CN100530094C - Method for displaying image data in front of screen and loading program in back of screen into executive computer program - Google Patents

Abstract

A method for displaying image data before screen and loading program after screen into computer for executing computer program includes starting up computer system and executing basic input/output system of computer system when computer system detects that a preset shortcut key is operated. The basic input/output system loads and executes the display device driver, loads a preset screen image data related to the shortcut key preset application program, and displays the screen image data by the display device. And loading and executing the operating system in the background while displaying the image data in front of the screen on the display device, and loading and executing a preset application program of the shortcut key corresponding to the shortcut key after finishing the starting of the operating system.

Description

Method for displaying image data in front of screen and loading program in back screen to execute computer program

【Technical field】

The present invention relates to a method for starting a computer system, in particular to a method for displaying image data in front of a screen and loading a program in the back screen to execute a computer program.

【Background technique】

As multimedia applications become more and more popular, computers have penetrated into ordinary family life and become devices that can be touched every day. For most people, the computer is already an essential tool for dealing with daily affairs, and the skill of operating a computer is no longer an esoteric knowledge. Therefore, as far as the overall environment is concerned, based on the improvement of user capabilities and the evolution of technology, the concept of digital home with computers as the core has gradually been constructed in recent years. Examples, or to improve the general household appliances to make it easier to operate, so as to enhance its ability to integrate with general household appliances. An example would be Instant Play or something similar. Through the fast importing steps of the embedded application, the user is given an operation experience similar to that of a home appliance, and can enjoy the fun of playing audio and video immediately after turning on the device.

【Content of invention】

The technical problem to be solved by the present invention:

However, the fly in the ointment is that although the fast boot method has greatly improved the boot speed, the structure of the computer is different from that of ordinary home appliances, and it still needs a relatively long waiting time, so there are still the following disadvantages in use:

(1) The user clearly separates the process of turning on the computer from the process of using the computer;

(2) The waiting time for starting up is not effectively utilized;

(3) The waiting time for starting up is the best time for product advertisement, and it can also be used as a good time for product introduction or product operation guidance, but this time is not properly utilized in the existing design;

(4) Users tend to feel that the waiting time is too long and the acceptance is reduced, which affects the product promotion of the integration of home appliances and computer applications.

In view of the lack of the aforementioned prior art, the main purpose of the present invention is to provide a method of displaying image data in front of the screen and loading and executing a computer program with a program behind the screen. When the operator starts the system, the basic output of the computer system The system (BIOS) loads a series of animation images or cross-field effect images of a preset application program to the display, and then the operating system takes over the operation initiated by the serial device and the startup of the application program.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a method for effectively utilizing the computer system to start a computer program during the waiting period of booting. The present invention produces a cohesive effect through the smooth animation chain effect and the imported program, so the user can use the display screen Seeing the progress of function execution, you will not feel the feeling of program stagnation.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a method for executing computer programs that can take into account the effect of boot-up sequence without affecting the system startup speed. In the present invention, while a sequence of preset animation images is displayed on the display, the operating system is still running behind the scenes. In progress, it does not affect the initial speed of the system.

The technical means of the present invention to solve the problem:

The technical means adopted by the present invention to solve the problems of the prior art is to start the computer system and execute the basic input/output system of the computer system when a computer system detects that a pre-configured shortcut key is operated. The BIOS loads and executes the display device driver, and loads a preset front-screen image data related to the shortcut key preset application program, and the front-screen image data is displayed by the display device show. While the display device displays the front-screen image data, the operating system is loaded and executed behind the scenes, and after the operating system is started, the shortcut key preset application program corresponding to the shortcut key is loaded and executed .

In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, a predetermined random access disk area can be set up in the system memory of the computer system, so as to increase the startup speed of each program. Furthermore, in addition to displaying the front-screen image data, sound data related to the shortcut key preset application program may also be included.

