METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING USER INTERFACE COMPOSED OF COMPONENT OBJECTS

• US 20100192078A1
• Filed: 01/29/2010
• Published: 07/29/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 01/29/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: PARK, Kyung Mo, SONG, Jae Yeon, HWANG, Seo Young, LEE, Kook Heui
• Granted Patent: US 9,250,871 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/764
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/38 for implementing user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/23412 for generating or manipulating the scene composition of objects, e.g. MPEG-4 objects
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44012 involving rendering scenes according to scene graphs, e.g. MPEG-4 scene graphs
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4431 characterized by the use of Application Program Interface [API] libraries
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4438 Window management, e.g. event handling following interaction with the user interface
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8543 using a description language, e.g. Multimedia and Hypermedia information coding Expert Group [MHEG], eXtensible Markup Language [XML] information retrieval of semistructured data, the underlying structure being taken into account, e.g. mark-up language structure data G06F16/80
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8545 for generating interactive applications

Abstract

A method and apparatus for processing a rich media user interface composed of a plurality of component objects that is capable of transferring information from a group of component objects having a specific function but not supporting the export of information to a group of component objects importing information only through predetermined paths through unpredictable path are provided. The method for processing content composed of user interface component objects includes receiving content including a plurality of user interface component objects, extracting exportable information which is defined to be exportable outside the content, and transferring the extracted exportable information to a target object.

Claims

1. A method for processing content composed of user interface component objects, the method comprising:

receiving content including a plurality of user interface component objects;

extracting exportable information which is defined to be exportable outside the content; and

transferring the extracted exportable information to a target object.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the transferring of the extracted information comprises:

detecting at least one of an action and a signal for transferring the exportable information; and

transferring the exportable information to the target object according to the at least one of the action and the signal.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

interpreting a command contained in the content; and

rendering the content according to the command.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the extracting of the exportable information and the transferring of the exportable information to a target object is performed during the rendering of the content according to the command.

5. A method for processing content composed of user interface component objects, the method comprising:

receiving content composed of a plurality of user interface component objects;

detecting information to be used as an input value to a target object among information contained in the received content; and

performing a function of the target object using the detected information.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the receiving of content composed of a plurality of user interface component objects comprises:

detecting at least one of an action and a signal predetermined for triggering information exchange; and

receiving the content when the at least one of the action and the signal for triggering information exchange is detected.

7. The method of claim 5, further comprising:

extracting a function of the target object corresponding to the content, wherein the performing of the function of the target object comprises executing the function of the target object corresponding to the extracted content.

8. The method of claim 5, wherein the detecting of information to be used as an input value comprises determining, when a name of the information contained in the received content indicates the information that can be used as an input value, the information as the input value to the target object.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the performing of the function of the target object comprises executing the function of the target object using the information contained in the content as the input value with the name of the information.

10. The method of claim 5, wherein the receiving of content composed of a plurality of user interface component objects comprises receiving, when information received through an unpredicted path exists, the content composed of a plurality of user interface component objects.

11. An apparatus for processing content composed of a plurality of user interface component objects, the apparatus comprising:

a decoder for decoding content composed of a plurality of user interface component objects; and

an event processor for extracting information defined to be exportable outside the content and for exporting the extracted information to a target object.

12. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the event processor transfers, when at least one of an action and a signal for transferring the exportable information is detected, the extracted exportable information to the target object.

13. The apparatus of claim 11, further comprising:

a configuration memory for interpreting a command contained in the content; and

a renderer for rendering the content according to the command.

14. The apparatus of claim 13, wherein the event processor extracts the exportable information from the content and transfers the extracted information to the target object while the renderer is rendering the content according to the command.

15. An apparatus for processing content composed of a plurality of user interface component objects, the apparatus comprising an event processor for detecting information that can be used as an input value of a target object among information contained in a received content and for performing a function of the target object using the detected information as the input value of the target object.

16. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein the event processor receives the content when at least one of an action and a signal predetermined for triggering information exchange is detected.

17. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein the event processor extracts the function of the target object which corresponds to the received content and performs the function of the target object.

18. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein the event processor determines, when a name of the information contained in the received content indicates the information that can be used as an input value, the information as the input value to the target object.

19. The apparatus of claim 18, wherein the performing of the function of the target object comprises using the information contained in the content as the input value with the name of the information.

20. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein the event processor receives the content composed of a plurality of user interface component objects upon receipt of information through an unpredicted path.