Method of recording a plurality of graphic objects and processing apparatus thereof

• US 7,688,336 B2
• Filed: 03/07/2006
• Issued: 03/30/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 03/08/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
• Original Assignee: Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
• Inventors: Liao, Cheng-Shun, Hsieh, Ming-Jane, Chen, Zou-Ping, Chang, Ming-Chun
• Primary Examiner(s): HARRISON, CHANTE E
• Application Number:
  US11/308,121
• Publication Number:
  US 20060288287A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,484 Days
• Field of Search: 715/765, 715/807, 715/810, 715/815, 715/825, 715821-824, 345/418, 345/619, 345/530, 345/547, 345/541, 345/592
• US Class Current: 345/619
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/14 Solving problems related to the presentation of information to be displayed
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/14 Display of multiple viewports
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42653 for processing graphics
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/433 Content storage operation, e.g. storage operation in response to a pause request, caching operations
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8146 involving graphical data, e.g. 3D object, 2D graphics
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/44504 Circuit details of the additional information generator, e.g. details of the character or graphics signal generator, overlay mixing circuits

Abstract

A method for recording a plurality of graphic objects is disclosed. Each graphic object includes at least one common parameter and at least one object data. The method includes recording the at least one common parameter corresponding to the plurality of graphic objects in a common parameter section; and respectively recording the at least one object data of the plurality of graphic objects in corresponding object sections; wherein the at least one common parameter and the at least one object data are utilized to describe characteristics of the graphic objects.

Claims

1. A method for recording a plurality of graphic objects, each graphic object having at least one common parameter and at least one object data, the method comprising:

recording in a memory the at least one common parameter corresponding to the plurality of graphic objects in a common parameter section, wherein the at least one common parameter comprises a transparency color setting and a data format relating to a color model, both corresponding to the graphics objects; and

respectively recording the at least one object data of the plurality of graphic objects in corresponding object sections;

wherein the at least one common parameter and the at least one object data of each graphic object are utilized to describe characteristics of the graphic object.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the object section and the common parameter section are in a storage medium.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein each graphic object corresponds to a menu object.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the at least one common parameter comprises width or height setting corresponding to the graphic objects.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein the at least one common parameter comprises a background color setting corresponding to the graphic objects.

6. The method of claim 3, wherein the at least one common parameter comprises a foreground color setting corresponding to the graphic objects.

7. An image processing device for processing a plurality of graphic objects, each graphic object having at least one common parameter and at least one object data, the image processing device comprising:

a common parameter section for storing the at least one common parameter corresponding to the graphic objects, wherein the at least one common parameter is shared by the graphic objects;

an object section for storing the at least one object data of respective graphic objects;

a data processing unit coupled to the common parameter section and the object section for accessing and processing the at least one common parameter and the at least one object data;

a control unit coupled to the data processing unit for adjusting characteristics of the graphic objects according to the at least one common parameter, the at least one object data, or both; and

a format converter coupled to the data processing unit for converting data format of the graphic objects.

8. The image processing device of claim 7, further comprising:

a color filter coupled to the format converter for filtering out a specific color of the graphic objects according to a transparency color setting recorded in the common parameter section.

9. The image processing device of claim 8, wherein the common parameter comprises a width or height setting corresponding to the graphic objects.

10. The image processing device of claim 8, wherein the common parameter comprises a background color setting corresponding to the graphic objects.

11. The image processing device of claim 8, wherein the common parameter comprises a foreground color setting corresponding to the graphic objects.

12. The image processing device of claim 7, wherein each graphic object corresponds to a menu object.

13. The image processing device of claim 7, wherein the common parameter comprises a transparency color setting corresponding to the graphic objects.

14. The image processing device of claim 7, wherein the common parameter comprises a data format corresponding to the graphic objects.

15. The image processing device of claim 7 is utilized in a digital television.

16. The image processing device of claim 7, further comprising:

a following stage, coupled to the format converter, wherein the format converter converts the data format of the graphic objects to a specific data format that the following stage is configured to process.

17. An image processing method for processing a plurality of graphic objects to be displayed on a display device, the method comprising:

for each of the graphic objects, storing at least one object data;

for all of the graphic objects, storing at least one common parameter including information of transparency color setting and data format;

processing a first graphic object of the plurality of graphic objects according to the common parameter and the stored object data corresponding to the first graphic object; and

processing a second graphic object of the plurality of graphic objects according to the common parameter and the stored object data corresponding to the second graphic object displaying on a display device the plurality of graphic objects.

18. A method for recording a plurality of graphic objects, each graphic object having at least one common parameter and at least one object data, the method comprising:

recording the at least one common parameter corresponding to the plurality of graphic objects in a common parameter section, wherein the at least one common parameter comprises a data format corresponding to a color model relating to the graphic objects; and

respectively recording the at least one object data of the plurality of graphic objects in corresponding object sections;

wherein the at least one common parameter and the at least one object data of each graphic object are utilized to describe characteristics of the graphic object.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein the object section and the common parameter section are in a storage medium.

20. The method of claim 18, wherein each graphic object corresponds to a menu object.

21. The method of claim 20, wherein the at least one common parameter comprises width or height setting corresponding to the graphic objects.

22. The method of claim 20, wherein the at least one common parameter comprises a background color setting corresponding to the graphic objects.

23. The method of claim 20, wherein the at least one common parameter comprises a foreground color setting corresponding to the graphic objects.