires the second outline information of the target character from the second font package, the second outline information for displaying the target character in a second font;

an identification unit for identifying each character unit in the target character according to the second outline information, and position information of the each character unit in the target character;

A display control unit, configured to display the target character in the first font according to the sub-outline information of each character unit corresponding to the first font and the position information.

In a third aspect, this embodiment provides a terminal device, including a display unit, a memory, a processor, and a computer program stored in the memory and executable on the processor, where the processor executes the computer The character display method described in the first aspect above is implemented in a program.

In a fourth aspect, this embodiment provides a computer-readable storage medium, where the computer-readable storage medium stores a computer program, and when the computer program is executed by a processor, implements the character display method described in the first aspect.

In a fifth aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides a computer program product that, when the computer program product runs on a terminal device, enables the terminal device to execute the character display method described in the first aspect above.

In a sixth aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides a chip system, the chip system includes a processor, the processor is coupled to a memory, and the processor executes a computer program stored in the memory, so as to achieve the above-mentioned first aspect. character display method described above. In this embodiment, the chip system may be a single chip or a chip module composed of multiple chips.

It can be understood that, for the beneficial effects of the foregoing second aspect to the sixth aspect, reference may be made to the relevant descriptions in the foregoing first aspect, and details are not described herein again.

Description of drawings

1 is a schematic structural diagram of a mobile phone to which a character display method provided by an embodiment of the present application is applicable;

2 is a schematic diagram of a software architecture to which the character display method provided by an embodiment of the present application is applicable;

FIG. 3 shows the characters shown in this embodiment

A schematic diagram of the contour information;

FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram 1 of a display interface provided in this embodiment;

FIG. 5 is a second schematic diagram of a display interface provided in this embodiment;

FIG. 6 is a schematic diagram 3 of a display interface provided in this embodiment;

FIG. 7 is a fourth schematic diagram of a display interface provided in this embodiment;

FIG. 8 is a flowchart of a method for displaying characters according to an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 9 is a schematic diagram of the position of a character unit according to an embodiment of the present application;

10a is a schematic diagram 1 of a display principle of a character provided by an embodiment of the present application;

10b is a second schematic diagram of a display principle of a character provided by an embodiment of the application;

FIG. 10c is a schematic diagram 3 of a display principle of a character according to an embodiment of the present application;

11 is a schematic diagram of a display interface provided by an embodiment of the present application;

12 is a flowchart of a method for determining a first character unit set provided by an embodiment of the present application;

13 is a flowchart of a method for determining a second character unit set provided by an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 14 is a schematic block diagram of the structure of a character display device provided by an embodiment of the present application.

detailed description

The character display method provided in the embodiments of the present application can be applied to terminal devices capable of displaying text information, such as mobile phones, tablet computers, e-readers, notebook computers, netbooks, and wearable devices. any restrictions.

It should be understood that the first, second, third and various numeral numbers involved in the present application are only for the convenience of description, and are not used to limit the scope of the present application.

Take the terminal device as a mobile phone as an example. FIG. 1 shows a block diagram of a partial structure of a mobile phone provided by an embodiment of the present application. Referring to FIG. 1 , the mobile phone includes a radio frequency (RF) circuit 110, a memory 120, an input unit 130, a display unit 140, a sensor 150, an audio circuit 160, a wireless fidelity (WiFi) module 170, a processor 180, And components such as power supply 190 . Those skilled in the art can understand that the structure of the mobile phone shown in FIG. 1 does not constitute a limitation on the mobile phone, and may include more or less components than the one shown, or combine some components, or arrange different components.

The following describes the various components of the mobile phone in detail with reference to Figure 1:

The RF circuit 110 can be used for receiving and sending signals during sending and receiving of information or during a call. In particular, after receiving the downlink information of the base station, it is processed by the processor 180; in addition, the designed uplink data is sent to the base station. Typically, the RF circuit includes, but is not limited to, an antenna, at least one amplifier, a transceiver, a coupler, a Low Noise Amplifier (LNA), a duplexer, and the like. In addition, RF circuitry 110 may communicate with networks and other devices via wireless communications. The above-mentioned wireless communication can use any communication standard or protocol, including but not limited to Global System of Mobile communication (GSM), General Packet Radio Service (General Packet Radio Service, GPRS), Code Division Multiple Access (Code Division) Multiple Access, CDMA), Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (Wideband Code Division Multiple Access, WCDMA), Long Term Evolution (Long Term Evolution, LTE)), email, Short Messaging Service (Short Messaging Service, SMS), etc.

The memory 120 can be used to store text information, software programs and modules, and the processor 180 executes various functional applications and data processing of the mobile phone by running the software programs and modules stored in the memory 120 . The memory 120 may mainly include a storage program area and a storage data area, wherein the storage program area may store an operating system, an application program required for at least one function (such as a character display function), and the like; the storage data area may store files created according to the use of the mobile phone. data (such as text information), etc. Additionally, memory 120 may include high-speed random access memory, and may also include non-volatile memory, such as at least one magnetic disk storage device, flash memory device, or other volatile solid state storage device.

