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20080216009 | Virtual Library File System - A system and method of graphical display is provided. A publisher module receives link objects for display in a virtual library, generates virtual book objects, each virtual book object corresponding to a link object, and allows configuration of virtual characteristics associated with each virtual book object. The virtual characteristics include a size characteristic, a color characteristic, or a texture characteristic. Each link object is associated with at least one of an electronic file, an electronic directory, an electronic folder, a website, and a uniform resource locator (URL). A library module is in communication with the publisher module and displays the virtual book objects, within a predetermined format including a plurality of virtual shelves. A computer readable medium stores the virtual book objects, the configured virtual characteristics, and the link objects. The virtual book objects are maintained in the predetermined format, at configurable locations on the virtual shelves. Selecting a particular virtual book object opens an associated electronic file, an associated electronic directory, an associated electronic folder, an associated website, or an associated URL, corresponding to the link object. | 09-04-2008 |
20080222552 | Interactive Electronic Book Operating Systems And Methods - Interactive electronic book operating systems and methods for displaying and allowing customization of content of scientific, engineering and other technical and professional digital books. The systems and methods allow for a single screen for displaying digital books covering scientific and technical topics having a classical look and feel on operating platforms(such as portable laptops, desktops, and small handheld displays) that are capable of running the Java Virtual Machine. The display screen can include icon toolbars about the screen and/or directly on the screen to manipulate the pages and content of the digital book. The icons can allow for forward and backward page turning, generating of dynamic indexing and tables of contents, bookmarking, color themes, floating pages, highlighting, adding sticky notes, hiding selected content on the pages, quizzing the reader, lecturing the reader, tutoring the reader, showing the reader additional designs and practical relevance, and allowing the instructor to generate uniform seed numbers for problems and designs and/or allowing the instructor to generate random seed values for problems and designs. | 09-11-2008 |
20080256479 | Electronic publication and methods and components thereof - An electronic publication and methods and components thereof including a user interface. The electronic publication can be provided by e-mail or similar transmission add contains its own executable file for presentation of the publication without a user requiring a preloaded application software. The electronic publication addresses the processor for calculation and the operating system for increased functionality to minimize the size of the executable file and the publication as a whole. The publication contains a user interface incorporating a page-turn and provides a non-linear travel of the free edge of the tog page across a revealing page so as to imitate a substantially constant rotation of the page. The animation sequence throughout the page-turn is performed on the basis of actual elapsed time since commencement of the animation rather than at predetermined intervals so as to make the individual steps throughout the animation independent of the processor speed. The page-turn also incorporates a | 10-16-2008 |
20080270930 | ONLINE BOOK EDITOR - A publication editing system includes a graphical user interface for displaying an image of publication responsive to a selectable publication template. The graphical user interface defines a viewing portion for displaying the image of the publication. A plurality of editing functions enables editing of attributes associated with the selectable publication template for the publication. Each of the editing functionalities is accessible via at least one associated graphical icon on the graphical user interface. The images of the publication in the viewing portion of the graphical user interface is updated in substantially real time to display changes made to attributes of the selectable publication template via the plurality of editing functionalities. | 10-30-2008 |
20080288887 | MECHANISM FOR DISPLAYING PAGINATED CONTENT ON ELECTRONIC DISPLAY DEVICES - A computing device is provided that includes a display comprising a plurality of discrete elements. A memory is used to store a data collection of paginated content. A processor of the computing device is configured to retrieve each of the pages from the memory. The processor signals the display to individually present each of the pages. A sensor device is coupled to the processor. The sensor device is deflectable to signal the processor a deflection value that causes the processor to sequentially present at least portions of multiple pages on the display. | 11-20-2008 |
20080301576 | Page Flow Framework - Aspects of the subject matter described herein relate to a page flow framework. In aspects, a page flow engine includes logic to navigate between pages. To make its determination of what page is next, the page flow engine uses an indication of the current page and may also use properties associated with the pages. These properties may be filled in as a user enters values on the pages, for example. The page flow engine does not need any additional information to determine the next page besides the current page and the properties. The page flow engine may also store the pages visited in a travel log. This may be used to return previous pages. The page flow engine allows the page flow logic to be removed from the pages and placed in a centralized component. This simplifies creation and maintenance of page flow. | 12-04-2008 |
20090064027 | EXECUTION AND VISUALIZATION METHOD FOR A COMPUTER PROGRAM OF A VIRTUAL BOOK - The application provides a method to catalogue and visualize books in a familiar manner for the user, since its graphic interface enables reading of the virtual book in a manner as similar as possible to that of a physical book. The contents of the books may be displayed literally or with commentary such as general comments, historic notes, illustrations, music and even other books. It also includes tools such as dictionaries in multiple languages and search tools in order to provide access to library materials. | 03-05-2009 |
20090070700 | RANKING CONTENT BASED ON SOCIAL NETWORK CONNECTION STRENGTHS - In one embodiment, a method for presenting content to a user via a web page is provided which includes assigning a value to a connection between the user and an entity (such as a person, group, or organization) in their social network, whether explicitly representing a one-to-one relationship or by implication of a person to a group. Then a web page is delivered to the user, wherein the web page displays content based at least partially on the value of the connection between the user and the entity. | 03-12-2009 |
20090100369 | Method for Automatically Creating Book Definitions - Book definitions can be dynamically created based on content provided by a user. Such dynamic creation can include organization of user-supplied content into appropriate form, adjustment of book cover properties to match the user-supplied content, and verification that the user supplied content is appropriate for presentation in book form. Various interfaces can also be provided which allow users to generate a book definition based on a minimum of information. | 04-16-2009 |
20090158192 | Dynamic Folding of Listed Items for Display - A list folding process dynamically groups items of a list into logically related visual folds to reduce the number of items to be displayed in a window of a computer screen. The process determines attributes of the items to be displayed and dynamically groups items together into a special group called a visual fold based on the attributes. The rules for folding items based on attributes can be defined by a particular user so that each view of the items may be different among users. As the attributes of each item change, the display of the items and visual folds may be automatically adjusted to reflect the current proper grouping. The folding process therefore allows a user to view the maximum amount of information in available display area of a computer screen window. | 06-18-2009 |
20090222755 | Tracking tag content by keywords and communities - Techniques for tracking tag content by keywords and communities are described herein. According to one embodiment, a list of resources is displayed in a first display area of a browser including one or more document pages browsed by the browser. A list of one or more tags is displayed in a second display area of the main window, where each of the resources listed in the first display area is tagged by at least one tag displayed in the second display area. In response to selecting a tag from the list of tags displayed in the second display area, the list of resources is dynamically updated in the first display area, such that only resources tagged with the selected tag are displayed in the first display area. Other methods and apparatuses are also described. | 09-03-2009 |
20090222756 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE CAPABLE OF SHOWING PAGE FLIP EFFECT AND METHOD THEREOF - A method for showing page flip effect when use electronic device enjoy electronic documents, including: receiving a flip-page instruction; obtaining an effect page from a storage unit, each effect page include a first part, a second part and a third part, the first part of the effect page is a transparent figure, the second part of the effect page is a flip-page figure which represent the page flip effect, and the third part of the effect page could be a transparent figure or other figures; determining a target page; covering the current page with the effect page and obtaining a part of the target page corresponding the third part of effect page, and covering the third part of the effect page with the part of the target page, then combine a combined page; displaying the combined page. Present invention also provides an electronic device capable of showing page flip effect. | 09-03-2009 |
20090222757 | Automatic generation of TV history list - A television system presents the user with a list of recently viewed objects as a History list that meets one of a set of History list criteria. The History list is maintained as an ordered stack list with a limited number of entries, the order being an order in which the most recently met rule appears at the top of the list. This abstract is not to be considered limiting, since other embodiments may deviate from the features described in this abstract. | 09-03-2009 |
20090241054 | ELECTRONIC BOOK WITH INFORMATION MANIPULATION FEATURES - An electronic book having various features for manipulating text or other information. The subscriber may highlight, cut and paste, copy and paste, and annotate information within an electronic book. A multiple page view feature permits the subscriber to simultaneously view any plurality of pages of an electronic book, and a multiple screen feature permits the subscriber to view one or more pages on a viewer having multiple screens. A picture-in-picture feature permits the subscriber to simultaneously view a page of an electronic book along with other content, such as a television program or information from another electronic book. The picture-in-picture feature may display an electronic book page as a main image wrapped around an inset image. | 09-24-2009 |
