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 comprising a thumbnail storage;
- 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 that allocates a memory space for at least two buffers in the storage system, the at least two buffers comprising a displayed thumbnail buffer that stores thumbnails displayed previously on the display screen, and a current thumbnail buffer that stores thumbnails currently displayed and to-be displayed on the display screen;
- under the condition that the display screen displays indices of images when browsing the images in an image folder, a buffering module that reads the indices displayed on the display screen, and reads the thumbnails corresponding to the indices from the displayed thumbnail buffer when the thumbnails corresponding to the indices are found in the displayed thumbnail buffer, and copies the thumbnails into the current thumbnail buffer;
- and
- a reading module that reads the thumbnails from the current thumbnail buffer, and displays the thumbnails on the display screen.
A method for displaying thumbnails on a mobile device, the mobile device comprising a storage system that has a thumbnail storage, the method comprising:
- allocating a memory space for at least two buffers in a storage system of the mobile device, the at least two buffers comprising a displayed thumbnail buffer that stores thumbnails displayed previously on a display screen of the mobile device, and a current thumbnail buffer that stores thumbnails currently displayed and to-be displayed on the display screen;
- under the condition that the display screen displays indices of images when browsing the images in an image folder, reading the indices on the display screen;
- reading the thumbnails corresponding to the indices from the displayed thumbnail buffer when 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 non-transitory 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 mobile device comprising a storage system that has a thumbnail storage, the method comprising:
- allocating a memory space for at least two buffers in a storage system of the mobile device, the at least two buffers comprising a displayed thumbnail buffer that stores thumbnails displayed previously on a display screen of the mobile device, and a current thumbnail buffer that stores thumbnails currently displayed and to-be displayed on the display screen;
- under the condition that the display screen displays indices of images when browsing the images in an image folder, reading the indices on the display screen;
- reading the thumbnails corresponding to the indices from the displayed thumbnail buffer when 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.