Multi-screen display management system, display driving method and screen switching method
A multi-screen display management system to effectively manage multi-screen display by creating a screen management list to establish correspondence between each display screen and signal input port. The multi-screen display management system includes a signal input module, a screen management module, a list modification module, a mode management module and a driving module. The screen management module stores a screen management list, in which multiple display screens are pre-defined and a signal input port corresponding to each display screen is recorded. The list modification module is configured to modify the screen management list according to user's operation. The mode management module is configured to determine an active screen in the screen management list according to user's operation. The driving module is configured to drive the display device to display each active screen.
1. A screen switching method, the screen switching method being performed by a multi-screen display management system comprising:
a plurality of signal input devices, each of which comprises a plurality of signal input ports;
a memory, which stores a screen management list, wherein in the screen management list, a correspondence between a plurality of display screens and the plurality of signal input ports is predefined;
the method comprising:
modifying the correspondence between the plurality of display screens and the plurality of signal input ports, to generate a modified correspondence;
determining an active screen in the screen management list according to an operation of a user, wherein the determined active screen is a display screen that is being displayed on a display device currently, and a non-active screen is a display screen that is not being displayed on the display device currently; and
according to the modified correspondence and the determined active screen, selecting a signal input port corresponding to the determined active screen, and to drive the display device to display the determined active screen according to a display signal inputted through the selected signal input port,
wherein the screen switching method further comprises:
determining, whether a non-active screen that takes a target input port as its corresponding signal input port exists in the screen management list when the user chooses to switch a current input port corresponding to a selected active screen on the display device to the target input port;
modifying the signal input port corresponding to the determined active screen selected by the user to be the target input port in the screen management list when the determined non-active screen that takes the target input port as its corresponding signal input port does not exist in the screen management list;
counting a total number of signal input ports that belong to the signal input device comprising the target input port in a modified screen management list after the screen management list has been modified;
determining whether the counted total number of signal input ports is larger than a maximum allowable port number of the signal input device comprising the target input port; and
driving the display device to display each determined active screen according to the display signal inputted through the signal input port corresponding to each active screen recorded in the modified screen management list, when the counted total number of signal input ports is determined as smaller than or equal to the maximum allowable port number of the signal input device comprising the target input port.
2. The screen switching method according to claim 1 ,
further comprising:
modifying the signal input port corresponding to the determined active screen selected by the user to be the target input port and the signal input port corresponding to the determined non-active screen to be the current input port in the screen management list, when the determined non-active screen that takes the target input port is determined as its corresponding signal input port exists in the screen management list; and
driving the display device to display each determined active screen according to the display signal inputted through the signal input port corresponding to each active screen recorded in the modified screen management list.
3. The screen switching method according to claim 2 , wherein
the screen switching method further comprises:
determining whether a non-active screen whose corresponding signal input port belongs to the same signal input device as the target input port exists in the screen management list when the counted total number of signal input ports is determined as larger than the maximum allowable port number of the signal input device comprising the target input port;
selecting, from the screen management list, one non-active screen whose corresponding signal input port belongs to the same signal input device as the target input port and modifying the signal input port corresponding to said one non-active screen to be the current input port, when the non-active screen whose corresponding signal input port belongs to the same signal input device determined as the target input port existing in the screen management list;
driving the display device to display each determined active screen according to the display signal inputted through the signal input port corresponding to each active screen recorded in a second modified screen management list, after the modified screen management list has been modified; and
modifying the signal input port corresponding to the determined active screen selected by the user from the target input port to the current input port in the screen management list when the non-active screen whose corresponding signal input port belongs to the same signal input device as the target input port does not exist in the screen management list.