20090271731 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND USER INTERFACE DISPLAY METHOD THEREOF - An electronic device and a user interface display method thereof are provided. The electronic device includes a touch sensor and a display. The electronic device organizes a plurality of computer programs and a web browser executable on the electronic device into a virtual book. Each page of the virtual book includes a user interface of one of the computer programs or a web page displayed by the web browser. The electronic device displays one of the pages as a current page on the display so that the user interface or the web page of the current page is accessible to a user of the electronic device. In addition, the electronic device senses movement and/or pressure caused by the user on the touch sensor and interprets the movement and/or the pressure as an operating action of the user on the virtual book. | 10-29-2009 |
20090288032 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND USER INTERFACE DISPLAY METHOD THEREOF - An electronic device and a user interface display method thereof are provided. The method includes the following steps. First, organize a plurality of computer programs and a web browser executable on the electronic device into a virtual book. Each page of the virtual book includes a user interface of one of the computer programs or a web page displayed by the web browser. Next, display one of the pages as a current page so that the user interface or the web page of the current page is accessible to a user of the electronic device. Next, display a stand-up view of the virtual book in response to a first operating action performed by the user. The stand-up view includes a plurality of the pages adjacent to the current page and a virtual switch attached to a side of the virtual book. | 11-19-2009 |
20090319936 | ELECTRONIC INDEXING FOR PRINTED MEDIA - A method supplies or creates a generic electronic index for a hardcopy printed item. The generic electronic index is based on the text within the hardcopy printed item. From this generic electronic index, the method creates a plurality of custom electronic indices from the generic electronic index. Such custom electronic indices can be based on user input and/or user feedback or can be created by marketing agencies, educational institutions, etc. Each of the custom electronic indices is a variant of the generic electronic index, and each of the custom electronic indices is adapted to a different target audience. | 12-24-2009 |
20090327946 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRACKING PATENT RELATED INFORMATION - To facilitate faster, more efficient, and more effective extraction of information from patent file histories, the present inventors, devised among other things, systems and method for tracking changes to patent claims, specifications, and/or drawings that are shown in file wrappers. One exemplary system graphically displays the patent family and/or file wrapper timeline. Another reports information about a specific patent, an examiner, a technology area, and other patent related information that can be pulled from the file wrapper. | 12-31-2009 |
20100083162 | HAND-HELD PORTABLE ELECTRONIC BIBLE - A hand-held electronic Bible. A user having a stylus handwrites inputs and commands onto the screen of the electronic Bible. Handwriting recognition software receives the handwritten inputs and commands and then converts the inputs and commands into computer readable inputs and commands. The hand-held electronic Bible includes a processor, programming and a memory configured to display biblical text on the screen, receive handwritten inputs and commands from a user, and to process the inputs and commands to display biblical information requested by the user. In a preferred embodiment, the hand-held electronic Bible is a programmed tablet PC. In another preferred embodiment, the hand-held electronic Bible includes a books button, a memorize button, a dictionary button and a notes button. | 04-01-2010 |
20100175018 | VIRTUAL PAGE TURN - One or more pages are displayed on a touch display. A page-turning gesture directed to a displayed page is recognized. Responsive to such recognition, a virtual page turn is displayed on the touch display. The virtual page turn actively follows the page-turning gesture. The virtual page turn curls a lifted portion of the page to progressively reveal a back side of the page while progressively revealing a front side of a subsequent page. A lifted portion of the page is given an increased transparency that allows the back side of the page to be viewed through the front side of the page. A page-flipping gesture quickly flips two or more pages. | 07-08-2010 |
20100211905 | PRESENTING DIGITIZED CONTENT ON A NETWORK USING A CROSS-LINKED LAYER OF ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTS DERIVED FROM A RELATIONAL DATABASE - In an embodiment, a computer system comprises one or more content file servers having recorded thereon a plurality of digital content material items, and a plurality of digital graphical image files comprising graphical images associated with the content material items; wherein each of content material items comprises one or more data files of digitized electronic printed, audio, or video content material; one or more navigation page servers each comprising: one or more storage devices having recorded thereon a plurality of navigation page templates; a database comprising stored descriptive information about the content material items, including hierarchical and other relationships both between different content material items and between different subcomponents of content material items; logic encoded on the one or more storage devices and when executed operable to perform: receiving a request to view a particular navigation page, comprising a dynamically-generated electronic document; selecting one of the navigation page templates based on the request; creating and sending to the database, one or more queries for the descriptive information relating to the particular navigation page; receiving one or more results to the queries; generating, based on the one or more results, a particular navigation page comprising descriptive information about one or more of the content material items, portions thereof, or abstract collections thereof; a plurality of links to other such navigation pages; and zero or more links to particular content material items or portions thereof; sending only the particular navigation page to a client computer. | 08-19-2010 |
20100223571 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SCROLLING PAGES DISPLAYED ON A HANDHELD DEVICE - A page flip mechanism and method for a handheld device. According to an embodiment, the page flip mechanism is configured to work in conjunction with a pointing device on the handheld device to flip or advance a document page by page. According to an embodiment, the page flip mechanism is configured to display the document based on page breaks in the document. According to another embodiment, the page flip mechanism is configured to display the document based on page boundaries corresponding to the display area. According to another aspect, the page flip mechanism is configured for a page select mode of operation. According to another aspect, the page flip mechanism is configured for a zoom mode of operation. | 09-02-2010 |
20100293498 | Bible Interface for Computer - A special purpose interface is disclosed for accessing computerized sacred text residing is an electronic memory using the same syntax and citation format as the comparable printed text. By articulating an object on the special purpose interface, different Books, chapters and verses of the sacred text may be accessed and displayed on a screen, as well as a separate version of the sacred text, separate translations of the various versions, separately or as in an adjacent column form for comparisons. The present special purpose interface may be implemented as a graphical user interface, a touch screen user interface or a manually actuation user interface. The present special purpose interface includes a plurality of graphical interactive objects that correspond with the traditional syntactic elements of citation to a sacred text. | 11-18-2010 |
20100325573 | INTEGRATING DIGITAL BOOK AND ZOOM INTERFACE DISPLAYS - In accordance with one or more aspects, different pages of a digital book are displayed in each of two display areas of a device using a book display model. In response to a request to semantically zoom out, the digital book is displayed in a broader context, the broader context using a context display model rather than the book display model. In response to additional requests to semantically zoom out, the digital book is displayed in increasingly broader contexts. Additionally, in response to requests to semantically zoom in, the digital book is displayed in increasingly narrower contexts until the digital book is displayed in the book display model rather than the context display model. | 12-23-2010 |
20110029913 | Navigation System and User Interface For Directing a Control Action - A navigation system is provided to direct control of a user interface work-flow during a procedure. Such a need can arise in sterile environments were touchless interaction is preferable over physical contact. The system includes a wand and receiver for controlling a pagination and parameter entry of the work-flow, a processor to compare wand movement profiles, a clock for limiting a time window between the comparison, and a controller for activating a user interface control in the workflow when a wand movement profile or gesture is recognized. The comparison can be based on the wand's direction, orientation and movement to and from various locations. Other embodiments are disclosed. | 02-03-2011 |
20110047498 | ELECTRONIC BOOK WITH INFORMATION MANIPULATION FEATURES - An electronic book having various features for manipulating text or other information. The subscriber may highlight, cut and paste, copy and paste, and annotate information within an electronic book. A multiple page view feature permits the subscriber to simultaneously view any plurality of pages of an electronic book, and a multiple screen feature permits the subscriber to view one or more pages on a viewer having multiple screens. A picture-in-picture feature permits the subscriber to simultaneously view a page of an electronic book along with other content, such as a television program or information from another electronic book. The picture-in-picture feature may display an electronic book page as a main image wrapped around an inset image. | 02-24-2011 |
20110066965 | ELECTRONIC BOOK WITH ENHANCED FEATURES - An electronic book allows a user to select portions of text from an electronic book file and copies the portions into a summary document, ordering the portions in the summary document in the same order the portions appeared in the book. The portions can be accompanied by page numbers or links to the book from which they came so that a user can easily refer back to the book at a location corresponding to an interesting entry in the summary document. | 03-17-2011 |
20110066966 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSES ENABLED BY METADATA ASSOCIATED WITH DOCUMENTS WITHIN A BINDER FILE - A method of presenting documents includes providing a single file comprising a plurality of documents, an identifier for each of the plurality of documents, an indicator for each of the plurality of documents to indicate in which one of a plurality of predefined sections that document belongs and to indicate a position of that document in that section, and a time indicator for each of the plurality of documents to indicate when that document was last updated within the single file if the document has been updated, wherein each document has been created individually and added to the single file. The method further includes updating the single file using a computer application program to, without user intervention, review the time indicator of at least one of the plurality of documents in the single file and update that document if an updated version of that document is available to the computer application program; displaying a graphical interface that appears as a notebook binder; and displaying a portion of at least one of the plurality of documents on a graphical page of the notebook binder of the graphical interface. | 03-17-2011 |