The present invention contrasts the effect of prior art:

Compared with the prior art, the method of displaying image data in front of the screen and loading the program in the back screen to execute the computer program provided by the present invention can be activated by the Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) of the computer system when the operator starts the system. ) to load a sequence of preset application related animation images or cross-field effect images to the display, and then the operating system takes over the operation initiated by the serial device and the startup of the application, so that the user can press the next default shortcut At the moment of pressing the button, the effect is produced in one go through the smooth animation chain effect and the imported program. Therefore, the user can see the progress of the function execution through the display screen, and will not feel that the program is stagnant. While the monitor is displaying images, the operating system is still running behind the scenes, which does not affect the initial speed of the system. In actual application, it can be designed for the start-up animation, and it can also combine product features and highlight its product features to enhance the user's impression of the product or brand.

The specific method and control flow adopted by the present invention will be further described through the following embodiments and attached drawings.

【Description of drawings】

Fig. 1 shows a functional block diagram of the first embodiment of the system including the display of the front-screen image data and the loading of the back-screen program to execute the computer program of the present invention.

Fig. 2 shows the control flow chart of the present invention when performing the present invention to display the image data in front of the screen and load the program in the back screen to execute the computer program.

Fig. 3 shows a system function block diagram of the second embodiment including the display of the front-screen image data and the loading of the back-screen program to execute the computer program of the present invention.

FIG. 4 shows that several shortcut key preset application programs are installed in the hard disk in FIG. 3 , and several front-screen image data and sound data corresponding to the shortcut key preset application programs are installed.

FIG. 5 shows relevant field data of the shortcut key event code corresponding table in FIG. 3 .

FIG. 6 is a control flow diagram showing the second embodiment of the present invention when performing the present invention to display image data in front of the screen and load the program in the back screen to execute the computer program.

【Detailed ways】

Fig. 1 shows a functional block diagram of the first embodiment of the system including the display of the front-screen image data and the loading of the back-screen program to execute the computer program of the present invention. The computer device 100 of the present invention includes a central processing unit 11, a first bus bridge 12, and a second bus bridge 13, wherein the central processing unit 11 is connected to the first bus bridge 12 via a system bus, and the first The bus bridge 12 is connected to a system memory 14 and connected to a display 15 via a display interface 150 .

The second bus bridge 13 is connected to a basic I/O system memory 16 . The basic input-output system memory 16 stores a basic input-output system program 161 (BIOS program) and a system self-test program 162 (Power On Self Test, POST program) required by the computer device when starting.

The second bus bridge 13 is connected to a hard disk interface 170 via the bus, and then connected to a hard disk 17 through the hard disk interface 170 . The hard disk 17 is used as a data storage medium in the present invention. The hard disk 17 is installed with an operating system 171 and other various drivers and applications operable under the environment of the operating system, such as a display device driver 172, a shortcut key preset application 173, and the like. The shortcut key preset application program 173 is a multimedia video and audio playback program. The hard disk 17 also includes at least one piece of front-screen image data 174 and at least one piece of audio data 175 .

The second bus bridge 13 is connected to a multimedia audio-visual playing device 18 via an audio-visual interface 180 . The multimedia audio-visual playing device 18 can be, for example, DVD, MP3, CD, TV, etc. playing devices. The second bus bridge 13 can also be connected to other various peripheral devices (not shown) via suitable peripheral device interfaces.

The second bus bridge 13 is also connected to a shortcut key 19 through a shortcut key detection interface 190 , and the shortcut key 19 is corresponding to a shortcut key preset application program 173 . That is, whenever the shortcut key 19 is pressed and operated by the user, the computer system will detect the state of the shortcut key 19 , and then load and execute the shortcut key default application program 173 in the hard disk 17 .

Referring to FIG. 2 , it shows the control flow diagram of the present invention when performing the present invention to display the front-screen image data and load the back-screen program to execute the computer program. In conjunction with the functional block diagram of the system of the first embodiment shown in FIG. 1 , the control flow of the present invention will be described in detail as follows.

First, the computer system detects whether the shortcut key is pressed (step 101). When it is detected that the shortcut key is pressed, the computer system will be started (step 102). In this step, the step of starting the computer system can be to start the computer system or make the computer The system wakes up from hibernate state.

After the computer system finishes starting, the computer system will first execute the BIOS (step 103), that is, the central processing unit 11 of the computer system will load and execute the BIOS from the BIOS memory 16. Enter the system program 161 and the system self-test program 162. Then, the BIOS program 161 detects devices such as the display device 15 , the hard disk 17 , and the multimedia audio-visual playing device 18 connected to the computer device 100 (step 104 ).

