TW201419130A - Electronic apparatus and method of displaying application thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

An electronic apparatus and method of displaying applications thereof are provided. The method is adapted for a processing unit of the electronic apparatus. The method includes the following steps. Firstly, determine an on-top application of at least one application operating in the electronic apparatus. Adjust a displaying resolution of the on-top application according to a setting value. The displaying resolution of the on-top application is higher than the displaying resolution of each of the other application.

Description

Electronic device and method for displaying the same

The present invention relates to a display technology of a computer system, and more particularly to a method for adjusting an application display situation according to an application usage situation.

In the history of the development of technology, the display can be said to be the most popular research and development field. With the improvement of living standards, the image quality requirements provided by the display are increasing day by day. Devices such as TVs, computer screens, tablets, and mobile phones are all moving toward high resolution for a clearer and more detailed visual experience.

However, as the resolution increases, the power consumption required for the display to update the picture will increase significantly, and the response speed of the picture will also become slower. When the power consumption rises, the battery life of the portable electronic device may be greatly shortened, thereby causing inconvenience in use.

In view of the above, the present invention provides an electronic device and a method for displaying the same, which can adaptively adjust the display resolution of the application, and can effectively reduce the power consumption of the electronic device on the display screen.

The present invention provides a method of displaying an application suitable for a processing unit of an electronic device, the method comprising the following steps. Determining an on-top application in at least one application operating in the electronic device. Adjust the display resolution of the foreground application according to the set value. Among them, the display resolution of the foreground application is higher than that of the other applications. Degree of analysis.

In another aspect, the present invention provides an electronic device including a display unit and a processing unit. The display unit displays at least one application. The processing unit determines an on-top application in each of the applications in the electronic device, and controls the display unit to adjust the display resolution of the foreground application according to the set value. Among them, the display resolution of the foreground application is higher than the display resolution of each of the other applications.

Based on the above, the method proposed by the present invention can adjust the display resolution of the foreground application to a higher resolution after determining the foreground application, so that the display range of the foreground application can be presented in a higher quality manner.

The above described features and advantages of the present invention will be more apparent from the following description.

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of an electronic device 100 according to an embodiment of the invention. In the embodiment, the electronic device 100 includes a display unit 110 and a processing unit 120. The electronic device 100 is, for example, a smart phone, a personal computer, a notebook computer, a tablet, a personal digital assistant (PDA), etc., which can be used to execute and display an application, but The embodiments of the present invention are not limited thereto.

The display unit 110 is, for example, a liquid crystal display (LCD) or a plasma display, etc., which can be used to display various operation screens in the electronic device 100. For example, the operation screen is, for example, a home screen or various devices mounted on the electronic device 100. The user interface of the application. The processing unit 120 is coupled to the display unit 110. The processing unit 120 may be a central processing unit, a micro-controller, or a control chipset. The present invention is not limited thereto. The processing unit 130 can control the display unit 110 to display a screen by executing a graphic driver, and can adjust the display situation of the display unit 110 according to the operation situation of the user.

2 is a diagram showing a method of displaying an application according to an embodiment of the invention. Referring to FIG. 1 and FIG. 2 simultaneously, the detailed steps of the electronic device 100 using the display application method to adjust the resolution of the application display are described below with reference to the respective components of FIG.

In general, when the user operates the electronic device 100, several applications may be opened at the same time, and different operations may be performed in each application, and the applications may be minimized, maximized, and reduced to the toolbar. They are presented in the display unit 110 in a mutually overlapping manner. Among them, the application that the user is operating, for example, will be presented in an on-top manner, while other applications that are opened but not used by the user may represent the non-definition of the color of the window frame, for example. The application the user is working on. In addition, since the current electronic device 100 is presented with the same resolution for the applications displayed in the display unit 110, when the resolution of the display unit 110 is very fine, the buttons and fonts presented by some applications are displayed. It will be scaled down due to its pixel setting problem, which will cause these applications to be inconvenient due to the button being too small.

Therefore, the embodiment of the present invention facilitates the use of the display card driver provided in the electronic device 100 and the processing unit to dynamically adjust the resolution of the application displayed on the top of the screen, thereby effectively reducing the display of the electronic device. Power consumption on the device and allow the user to have the appropriate resolution when viewing the foreground application.

In order to adjust the display resolution of the foreground application, in step S210, the processing unit 120 can determine, for example, a graphics driver to operate in the electronic device 100, relative to other operating applications. Prospect application. The foreground application is, for example, an application displayed at the forefront among the applications displayed by the display unit 110.

In other embodiments, since the user may maintain some applications in the uppermost layer through a specific auxiliary application, the processing unit 120 may further determine that the application is displayed in the uppermost layer. A type of application that displays the order is compared to determine which application is currently being used by the user or an application that requires a higher resolution.