The input unit 130 may be used for receiving inputted numerical or character information, and generating key signal input related to user setting and function control of the mobile phone. Specifically, the input unit 130 may include a touch panel 131 and other input devices 132 . The touch panel 131, also referred to as a touch screen, can collect the user's touch operations on or near it (such as the user's finger, stylus, etc., any suitable objects or accessories on or near the touch panel 131 ). operation), and drive the corresponding connection device according to the preset program. Optionally, the touch panel 131 may include two parts, a touch detection device and a touch controller. Among them, the touch detection device detects the user's touch orientation, detects the signal brought by the touch operation, and transmits the signal to the touch controller; the touch controller receives the touch information from the touch detection device, converts it into contact coordinates, and then sends it to the touch controller. To the processor 180, and can receive the commands sent by the processor 180 and execute them. In addition, the touch panel 131 can be implemented in various types such as resistive, capacitive, infrared, and surface acoustic waves. Besides the touch panel 131 , the input unit 130 may also include other input devices 132 . Other input devices 132 may include, but are not limited to, one or more of physical keyboards, function keys (such as volume control keys, switch keys, etc.), trackballs, mice, joysticks, and the like.

The display unit 140 may be used to display information input by the user or information provided to the user and various menus of the mobile phone. The display unit 140 may include a display panel 141. Optionally, the display panel 141 may be configured in the form of a liquid crystal display (Liquid Crystal Display, LCD), an organic light-emitting diode (Organic Light-Emitting Diode, OLED), and the like. Further, the touch panel 131 may cover the display panel 141, and when the touch panel 131 detects a touch operation on or near it, it transmits it to the processor 180 to determine the type of the touch event, and then the processor 180 determines the type of the touch event according to the touch event. Type provides corresponding visual output on display panel 141 . Although in FIG. 1, the touch panel 131 and the display panel 141 are used as two independent components to realize the input and input functions of the mobile phone, in some embodiments, the touch panel 131 and the display panel 141 can be integrated to form a Realize the input and output functions of the mobile phone.

The cell phone may also include at least one sensor 150, such as a light sensor, a motion sensor, and other sensors. Specifically, the light sensor may include an ambient light sensor and a proximity sensor, wherein the ambient light sensor may adjust the brightness of the display panel 141 according to the brightness of the ambient light, and the proximity sensor may turn off the display panel 141 and/or when the mobile phone is moved to the ear. or backlight. As a kind of motion sensor, the accelerometer sensor can detect the magnitude of acceleration in all directions (usually three axes), and can detect the magnitude and direction of gravity when it is stationary. games, magnetometer attitude calibration), vibration recognition related functions (such as pedometer, tapping), etc.; as for other sensors such as gyroscope, barometer, hygrometer, thermometer, infrared sensor, etc. Repeat.

The audio circuit 160, the speaker 161, and the microphone 162 can provide an audio interface between the user and the mobile phone. The audio circuit 160 can transmit the received audio data converted electrical signal to the speaker 161, and the speaker 161 converts it into a sound signal for output; on the other hand, the microphone 162 converts the collected sound signal into an electrical signal, which is converted by the audio circuit 160 After receiving, it is converted into audio data, and then the audio data is output to the processor 180 for processing, and then sent to, for example, another mobile phone through the RF circuit 110, or the audio data is output to the memory 120 for further processing.

WiFi is a short-distance wireless transmission technology, and the mobile phone can help users to send and receive emails, browse web pages and access streaming media through the WiFi module 170, which provides users with wireless broadband Internet access. Although FIG. 1 shows the WiFi module 170, it can be understood that it is not a necessary component of the mobile phone, and can be completely omitted as required within the scope of not changing the essence of the invention.

The processor 180 is the control center of the mobile phone, using various interfaces and lines to connect various parts of the entire mobile phone, by running or executing the software programs and/or modules stored in the memory 120, and calling the data stored in the memory 120. Various functions of the mobile phone and processing data, so as to monitor the mobile phone as a whole. Optionally, the processor 180 may include one or more processing units; preferably, the processor 180 may integrate an application processor and a modem processor, wherein the application processor mainly processes the operating system, user interface, and application programs, etc. , the modem processor mainly deals with wireless communication. It can be understood that, the above-mentioned modulation and demodulation processor may not be integrated into the processor 180 .

The processing units in the processor 180 include: a text control unit (Text View) 1801, a text drawing unit (Draw Text) 1802, and a graphics drawing engine 1803. Among them, the text control unit 1801 is used to determine display information such as the content, font size, and display shape of the text. The text drawing unit 1802 is used to control the typesetting style of the text. The graphics rendering engine (Skia) 1803 is used to finally determine the display image of the text in the display interface according to the display information and typesetting style of the text.

The cell phone also includes a power source 190 (eg, a battery) to power the various components. Preferably, the power supply can be logically connected to the processor 180 through a power management system, so that functions such as managing charging, discharging, and power consumption are implemented through the power management system.

Although not shown, the cell phone may also include a camera. Optionally, the position of the camera on the mobile phone may be front or rear, which is not limited in this embodiment of the present application.

Optionally, the mobile phone may include a single camera, a dual camera, or a triple camera, etc., which is not limited in this embodiment of the present application. For example, a cell phone may include three cameras, one for the main camera, one for the wide-angle camera, and one for the telephoto camera. When the mobile phone includes multiple cameras, the multiple cameras may all be front-mounted, or all of the cameras may be rear-mounted, or some of the cameras may be front-mounted and the other may be rear-mounted, which is not limited in this embodiment of the present application.

In addition, although not shown, the mobile phone may also include a Bluetooth module, etc., which will not be described in detail here.

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of a software structure of a mobile phone according to an embodiment of the present application. Taking the mobile phone operating system as the Android system as an example, in some embodiments, the Android system is divided into four layers, which are an application layer, an application framework layer (framework, FWK), a system layer, and a hardware abstraction layer. communicate through a software interface.

