EMBEDDED ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD OF IMPLEMENTING USER INTERFACE THEREIN

• US 20110016383A1
• Filed: 10/30/2009
• Published: 01/20/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 07/20/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: WANG, CHIA-PENG, TSAI, TENG-YU, JU, JYH-GWO
• Granted Patent: US 8,464,215 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/234
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/38 for implementing user interfaces

Abstract

An embedded electronic device includes a display and a user interface system shown on the display. The user interface system includes a plurality of item display modules and item resource modules. Each item display module includes a position sub-module operable to position the item resource module, and a connection sub-module capable of linking to the item resource module. Each item resource module has at least one resource path sub-module to retrieve a resource.

Claims

1. An embedded electronic device, comprising:

a display;

a user interface system shown on the display, the user interface system comprising a plurality of item display modules and item resource modules, each item display module comprising a position sub-module operable to position the item resource module; and

a connection sub-module linking to the item resource module;

wherein each item resource module comprises at least one resource path sub-module employed to retrieve a resource.

2. The embedded electronic device of claim 1, wherein the item resource module and the item display module are XML (Extensible Markup Language) documents.

3. The embedded electronic device of claim 2, wherein the user interface system further comprises an XML parser to analyze the XML document.

4. The embedded electronic device of claim 1, wherein the item resource is an image resource or a text resource.

5. The embedded electronic device of claim 1, wherein the item resource module comprises a title sub-module and a description sub-module for the resource.

6. The embedded electronic device of claim 1, wherein each item resource module comprises two resource path sub-modules to locate different resource types.

7. A method of implementing a user interface in an embedded electronic device, comprising:

an XML (Extensible Markup Language) parser analyzing an item display module and an item resource module;

the item display module showing the analyzed item resource module on a display; and

the item resource module retrieving a resource through a resource path sub-module and showing the resource on the item display module.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the item resource module and the item display module comprise XML (Extensible Markup Language) documents.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein an XML parser is set in the user interface system to parse the XML document.

10. The method of claim 7, wherein the resource is an image resource or a text resource.

11. The method of claim 7, wherein each item resource module comprises two resource path sub-modules to locate different resource types.

12. The method of claim 7, wherein the item resource module comprises a title sub-module and a description sub-module for the resource.