Method and terminal for implementing display cache

• US 8,913,072 B2
• Filed: 11/05/2013
• Issued: 12/16/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 08/25/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Tencent Technology Shenzhen Company Limited (Tencent Holdings Limited)
• Original Assignee: Tencent Technology Shenzhen Company Limited (Tencent Holdings Limited)
• Inventors: Li, Xuefeng
• Primary Examiner(s): McDowell, Jr., Maurice L
• Assistant Examiner(s): Zhai, Kyle
• Application Number:
  US14/072,084
• Publication Number:
  US 20140055477A1
• Time in Patent Office: 406 Days
• Field of Search: 345/557
• US Class Current: 345/557
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 1/60 Memory management
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2360/121 using a cache memory
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/00 Control arrangements or circuits for visual indicators common to cathode-ray tube indicators and other visual indicators image data processing or generation, in general G06T

Abstract

The embodiment of the disclosure discloses a method and terminal for implementing display cache, which comprise storing, in memory, texts to be displayed as text component objects; creating a cache image object with a same size as a stored text component when displaying the text component on a screen. In the solution of display cache according to the embodiment of the disclosure, cache images are only created for text regions. Memory that would be occupied by creating cache images for non-text regions, can be saved, which offers the cache images a smaller area and a less memory occupation. By means of the solution according to the embodiment of the disclosure, a lot of running memory can be saved for programs and memory requirements of a lot of product characteristics can be met, without affecting fast display.

Claims

1. A method for implementing display cache for a webpage comprising text regions and non-text regions, comprising:

determining the text regions of the webpage by analyzing Hypertext Markup Language, HTML, of the webpage;

creating, for each of the text regions, a corresponding text component;

storing, in memory, the created text components as text component objects;

creating, for each of the stored text component objects, a corresponding cache image object with a same size as the stored text component object and displaying the created cache image object on a screen;

wherein creating for each of the stored text component objects a corresponding cache image object with a same size as the stored text component objects comprises;

creating, for each of the stored text component object, a blank image with a same size as the stored text component object, and rendering texts on the created blank image to obtain a corresponding cache image object.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein when a user performs a rolling operation on the screen, for a text region which is kept being displayed on the screen, the method further comprises:

rendering directly, on the screen, the cache image object corresponding to the text region.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein the text component objects each is defined with attributes of its size and cache image.

4. The method according to claim 3, wherein the attributes comprise:

width and height representing the size as well as cache image.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein when a user performs a rolling operation on the screen, for a text region which was moved out of the screen, the method further comprises:

deleting the cache image object corresponding to the text region.

6. The method according to claim 5, wherein the text component objects each is defined with attributes of its size and cache image.

7. The method according to claim 6, wherein the attributes comprise:

width and height representing the size as well as cache image.

8. The method according to claim 1, wherein the stored text component objects each is defined with attributes of its size and cache image.

9. The method according to claim 8, wherein the attributes comprise:

width and height representing the size as well as cache image.

10. A terminal for implementing display cache for a webpage comprising text regions and non-text regions, the terminal comprising a screen, a first processing module and a creating module, wherein

the first processing module is configured to determine text regions of a webpage to be displayed by analyzing Hypertext Markup Language, HTML, of the webpage and to create a corresponding text component for each of the text regions and to store, in memory, the created text components as text component objects;

and

the creating module is configured to create, for each of the stored text component objects, a corresponding cache image object with a same size as the stored text component object, and to display the created cache image object on the screen,

wherein the creating module is further configured to create, for each of the stored text component object, a blank image with a same size as the stored text component object, and render texts on the created blank image to obtain a corresponding cache image object.

11. The terminal according to claim 10, further comprising a second processing module, configured to render directly, on the screen, the cache image object corresponding to a text region which is kept being displayed on the screen, when a user performs a rolling operation on the screen.

12. The terminal according to claim 11, wherein the second processing module is further configured to delete the cache image object corresponding to a text region which was moved out of the screen, when the user performs the rolling operation on the screen.

13. The terminal according to claim 12, wherein the component objects each is defined with attributes of its size and cache image.

14. The terminal according to claim 13, wherein the attributes comprise:

width and height representing size and cache image.

15. The terminal according to claim 11, wherein the component objects each is defined with attributes of its size and cache image.

16. The terminal according to claim 15, wherein the attributes comprise:

width and height representing size and cache image.

17. The terminal according to claim 10, wherein the text component objects each is defined with attributes of its size and cache image.

18. The terminal according to claim 17, wherein the attributes comprise:

width and height representing size and cache image.