As shown in Figure 2, the application layer can be a series of application packages, and the application package can include applications such as SMS, calendar, camera, video, navigation, gallery, and calling.

The application framework layer provides an application programming interface (application programming interface, API) and a programming framework for applications in the application layer. The application framework layer may include some predefined functions, such as functions for receiving events sent by the application framework layer.

As shown in FIG. 2, the application framework layer may include a window manager, a resource manager, a notification manager, and the like.

A window manager is used to manage window programs. The window manager can get the size of the display screen, determine whether there is a status bar, lock the screen, take screenshots, etc. Content providers are used to store and retrieve data and make these data accessible to applications. The data may include video, images, audio, calls made and received, browsing history and bookmarks, phone book, etc.

The resource manager provides various resources for the application, such as localization strings, icons, pictures, layout files, video files and so on.

The notification manager enables applications to display notification information in the status bar, which can be used to convey notification-type messages, and can disappear automatically after a brief pause without user interaction. For example, the notification manager is used to notify download completion, message reminders, etc. The notification manager can also display notifications in the status bar at the top of the system in the form of graphs or scroll bar text, such as notifications of applications running in the background, and notifications on the screen in the form of dialog windows. For example, text information is prompted in the status bar, a prompt sound is issued, the electronic device vibrates, and the indicator light flashes.

The application framework layer can also include:

The view system includes visual controls, such as controls for displaying text, controls for displaying pictures, and the like. View systems can be used to build applications. A display interface can consist of one or more views. For example, the display interface including the short message notification icon may include a view for displaying text and a view for displaying pictures.

The phone manager is used to provide the communication functions of the mobile phone. For example, the management of call status (including connecting, hanging up, etc.).

The system layer can include multiple functional modules. For example: sensor service module, physical state recognition module, 3D graphics processing library (eg: OpenGL ES), etc.

The sensor service module is used to monitor the sensor data uploaded by various sensors at the hardware layer and determine the physical state of the mobile phone;

The physical state recognition module is used to analyze and recognize user gestures, faces, etc.;

The 3D graphics processing library is used to implement 3D graphics drawing, image rendering, compositing, and layer processing.

The system layer can also include:

The Surface Manager is used to manage the display subsystem and provides a fusion of 2D and 3D layers for multiple applications.

The media library supports playback and recording of a variety of commonly used audio and video formats, as well as still image files. The media library can support a variety of audio and video encoding formats, such as: MPEG4, H.264, MP3, AAC, AMR, JPG, PNG, etc.

The hardware abstraction layer is the layer between hardware and software. The hardware abstraction layer can include display drivers, camera drivers, sensor drivers, etc., which are used to drive the related hardware of the hardware layer, such as display screens, cameras, sensors, and so on.

The following embodiments can be implemented on a mobile phone having the above-mentioned hardware structure/software structure. The following embodiments will take a mobile phone as an example to describe the character display method provided by the embodiment of the present application.

The terminal device (for example, a mobile phone) provided in this embodiment can store and display text information. Among them, text information is usually composed of multiple characters. Exemplarily, characters may include letters (such as "X", "Y", "Z"), numbers (such as "1", "2", "3"), Chinese characters (such as "now", "天", "of") and symbols (such as ",", "#", "!"), etc., are used to represent specific meanings.

It should be noted that when the terminal device stores text information, it does not directly store each character in the text information, but stores the unique universal identifier corresponding to these characters according to the arrangement order of each character in the text information, such as Unicode (Unicode). ). The unique universal identifier is used to uniquely indicate the corresponding character. Exemplarily, when the terminal device stores the text information "the weather is sunny today, there are no clouds in the sky", it actually stores the corresponding Unicode "4ECA 5929 5929 6C14 6674 6717 002C 4E07 91CC 65E0 4E91".

When displaying text information, the terminal device needs to convert the unique universal identifier corresponding to the text information into corresponding characters according to preset rules for display, so that the user can understand it intuitively.

In order to facilitate the conversion of the unique universal identifier into characters for display, a font package is usually provided in the terminal device. A font package usually contains outline information for some characters in one or more languages. For example, the GB2312 standard font package usually includes 6763 specific Chinese characters and outline information of some commonly used non-Chinese characters. The outline information determines the display shape and display position of the outer outline of each component in the character, and the terminal device can display the character according to the outline information. Exemplarily, for the character with the unique universal identifier "#369b"

Its contour information can be shown in Figure 3.

Characters can usually be displayed in a variety of different fonts, and each font corresponds to a font package, for example, font A corresponds to font package A, font B corresponds to font package B, and so on. It can be understood that the corresponding outline information of the same character in different font packages is not the same. Based on the different outline information, the terminal device can display the same character in different fonts. For example, for the character "jin", the terminal device can use the outline information of "jin" in font package A to display "jin" in font A, and use the outline information of "jin" in font package B to display "jin" in the font A. B font display.

In addition, it should be noted that each character is provided with a unique universal identifier. In a font package, the unique universal identifier of each character corresponds to the outline information of that character. For example, 4ECA is the Unicode of "Jin", in the font package, 4ECA corresponds to the outline information of "Jin", then the terminal device can call the outline information of "Jin" from the font package through 4ECA. 5929 is the Unicode of "day". In the font package, 5929 corresponds to the outline information of "day", then the terminal device can call the outline information of "day" from the font package through 5929. In different font packages, a unique universal identifier corresponds to different outline information of a character. For example, for the Unicode 4ECA of the character "jin", in the A font package, 4ECA corresponds to the outline information of the "jin" A font, and in the B font package, 4ECA corresponds to the outline information of the "jin" B font.