For example, the user of the electronic device 100 can communicate with others by the instant messaging software while watching the movie in the audio-visual playback software. At this time, in order to prevent the window of the instant messaging software from affecting (for example, obscuring a certain part of the video playing window), the user may fix the video playing software to the uppermost position through a specific auxiliary application. In other words, even if the user is using instant messaging software to communicate with others, the window of the communication software will not block the display of the audio and video playback software. However, for the processing unit 120, at this time, when judging the foreground application, it may be difficult to judge because the user is using the instant messaging software. Therefore, the processing unit 120 can further determine that the video playback software displayed on the top layer should be identified as the foreground application at this time, and the instant messaging software that the user is using is not recognized as the foreground application.

For another example, when the user wants to record the content of an audio file as a text file, the user may simultaneously open the audio playback software and the text editing software. Moreover, in order to control the playing condition of the audio file in real time, the user may use the auxiliary application to fix the audio playing software to the uppermost layer. At this time, although the application displayed on the top layer is the audio playback software, the processing unit 120 may determine that the text editing software that the user is using should be identified as the foreground application. It should be understood by those skilled in the art that the above description is only illustrative and not intended to limit the embodiments of the invention.

After determining the foreground application, in step S220, the processing unit 120 may adjust the display resolution of the foreground application according to the set value by using the display card driver to enable the display resolution of the foreground application. Higher than the display resolution of other running applications. When the processing unit 120 adjusts the display resolution of the foreground application, parameters such as dot/bit (dpi), font size, or icon size can be adjusted in the application.

In this way, the electronic device 100 can adaptively adjust the display resolution of each application as the user operates the application, thereby allowing the foreground application to present in a higher display resolution. Now, to provide users with a clearer and more detailed picture. In addition, since the user may switch between windows, steps S210 to S220 may be performed after each window switching operation, so that each foreground application can be judged to be higher than other applications. Degree to present.

Moreover, after the window switching operation, the processing unit 120 may adjust the display resolution of the previous foreground application to a background resolution such as a desktop or a home screen, so that the previous foreground application The display resolution can be differentiated from the current foreground application. Alternatively, after the window switching operation, the processing unit 120 may also adjust an application other than the current foreground application to a background resolution such as a wallpaper or a main screen to highlight the display resolution of the current foreground application. The degree is higher than other applications. In other words, among the plurality of objects (such as tablecloths and applications) displayed by the display unit 110, only the display range of the foreground application will have a higher display resolution.

Therefore, when the display unit 110 is updating the screen, since the area outside the display range of the updated foreground application can be updated with lower power, the power consumption for updating the screen can be effectively reduced. On the other hand, since the display resolution outside the display range of the foreground application is low, the response speed of the display unit 110 when updating the screen can also be increased accordingly.

The higher the display resolution supported by the display unit 110, the more effective the method of the present invention will be. For example, if the display resolution of the foreground application is, for example, 1280×1024, and the background resolution is, for example, 800×600, the display unit 110 may not need to The display resolution of 1280x1024 is updated to reduce power consumption. When the display unit 110 supports the display resolution of, for example, 4000×3000, and the background resolution is still 800×600, for example, the display unit 110 can reduce more power consumption by not updating the entire screen with the display resolution of 4000×3000. The above is only an example and is not intended to limit the embodiments of the invention.

FIG. 3 illustrates a method of displaying an application program according to an embodiment of the invention. Referring to FIG. 1 and FIG. 3 simultaneously, the detailed steps of the electronic device 100 using the display application method to adjust the resolution of the application display will be described below with reference to the respective components of FIG. 1. In FIG. 3, the contents of steps S210 and S220 are the same as those of FIG. 2, and the details thereof may be referred to the related description of the embodiment of FIG. 2, and details are not described herein again.

Different from FIG. 2, the embodiment of FIG. 3 further performs step S310 after step S210. In step S310, the processing unit may determine a set value for adjusting the foreground application display resolution according to the recording situation associated with the foreground application in the display parameter database. The display parameter database is stored, for example, in a storage unit (not shown) of the electronic device 100, and is used to record a database suitable for display resolution of each application. The storage unit is, for example, an element that can be used to store data, such as a memory, but is not limited thereto.

In detail, the processing unit 120 may determine whether the display parameter database has a display parameter of the foreground application (for example, a display resolution, a DPI, a font size, an icon size, etc. recorded when the previous time is turned on). . Display with the foreground application in the display parameter library When the parameter is, the processing unit 120 can set the set value according to the display parameter. When the display parameter database does not have the display parameter of the foreground application, the processing unit 120 may set the set value according to a preset display parameter.

