Clear Browser: A Dedicated Embedded Browser for Quality-Affordable Smart TVs

In the recent and following several years, Smart TVs popularly used in most families are likely to be quality-affordable.This kind of Smart TV has the following features: low-performance mainboard, large TV screen, diversified application support and high user-experience demand. As one of the most important fundamentalsoftware, the browser faces great challenges. We designed a dedicated embedded browsernamed Clear Browser and proposed a methodology named SDCBto fit the features of the quality-affordable Smart TV. SDCB is consisted of four steps: tailor the browser’s engineers; setup a proxy server for webpages; buildfeedback control module anddiscard secondary information.The experiment results show SDCB can help browserpresent webpages friendly on large screen with limited resources.

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