Display screen capable of being subjected to a scroll procedure

• US 7,796,142 B2
• Filed: 10/13/2003
• Issued: 09/14/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 10/16/2002
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Thomson Licensing SA (Vantiva SA)
• Original Assignee: Thomson Licensing SA (Vantiva SA)
• Inventors: Villers, Jean-Stephane
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen; Hau H
• Application Number:
  US10/531,217
• Publication Number:
  US 20070146377A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,528 Days
• Field of Search: 345/543, 345682-688
• US Class Current: 345/684
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/346 for systems having a bit-mapped display memory

Abstract

The invention concerns a method for displaying a document on a display screen capable of being subjected to a scroll procedure, involving the following steps: providing the document with an amount of graphic memory to create a buffer memory of the visible part of the document and zones nearest to said visible part; calculating and cutting out into pixmaps said memory; relatively positioning said pixmaps with respect to the entire document and its visible part; filling up the content of the pixmaps, when the document is subjected to a display or scroll procedure, recopying the pixmap content in the display window; and repeating the relative positioning of the pixmaps with respect to the document.

Claims

1. A method of displaying a document on a display screen capable of being subjected to a scroll procedure, comprising:

allocating to the document a quantity of graphics memory to create a buffer memory for a visible part of the document and for an anticipation band of zones closest in physical proximity to the visible part of the document, wherein the anticipation band comprises content anticipated to be shown in the visible part of the document after the document is scrolled;

calculating and chopping the buffer memory into pixmaps as a function of a size of the document, of the visible part, and of the anticipation band,

relative positioning of the pixmaps with respect to the complete document and the visible part,

filling the content of the pixmaps with a priority system dependent on the proximity of the pixmap with respect to a visible zone,

when the document is subjected to a display procedure or to scrolling, copying the content in the pixmaps of the anticipation band into the visible window and redrawing the anticipation band, wherein when the content is not ready for display, forcing updating of the pixmaps to be displayed in the visible part prior to copying the content and,

relatively positioning the pixmaps with respect to the document as a function of the new position of the visible part.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the anticipation band comprises a minimum of:

one column of pixmaps on the right and on the left of the visible window and a row of pixmaps at the bottom and at the top of the visible window, except in the case where the visible part approaches an edge of the document.

3. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the pixmaps are chopped into rectangles which are drawn successively with each call of a background task.

4. The method as claimed in claim 3, wherein the background task constructs the anticipation band.

5. The method as claimed in claim 3, wherein each call of this background task, comprises:

reorganization of the pixmaps after a scroll of the document has been performed, and

when no repositioning of the pixmaps has occurred, drawing of the first rectangle of a pixmap determined as a function of distance away from the visible part of the document.

6. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein a synchronization mechanism is used to allow the forcing of the data to be displayed into the pixmaps.

7. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein an immediate drawing is carried out when one of:

an “

expose”

event compels the drawing of a part of the visible part of the document that has not been drawn in the anticipation band, and

an element of the document is modified graphically in the display window.

8. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the document is a HyperText Markup Language (HTML) document.

9. A digital television decoder for displaying a document on a display screen capable of being subjected to a scroll procedure, configured to:

allocate to the document a quantity of graphics memory to create a buffer memory of a visible part of the document and for an anticipation band of zones closest in physical proximity to the visible part of the document, wherein the anticipation band comprises content anticipated to be shown in the visible part of the document after the document is scrolled;

calculate and chop the buffer memory into pixmaps as a function of a size of the document, of the visible part, and of the anticipation band,

relatively position the pixmaps with respect to the complete document and the visible part,

fill the content of the pixmaps with a priority system dependent on a proximity of the pixmap with respect to the visible part, wherein filling the content of the pixmaps is carried out as a background task,

when the document is subjected to a display procedure or to a scrolling, copy the content in the pixmaps of the anticipation band into the visible window and redrawing the anticipation band wherein when the content to be copied is not ready for display, force updating of the pixmaps to be displayed in the visible part prior to copying the content,

and relatively position the pixmaps with respect to the documents as a function of the new position of the visible part.

10. The digital television decoder as claimed in claim 9, wherein the anticipation band comprises a minimum of:

one column of pixmaps on the right and on the left of the visible window, and a row of pixmaps at the bottom and at the top of the visible part of the document, except in the case where the visible part approaches an edge of the document.

11. The digital television decoder as claimed in claim 9, wherein the pixmaps are chopped into rectangles which are drawn successively with each call of a background task.

12. The digital television decoder as claimed in claim 11, wherein the background task constructs the anticipation band.

13. The digital television decoder as claimed in claim 11, wherein each call of the background task, comprises:

reorganization of the pixmaps after a scroll of the document has been performed, and

when no repositioning of the pixmaps has occurred, drawing of the first rectangle of a pixmap determined as a function of distance away from the visible part of the documents.

14. The digital television decoder as claimed in claim 9, wherein a synchronization mechanism is used to allow the forcing of the data to be displayed into the pixmaps.

15. The digital television decoder as claimed in claim 9, wherein an immediate drawing is carried out when one of:

an “

expose”

event compels the drawing of a part of the visible window that has not been drawn in the anticipation band, and

an element of the document is modified graphically in the display window.

16. The digital television decoder as claimed in claim 9, wherein the document is a HyperText Markup Language (HTML) document.