At this point, in the system memory 14 of the computer system 100, a predetermined random access disk area 141 can be demarcated (step 105) as the operating system, display device driver and shortcut keys described later. Preset the space required by the application to improve execution speed.

After completing the detection of each device, the BIOS program 161 will first load and execute the display device driver 172 (step 106), so that the display device 15 will start to function, and then the BIOS will be activated. The program 161 loads the front-screen image data 174 related to the shortcut key preset application program 173 to an image buffer 151 of the display device 15 (step 107), and the front-screen image data 174 is then displayed by the display device 15 It is displayed (step 108).

In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the front-screen image data 174 can be a sequence of animation images, and the sequence of animation images can be a brief introduction of product functions, a brief introduction of operation methods, or a general advertisement. And when presenting the front-screen image data, the audio data 175 can also be synchronously played by the multimedia audio-visual playing device 18 or the audio device.

While loading the front-screen image data 174 to the display device 15 and displaying the front-screen image data 174 by the display device 15 in the aforementioned step 107, the flow process of the present invention loads and executes the operating system in the hard disk 17 behind the scenes. 171 (step 109), to complete the entire startup procedure of the operating system, and then load and execute the shortcut key preset application program 173 corresponding to the shortcut key 19 (step 110). When the shortcut key preset application program 173 is officially executed, the display device 15 can stop displaying the front-screen image data 174 .

In actual application, the shortcut key preset application program 173 can be an application program for executing a multimedia audio-visual playback device, and the shortcut key 19 can be a button for starting the multimedia audio-visual playback device, or a preset shortcut on the keyboard device key. When the user presses and operates the shortcut key 19 , the computer system 100 can execute the above sequence of processes.

Fig. 3 shows a system function block diagram of the second embodiment including the display of the front-screen image data and the loading of the back-screen program to execute the computer program of the present invention. In this embodiment, most of its constituent modules are the same as those in FIG. 1 , so the same functional modules are labeled with the same numbers, and the difference is that the second bus bridge 13 of the computer device 100 is connected with several different functional modules. For example, it includes a DVD player 18a, a CD player 18b, and a TV player 18c, which are respectively connected to the second bus bridge 13 via respective audio-visual interfaces 180a, 180b, and 180c.

The second bus bridge 13 can be connected to several shortcut keys 19a, 19b, 19c via a decoding circuit 20, and the shortcut keys 19a, 19b, 19c are respectively corresponding to the shortcut key preset application programs 173a, 173b, 173c (simultaneously 4), and the shortcut key preset application programs 173a, 173b, 173c are respectively corresponding to the control of the DVD playback device 18a, the CD playback device 18b, and the TV playback device 18c. In the data storage medium 17, in addition to installing several shortcut key default application programs 173a, 173b, 173c, several front-screen image data 174a, 174b, 174c corresponding to the shortcut key default application programs and Voice data 175a, 175b, 175c.

A shortcut key event code correspondence table 176 is stored in the data storage medium 17, and the relevant field data of the shortcut key event code correspondence table 176 is shown in FIG. The event codes #1, #2, #3 corresponding to each shortcut key 19a, 19b, 19c, the shortcut key preset application program #1, #2, #3 corresponding to the event code, the shortcut key preset application program The corresponding related front-screen image data #1, #2, #3 and audio data #1, #2, #3.

Referring to FIG. 6 , it shows the control flow diagram of the second embodiment of the present invention when performing the present invention to display the image data in front of the screen and load the program in the back screen to execute the computer program. In the control process of this embodiment, most of the steps are the same as the process steps shown in Figure 2, the difference is that the computer system detects that any one of the shortcut keys 19a, 19b, 19c is pressed (step 101a) , then it will be decoded by the decoding circuit 20 in FIG. 3 (step 101b), and then the computer system will determine which shortcut key is pressed according to the decoding result (step 101c).

Thereafter, the computer system will be started (step 102), the basic input/output system (step 103), and devices such as the display device 15, the hard disk 17, and the multimedia audio-visual player 18 connected to the computer device 100 (step 103) will be detected (step 102). 104), designate a random access disk area (step 105), load and execute the display device driver (step 106).

