Display device, display method, and terminal
Provided is a display device, including: a display panel and a drive mainboard. The drive mainboard includes a first processor and a second processor. The second processor is electrically connected to the first processor and the display panel. The first processor is configured to acquire data of an image changed portion in response to a control instruction and output the data of the image changed portion to the second processor. The control instruction is issued for controlling a partial change of an image displayed on the display panel. The second processor is configured to output N slave input signals to the display panel. The N slave input signals carry the data of the image changed portion, wherein N is a positive integer greater than 1. The display panel is configured to perform partial image refresh based on the data of the image changed portion.
1. A display device, comprising:
a display panel and a drive mainboard, wherein the drive mainboard comprises a first processor and a second processor, the second processor being electrically connected to the first processor and the display panel;
wherein
the first processor is configured to acquire data of an image changed portion in response to a control instruction and output the data of the image changed portion to the second processor, wherein the control instruction is issued for controlling a partial change of an image displayed on the display panel;
the second processor is configured to output N slave input signals to the display panel, wherein the N slave input signals carry the data of the image changed portion, N being a positive integer greater than 1; and
the display panel is configured to perform partial image refresh based on the data of the image changed portion,
wherein the first processor is configured to:
convert a first grayscale image loaded in response to the control instruction into a second grayscale image, wherein a grayscale number of the first grayscale image is greater than a grayscale number of the second grayscale image, and the grayscale number of the second grayscale image is adaptive to the display panel;
determine whether the image displayed on the display panel is partially refreshed by comparing the second grayscale image with an image currently displayed on the display panel, and determine data corresponding to a position where the display panel needs to be refreshed in response to the image on the display panel is partially refreshed; and
acquire the data of the image changed portion by adding mode information and address information to the data corresponding to the position where the display panel needs to be refreshed, such that the displayed image is partially refreshed based on the acquired data of the image change portion according to the added mode and address information.
2. The display device according to claim 1 , wherein the first processor loads an image by a load thread, and acquires the data of the image changed portion by performing image processing, by an algorithm thread, on the image loaded by the load thread.
3. The display device according to claim 1 , wherein the first processor is configured to convert the first grayscale image in parallel by calling, by an algorithm thread, a plurality of transcode threads, wherein each of the transcode threads processes a plurality of rows of data in the first grayscale image.
4. The display device according to claim 1 , wherein the first processor is further configured to:
segment each row of data in the data of the image changed portion into N pieces; and
acquire N groups of data by organizing a plurality of pieces of data that are arranged in positions of a same order of the data of the image changed portion into one group, wherein the N groups of data respectively correspond to the N slave input signals.
5. The display device according to claim 4 , wherein the first processor is further configured to combine mode information and address information of each piece of data in each group of data and arrange the combined information at a header of the each group of data.
6. The display device according to claim 1 , wherein the first processor is further configured to transmit a data volume of the data of the image changed portion to the second processor; and
the second processor is further configured to generate a clock signal based on the data volume, wherein the clock signal is configured to control a time sequence of transmission of the N slave input signals.
7. The display device according to claim 1 , wherein the slave input signal comprises image data, address information, and mode information, wherein the address information indicates an address of a display panel to which the image data is to be written, and the mode information indicates that a refresh mode of the display panel is partial refresh.
8. The display device according to claim 1 , wherein the first processor is a system on chip, and the second processor is a micro controller unit.
9. The display device according to claim 1 , wherein
the first processor and the second processor are electrically connected to each other by a universal serial bus interface; and
one of the first processor and the second processor is integrated with a universal serial bus physical layer chip, or one of the first processor and the second processor is externally connected to a universal serial bus physical layer chip.
10. The display device according to claim 1 , wherein the display panel is a display panel having a touch function, and the control instruction is a touch instruction generated in response to a touch operation of the display panel.
11. A display method, wherein a method is applicable to a display device, the display device comprising:
a display panel and a drive mainboard, wherein the drive mainboard comprises a first processor and a second processor, the second processor being electrically connected to the first processor and the display panel; wherein
the first processor is configured to acquire data of an image changed portion in response to a control instruction and output the data of the image changed portion to the second processor, wherein the control instruction is issued for controlling a partial change of an image displayed on the display panel;
the second processor is configured to output N slave input signals to the display panel, wherein the N slave input signals carry the data of the image changed portion, N being a positive integer greater than 1; and
the display panel is configured to perform partial image refresh based on the data of the image changed portion; and
the method comprises:
acquiring the data of the image changed portion in response to the control instruction, wherein the control instruction is issued for controlling the partial change of the image displayed on the display panel;
outputting the N slave input signals to the display panel, wherein the N slave input signals carry the data of the image changed portion, N being the positive integer greater than 1; and
performing the partial image refresh based on the data of the image changed portion,
wherein acquiring the data of the image changed portion in response to the control instruction comprises:
converting a first grayscale image loaded in response to the control instruction into a second grayscale image, wherein a grayscale number of the first grayscale image is greater than a grayscale number of the second grayscale image, and the grayscale number of the second grayscale image is adaptive to the display panel;
determining whether the image displayed on the display panel is partially refreshed by comparing the second grayscale image with an image currently displayed on the display panel, and determining data corresponding to a position where the display panel needs to be refreshed in response to the image displayed on the display panel is partially refreshed;
acquiring the data of the image changed portion by adding mode information and address information to the data corresponding to the position where the display panel needs to be refreshed, and
displaying the partially refreshed image based on the acquired data of the image change portion according to the added mode and address information.
12. The method according to claim 11 , wherein acquiring the data of the image changed portion in response to the control instruction comprises:
loading an image by a load thread, and acquiring the data of the image changed portion by performing image processing, by an algorithm thread, on the image loaded by the load thread.
13. The method according to claim 11 , wherein converting the first grayscale image loaded in response to the control instruction into the second grayscale image comprises:
converting the first grayscale image in parallel by calling, by an algorithm thread, a plurality of transcode threads, wherein each of the transcode threads processes a plurality of rows of data in the first grayscale image.
14. The method according to claim 11 , wherein acquiring the data of the image changed portion in response to the control instruction further comprises:
segmenting each row of data in the data of the image changed portion into N pieces; and
acquiring N groups of data by organizing a plurality of pieces of data that are arranged in positions of a same order in the data of the image changed portion into one group, wherein the N groups of data respectively correspond to the N slave input signals.
15. The method according to claim 14 , wherein organizing the plurality of pieces of data that are arranged in the positions of the same order in the data of the image changed portion into one group comprises:
combining mode information and address information of each piece of data in each group of data and arranging the combined information at a header of the each group of data.
16. The method according to claim 11 , further comprising:
generating a clock signal based on a data volume of the data of the image changed portion, wherein the clock signal is configured to control a time sequence of transmission of the N slave input signals.
17. The method according to claim 11 , wherein the slave input signal comprises image data, address information, and mode information, wherein the address information indicates an address of a display panel to which the image data is to be written, and the mode information indicates that a refresh mode of the display panel is partial refresh.
18. A terminal, comprising a processor and a memory;
wherein the memory is configured to store one or more computer programs; and
the processor, when loading and running the one or more computer programs stored in the memory, is caused to perform the display method as defined in claim 11 .