20110191710 | E-BOOK DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING INFORMATION REGARDING TO READING DETAIL - An electronic book (E-book) device generates and stores a play detail of a played E-book, generates a reading detail based on the stored play detail, and displays the generated reading detail. Thus, a user can acquire the user's reading detail and manage the reading detail. | 08-04-2011 |
20110283219 | Method and System and Program Storage Device For Storing Oilfield Related Data in a Computer Database and Displaying a Field Data Handbook on a Computer Display Screen - A computerized handbook known as an ‘i-Handbook’ is adapted to be stored in a memory of a computer system and displayed on a display screen of the computer system for assisting field personnel in the performance of their respective job related responsibilities. The ‘i-Handbook’, when displayed, has the appearance of a real handbook and it includes a database and a plurality of calculators for calculating a plurality of oilfield or wellbore related data in response to a first plurality of data in the database and a second plurality of data input by a user. The plurality of calculators are adapted for calculating: unit conversions, triplex pump volumes, tank volumes, tubular stretch and free point, annulus volumes, slurry density, gate percentage, screen out, cement slurry, casing lift, HCL density, oil gravity and API, and salt requirements. The ‘i-Handbook’ has a wellbore diagram feature which will allow a user to draw and create differing types of downhole tubular, packers and perforations in the tubular adapted to be disposed in a wellbore. In addition, the ‘i-Handbook’ can display: tubular capacities and displacement volumes, and tubular data based on suppliers which will enable a user to search through a database of the tubular data to locate the suppliers. This abstract is provided for the sole purpose of aiding a patent searcher; it is provided with the understanding that this abstract shall not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims. | 11-17-2011 |
20110289444 | Electronic Book Reader With Closely Juxtaposed Display Screens - A portable electronic book reading machine has two display screens juxtaposed in close proximity to allow for automatic cross referencing between primary textual material displayed on the leftmost display screen and related secondary textual material displayed on the rightmost display screen. The machine has memory in which both primary text and secondary text are stored. As the user of the machine changes the page of primary text displayed on the leftmost screen display, ebook controller circuitry automatically refreshes the rightmost screen display to allow the user to cross reference between the primary textual material and the secondary textual material, or at his or her discretion to change the page of secondary textual material displayed, thereby fine tuning the juxtaposition of pages for study. | 11-24-2011 |
20110289445 | VIRTUAL MEDIA SHELF - A computer-implemented system and method for providing a virtual media shelf user interface for content browsing and selection in a content system are disclosed. The system and method in an example embodiment include: gathering available content information related to particular items of content from at least one source of a plurality of content sources via a data network; processing the content information, by using a processor, to provide a digital representation of a content item, the digital representation corresponding to a spine of physical media associated with the content item; receiving a selection of the content item, the selection being in response to a user action performed on the digital representation corresponding to the spine of physical media associated with the content item; and displaying an expanded set of information associated with the content item in response to receiving the selection of the content item. | 11-24-2011 |
20110289446 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM THEREFOR - Provided is an information processing apparatus including an acquisition unit, a reproduction unit, an input unit, and a control unit. The acquisition unit obtains, of moving image data including images of pages having serial page numbers and an image of motion of turning the pages one by one in order of the page numbers, first moving image data in which a page time being a time on the moving image data is assigned to each page. The reproduction unit reproduces the first moving image data, generates a moving image, and displays the moving image on a display screen. The input unit receives a designation of a second page different from a first page of the first moving image data currently displayed on the display screen. The control unit calculates a page time difference therebetween and controls a reproduction speed of the first moving image data depending on it. | 11-24-2011 |
20110296334 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING OPERATION OF THE MOBILE TERMINAL - A mobile terminal includes a display module displaying an electronic document screen showing at least one full page among a plurality of pages of an electronic document, and the display module receives a first input for setting a number of pages to be turned among the plurality of pages. The mobile terminal further includes a controller which sets the number of pages in response to the first input, turns the set number of pages in response to a second input received proximate to the electronic document screen, and displays a subsequent page following the set number of pages turned on the electronic document screen. | 12-01-2011 |
20110296335 | METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY CREATING BOOK DEFINITIONS - Book definitions can be dynamically created based on content provided by a user. Such dynamic creation can include organization of user-supplied content into appropriate form, adjustment of book cover properties to match the user-supplied content, and verification that the user supplied content is appropriate for presentation in book form. Various interfaces can also be provided which allow users to generate a book definition based on a minimum of information. | 12-01-2011 |
20110307823 | ELECTRONIC BOOK READER AND DISPLAYING METHOD OF ELECTRONIC BOOK READER - An electronic book includes a display, a first area displaying module, a second area displaying module, a processing module, and a browsing module. The display includes a first displaying area and a second displaying area. The first area displaying module is configured to control a list of applications to be displayed on the first displaying area. The processing module is configured to find associated information associated with an application selected by a user from the list of applications. The second area displaying module is configured to control the associated information to be displayed on the second displaying area. | 12-15-2011 |
20110314406 | ELECTRONIC READER AND DISPLAYING METHOD THEREOF - An electronic reader and a displaying method thereof are respectively provided in the present invention. The electronic reader includes a recognition unit recognizing an identity input; and a displaying unit displaying a screen corresponding to the identity input after the recognition unit identifies the identity input. The method includes steps providing an electronic reader displaying an electronic book file; inputting an identify recognition to the electronic reader; and displaying at least one page of the electronic book file previously used by a specific user in response to the identify recognition on the electronic reader. | 12-22-2011 |
20120005616 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROVIDING INFORMATION ABOUT A NARRATIVE - A method and system for providing information about a novel. A portion of the novel is displayed on a display. Selections of a first term at a first location and a second term at a second location are received. A current location within the novel is determined. A plurality of relationships between the first term and the second term that have been referred to in the novel prior to the current location is determined, and information about the plurality of relationships is displayed. | 01-05-2012 |
20120005617 | METHOD FOR MANAGING USAGE HISTORY OF E-BOOK AND TERMINAL PERFORMING THE METHOD - A method of managing a usage history of a mobile terminal is provided. The method includes generating a reading number regarding an e-book that is read, storing the generated reading number, and displaying the stored reading number based on a user setup. | 01-05-2012 |
20120017167 | ELECTRONIC BOOK READING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - A method for controlling an electronic book reading device is provided. The electronic book reading device includes a touch screen. The method includes the following steps. A page of the electronic book reading device is displayed on the touch screen in one of a full-screen mode and a non-full-screen mode. A central area is defined on the touch screen. When a click event corresponding to the central area is triggered, the page of the electronic book reading device is displayed on the touch screen in the other mode. | 01-19-2012 |
20120084702 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TURNING E-BOOK PAGES IN PORTABLE TERMINAL - An apparatus and method support intuitive gestures for turning electronic book (e-book) pages in a portable terminal. The portable terminal executes an e-book and determines whether a just preceding page gesture is input, the just preceding page gesture comprising a first contact that starts to the left of a right-side user interface (UI) activation region of the e-book, followed by a drag toward the right while maintaining the first contact and releasing the first contact. When the just preceding page gesture is input, the just preceding page is displayed on a screen. | 04-05-2012 |
20120084703 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TURNING E-BOOK PAGES IN PORTABLE TERMINAL - An apparatus and method turn electronic book (e-book) pages in a portable terminal. The method determines whether a touch is input outside of a predetermined User Interface (UI) activation region of a screen of the portable terminal. The method determines whether a drag and release is input in a direction towards the predetermined UI activation region in response to detecting the touch. The method displays one of a preceding page and a next page on the screen in response to determining that the touch is outside of the predetermined UI activation region and that the drag and release is input in the direction towards the predetermined UI activation region. | 04-05-2012 |
20120084704 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TURNING E-BOOK PAGES IN PORTABLE TERMINAL - An apparatus and method for turning pages of an electronic-book (e-book) in a portable terminal having an e-book function. The method includes executing the e-book function, displaying a right lateral side of the e-book and receiving a inclination value from a 3-axis sensor when a touch event is detected in a right User Interface (UI) active area of the e-book, determining whether the inclination value greater than or equal to a threshold is detected in a left direction, and upon detection of the inclination value greater than or equal to the threshold in the left direction, displaying a next page to a screen on a single-page basis at a speed in proportion to the inclination value detected in the process of detecting the inclination greater than or equal to the threshold in the left direction. | 04-05-2012 |