Then, the computer system will load the front-screen images related to the shortcut key preset application programs 173a, 173b, and 173c corresponding to the shortcut key by the BIOS program 161 according to the shortcut key that is determined to be pressed. The image data 174a, 174b, 174c are transferred to an image buffer 151 of the display device 15 (step 107), and then the front-screen image data 174a, 174b, 174c are displayed by the display device 15 (step 108).

At the same time, the process of the present invention loads and executes the operating system 171 (step 109) in the hard disk 17 behind the scenes to complete the entire startup program of the operating system, and then loads and executes the corresponding shortcut keys 19a, 19b, and 19c. Shortcut key preset applications 173a, 173b, 173c (step 110). When the shortcut key preset application program 173a, 173b, 173c is officially executed, the display device 15 can stop displaying the front-screen image data 174a, 174b, 174c.

It can be seen from the above embodiments of the present invention that the present invention has industrial application value. However, the descriptions of the above embodiments are only the descriptions of the preferred embodiments of the present invention, and those skilled in the art can make other various improvements and changes based on the descriptions of the above embodiments of the present invention. However, the various improvements and changes made according to the embodiments of the present invention should still belong to the inventive spirit and defined patent scope of the present invention.

Claims (9)

1. one kind shows with pictorial data before the curtain and program behind the scenes is written into the method for carrying out computer program, be in a computer system, to be connected with a data storage medium, a system storage, a ROM-BIOS, a display device and at least one shortcut, this shortcut corresponds to the default application program of shortcut of an appointment, store an operating system, a display device driver in this data storage medium, reach the default application program of this shortcut, this method comprises the following steps:

(a) detect the state of this shortcut;

(b) when detecting this shortcut and be operated, open this computer system of beginning;

(c) carry out the ROM-BIOS of this computer system;

(d) be written into and carry out this display device driver by this ROM-BIOS, make this display device open the beginning effect;

(e) be written into a default curtain preceding pictorial data relevant by this ROM-BIOS, and should the preceding pictorial data of curtain be shown by display device with the default application program of this shortcut;

(f) before this display device display screen, pictorial data the time, be written into and carry out this operating system with the backstage;

(g) finish the Qi Shihou of this operating system, be written into and carry out the default application program of the pairing shortcut of this shortcut.

2. the method that is written into the execution computer program with pictorial data demonstration and program behind the scenes before the curtain according to claim 1, it is characterized in that, in the step (b), more be included in and draw the step that sets out a predetermined random access magnetic disc zone in the system storage of this computer system, to preset the required space of application program as carrying out this operating system, display device driver and shortcut.

3. according to claim 1ly show and program behind the scenes is written into the method for carrying out computer program, it is characterized in that a pictorial data is stored in this data storage medium before the curtain in the step (e) with pictorial data before the curtain.

4. the method that is written into the execution computer program with pictorial data demonstration and program behind the scenes before the curtain according to claim 1, it is characterized in that, in the step (e), the loaded preceding pictorial data of curtain of this ROM-BIOS is loaded in the frame buffer of this display device.

5. the method that is written into the execution computer program with pictorial data demonstration and program behind the scenes before the curtain according to claim 1, it is characterized in that, in the step (e), the data that this ROM-BIOS is written into before curtain pictorial data, more include and the default relevant voice data of application program of this shortcut.

6. according to claim 1ly show and program behind the scenes is written into the method for carrying out computer program, it is characterized in that the preceding pictorial data of this curtain is a sequence animated image with pictorial data before the curtain.

7. according to claim 1ly show and program behind the scenes is written into the method for carrying out computer program, it is characterized in that the default application program of this shortcut is a multimedia video playing program with pictorial data before the curtain.

8. the method that is written into the execution computer program with pictorial data demonstration and program behind the scenes before the curtain according to claim 1, it is characterized in that, more store a shortcut event code corresponding tables in this data storage medium, stored the preceding pictorial data of relevant curtain of the pairing event code of a plurality of shortcuts, the default application program of the pairing shortcut of this event code, the default application program correspondence of this shortcut in its corresponding tables.

9. according to claim 8ly show and program behind the scenes is written into the method for carrying out computer program, it is characterized in that, more stored the associated sound data of the default application program correspondence of this shortcut in this shortcut event code corresponding tables with pictorial data before the curtain.

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