In the process of displaying the stored text information, the terminal device calls the corresponding outline information from the font package to display each character according to the unique universal identifier.

Taking the text information as "the weather is sunny today, there are no clouds in the sky" as an example, according to the different font packages applied by the terminal device, according to the corresponding unique universal identifier "4ECA 5929 5929 6C14 6674 6717 002C 4E07 91CC 65E0 4E91", the Text information is displayed on the display interface in different fonts.

In some embodiments, referring to Table 1, Table 1 is a correspondence table of outline information of characters, Unicode and D fonts of characters. Combined with Table 1, in the process of displaying the characters corresponding to Unicode "4ECA 5929 5929 6C14 6674 6717 002C 4E07 91CC 65E0 4E91", the terminal device obtains the corresponding characters "Jin", "天", The outline information of the D font corresponding to "Qi", "Qing", "Lang", ",", "Wan", "Li", "Nu", "Cloud", and according to these outline information in the order corresponding to Unicode display these characters. Exemplarily, the display results of these characters may be as shown in FIG. 4 .

Table 1 Correspondence Table 1

character	Unicode	D font outline information
this	4ECA	"Today" profile information
sky	5929	"Sky" profile information
gas	6C14	"Qi" outline information
clear	6674	"Sunny" outline information
Long	6717	"Lang" profile information
ten thousand	4E07	"Wan" outline information
inside	91CC	"Li" outline information
none	65E0	"None" profile information
cloud	4E91	Outline information of "cloud"
,	002C	"," outline information
…	…	…

In some other embodiments, when the font package currently applied by the terminal device is the E font package, the terminal device displays the text information in the E font, for example, as shown in FIG. 5 .

There are different national standards for font packages, such as GB2312, GB18030-2000, GB18030-2005, etc. Among them, GB2312 stipulates that the font package contains 6763 specific Chinese characters and some commonly used non-Chinese characters. GB18030-2000 stipulates that the font package contains 27533 specific Chinese characters, as well as some commonly used non-Chinese characters. Compared with GB2312, some less commonly used Chinese characters are added. GB18030-2005 stipulates that the font package contains 70244 Chinese characters (including a large number of uncommon characters), as well as some commonly used non-Chinese characters. It can be understood that, when more characters are included in the font package, the production cost of the font package is higher, and the memory occupied by the font package is also larger.

At present, a terminal device is usually provided with a system font package, and the system font package includes almost all outline information of Chinese characters. Exemplarily, the system font package may be an A font package, a B font package, a C font package, etc., which are used to display characters in A font, B font, and C font, respectively. Exemplarily, when the terminal device specifies the A font as the display font of the character, the terminal device calls the outline information of the character from the A font package, and displays the corresponding character in the A font.

In addition, the terminal device may also be provided with a font package with a certain font style installed according to the user's instruction (for the convenience of distinguishing it from the system font package, it is hereinafter referred to as the theme font package), such as D font package, E font package , F font package, etc., are used to display characters in theme fonts such as D font, E font, and F font, respectively. It should be noted that the theme font corresponding to the theme font package is different from the system font. In order to save costs and reduce the memory usage of the theme font package on the terminal device, the theme font package is usually produced according to the GB2312 standard, which only contains 6763 commonly used Chinese characters and some commonly used non-Chinese characters.

Therefore, when the terminal device currently displays characters in the theme font, if the target character is some characters that are not included in the theme font package, such as a rare character, the terminal device will not be able to display the rare character, or display the rare character according to the system font, Causes the font to display abnormally.

Exemplarily, the display of the characters "true", "yes", and "嘡" will be described below by taking the theme font package currently applied by the terminal device as F font package and the system font package as A font package.

"True" and "Yes" are common Chinese characters included in the F font package. Therefore, when the terminal device displays "True" and "Yes", it can identify "771F" and "771F" and " 662F" calls the outline information of "true" and "yes" from the F font package, and according to these outline information, displays "true" and "yes" in F font, see Figure 6 or Figure 7 for details.

"阡" is a rare character not included in the F font package, that is, the outline information of "阡" is not included in the F font package. Therefore, when the terminal device displays the character "阡", it cannot find the outline information of "阡" in the F font package according to its unique universal identifier "8621". Therefore, the terminal device cannot display the character "蘡" according to the F font.

For the character "蘡" that cannot be displayed in F font, the terminal device can display it in garbled characters, for example, as shown in Figure 6, and display it as a box with an "X" symbol, resulting in abnormal font display. Alternatively, the terminal device can also retrieve the outline information of "阡" from the system font package according to its unique universal identifier "8621", and display the word "阡" according to the system font (such as A font), such as shown in Figure 7. However, this will cause two different fonts, namely A font and F font, to appear on the same display interface, which will also cause the font to display abnormally.

To this end, the present application provides a character display method, which is applied to a terminal device to improve the problem of abnormal font display when the terminal device displays characters in a first font (eg, a theme font).

It should be noted that the terminal device is installed with a first font package and a second font package, and is provided with a first character unit set corresponding to the first font package and a second character unit set corresponding to the second font package. Also, the terminal device is currently set to display characters in the first font. The first font package includes outline information of characters of the first font, and the second font package includes outline information of characters of the second font. Exemplarily, the first font package may be a theme font package installed by a user. The second font package may be a system font package installed on the terminal device, or other non-system font package different from the first font package, which is not limited in this embodiment.

