Rendering apparatus and method for operating a web-platform

• US 9,830,308 B2
• Filed: 01/05/2015
• Issued: 11/28/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 01/06/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Kim, Chang-yeon
• Primary Examiner(s): Ries, Laurie
• Application Number:
  US14/589,338
• Publication Number:
  US 20150193401A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,058 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/117 Tagging; Marking up details of markup languages G06F40/143; Designating a block; Setting of attributes style sheets, e.g. eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformation [XSLT], G06F40/154
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/143 Markup, e.g. Standard Generalized Markup Language [SGML] or Document Type Definition [DTD]
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/60 Editing figures and text; Combining figures or text

Abstract

An electronic apparatus and an operating method of a web-platform, the method including: executing a web application in the electronic apparatus; parsing a root layer corresponding to a most significant node having a tree structure for a visual configuration of a web page displayed by the web application; processing the root layer to have less or a reduced amount of data resident in a graphic memory as the web application is executed; and rendering a graphic layer, except the root layer, from the nodes forming the tree structure in real time. Thus, the root layer is processed so that less or reduced data can be resident in the GPU memory, thereby improving the graphic processing performance of the GPU with even a low bandwidth.

Claims

1. A method of operating a web-platform in an electronic apparatus, the method comprising:

receiving data of a web page from a server;

compressing a root layer of the web page based on the received data of the web page to generate a compressed file;

storing the compressed file in a memory;

rendering a graphic layer of the web page based on the received data of the web page;

decoding the compressed file and rendering the root layer decoded from the compressed file, and

composing the rendered root layer and the rendered graphic layer in a frame.

2. The method according to claim 1, further comprising designating a storage path for the compressed file, wherein rendering comprises loading the compressed file of the storage path.

3. The method according to claim 1, further comprising parsing text from the root layer, wherein the storing the compressed file comprises compressing and storing the root layer except the text.

4. The method according to claim 3, wherein the text is rendered in real time as included in the graphic layer.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the rendering comprises processing scalable vector graphics (SVG) data.

6. The method according to claim 5, further comprising:

storing the scalable vector graphics data; and

designating a storage path for the scalable vector graphics data,

wherein the rendering comprises loading the scalable vector graphics data of the storage path.

7. The method according to claim 5, wherein the rendering comprises using an open vector graphics (openVG) rendering process.

8. The method according to claim 1, wherein the rendering comprises removing the root layer.

9. The method according to claim 1, wherein the root layer corresponds to background content of the web page.

10. The method according to claim 1, wherein the web page comprises web content provided in a form of one of cascading style sheets (CSS), and a hypertext mark-up language (HTML).

11. An electronic apparatus, the electronic apparatus comprising:

a graphic processor configured to process graphic data;

a graphic memory configured to store data used in processing the graphic data; and

a web engine configured;

to compress a root layer of a web page based on data of the web page received from a server for generating a compressed file,

to store the compressed file in the graphic memory, and

to control the graphic processor to render a graphic layer of the web page based on the received data of the web page, decode the compressed file, render the root layer decoded from the compressed file, and compose the rendered root layer and the rendered graphic layer in a frame.

12. The electronic apparatus according to claim 11, wherein

a storage path is designated for the compressed file in the web page, and

the web engine loads the compressed file of the storage path.

13. The electronic apparatus according to claim 11, wherein if the root layer comprises a text, the text is parsed from the root layer, and the root layer, except the text, is compressed and stored.

14. The electronic apparatus according to claim 13, wherein the text is included in the graphic layer and rendered by the web engine in real time.

15. The electronic apparatus according to claim 11, wherein the web engine processes the root layer as scalable vector graphics (SVG) data.

16. The electronic apparatus according to claim 15, wherein the scalable vector graphics data is stored in the electronic apparatus, and a storage path is designated for the scalable vector graphics data in the web page, and the web engine loads the scalable vector graphics data of the storage path.

17. The electronic apparatus according to claim 15, wherein the web engine uses an open vector graphics (openVG) rendering process to process the root layer.

18. The electronic apparatus according to claim 11, wherein the web engine removes the root layer.

19. The electronic apparatus according to claim 11, wherein the root layer corresponds to a background content of the web page.

20. The electronic apparatus according to claim 11, wherein the web page comprises web content provided in a form of one of cascading style sheets (CSS), and a hypertext mark-up language (HTML).