20120084705 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TURNING E-BOOK PAGES IN PORTABLE TERMINAL - An apparatus and method turning pages of an electronic-book (e-book) in a portable terminal including an e-book function. The method includes displaying a first side of the e-book when a first touch is input in a first User Interface (UI) active area of a display of the portable terminal, displaying one of an immediately next page and a next page corresponding to an increased page number in response to a second touch being input in a second UI active area of the display and in response to a drag and release of the second touch while the first touch is maintained in the first UI active area, and cancelling the displaying of the one of the immediately next page and the next page corresponding to the increased page number in response to a drag and release of the first touch being input towards the second UI active area. | 04-05-2012 |
20120089938 | Information Processing Apparatus, Information Processing Method, and Program - An apparatus for displaying content stored as a plurality of pages is provided. The apparatus comprises a detection unit configured to detect a first user operation and a control unit configured to send signals to display one of the plurality of pages on a screen. The control unit is further configured to, when the detected first user operation comprises a page turn instruction, send signals to sequentially change the displayed page at a first rate when the displayed page is outside a first number of pages before or after a first marked page and sequentially change the displayed page at a second rate slower than the first rate when the displayed page is within the first number of pages before or after the first marked page. | 04-12-2012 |
20120102424 | METHOD FOR FANNING PAGES OF AN ELECTRONIC BOOK ON A HANDHELD APPARATUS FOR CONSUMING ELECTRONIC BOOKS - There is provided a method for fanning pages of an electronic book on a touch panel display of an electronic apparatus for consuming electronic books. The method replicates a user experience similar to fanning pages of a physical book. | 04-26-2012 |
20120102425 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND PAGE FLIPPING METHOD THEREFOR - An electronic reading apparatus includes a display unit, and a processing unit. The display unit displays visual information to users; and the processing unit displays a page flipping interface on the display unit. The page flipping interface contains a preview area and an input area. The processing unit determines a sliding direction and a sliding distance of a sliding operation on the input area and determines a flipping direction and a number of pages needed to be flipped corresponding to the sliding direction and the sliding distance. In addition, displays information of the page after flipping pages corresponding to the sliding direction and the sliding distance in the preview area and displays the page outside the page flipping interface. A page flipping method is also provided. | 04-26-2012 |
20120102426 | SCREEN DISPLAY METHOD AND APPARATUS OF A MOBILE TERMINAL - A screen display method and apparatus of a mobile terminal is provided for changing a screen represented by an index to another screen represented by a newly selected index. A screen display method of a mobile terminal includes displaying a page represented by an index, the page including an index region having a plurality of indices and a content region displaying content corresponding to the index highlighted in the index region, selecting a new index in the index region according to a selection input, and changing the page represented by the highlighted index for a new page represented by the new index, the new page appearing in a direction from a position of the new index to a position of the highlighted index. | 04-26-2012 |
20120124505 | RIFFLER INTERFACE FOR AN ELECTRONIC READING DEVICE - Methods and a system for an electronic device to allow for riffling through pages of a document. A fore edge view of page edges is displayed in a user display of the device and enables pages to be turned to while skipping other pages via inputs received at the user display. The user display has a touch screen interface that senses touch on display. Motion is also detected and when the device is tilted or moved a motion sensed causes the fore edge view to be displayed. Inputs sensed by the touch screen interface cause the fore edge view to be displayed and also allow pages or section of the document to be held concurrently while pages are riffled to in the document. The held pages are easily returned to at will. | 05-17-2012 |
20120131491 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING CONTENT USING EYE MOVEMENT TRAJECTORY - An apparatus and method for displaying content are provided. The apparatus tracks the movement of the eyes of a user and generates an eye movement trajectory. The generated eye movement trajectory is mapped to content that is displayed by the apparatus. The display of the apparatus is controlled based on the eye movement trajectory mapped to the content. | 05-24-2012 |
20120131492 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING ELECTRONIC BOOK FUNCTION IN PORTABLE TERMINAL - An apparatus and method for providing an electronic book (e-book) function in a portable terminal are provided. The apparatus includes a controller for loading an e-book, and a scrap processor for applying a specific effect to a partial region of a text of the loaded e-book and, if a user's input to the region to which the specific effect is applied is sensed, for generating the applied effect. | 05-24-2012 |
20120137245 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR SEARCHING FOR E-BOOK IN PORTABLE TERMINAL - A device and a method for searching for an electronic book (e-book) in a portable terminal are provided. More particularly, a device and a method for searching for an e-book in a portable terminal, which can conveniently manage and search for a plurality of e-books in a portable terminal, are provided. The device includes a display unit for displaying categories of e-books that each include one or more e-books, and a controller for controlling such that an e-book is searched for by displaying and scrolling through the categories of e-books according to a detected shift of the portable terminal, a corresponding category is enlarged according to a touch to the corresponding category, and at least one of the one or more e-books included in the enlarged category is displayed. | 05-31-2012 |
20120137246 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SUPPORTING AN ELECTRONIC BOOK APPLICATION SERVICE, AND MOBILE DEVICE ADAPTED TO THE METHOD - A method and system for supporting an electronic book (e-book) application service and a mobile device adapted to the method are provided. The method includes reproducing an e-book stored in a storage unit, creating, when a number of words related to place names are selected in the e-book, e-book auxiliary content that includes information regarding a map to which information regarding routes between locations corresponding to the selected words is applied, with respect to at least one page containing the selected words, and storing the e-book with the e-book auxiliary content in the storage unit. | 05-31-2012 |
20120137247 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING AN ELECTRONIC BOOK SERVICE IN A MOBILE DEVICE - A method and a mobile device of providing an electronic book (e-book) service are provided. The method can independently create processed data, without altering the original contents, and share it with other mobile devices. The method includes displaying original contents, overlaying and displaying processed data according to a user's input on the original contents, and mapping the processed data to the original contents, and independently storing them, according to a user's selection. | 05-31-2012 |
20120144339 | ELECTRONIC READER AND METHOD FOR PREVIEWING FILES IN ELECTRONIC READER - An electronic reader includes a storage unit, a display unit, and a processing unit. The processing unit displays a page of a file on the display unit, detects touch signals in response to a slide operation on an input unit; determines in real time a slide distance of a slide and a resizing proportion of the page corresponding to the slide distance to resize the page according to the real time resizing proportion; determines the number of the resized pages that can be displayed side by side in a document window of the display unit according to the last determined resizing proportion of the page; and displays the resized pages in the document window. A method for previewing files is also provided. | 06-07-2012 |
20120159373 | SYSTEM FOR AND METHOD OF GENERATING DOG EAR BOOKMARKS ON A TOUCH SCREEN DEVICE - A system for and method of generating dog ear bookmarks on a touch screen device. The system and method may include receiving, on a touch screen device, input data from a user of the touch screen device, determining whether a dog ear event has occurred based on the input data, and generating, on the touch screen device, a graphical representation of a dog ear bookmark based on a determination that the dog ear event has occurred. | 06-21-2012 |
20120159374 | OPERATION METHOD OF E-BOOK - An exemplary operation method is applied to an architecture having a function of reading. The architecture is selected from one of a hardware architecture and a software architecture. In particular, the operation method includes the step of: adding a function of reading assistance to the architecture by applying at least a reading assistance command to the architecture. The at least a reading assistance command for example includes a TAB command for tab labeling in the architecture. | 06-21-2012 |
20120198379 | E-BOOK TERMINAL, SERVER, AND SERVICE PROVIDING METHOD THEREOF - An e-book terminal and a server are provided. The e-book terminal includes a storage unit for storing contents, a display for displaying icons corresponding to the contents and additionally displays updated marks on icons that corresponds to contents containing updated information, and a controller for, if an icon upon which one of the updated marks is additionally displayed is selected, controlling the display unit to display link information on a screen for updated information corresponding to the content of the selected icon. | 08-02-2012 |
20120210269 | BOOKMARK FUNCTIONALITY FOR READER DEVICES AND APPLICATIONS - Methods and apparatus are provided for presenting a reader application. In one embodiment a method includes displaying a user interface for a reader application, the user interface including a graphical representation identifying a digital book, and detecting a selection of the user interface associated with the graphical representation identifying the digital book. The method may further include detecting a bookmark file associated with the digital book, the bookmark file stored by the device, and presenting data associated with the bookmark file by the device, wherein the data is presented in association with presentation of the digital book. The method may allow for presenting one or more of a greeting message and digital engraving as an overlay to the digital book. | 08-16-2012 |
20120221968 | Electronic Book Navigation Systems and Methods - An electronic book system provides interfaces particularly suited to students' use of textbooks. A finger press on a touch screen produces a contextual menu with user choices that relate to where the finger was pressed or what the user was recently doing with the book. A student provisionally navigates through a book by a specific gesture which, when it stops, returns the user to the previous position in the book. Annotations are displayed and hidden using specific gestures and through selective movement of the reader as sensed by its accelerometer. | 08-30-2012 |
20120233565 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING CONTENT - In order to render content in a manner most responsive to a user's interest, a computer system (e.g., an eBook reader device) is configured to render content. Specifically, the computer system is configured to receive a request to display a page of displayable content that includes at least one displayable object having original dimensions that exceed a viewable area on a display screen. Thus, a user launching an eBook application on a computer device may immediately access a table of contents requiring a display area that is larger than the present eBook application. The computer system determines whether an end-user experience is better served by displaying a first reduced-size representation comprising a non-interactive thumbnail image of the displayable object or a second reduced-size representation comprising a user-interactive object corresponding to the displayable object. | 09-13-2012 |