The first character unit set includes sub-contour information of character units of the first font, as shown in Table 2, for example. The second character unit set includes sub-contour information of character units of the second font, as shown in Table 3, for example. Exemplarily, these character units include, but are not limited to: "艹", "Bei", "女", "一", "丨", "B", "刂", "匚", "庻", "er" ", "Sun", "A", "Cun", "Earth", "Sun", "Bird", "Square", "Wind", "Father", "King", "Fire", "Wei", "Insect", "Yu", "扌", "绻", "冂" etc. constitute the character units commonly used in characters.

Table 2 The first character unit set

Table 3 The second character unit set

It should be noted that each character unit is provided with identification information for uniquely indicating the character unit. And in different character unit sets, the same identification information corresponds to the sub-contour information of different fonts of the same character unit. For example, "1" is the identification information of "Fuck". In the first character unit set, "1" corresponds to the sub-contour information of the first font of "Fuck"; but in the second character unit set, "1" corresponds to "Fuck". "Fuck" sub-contour information of the second font.

FIG. 8 is a flowchart of a character display method provided by an embodiment of the present application. Referring to FIG. 8, the character display method includes the following steps S801-S803.

S801: During the process of displaying characters in the first font, if the target character cannot be displayed in the first font, the terminal device acquires second outline information of the target character from a second font package, and the second outline information is used to display the characters in the second font. The font displays the target characters.

In the process of displaying the target character in the first font, the terminal device calls the first outline information corresponding to the target character in the first font package, and displays the target character according to the first outline information. However, when the first outline information is not included in the first font package, according to the prior art, the first terminal cannot display the character in the first font. At this time, the second outline information of the character can be called from the second font package.

Exemplarily, in the process of displaying the character "Zhen 阡" in F font, the terminal device appears that the first outline information of "阡" cannot be found in the F font package according to the unique universal identifier "8621" of the uncommon character "阡". , the first terminal will not be able to display the character in the first font. At this time, the terminal device calls the second outline information of "蘡" from the second font package (such as the A font package of the system) according to the unique universal identifier "8621".

S802, the terminal device identifies each character unit in the target character and position information of each character unit in the target character according to the second outline information.

The second outline information includes sub-outline information of each character unit of the corresponding character, and position information of each character unit in the character. The terminal device can identify each character unit in the target character and position information of each character unit in the target character according to the second outline information, as shown in the following.

A character is usually composed of one or more strokes. In this embodiment, the part connecting the strokes is called a minimum unit. For example, the parts where the strokes of the character "Ming" are connected are "day" and "month", so its minimum units are "day" and "month".

There are N minimum units corresponding to a character, and the outline information of the character includes sub-contour information of the N minimum units, where N≧1, and N is an integer. Since a sub-contour information is used to describe the outer contour of a smallest unit, these sub-contour information are independent of each other when used to display small units. The terminal device can determine the position of the outer contour of the minimum unit in the character display area according to the sub-contour information of the minimum unit, and the minimum unit can be displayed by filling the outer contour. The character can be displayed by displaying all the smallest units of the character.

Therefore, in this embodiment, when the terminal device recognizes the target character, it can use the sub-contour information of the smallest unit as the splitting unit to split the second contour information of the target character, and according to the split contour information, Determine the character unit.

Step S802 will be described below by taking the character "嘡" as an example.

First, the terminal device recognizes the sub-contour information of the smallest unit in the character "阡" according to the second outline information of the character "阡". Since the minimum unit of the character "阡" includes eight parts: "艹", two "mu", two "丿", two "乀" and one "female", the corresponding sub-contour of the minimum unit The information is shown in Table 4.

Table 4. Correspondence table of sub-contour information

name	The sub-contour information of the smallest unit
Part1	"Fuck" sub-profile information
Part2	Sub-profile information of "object"
Part3	Sub-profile information of "丿"
Part4	Sub-contour information of "乀"
Part5	Sub-profile information of "object"
Part6	Sub-profile information of "丿"
Part7	Sub-contour information of "乀"
Part8	Child Profile Information of "Female"

Secondly, the terminal device can combine the sub-contour information of each minimum unit, and identify the character unit of the target character according to the combination result.

Specifically, if in a combination mode, all the combination results can match the corresponding sub-contour information in the second character unit set, it is determined that the combination mode is a combination mode that satisfies the condition. The terminal device determines the character unit of the target character according to this combination. It can be understood that a character unit may include one or more minimum units.

For example, Part1-Part8 of the character "蘡" can be combined into the following four parts: Part1, Part2-Part4, Part5-Part7, Part8. Since Part1 can match the sub-contour information of "Fuck" in the second character unit set, Part2-Part4 and Part5-Part7 can match the sub-contour information of "Bei" in the second character unit set, and Part8 can match the sub-contour information of "Bei" in the second character unit set. The sub-contour information of "female" is matched in the two-character unit set. Therefore, the combination mode is determined to be a combination mode that satisfies the conditions.

Finally, the terminal device can recognize that the character units corresponding to "蘡" are: "艹", "Bei", "Bei", and "女" according to the combination method. In combination with Table 3, it can be determined that among these character units, the identification information of "Fuck" is 1, the identification information of "Bei" is 2, and the identification information of "Female" is 3.

In addition, since the sub-contour information of the smallest unit includes the display position of its outer contour in the character display area, the character units "剹", "" can also be determined according to Part1, Part2-Part4, Part5-Part7, and Part8 respectively. The location information of "Bei", "Bei", and "Female".