In other words, when the current foreground application has been executed before and the record is left in the display parameter database, the processing unit 120 can directly set the set value according to the recording situation of the foreground application, and then adjust The display resolution of the foreground application. On the other hand, when the current foreground application is the first execution or the display parameter database does not record its display parameters, the processing unit 120 may adjust the set value according to the preset display parameter, so that the foreground application can be based on Preset display parameters to adjust its display resolution. Wherein, in order for the foreground application to be executed for the first time to still have higher display resolution than other applications, the display resolution of the preset display parameter should be set to, for example, a value higher than the background resolution.

In addition, since the user is operating the application, it is possible to manually adjust the display resolution of the application. Therefore, the electronic device 100 can record the adjusted display resolution of the user through the display parameter database, so that the processing unit 120 can automatically adjust the display of the application when the application is determined to be the foreground application next time. Resolution without the user having to make adjustments again.

Therefore, after the display resolution of the foreground application is adjusted according to the set value (step S220), in step S320, the processing unit 120 may determine whether a modification operation of adjusting the set value is received, and the modification operation is, for example, by the user. Manually adjust the display resolution. Processing unit When it is determined that the modification operation of the adjustment setting value is received, the step S330 may be continued. In step S330, the processing unit 120 may update the recording situation associated with the foreground application in the display parameter database according to the modification operation. For example, if the foreground application originally recorded a display resolution of 800x600 in the display parameter database, the display resolution of the foreground application is changed to, for example, 1280x1024 after the user manually adjusts. At this time, the processing unit 120 may update the display resolution (ie, 800×600) corresponding to the foreground application in the display parameter database to 1280×1024, but the implementation manner of the present invention is not limited thereto.

In summary, the method of the embodiment of the present invention can display the foreground application with a higher display resolution after determining the foreground application, so that the display range of the foreground application can be clearer and more detailed. Presented. Moreover, since the display resolution of the non-foreground application can be adjusted to a lower display resolution, the display unit can update the screen without updating the entire screen with high display resolution, thereby enabling lower power. Consumed to perform, and at the same time achieve a higher picture response speed.

Although the present invention has been disclosed in the above embodiments, it is not intended to limit the invention, and any one of ordinary skill in the art can make some modifications and refinements without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention. The scope of the invention is defined by the scope of the appended claims.

100‧‧‧Electronic devices

110‧‧‧Display unit

120‧‧‧Processing unit

S210~S220, S310~S330‧‧‧ steps

1 is a schematic diagram of an electronic device according to an embodiment of the invention.

2 is a diagram showing an application side according to an embodiment of the invention. law.

FIG. 3 illustrates a method of displaying an application program according to an embodiment of the invention.

S210~S220‧‧‧Steps

Claims (10)

A method for displaying an application, adapted to a processing unit of an electronic device, the method comprising the steps of: determining an on-top application in at least one application operating in the electronic device; A set value adjusts the display resolution of the foreground application, wherein the foreground application has a higher display resolution than the display resolutions of the other applications. The method of claim 1, wherein before the step of adjusting the display resolution of the foreground application according to the set value, the method further comprises: correlating with the foreground application according to a display parameter database. The set value is determined by recording the situation. The method of claim 2, wherein the determining the set value according to the recording situation associated with the foreground application in the display parameter database comprises: determining whether the display parameter database has the a display parameter of the foreground application; when the display parameter database has the display parameter of the foreground application, setting the set value according to the display parameter; and when the display parameter database does not have the foreground application When the parameter is displayed, the set value is set according to a preset display parameter. The method of claim 2, wherein after the step of adjusting the display resolution of the foreground application according to the set value, The method includes: determining whether a modification operation for adjusting the set value is received; and when determining that the modification operation is received, updating the record situation associated with the foreground application in the display parameter database according to the modification operation. The method of claim 1, wherein after the step of adjusting the display resolution of the foreground application according to the set value, the method further comprises: adjusting display resolution of each of the other applications to a background resolution. degree. An electronic device comprising: a display unit for displaying at least one application; and a processing unit for determining an on-top application in each of the applications operating in the electronic device, and according to a setting Controlling the display unit to adjust the display resolution of the foreground application, wherein the foreground application has a higher display resolution than the display resolutions of the other applications. The electronic device of claim 6, wherein the processing unit further determines the set value according to a recording situation associated with the foreground application in a display parameter database. The electronic device of claim 7, wherein the processing unit determines whether the display parameter database has a display parameter of the foreground application, wherein when the display parameter database has the foreground application When the parameter is displayed, the processing unit sets the display parameter according to the display parameter The set value is determined, and when the display parameter database does not have the display parameter of the foreground application, the processing unit sets the set value according to a preset display parameter. The electronic device of claim 7, wherein the processing unit further determines whether a modification operation for adjusting the set value is received, and when it is determined that the modification operation is received, the processing unit is configured according to the modification operation. The record parameter library is updated to correlate the record situation associated with the foreground application. The electronic device of claim 6, wherein the processing unit further adjusts the display resolution of each of the other applications to a background resolution.