20120240074 | Device, Method, and Graphical User Interface for Navigating Between Document Sections - An electronic device with a display and a touch-sensitive surface displays a page of a first multi-page section of a document and a navigation bar configured to navigate through only pages in the first multi-page section of the document. The device detects a predefined gesture at a location on the touch-sensitive surface that corresponds to a predefined portion of the navigation bar. In response to detecting the predefined gesture, the device displays a navigation user interface that enables selection of a page of the document that is outside of the first multi-page section. The device receives an input in the navigation user interface that indicates selection of a page of a second multi-page section of the document outside of the first multi-page section. In response to receiving the input, the device displays the selected page of the second multi-page section of the document. | 09-20-2012 |
20120240075 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE MOBILE TERMINAL - A mobile terminal is provided that includes a touch screen configured to display an e-book including one or more pages. The mobile terminal further includes a controller configured to set a bookmark on a selected page of the one or more pages when a touch input applied in a touch direction from an inner portion of the selected page toward an outer portion of the selected page is detected. The controller is further configured to generate and display a first type bookmark icon or a second type bookmark icon corresponding to the bookmark set on the selected page. | 09-20-2012 |
20120290964 | METHOD FOR CREATING BOOKMARK AND ELECTRONIC READING DEVICE USING THE SAME - A method for creating a bookmark is used in an electronic reading device having a display module. The method for creating a bookmark includes the following steps. A first page image is displayed at the display module, and a corner of the first page image has a first pattern with a raised corner. A selection command is received. The first pattern is changed to a second pattern with a turned down corner. This invention can easily catch a user's eyes, further allowing the user to execute the bookmark function of the electronic reading device. | 11-15-2012 |
20120304101 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DISPLAYING A DIGITAL BOOK - A method for displaying digital book content comprises displaying to a user, via a display portion of an electronic display device, digital book content comprising first image data relating to a page of a digital book. The displayed digital book content comprise a predetermined region defining a virtual flap, the virtual flap being displayed within the predetermined region of the first image data in one of a closed state and an opened state. The user provides, via the electronic display device, an indication for selecting the virtual flap. In response to receiving the indication, second image data is displayed to the user via the display portion, the second image data relating to the page of the digital book and comprising a predetermined region defining the virtual flap. | 11-29-2012 |
20120324392 | PAGE-BASED ELECTRONIC BOOK READING WITH COMMUNITY INTERACTION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A system and method is presented for the web-based reading of books. Users of the system access books page-by-page through a computerized web server, with a social community oriented around each book being presented in conjunction with the book. Data is maintained in a database relating to user, author, and publisher additions to the book-oriented social community. At least a portion of these additions are associated with particular pages in the book. These page-specific additions are made available to the user only when the user has reached the particular page associated with the addition. A listing of other users currently reading the same page, or nearby pages, is presented to the user, allowing interactions with other users to be controlled according to the specific page being read by the user. | 12-20-2012 |
20120324393 | NETWORK BASED ELECTRONIC BOOK USAGE TRACKING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A system and method is presented for the web-based reading of books. Users of the system access books page-by-page through a computerized web server, with a social community oriented around each book being presented in conjunction with the book. Data is maintained in a database relating to user, author, and publisher additions to the book-oriented social community. Page clicks by users reading the book are also monitored and analyzed, allowing the system to identify users that read every page of the book, and also identify the page where users stopped reading the book. | 12-20-2012 |
20130031503 | Analyzing a Form Page for Indexing - Among other disclosure, a computer-implemented method of analyzing a form page for indexing includes identifying a form page that is configured for use in requesting any of multiple target pages. The form page includes multiple input controls. The method includes identifying at least one of the multiple input controls as being informative with regard to requesting the multiple target pages. The method includes updating an indexing record associated with the form page to reflect the identification. | 01-31-2013 |
20130036378 | SYSTEMS AND/OR METHODS FOR PAGING CONTROL INCLUDING SELECTIVE PAGING ELEMENT DISPLAY ACCORDING TO A BINARY SUBDIVISION AND/OR A SERIAL PROGRESSIVE DISPLAY APPROACH - Certain exemplary embodiments disclosed herein relate to paging systems and methods that help users navigate through large or small datasets. For example, in certain exemplary embodiments, paging control elements are provided according to either a binary subdivision approach or a serial progressive approach. Paging control elements are displayed according to either the binary subdivision approach or the serial progressive approach in dependence on a determination as to which approach is more advantageous based at least in part on factors such as, for example, total number of pages, current page location, distance to end points, screen size, etc. | 02-07-2013 |
20130047115 | CREATING AND VIEWING DIGITAL NOTE CARDS - Systems, techniques, and methods are presented for creating digital note cards and presenting a graphical user interface for interacting with digital note cards. For example, content from an electronic book can be displayed in a graphical user interface. Input can be received in the graphical user interface highlighting a portion of the content and creating a note, the note including user generated content. A digital note card can be created where one side of the digital note card includes the highlighted text, and the other side of the digital note card includes the note. The digital note card can be displayed in the graphical user interface. | 02-21-2013 |
20130055139 | TOUCH INTERFACE FOR DOCUMENTATION OF PATIENT ENCOUNTER - A mobile computing device includes a touch sensitive display. A note-style interface is displayed on the touch sensitive display. Findings are documented in the note-style display by receiving handwritten inputs from the caregiver through the touch sensitive display. | 02-28-2013 |
20130055140 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NAVIGATION IN AN ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT - A system and a method facilitating navigation in an electronic device and for enabling users of electronic devices to navigate quickly, smoothly, and naturally through electronic books and other documents using multi-touch gestures on a touch sensitive surface of the electronic device. The multi-touch gestures are movements of the multiple touches such as, preferably, a two-finger slide or flick gesture. This gesture is interpreted by the system as a command to navigate to the next or to a previous section of the electronic document, for example, the next chapter in a book or an article or section in a magazine. The device has firmware and/or software capable of analyzing and interpreting the motion, and forwarding the analyzed contents or interpretation to an appropriate software application or other software subsystem that associates the gestures with a set of commands. | 02-28-2013 |
20130055141 | USER INTERFACE FOR ACCESSING BOOKS - A system and method for employing a user interface to facilitate user access to books. The example method includes displaying a band of plural adjacent tiles, wherein each tile represents a book or collection of books, and wherein the band is scrollable in response to a specific user input; and arranging adjacent tiles based on a sorting rule, wherein the sorting rule includes arranging each tile according to a recency of use of a book associated with each tile. In a more specific embodiment, the method further includes displaying content associated with a book in response to user selection of a tile associated therewith, wherein the content pertains to a most recently viewed portion of the book. A menu activatable via the band may enable access to recommendations of content based on content present in the band of plural adjacent tiles; access a library of books, and so on. | 02-28-2013 |
20130073998 | AUTHORING CONTENT FOR DIGITAL BOOKS - This disclosure describes systems, methods, and computer program products for authoring content for digital books. In some implementations, a single graphical user interface (GUI) is presented that allows an author to design a layout for the digital book, including editing text and inserting various types of interactive elements in the text. The GUI functions as both a digital book layout design tool and a word processor to facilitate the building of a digital book. The relative page location of inserted widgets can be determined by a user-selectable anchor point placed within the text. An outline view of the digital book can be created and presented in the GUI based on a hierarchical structure determined by paragraph styles applied to the text. The GUI can provide a hybrid glossary and index page for allowing the author to create and manage a glossary and index for the digital book. | 03-21-2013 |
20130080966 | USER EXPERIENCE FOR NOTEBOOK CREATION AND INTERACTION - A note taking application displays a notebook with a multi-column hierarchical navigation display. Each column has navigation elements that are activated to navigate through one or more notebooks. The user can control the display to expose more or fewer navigation columns. | 03-28-2013 |
20130104069 | METHOD FOR APPLYING SUPPLEMENTARY ATTRIBUTE INFORMATION TO E-BOOK CONTENT AND MOBILE DEVICE ADAPTED THERETO - A method that applies supplementary attribute information to the e-book content is provided. The method includes retrieving the e-book content; identifying objects in the retrieved e-book content; selecting one or more of the objects; defining one or more screen alteration attribute values regarding the selected objects; collecting an application condition for applying the defined screen alteration attribute values to the selected objects; and generating the supplementary attribute information by binding the defined screen alteration attribute values to the selected objects, and an action condition. | 04-25-2013 |
20130111392 | SERVICE PROVISION DEVICE FOR ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTS,SERVICE PROVISION METHOD FOR ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTS,AND SERVICE PROVISION TERMINAL FOR ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTS | 05-02-2013 |