Exemplarily, referring to FIG. 9 , the terminal device may identify, according to the second outline information of the character "阡", that the character units of "阡" include: "艹", two "bei" and "female". In addition, the terminal device can determine that "艹" is at the top of the character "蘡", "female" is at the bottom of the character "蘡", and two "bei" are arranged side by side between "艹" and "female". Location.

Optionally, the terminal device may identify the target character according to the principle of maximizing character units, and reduce the number of character units as much as possible. Specifically, if the sub-contour information of the minimum unit of the target character includes multiple combinations that meet the conditions, the character unit is determined according to the combination with the smallest number of groups.

For example, for the character "嘡", the combination of the sub-contour information of the smallest unit that satisfies the condition includes combination 1 and combination 2. The combination mode 1 is: Part1, Part2-Part4, Part5-Part7, Part8; the combination mode 2 is: Part1, Part2, Part3-Part4, Part5, Part6-Part7, Part8. According to the principle of maximizing character units, the terminal device determines the character units in "蘡" according to combination method 1 as: "艹", "Bei", "Bei", and "female", instead of combining "蘡" according to combination method 2. The character units in " are determined to be: "艹", "目", "eight", "mu", "eight" and "female".

S803, the terminal device displays the target character in the first font according to the sub-contour information corresponding to each character unit and the first font and the position information.

After identifying the character units of the target character, the terminal device may call the sub-outline information of the first font of each character unit from the first character unit set according to the identification information of these character units. For example, the terminal device may determine the sub-contours of "Fuck", "Bei" and "Female" in the first font from the corresponding first character unit set according to the identification information "1", "2" and "3" respectively. information.

After determining the sub-contour information of the first font of each character unit in the target character from the first character unit set, the terminal device can display the target character in various ways.

In a possible implementation manner, the terminal device may generate the first outline information of the target character according to the sub-contour information and position information of the first font of each character unit in the target character. Then, the target character is displayed in the first font according to the generated first outline information. In addition, the terminal device may also store the generated first outline information in the first font package. It can be understood that when the terminal device encounters the target character again, it can directly call its first outline information from the first font package to display the target character in the first font, thereby improving the efficiency of character display by the terminal device.

Exemplarily, taking the first font package as the F font package and the character to be displayed as "嘡" as an example, the terminal device determines the F fonts of the character units "剹", "Bei" and "female" included in the character "嘡". After the sub-contour information of the character unit "艹", two "bei" and "female" in the character "蘡", the first outline information of "蘡" is generated and stored, and then according to the first outline The information displays the character "阡" in F font.

It should be noted that, since the sub-contour information of each character unit of the word "蘡" corresponds to the F font, the first outline information of "蘡" finally generated by the terminal device also corresponds to the F font. In addition, the "蘡" finally displayed by the terminal device according to the first outline information is also in F font.

In another possible implementation manner, first, the terminal device determines the display area of the target character in the display interface. Then, according to the position information of each character unit in the target character, the display position of each character unit in the display area is determined. Finally, each character unit is displayed in the first font at the corresponding display position according to the sub-contour information of each character unit in the target character, so that the target character is displayed in the first font.

Exemplarily, taking an example that the first font package is the F font package, the method for displaying the character "嘡" in the F font will be described. First, for example, as shown in FIG. 10a, the terminal device determines the display area of the character "嘡" in the display interface. Then, for example, as shown in FIG. 10b, the terminal device determines the display positions of these character units in the display area according to the position information of the character units "艹", "Bei" and "女" in the character "嘡". Wherein, the display position of the character unit "艹" is position ①, the display position of "Bei" is position ② and position ③, and the display position of "female" is position ④. Finally, for example, as shown in Figure 10c, the terminal device displays "Fuck" at position ① in F font according to the sub-contour information of "Fuck", and displays F font at position ② and position ③ according to the sub-contour information of "Bei" According to the sub-contour information of "female", "female" is displayed at position ④ in F font, so as to display the character "蘡" in F font.

By using the character display method provided by the above-mentioned present embodiment, all "Zhenzhen" can be displayed on the display interface in F font, as shown in FIG. 11 , for example.

To sum up, in the process of displaying characters in the first font, when the terminal device encounters characters (such as rare characters) that are not included in the first font package, the character display method provided in this embodiment is adopted, and the memory is occupied. The smaller first font package and the second font package that comes with the terminal device can intelligently display the character in the first font, which avoids the problem of abnormal font display on the terminal device to a certain extent, and improves the user's text reading experience.

In addition, in this embodiment, the first character unit set and the second character unit set may be preset by the terminal device, or may be generated by the terminal device according to a plurality of preset basic characteristic characters. The generation process of the first character unit set and the second character unit set will be described below with reference to FIG. 12 and FIG. 13 respectively.

FIG. 12 is a flowchart of a method for determining a first character unit set provided by an embodiment of the present application. Referring to FIG. 12, the method includes the following steps S1201-S1203.

S1201, the terminal device acquires third outline information of a plurality of preset basic characteristic characters from a first font package.

In this embodiment, the basic characteristic characters usually include multiple, exemplarily, these basic characteristic characters include but are not limited to: "ten", "billion", "grass", "goods", "wei", "nuisance" , "Duck", "Special", "Sign", "De", "Eight" and so on. These basic characteristic characters include most of the commonly used character units, such as: "艹", "Bei", "Female", "Sun", "Jia", "Cun", "Tu", "丿", "乀" etc.

