Display apparatus and display control method
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsAkira Sano, Takayuki Nagashima
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Abstract
A rendering control unit determines movie and graphic display modes with reference to a rendering processing command, and acquires maximum speed information indicating the maximum value of a read/write speed allowed for a memory. The rendering control unit decides a speed to be distributed to a read/write speed of the movie data and a speed to be distributed to a read/write speed of the graphic data with respect to the memory, of a maximum speed indicated by the maximum speed information, based on the determination result. The rendering control unit controls a read/write access of an image with respect to the memory based on the rendering processing command, in accordance with the decided speeds.
Claims9
A display apparatus, which comprises a memory having a memory area used to render movie data and a memory area used to render graphic data to be composited on the movie data, and reads out and displays an image written in the memory, comprising:
- a unit which acquires rendering command information which describes a rendering command of at least one of the movie data and the graphic data;
- a determination unit which determines display modes of the movie data and graphic data with reference to the rendering command information;
- a unit which acquires maximum speed information indicating a maximum value of a read/write speed allowed for the memory;
- a decision unit which decides a first speed to be distributed to a read/write speed of the movie data with respect to the memory and a second speed to be distributed to a read/write speed of the graphic data with respect to the memory, of a maximum speed indicated by the maximum speed information, based on the determination result of said determination unit;
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- a control unit which controls a read/write access of an image with respect to the memory based on the rendering command information, in accordance with the speeds decided by said decision unit,
- wherein said decision unit acquires first speed information indicating a read/write speed required to read/write the movie data with respect to the memory, and second speed information indicating a read/write speed required to read/write the graphic data with respect to the memory,
- said decision unit refers table information which holds information, used to prescribe a speed to be distributed to the read/write speed of the movie data and a speed to be distributed to the read/write speed of the graphic data, in correspondence with each of combinations of display modes of the movie data and display modes of the graphic data,
- said decision unit decides the first speed and the second speed each corresponding to a display mode of the movie data and a display mode of the graphic data prescribed by the rendering command information, respectively, and
- said control unit comprises:
- a correction unit, which corrects a rendering command of the movie data in the rendering command information when the first speed is lower than the speed indicated by the first speed information, and corrects a rendering command of the graphic data in the rendering command information when the second speed is lower than the speed indicated by the second speed information;
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- a unit which controls a read/write access of an image with respect to the memory based on the rendering command information corrected by said correction unit, in accordance with the speeds decided by said decision unit.
A display control method for a display apparatus, which comprises a memory having a memory area used to render movie data and a memory area used to render graphic data to be composited on the movie data, and reads out and displays an image written in the memory, using the display apparatus to perform the steps of:
- a step of acquiring rendering command information which describes a rendering command of at least one of the movie data and the graphic data;
- a determination step of determining display modes of the movie data and graphic data with reference to the rendering command information;
- a step of acquiring maximum speed information indicating a maximum value of a read/write speed allowed for the memory;
- a decision step of deciding a first speed to be distributed to a read/write speed of the movie data with respect to the memory and a second speed to be distributed to a read/write speed of the graphic data with respect to the memory, of a maximum speed indicated by the maximum speed information, based on the determination result in the determination step;
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- a control step of controlling a read/write access of an image with respect to the memory based on the rendering command information, in accordance with the speeds decided in the decision step,
- wherein said decision step acquires first speed information indicating a read/write speed required to read/write the movie data with respect to the memory, and second speed information indicating a read/write speed required to read/write the graphic data with respect to the memory,
- said decision step refers table information which holds information, used to prescribe a speed to be distributed to the read/write speed of the movie data and a speed to be distributed to the read/write speed of the graphic data, in correspondence with each of combinations of display modes of the movie data and display modes of the graphic data,
- said decision step decides the first speed and the second speed each corresponding to a display mode of the movie data and a display mode of the graphic data prescribed by the rendering command information, respectively, and
- said control step comprises:
- a correction step of correcting a rendering command of the movie data in the rendering command information when the first speed is lower than the speed indicated by the first speed information, and corrects a rendering command of the graphic data in the rendering command information when the second speed is lower than the speed indicated by the second speed information;
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- a step of controlling a read/write access of an image with respect to the memory based on the rendering command information corrected by said correction step, in accordance with the speeds decided by said decision step.
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