20130117702 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING READING USING A TERMINAL - A method of managing reading and an apparatus efficiently manage stored electronic books. The method of managing reading in a terminal includes: setting a reading period with respect to an electronic book and a reading amount by dates of the reading period; monitoring an achievement rate of the reading amount while executing reading with respect to the electronic book; and displaying reading schedule information including the reading period and the achievement rate. | 05-09-2013 |
20130117703 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EXECUTING AN E-BOOK READING APPLICATION IN AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A system and method execute an e-book reading application in an electronic device with a touch screen, via a touch gesture. The e-book reading application executing system includes: a touch screen for sensing a touch gesture; a storage unit for storing a look up table (LUT); a controller for detecting the touch gesture while displaying a first page of an e-book, for determining whether the sensed touch gesture is a touch gesture to turn over pages of the e-book by referring to the LUT, and for identifying, if the sensed touch gesture corresponds to a touch gesture to turn over pages of the e-book, a second page (P | 05-09-2013 |
20130152006 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE CAPABLE OF SIMULATING PAGE FLIP EFFECT - An electronic device capable of simulating page flip effect includes an input unit, a display unit, a page flip control module and a thickness control module. The input unit generates a flip-page instruction in response to a user's operation. The display unit displays an electronic document in a page flipping format which includes a currently displayed page and a margin portion adjacent to the currently displayed page, and the margin portion includes a plurality of displayed stacked margins of undisplayed pages. The margins cooperatively resemble a thickness of the undisplayed pages. The page flip control module flips the currently displayed page over in response to the flip-page instruction to display a page flipping effect on the display unit. The thickness control module adds or removes a margin displayed in the margin portion, in response to the flip-page instruction to present a variation of the thickness of the undisplayed pages accordingly. | 06-13-2013 |
20130159913 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISPLAYING AN ELECTRONIC BOOK - An apparatus and method for displaying an electronic book are provided. The method includes displaying a content image for a random page of the electronic book, detecting a tilt of the terminal, and displaying an amount image that shows a position of the random page from among all pages of the electronic book, adjacently to the content image, wherein a side on which the content image and the amount image meet is determined depending on the tilt of the terminal. | 06-20-2013 |
20130159914 | METHOD FOR DISPLAYING PAGE SHAPE AND DISPLAY APPARATUS THEREOF - A method for displaying page shape includes displaying a page screen, detecting at least one touch starting point by a first user-manipulation on the page screen, detecting at least one dragging direction by a second user-manipulation made consecutively to the first user-manipulation, and dimensionally deforming the page screen based on the touch starting point and the dragging direction and displaying the deformed page screen. | 06-20-2013 |
20130159915 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING CONTENTS ON ELECTRONIC BOOK USING BEZEL - An input area that is used for controlling contents is formed on the periphery of an electronic book by performing touch-dragging a bezel area by utilizing the bezel area that is arranged in a peripheral portion of a touch screen of the electronic book. Therefore, according to the present disclosure, even under an environment of a small screen, utilization of a space for operating contents can be effectively performed. | 06-20-2013 |
20130159916 | INFORMATION-PROCESSING DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD FOR INFORMATION-PROCESSING DEVICE, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An information processing device of the present invention includes: a selected region image display processing section ( | 06-20-2013 |
20130179823 | COMPUTING DEVICE PROVIDING ELECTRONIC BOOK DATA WITH CONFIGURABLE PROBLEMS AND CHANGEABLE SEED VALUES AND RELATED METHODS - A computer system may include a plurality of computing devices each including a display, a memory to store electronic book data comprising at least one configurable problem to be solved, and a processor coupled to the display and the memory. The processor may display the electronic book data with the at least one configurable problem on the display, and apply a changeable seed value to the at least one configurable problem to change an answer associated with the at least one configurable problem. | 07-11-2013 |
20130198677 | Touchscreen Display and Navigation - A document to be displayed on a touchscreen display device is arranged to have a hierarchical structure of categories, each category including at least one sub-document. A sub-document of a first category is displayed on a touchscreen display device. A first gesture is received through the touchscreen display device. In response to the first gesture, a navigation is made to a beginning sub-document of a second category. | 08-01-2013 |
20130198678 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISPLAYING PAGE IN TERMINAL - A method and an apparatus for displaying a page are capable of transferring a realistic feeling like reading a paper book when a user reads an electronic book. The method of displaying a page of a portable terminal including a touch screen, includes: displaying a page of an electronic book; detecting a point which corresponds to a user input with respect to the displayed page; detecting a moving direction associated with the user input; and displaying the page as being convexly curved in response to the detected point and the moving direction associated with the user input to animate a page turning operation. | 08-01-2013 |
20130205243 | DIGITAL JUKEBOX DEVICE WITH IMPROVED KARAOKE-RELATED USER INTERFACES, AND ASSOCIATED METHODS - Certain exemplary embodiments relate to entertainment systems and, more particularly, certain exemplary embodiments relate to jukebox systems that incorporate digital downloading jukebox features along with karaoke jukebox and/or photobooth features. A combined karaoke/photobooth/jukebox may enable more integrated performance-like experiences in an in-home or out-of-home location or venue. By leveraging vast audio media libraries, trusted rights-respecting network infrastructure, and on-site image/video capturing from integrated recorders and/or remote portable devices, a more sociable experience may be created for karaoke jukebox patrons, e.g., where custom content can be generated and shared in a safe and legally appropriate manner. | 08-08-2013 |
20130219320 | NOVEL BOOK-LIKE INTERNET BROWSER FOR ELECTRONIC INFORMATION - A browsing interface for browsing Internet information that organizes information downloaded from the Internet in a page-based manner, complete with a functional thickness representation. A number of insertion methods are available for insertion of newly downloaded Internet information. A browsing data file contains information and parameters which control the display of information on the browsing interface. A streaming algorithm pre-downloads data based on predicted user data requests to minimize interruption of the browsing process. | 08-22-2013 |
20130219321 | ELECTRONIC TEXT MANIPULATION AND DISPLAY - Information is presented to a user by accessing a library of electronic publications that includes a first publication, generating a representation of the first publication in an electronic bookshelf, determining a state for the first publication and modifying the representation of the first publication to reflect the state of the first publication. | 08-22-2013 |
20130219322 | ELECTRONIC TEXT MANIPULATION AND DISPLAY - Information is presented to a user by accessing a library of electronic publications that includes a first publication, generating a representation of the first publication in an electronic bookshelf, determining a state for the first publication and modifying the representation of the first publication to reflect the state of the first publication. | 08-22-2013 |
20130232439 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TURNING PAGES IN TERMINAL - Provided are a method for turning pages in a terminal including an electronic book reader function for turning pages according to user input information associated with pages and an apparatus thereof. The method of turning pages in a portable terminal having a touch screen includes: displaying a page of an electronic book on the touch screen; detecting a touch in a first corner region of the page of the electronic book; changing the first corner region into a second corner region in response to the touch; detecting a continuous motion of the touch in the second corner region; and turning the displayed page in response to the continuous motion of the touch. | 09-05-2013 |
20130246963 | PERSONAL NOTES ON A CALENDAR ITEM - Embodiments provide functionality to provide electronic calendar features and functionalities including personal note-taking features on calendar items, but the embodiments are not so limited. In an embodiment, a computer-based method can be configured to provide a personal note-taking space that enables users to take personal notes on appointment or meeting items with or without sharing the personal notes. Other embodiments are included. | 09-19-2013 |
20130254700 | FORCE-BASED CONTEXTUALIZING OF MULTIPLE PAGES FOR ELECTRONIC BOOK READER - A system and associated method for contextualizing a page turn in an electronic book pursuant to a maximum amount of force applied by a user in a snap gesture triggering the page turn as performed by an e-reader program running in a tablet device having a strain gauge touch screen. The snap gesture is quantified with data elements including applied pressure and direction of the snap gesture. The quantified snap gesture is utilized in identifying a target page number to display on the strain gauge touch screen responsive to at least one predefined data element of the quantified snap gesture such that the e-reader program enables the user to turn multiple pages of the electronic book by the snap gesture in a manner similar to turning multiple pages of a paper book. | 09-26-2013 |
20130254701 | UNLOCKING DIGITAL CONTENT USING IMAGE RECOGNITION - An electronic book system prompts a user to provide an image, for instance by taking a picture using a camera integrated on a smart phone. The user provides the image, the image is sent for processing by an image search facility and a check is made to see whether the image matches the prompt. If so, content is unlocked for access by the user. Advertising material may also be provided relating to the prompt. | 09-26-2013 |
20130268880 | ELECTRONIC BOOK WITH CHANGEABLE PATHS - An e-book ( | 10-10-2013 |
20130290895 | VIRTUAL PAGE TURN - One or more pages are displayed on a display. A page-turning gesture is recognized. Responsive to such recognition, a virtual page turn that lifts a portion of the page is displayed on the display. One side of the lifted portion of the page is visible through the other side of the lifted portion of the page. | 10-31-2013 |
20130298067 | Thumbmarking in an E-Book Reader with Multitouch - Embodiments disclosed relate to navigation through pages of an electronic book. A user may wish to bookmark a particular page of a book using her thumb to quickly reference a page. After bookmarking a page, the user may navigate to other pages of the electronic book. Using a tilt gesture or swipe gesture, the user may quickly return to the bookmarked page. | 11-07-2013 |
