METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR STORING INFORMATION OF A PICTURE

• US 20130194288A1
• Filed: 03/13/2013
• Published: 08/01/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 12/23/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Tencent Technology Company Limited (Tencent Holdings Limited)
• Original Assignee: Tencent Technology Company Limited (Tencent Holdings Limited)
• Inventors: Weng, Yuedong, Zeng, Weiyi, Tu, Qiang
• Granted Patent: US 9,280,802 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/552
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/50 of still image data
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/451 Execution arrangements for user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 1/60 Memory management
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/001 Texturing; Colouring; Generation of texture or colour inpainting G06T5/77
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/40 Filling a planar surface by adding surface attributes, e.g. colour or texture
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 15/005 General purpose rendering architectures
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 15/04 Texture mapping
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 19/00 Manipulating 3D models or images for computer graphics

Abstract

Disclosed are method and apparatus for storing information of a picture. The method includes presenting a picture file to be edited, which at least includes original picture data; editing the picture file with an interface engine; integrating rendering information of the edited picture file according to a preset picture file format; and storing the original picture data and the rendering information. According to the invention, the interface engine is improved, and thus may directly edit a picture in use, and integrate the rendering information of the edited picture file according to a preset picture format. Therefore, during development, it is not required to store rendering information of a picture into codes, so that no programmer is required to intervene in rendering and setting of the picture. An art-designer may directly operate on the interface engine to change rendering effects, meanwhile, final rendering effects may be observed without running a program.

Claims

1. A method for storing information of a picture, comprising:

presenting a file of the picture to be edited, wherein the picture file to be edited at least comprises original data of the picture;

editing the picture file to be edited with an interface engine, and integrating rendering information of the edited picture file according to a preset picture file format; and

storing the original picture data and the rendering information of the picture.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the presenting of the picture file to be edited comprises:

determining whether the picture file to be edited is a picture that is previously edited;

if yes, obtaining the rendering information and the original picture data of the picture file to be edited through parsing, and presenting the picture file to be edited on a screen according to the rendering information and the original picture data; and

if not, obtaining the original picture data of the picture file to be edited through parsing, and presenting the picture file to be edited on the screen according to the original picture data.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein the determining of whether the picture file to be edited is a picture that is previously edited comprises:

reading out preset bytes of the picture file to be edited; and

determining whether the preset bytes are feature information, if yes, determining that the picture file to be edited is a picture that is previously edited;

if not, determining that the picture file to be edited is a picture that is not previously edited.

4. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

detecting boundary errors of the rendering information of the picture file to be edited in the process of editing the picture file to be edited.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the rendering information comprises at least rendering texture mode information, blend rendering mode information and picture data offset information, and the preset picture file format comprises at least a rendering texture mode information field, a blend rendering mode information field, and a picture data offset information field;

and

wherein the integrating of the rendering information of the edited picture file according to the preset picture file format comprises sequentially adding the rendering texture mode information, the blend rendering mode information and the picture data offset information of the edited picture file according to a field sequence in the preset picture file format.

6. The method according to claim 5, wherein the rendering information further comprises nine-square rendering information, key color information and mapping area information, and the preset picture file format further comprises a nine-square rendering information field, a key color information field and a mapping area information field;

and

wherein the integrating of the rendering information of the edited picture file according to a preset picture file format specifically comprises sequentially adding the rendering texture mode information, the blend rendering mode information, the picture data offset information, the nine-square rendering information, the key color information and the mapping area information of the edited picture file according to a field sequence in the preset picture file format.

7. The method according to claim 2, wherein the obtaining of the rendering information and the original picture data of the picture file to be edited through parsing comprises:

reading out each field of the picture file to be edited; and

obtaining the rendering information and the original picture data of the picture file to be edited through parsing according to each field.

8. The method according to claim 7, wherein the reading out of each field of the picture file to be edited comprises:

reading out a fixed byte of a block of the field; and

parsing the fixed byte, and if garbled characters are obtained after parsing, skipping the field, and directly reading out a next field of the picture file to be edited.

9. An apparatus for storing information of a picture, comprising:

a presentation module adapted to present a file of the picture to be edited, wherein the picture file to be edited comprises at least original picture data;

an integration module adapted to edit the picture file to be edited with an interface engine, and integrate rendering information of the edited picture file according to a preset picture file format; and

a storage module adapted to store the original picture data and the rendering information obtained through integration by the integration module.

