Mobile device and method for displaying thumbnails on the mobile device
AssigneeChi Mei Communication Systems, Inc.
InventorTZE-WEI HUANG
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Abstract
A method for displaying thumbnails on a mobile device includes allocating at least two buffers in a storage system of the mobile device, where the at least two buffers comprise a displayed thumbnail buffer and a current thumbnail buffer. Indices of the thumbnails on are displayed on a display screen of the mobile device, and thumbnails from the displayed thumbnail buffer are read if the thumbnails correspond to the indices are found in the displayed thumbnail buffer. In addition, the method further includes reading the thumbnails from the current thumbnail and displaying the thumbnails on the display screen of the mobile device.
Claims13
A mobile device, comprising:
- a display screen;
- a storage system;
- at least one processor;
- and
- a thumbnail displaying unit that is included in the storage system and comprising one or more computerized operations to be executed by the at least one processor, the thumbnail displaying unit comprising:
- a configuring module operable to allocate a memory space for at least two buffers in the storage system, wherein the at least two buffers comprise a displayed thumbnail buffer operable to store thumbnails displayed previously on the display screen, and a current thumbnail buffer operable to store thumbnails currently displayed and to-be displayed on the display screen;
- a buffering module operable to read the thumbnails from the displayed thumbnail buffer if the thumbnails corresponding to the indices displayed on the display screen are found in the displayed thumbnail buffer, and operable to copy the thumbnails into the current thumbnail buffer;
- and
- a reading module operable to read the thumbnails from the current thumbnail buffer, and display the thumbnails on the display screen.
A method for displaying thumbnails on a mobile device, the method comprising:
- allocating a memory space for at least two buffers in a storage system of the mobile device, wherein the at least two buffers comprise a displayed thumbnail buffer operable to store thumbnails displayed previously on a display screen of the mobile device, and a current thumbnail buffer operable to store thumbnails currently displayed and to-be displayed on the display screen;
- displaying indices of the thumbnails on the display screen;
- reading the thumbnails from the displayed thumbnail buffer if the thumbnails corresponding to the indices are found in the displayed thumbnail buffer;
- copying the thumbnails into the current thumbnail buffer;
- and
- reading the thumbnails from the current thumbnail buffer and displaying the thumbnails on the display screen.
A storage medium having stored thereon instructions that, when executed by a mobile device, causing the mobile device to perform a method for displaying thumbnails on the mobile device, the method comprising:
- allocating a memory space for at least two buffers in a storage system of the mobile device, wherein the at least two buffers comprise a displayed thumbnail buffer operable to store thumbnails displayed previously on a display screen of the mobile device, and a current thumbnail buffer operable to store thumbnails currently displayed and to-be displayed on the display screen;
- displaying indices of the thumbnails on the display screen;
- reading the thumbnails from the displayed thumbnail buffer if the thumbnails corresponding to the indices are found in the displayed thumbnail buffer;
- copying the thumbnails into the current thumbnail buffer;
- and
- reading the thumbnails from the current thumbnail buffer and displaying the thumbnails on the display screen.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.