20130298068 | CONTENTS DISPLAY METHOD AND MOBILE TERMINAL IMPLEMENTING THE SAME - A method and a mobile terminal for displaying contents are provided. The method of displaying contents for pages of a mobile terminal including a display unit in which a touch panel is installed, includes: displaying a page; detecting movement of a touch input device with respect to the displayed page; and displaying the page so that the page is convexly deformed and skipped in response to the movement of the touch input device. | 11-07-2013 |
20130298069 | VIRTUAL PAGE TURN - One or more pages are displayed on a touch display. A page-flipping gesture directed to a displayed page is recognized. Responsive to such recognition, a virtual page flip is displayed on the touch display. The virtual page flip turns successive pages to a landing page. | 11-07-2013 |
20130318465 | METHOD FOR SHARING NOTES OF AN ELECTRONIC BOOK AND ELECTRONIC READER THEREOF, COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - A method for sharing notes of an electronic book (E-book) is illustrated. The method includes steps of: comparing an identification information of a note file with a book information of the electronic book for determining whether the note file corresponds to the electronic book; receiving and transferring the note file to an electronic reader displaying the electronic book when the note file corresponds to the electronic book; stacking and displaying at least one note layer included in the note file above an electronic page of electronic book displayed on a user interface of the electronic reader, wherein the note layer includes an auxiliary annotation associated with content of the electronic page and the note layer is independent of the electronic page. Therefore, reader may read the E-book and review related annotations on the user interface at the same time, and share the note file independently to other readers. | 11-28-2013 |
20130346906 | CREATION AND EXPOSURE OF EMBEDDED SECONDARY CONTENT DATA RELEVANT TO A PRIMARY CONTENT PAGE OF AN ELECTRONIC BOOK - Disclosed are several methods, apparatus, and a system to create, expose, and hide embedded secondary content data relevant to a primary content page of an electronic book generated by a content generating device. The method, system, and apparatus is enabled through a Y-axis slide apart gesture that is applied to a notification region of the primary content page such that the secondary content data is made visible when the Y-axis slide apart gesture is applied to the notification region. The method, system, and apparatus is also enabled through a Y-axis pinch close gesture that is applied to a boundary of an exposed pane that is appearing in the primary content page such that the Y-axis pinch close gesture collapses the exposed pane in which the secondary content data is made visible. In one embodiment, the system comprises an association server, an electronic book distribution server, and a content rendering device. | 12-26-2013 |
20140006998 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING E-BOOK IN TERMINAL | 01-02-2014 |
20140013267 | METHOD FOR THREE-DIMENSIONAL VIEWING - The present invention relates generally to three dimension modeled view of electronic documents. In particular, the present invention relates to a method of providing an user interface for simulating a forward and reverse page-turn of a 3-dimensional multiple-page electronic document. The present invention also relates to a method of providing an user interface for simulating a page-tear when deleting a page in an 3-dimensional multiple-page electronic document. | 01-09-2014 |
20140059474 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CHANGING PAGE COUNT ACCORDING TO A DURATION OF INPUT TOUCH - An electronic device and method for navigating content to a desired a page based on a duration of touch input includes receiving a touch input at a particular region of displayed contents, counting and displaying a page to the desired page during which the touch input is in contact with the display screen, reaching and displaying the desired page when the touch input is lifted, and further turning to the page including the content according to a further gesture detected thereon. | 02-27-2014 |
20140059475 | ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT REPRODUCTION APPARATUS AND REPRODUCING METHOD THEREOF - An electronic device according to an embodiment includes: a touch sensitive display unit configured to display one or more pages of a document thereon; and a controller configured for cooperating with the touch sensitive display unit to: receive a touch input applied to the touch sensitive display unit when the one or more pages of a document are displayed on the touch sensitive display unit; display information including a page number of the document on the touch sensitive display unit in response to the touch input; detect a proximity touch input starting from a point of the touch input to another point spaced from the touch sensitive display unit; and determine new information to be changed from the displayed information, based on a position of the another point. | 02-27-2014 |
20140059476 | METHOD OF SPREADING E-BOOK DISTRIBUTION THROUGH SHARING OF CHILDREN'S READING HISTORIES - The present invention relates to a method of spreading E-book distribution through sharing of children's reading histories. The method of the present invention includes: (a) accessing by a first user terminal a reading community operating server; (b) purchasing or loaning by the first user terminal of an e-book; (c) displaying the book image data of the E-book on a page of the first user terminal; (d) updating reading history representation information for representing a book history of the first user terminal as a visual image; and (e) opening the reading history representation information of the first user terminal, and accessing by a second user terminal the reading community operating server in order to view the reading history representation information of the first user terminal. | 02-27-2014 |
20140068493 | METHOD OF DISPLAYING CALENDAR AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE THEREFOR - A method and an apparatus for controlling output of a calendar in an electronic device are provided. The method includes displaying an electronic calendar, detecting a gesture on the displayed electronic calendar, updating the displayed electronic calendar to a calendar which has a difference by a predetermined period according to a period of the displayed electronic calendar when the detected gesture corresponds to a predetermined gesture, and displaying the updated calendar, wherein the predetermined period corresponds to a period which is longer than that of the displayed electronic calendar. | 03-06-2014 |
20140075368 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING CONTENT AND DIGITAL DEVICE USING THE SAME - A method for controlling display of content, the content including a plurality of display pages of a sequence, the method comprising: displaying a first display page on the display screen, receiving a first user input for changing from the first display page to a second display page of the content, the second display page being a neighboring display page of the first display page in the sequence, detecting the second user input when the second display page is a locked display page, extracting the fingerprint information from the second user input when the second user input is detected, and displaying the second display page when the second display page is accessible based on the fingerprint information or a third display page when the second display page is not accessible based on the fingerprint information. | 03-13-2014 |
20140143705 | BOOKMARKING FOR ELECTRONIC BOOKS - This document describes techniques and apparatuses enabling bookmarking for electronic books. The techniques and apparatuses enable a user of an electronic book to bookmark pages of the electronic book and navigate based on these bookmarks as well as bookmarks made by other users. | 05-22-2014 |
20140143706 | ELECTRONIC BOOK NAVIGATION - This document describes techniques and apparatuses enabling electronic book navigation. These techniques and apparatuses enable a user to navigate through an electronic book by flipping through pages of the electronic book. The speed of this flip can be based on a force or bend applied to a manual selector of a computing device on which the electronic book is displayed. The flip may also be affected by an affinity for a page of the electronic book, such by pausing at a page previously bookmarked by the user or often viewed by previous readers of the electronic book. This document also describes e-book-reading devices having integral variable-input manual selectors through which selection to flip through pages of an electronic book is enabled. | 05-22-2014 |
20140143707 | AFFINITY-BASED PAGE NAVIGATION - This document describes techniques and apparatuses enabling affinity-based page navigation. These techniques and apparatuses enable page navigation, such as page flipping, page searches, and other navigation based on affinities associated with various pages. These affinities can include a reference to a page, such as a link or quotation in a social networking service, an encyclopedia, a webpage, an article, a newspaper, or a blog. These affinities can also or instead include usage, such as how many users have read, highlighted, dog-eared, or bookmarked a page. | 05-22-2014 |
20140157181 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR SCROLLING A DOCUMENT ON A TOUCH PANEL - In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method includes displaying a segment on a touch panel, the segment having a starting point and an end point corresponding to a first page and a last page, respectively, of a document, in response to a predetermined manipulation by a user. An indication is received that the user has performed at least one of touching a point on the segment and sliding a point on the segment. The document is scrolled to reach a page corresponding to the position of the point on the segment, in response to the indication. The document is scrolled, by a computer processor, on a page-by-page basis, in response to the user sliding the point in a direction perpendicular to the segment. | 06-05-2014 |
20140173495 | Bookmark Gesture Recognition - Apparatus for displaying an electronic book comprising a touch screen and a processor. The touch screen displays a selected page of an electronic book, and has a touch input device configured to generate signals in response to a touch input. The processor comprises a touch acquisition module that generates touch position information, a gesture recognition module that determines if a touch input is a bookmark gesture in dependence of whether the touch position information is within a bookmark area, and a bookmark processing module that generates a bookmark for the selected page when a bookmark gesture is recognized by the gesture recognition module. | 06-19-2014 |
20140173496 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR TRANSITION BETWEEN SEQUENTIAL DISPLAYED PAGES - A method for transition between sequential pages displayed by an electronic device which runs a slideshow presentation application program such as Microsoft® PowerPoint. The method includes the steps as follows. Generate input signals from a user tracing a simple shape with his fingertip on the screen. Identify the traced shape. The type of transition display property which is associated with the predefined shape is acquired when the traced and identified shape is substantially similar to a predefined shape stored in the storage unit. The transition to next displayed page is displayed with the acquired type of display transition property. A related electronic device is also provided. | 06-19-2014 |