Since each character has a unique universal identifier, the unique universal identifier (eg Unicode) of this basic characteristic character can be preset in the terminal device. According to these preset unique universal identifiers, the terminal device can directly call the third outline information of these basic characteristic characters from the first font package. Wherein, the third outline information is used to display the plurality of basic characteristic characters in the first font.

S1202: The terminal device determines, according to the third outline information, the sub-outline information of the first font of all different character units in the plurality of basic characteristic characters.

In a possible implementation manner, since the basic characteristic characters are preset, the terminal device may preset a character unit determination rule for each basic characteristic character, and determine the sub-contour of the character unit according to the rule. information. For example, for the character "Ming", in the outline information of "Ming", the sub-outline information of the character unit displayed on the left side of "Ming" is determined as the sub-outline information of "Day"; "The sub-contour information of the character unit on the right is determined as the sub-contour information of "month".

The terminal device can determine the required sub-contour information of the first font of the character unit from the third outline information of a plurality of basic characteristic characters according to the character unit determination rule corresponding to each basic characteristic character.

S1203: The terminal device generates a first set of character units according to the sub-contour information of the first font of all different character units in the plurality of basic characteristic characters.

Although the basic characteristic characters are all different, they may include the same character units. Therefore, when storing the sub-contour information of the character unit in the basic characteristic character, only the sub-contour information of all different character units may be stored. For example, when the basic feature character includes both "flower" and "grass", the third outline information of the character "flower" includes the sub-outline information of the character units "艹", "庻" and "七", the character " The third contour information of "Grass" includes sub-contour information of the character units "Fuck" and "Zao". For the repeated character unit "Fuck", only the sub-contour information of one of the "Fuck" can be stored.

FIG. 13 is a flowchart of a method for determining a second character unit set provided by an embodiment of the present application. Referring to Fig. 13, the method includes the following steps S1301-S1303.

S1301: The terminal device acquires fourth outline information of a plurality of preset basic characteristic characters from a second font package.

The basic characteristic characters in step S1301 are the same as the basic characteristic characters in step S1202, and are not repeated in this implementation. Referring to step S1201, in step S1301, according to the preset unique universal identifiers of these basic characteristic characters, the terminal device can directly call the fourth outline information of these basic characteristic characters from the second font package. Wherein, the fourth outline information is used to display the plurality of basic characteristic characters in the second font.

S1302: The terminal device determines, according to the fourth outline information, the sub-outline information of the second font of all different character units in the plurality of basic characteristic characters.

In step S1302, according to the character unit determination rule corresponding to each basic characteristic character, the terminal device can determine the required sub-elements of different character units of the basic characteristic character of the second font from the fourth outline information of the plurality of basic characteristic characters profile information. For details, reference may be made to step S1202, which is not repeated in this embodiment.

S1303, the terminal device generates a second character unit set according to the sub-contour information of the second font of different character units in the plurality of basic characteristic characters.

The terminal device stores the sub-contour information of all the different character units of the second font in the basic characteristic characters to form a second character unit set. For details, reference may be made to step S1203, which is not repeated in this embodiment.

It should be understood that the size of the sequence numbers of the steps in the above embodiments does not mean the sequence of execution, and the execution sequence of each process should be determined by its function and internal logic, and should not constitute any limitation to the implementation process of the embodiments of the present application.

Corresponding to the character display methods shown in the above embodiments, this embodiment also provides a character display device. For the convenience of description, only the parts related to the embodiments of the present application are shown.

Referring to FIG. 14 , the character display device provided by the embodiment of the present application includes an information acquisition unit 1401 , an identification unit 1402 , and a display control unit 1403 .

The information acquisition unit 1401 is used to obtain the second outline information of the target character from the second font package if the target character cannot be displayed in the first font during the process of displaying the character in the first font, and the second outline information is used for Displays the target character in the second font.

The identifying unit 1402 is configured to identify each character unit in the target character and position information of each character unit in the target character according to the second outline information.

The display control unit 1403 is configured to display the target character in the first font according to the sub-contour information corresponding to the first font according to each character unit and the position information.

Optionally, the display control unit 1403 is further configured to determine the first outline information of the target character according to the sub-contour information and position information corresponding to each character unit of the target character and the first font; A font displays the target characters.

Optionally, the display control unit 1403 is further configured to store the first outline information in the first font package corresponding to the first font.

Optionally, the display control unit 1403 is also used to determine the display area of the target character in the display interface; according to the position information, determine the display position of each character unit in the target character in the display area; The display position of each character unit is displayed in the first font to display the target character.

Optionally, the sub-contour information is determined according to a plurality of basic characteristic characters in the first font package corresponding to the first font, and the plurality of basic characteristic characters include each character unit in the target character.

Optionally, the display control unit 1403 is further configured to obtain third outline information of multiple basic characteristic characters from the first font package, and the third outline information is used to display the plurality of basic characteristic characters in the first font; according to The third contour information determines sub-contour information.

This embodiment also provides a terminal device, the terminal device includes a memory, a processor, a display unit, and a computer program stored in the memory and running on the processor, and the processor implements the foregoing embodiment when the computer program is executed. Provided character display method. See Figure 1 for details.

This embodiment also provides a computer-readable storage medium, where a computer program is stored in the computer-readable storage medium, and when the computer program is executed by a processor, the steps in the foregoing method embodiments can be implemented.