10. The apparatus according to claim 9, wherein the presentation module comprises:

a determining unit adapted to determine whether the picture file to be edited is a picture that is previously edited;

a first presentation unit adapted to obtain rendering information and the original picture data of the picture file to be edited through parsing, and present the picture file to be edited on a screen according to the rendering information and the original picture data, when the determining unit determines that the picture file to be edited is a picture that is previously edited; and

a second presentation unit adapted to obtain the original picture data of the picture file to be edited through parsing, and present the picture file to be edited on the screen according to the original picture data, when the determining unit determines that the picture file to be edited is a picture that is not previously edited.

11. The apparatus according to claim 10, wherein the determining unit is adapted to reading out preset bytes of the picture file to be edited, and determine whether the preset bytes are feature information, if yes, determine that the picture file to be edited is a picture that is previously edited, and if not, determine that the picture file to be edited is a picture that is not previously edited.

12. The apparatus according to claim 9, further comprising:

a detection module adapted to detect boundary errors of the rendering information of the picture file to be edited in the process of editing the picture file to be edited.

13. The apparatus according to any one of claim 9, wherein the rendering information comprises at least rendering texture mode information, blend rendering mode information and picture data offset information, and the preset picture file format comprises at least a rendering texture mode information field, a blend rendering mode information field, and a picture data offset information field;

and

wherein the integration module is adapted to sequentially add the rendering texture mode information, the blend rendering mode information and the picture data offset information of the edited picture file according to a field sequence in the preset picture file format.

14. The apparatus according to claim 13, wherein the rendering information further comprises nine-square rendering information, key color information and mapping area information, and the preset picture file format further comprises a nine-square rendering information field, a key color information field and a mapping area information field;

and

wherein the integration module is adapted to sequentially add the rendering texture mode information, the blend rendering mode information, the picture data offset information, the nine-square rendering information, the key color information and the mapping area information of the edited picture file according to a field sequence in the preset picture file format.

15. The apparatus according to claim 10, wherein the first presentation unit comprises a first reading subunit and a first presentation subunit,

wherein the first reading subunit is adapted to read out each field of the picture file to be edited, and obtain the rendering information and the original picture data of the picture file to be edited through parsing according to each field;

and

wherein the first presentation subunit is adapted to present the picture file to be edited on the screen according to the rendering information and the original picture data.

16. The apparatus according to claim 15, wherein the first reading subunit is adapted to

read out a fixed byte of a block of the field;

parse the fixed byte, and if garbled characters are obtained after parsing, skip the field, and directly read out a next field of the picture file to be edited; and

obtain the rendering information and the original picture data of the picture file to be edited through parsing according to each field.

17. A non-transitory tangible computer-readable medium storing instructions which, when executed by a processor, cause an apparatus to perform a method for storing information of a picture, the method comprising:

presenting a file of the picture to be edited, wherein the picture file to be edited at least comprises original data of the picture;

editing the picture file to be edited with an interface engine, and integrating rendering information of the edited picture file according to a preset picture file format; and

storing the original picture data and the rendering information of the picture.

18. The non-transitory tangible computer-readable medium according to claim 17, wherein the presenting of the picture file to be edited comprises:

determining whether the picture file to be edited is a picture that is previously edited;

if yes, obtaining the rendering information and the original picture data of the picture file to be edited through parsing, and presenting the picture file to be edited on a screen according to the rendering information and the original picture data; and

if not, obtaining the original picture data of the picture file to be edited through parsing, and presenting the picture file to be edited on the screen according to the original picture data.

19. The non-transitory tangible computer-readable medium according to claim 18, wherein the determining of whether the picture file to be edited is a picture that is previously edited comprises:

reading out preset bytes of the picture file to be edited; and

determining whether the preset bytes are feature information, if yes, determining that the picture file to be edited is a picture that is previously edited;

if not, determining that the picture file to be edited is a picture that is not previously edited.

20. The non-transitory tangible computer-readable medium according to claim 17, wherein the method further comprises:

detecting boundary errors of the rendering information of the picture file to be edited in the process of editing the picture file to be edited.