The computer-readable medium may include at least: any entity or device capable of carrying the computer program code to the character display device, recording medium, computer memory, read-only memory (ROM, Read-Only Memory), random access memory (RAM, Random Access Memory), electrical carrier signals, telecommunication signals, and software distribution media. For example, U disk, mobile hard disk, disk or CD, etc. In some jurisdictions, under legislation and patent practice, computer readable media may not be electrical carrier signals and telecommunications signals.

Embodiments of the present application also provide a computer program product including instructions. The computer program product, when run on a computer or processor, causes the computer or processor to perform one or more steps of any of the above methods.

An embodiment of the present application provides a chip system, the chip system includes a processor, the processor is coupled to a memory, and the processor executes a computer program stored in the memory, so as to realize the character display provided by the above-mentioned embodiments of the present application method. In this embodiment, the chip system may be a single chip or a chip module composed of multiple chips.

In the foregoing embodiments, the description of each embodiment has its own emphasis. For parts that are not described or described in detail in a certain embodiment, reference may be made to the relevant descriptions of other embodiments.

In the above-mentioned embodiments, it may be implemented in whole or in part by software, hardware, firmware or any combination thereof. When implemented in software, it can be implemented in whole or in part in the form of a computer program product. The computer program product includes one or more computer instructions. When the computer program instructions are loaded and executed on a computer, all or part of the processes or functions described in the embodiments of the present application are generated. The computer may be a general purpose computer, a special purpose computer, a computer network, or other programmable device. The computer instructions may be stored in or transmitted over a computer-readable storage medium. The computer instructions can be sent from one website site, computer, server, or data center to another website site, computer, server by wire (eg, coaxial cable, optical fiber, digital subscriber line) or wireless (eg, infrared, wireless, microwave, etc.) or data center for transmission. The computer-readable storage medium can be any available medium that can be accessed by a computer or a data storage device such as a server, data center, etc. that includes an integration of one or more available media.

References in this specification to "one embodiment" or "some embodiments" and the like mean that a particular feature, structure or characteristic described in connection with the embodiment is included in one or more embodiments of the present application. Thus, appearances of the phrases "in one embodiment," "in some embodiments," "in other embodiments," "in other embodiments," etc. in various places in this specification are not necessarily All refer to the same embodiment, but mean "one or more but not all embodiments" unless specifically emphasized otherwise. The terms "including", "including", "having" and their variants mean "including but not limited to" unless specifically emphasized otherwise.

Those of ordinary skill in the art can understand that all or part of the processes in the methods of the above embodiments can be implemented. The process can be completed by instructing the relevant hardware by a computer program, and the program can be stored in a computer-readable storage medium. When the program is executed , which may include the processes of the foregoing method embodiments. The aforementioned storage medium includes: ROM or random storage memory RAM and other media that can store program codes.

Finally, it should be noted that: the above are only specific embodiments of the present application, but the protection scope of the present application is not limited to this, and any changes or replacements within the technical scope disclosed in the present application should be covered by the present application. within the scope of protection of the application. Therefore, the protection scope of the present application should be subject to the protection scope of the claims.

Claims (10)

1. A character display method, applied to a terminal device, characterized in that the method comprises:

   In the process of displaying the characters in the first font, if the target character cannot be displayed in the first font, the second outline information of the target character is obtained from the second font package, and the second outline information is used to display in the first font. The second font displays the target character;

   According to the second outline information, identify each character unit in the target character, and the position information of each character unit in the target character;

   The target character is displayed in the first font according to the sub-outline information of each character unit corresponding to the first font and the position information.
2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the target character is displayed in the first font according to the sub-contour information corresponding to the first font of each character unit and the position information, include:

   According to the sub-contour information and the position information, determine the first contour information of the target character;

   The target character is displayed in the first font according to the first outline information.
3. The method according to claim 2, wherein the method further comprises: storing the first outline information in a first font package corresponding to the first font.
4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the target character is displayed in the first font according to the sub-contour information corresponding to the first font of each character unit and the position information, include:

   determining the display area of the target character in the display interface;

   According to the position information, determine the display position of each character unit in the target character in the display area;

   Each character unit is displayed in the first font at a corresponding display position according to the sub-contour information to display the target character.
5. The method according to any one of claims 1-4, wherein the sub-contour information is determined according to a plurality of basic characteristic characters in a first font package corresponding to the first font, the plurality of The basic feature character includes each character unit in the target character.
6. The method according to claim 5, wherein the method further comprises:

   obtaining third outline information of the plurality of basic characteristic characters from the first font package, where the third outline information is used to display the plurality of basic characteristic characters in the first font;

   The sub-contour information is determined according to the third contour information.
7. A character display device, applied to terminal equipment, characterized in that the character display device comprises:

   The information acquisition unit, in the process of displaying the characters in the first font, if the target character cannot be displayed in the first font, acquires the second outline information of the target character from the second font package, the second outline information for displaying the target character in a second font;

   an identification unit for identifying each character unit in the target character according to the second outline information, and position information of the each character unit in the target character;

   A display control unit, configured to display the target character in the first font according to the sub-outline information of each character unit corresponding to the first font and the position information.
8. A terminal device, comprising a display unit, a memory, a processor, and a computer program stored in the memory and running on the processor, characterized in that the processor executes the computer The method according to any one of claims 1 to 6 is implemented in the program.
9. A computer-readable storage medium storing a computer program, characterized in that, when the computer program is executed by a processor, the method according to any one of claims 1 to 6 is implemented.
10. A computer program product, characterized in that, when the computer program product runs on a terminal device, the terminal device is caused to execute the character display method according to any one of claims 1 to 6.

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