20140195961 | Dynamic Index - In some implementations, a user can select a term (e.g., word or phrase) from the text of a digital media item (e.g., book, document, etc.) and cause an index to other references to the selected term within the digital media item to be generated and presented. The user can provide input to an item within the index to view an expanded preview of the text at the location within the digital media item corresponding to the index item without navigating to the location within the digital media item. The user can provide input to the index item to navigate to the location within the digital media item corresponding to the index item. When viewing a location within the digital media item corresponding to an index item, the user can provide input to navigate to other instances of the same term within the digital media item. | 07-10-2014 |
20140208256 | TURNING PAGES OF AN ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT BY MEANS OF A SINGLE SNAP GESTURE - A system and associated method for contextualizing a page turn in an electronic book pursuant to a snap gesture made by a user on a touch screen of a tablet device, as performed by an e-reader program running in the tablet device. The snap gesture is quantified with data elements including linger time and direction of the snap gesture. The quantified snap gesture is utilized in identifying a target page number to display on the touch screen responsive to at least one predefined data element of the quantified snap gesture such that the user is enabled to turn multiple pages of the electronic book by the snap gesture as turning multiple pages of a paper book. | 07-24-2014 |
20140215376 | SMART INTERACTIVE BOOKMARKS - A method includes, a computer generating at least one bookmark to provide an indication of placement, the computer configuring said at least one bookmark to have multiple functions; and the computer configuring said at least one bookmark to have an image based said placement. | 07-31-2014 |
20140223355 | Customizable and Interactive Book System - Methods, servers, and devices for customizing a customizable book are disclosed. An example method includes providing an application on a device, and receiving from the device via the application a selection of a book from a plurality of books. The book includes a plurality of customizable fields. The method further includes receiving from the device via the application a selection of at least one customizable field in the plurality of customizable fields, for each of the at least one selected customizable fields, receiving from the device via the application a customization of the selected customizable field, and, based on the customization for each of the at least one selected customizable fields, customizing the book to produce a customized book. The customized book may be shared with one or more additional users and/or printed. | 08-07-2014 |
20140258911 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CREATING AND VIEWING COMIC BOOK ELECTRONIC PUBLICATIONS - A system and method for enhancing electronic comic book reading by dynamically expanding text bubbles (“bubbles”) to make them easier to read, especially on a small mobile device. The method s include skimming a sequence of expanded bubbles, flinging through a sequence of expanded bubbles and positioning expanded bubbles so as not to hide the comic character(s) uttering the phrase. The methods are performed with irregular bubble outlines (like curly, bumpy, or jagged text bubbles commonly found in comics). Further the method includes pre-processing the content in an automated fashion to enable skimming and flinging through the sequences of expanded bubbles. | 09-11-2014 |
20140258912 | ELECTRONIC BOOK INSCRIPTION SYSTEM - A portion of an electronic book is displayed and a selection of a position within the portion is received. The content of the electronic book is analyzed to determine an amount of whitespace that corresponds to the selected position. In response to the determined amount of whitespace being greater than a threshold amount, a user interface for providing inscription data is displayed. Inscription data is received and stored in association with an indication of the selected position. | 09-11-2014 |
20140282205 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ELECTRONIC BOOK READING - An electronic book reader and a method and computer program product for displaying an electronic hook provide the display of dynamic text. An electronic book reader may comprise a visual display, a processor configured to execute program instructions, a memory storing the program instructions to be executed by the processor, program instructions to be executed by the processor, and at least one content piece comprising a plurality of text, the text including at least one item of information for controlling dynamic display of text, wherein the program instructions are configured to perform, when executed by the processor, evaluating the at least one item of information for controlling dynamic display of text, and displaying, on the visual display, text based on the evaluation of the at least one item of information for controlling dynamic display of text. | 09-18-2014 |
20140337787 | TRANSITIONING PAGES OF PAGINATED CONTENT DISPLAYED BY A COMPUTING DEVICE - A given page of an e-book is displayed when an input is detected that is sustained for an amount of time that exceeds a threshold. After the amount of time exceeding the threshold, the pages of the e-book are transitioned by clusters or chapters. The transitioning by clusters or chapters can be sustained for some duration that is determined by, for example, the duration of time during which the input is sustained. | 11-13-2014 |
20140359516 | SENSING USER INPUT TO CHANGE ATTRIBUTES OF RENDERED CONTENT - A device such as an electronic book reader stores content and a setting for an attribute of the content. When the content is rendered on a display screen of the device, the rendered content is formatted based on the setting. In response to sensing a movement on or near a sensing device (e.g., a touchscreen that may be part of the display screen), the setting is changed and the rendered content is reformatted on the display screen using the new setting. | 12-04-2014 |
20140359517 | Turning a Page on a Display - Some embodiments provide a method for displaying an electronic publication. The method receives a selection of a cover page displayed for an electronic publication. The method animates an opening of the cover page to a first content page of the electronic publication that appears as an opposite side of the cover page during the opening animation. While displaying a second content page of the electronic publication, the method receives input to close the electronic publication. The method animates a closing of the electronic publication in order to display the cover page. The second content page appears as an opposite side of the cover page during the closing animation. | 12-04-2014 |
20140372932 | Filtering Data with Slicer-Style Filtering User Interface - A slicer-style filtering user interface is provided that allows for advanced filtering and sorting of data and that may be utilized with a touch or gesture based computing device. The slicer-style filtering user interface may be invoked on a spreadsheet data range for filtering and sorting data according to desired properties. A slicer-style filtering user interface may be moved about on a displayed spreadsheet document for ease of use in proximity to one or more data items. If a theme or style is applied to a given spreadsheet document, the invoked slicer-style filtering user interface may be automatically themed or styled to match the document. The slicer-style filtering user interface may be operable for advanced filtering, and the user interface may be efficiently changed from one filtering type to another filtering type. | 12-18-2014 |
20140380225 | Electronic Display Terminal, Non-Transitory Computer Readable Storage Medium Stored with Program for Electronic Display Terminal, and Display Method - An electronic display terminal including a display unit which displays a file including a plurality of pages on a screen for each region of the file, and a scroll bar which includes a bar displayed on a screen and an indicator which indicates a page position of a page including the region displayed on the display unit by a relative position with respect to the length of the bar, wherein the scroll bar switches a region displayed on the display unit based on a position element of a first direction that is a longitudinal direction of the bar and a position element of a second direction which is different from the first direction at a position on a screen touched by a user, and moves the indicator to a position which indicates a page position of a page including the region displayed after the region is switched. | 12-25-2014 |
20140380226 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS ALLOWING OPERATION OF IMAGE SCREEN AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF - An image display apparatus includes a display unit for displaying an image, a detecting unit for detecting a position designated by an operation of designating a position on the displayed image and a file operation unit operating a file. The display unit displays images generated from a file on page-by-page basis on a partial area of the display unit. The file operating unit operates the file in accordance with the change of position detected by the detecting unit, when, in a state in which no position has been detected by the detecting unit, a designated position outside of the prescribed partial area is first detected by the detecting unit and the designated position changes while the position designating operation is maintained and then no position is detected by the detecting unit. Thus, the user can easily and intuitively operate the displayed page image or the file. | 12-25-2014 |
20150026630 | Enhanced E-Book and Enhanced E-book Reader - A method for enhanced searching in an electronic document by a human reader who can touch a touch screen. The method can include the steps of providing an electronic device having a touch screen and memory, the electronic device having executable instructions in the memory for displaying at least one of a plurality of displayable pages of a work stored in memory of the electronic device; providing an icon for display such that upon touching the touch screen while one of the at least one of a plurality of displayable pages is displayed, the icon is displayed; providing at least one additional selectable feature such that upon touching the icon, the executable instructions cause to be displayed the at least one additional selectable feature; and wherein upon selecting by touching by the human reader one of the at least one additional selectable feature the executable instructions cause to be displayed at least a second instance of where the feature occurs in the work. | 01-22-2015 |
20150026631 | Method for Automatically Creating Book Definitions - Book definitions can be dynamically created based on content provided by a user. Such dynamic creation can include organization of user-supplied content into appropriate form, adjustment of book cover properties to match the user-supplied content, and verification that the user supplied content is appropriate for presentation in book form. Various interfaces can also be provided which allow users to generate a book definition based on a minimum of information. | 01-22-2015 |
20150026632 | PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD - According to an aspect of the present invention, setting change of a parameter can be performed while checking the content of all parameters on the list screen without screen transition of the list screen. Parameters of a desired page can be set at the same time even if a use condition or the like of the device is changed, or only part of the parameters can be corrected and set. Therefore, a plurality of parameters can be quickly and appropriately set by minimum operation. | 01-22-2015 |
20150046866 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS, IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - An image display apparatus includes a detection unit and a controller. The detection unit detects a specified position on a display screen on which an image is displayed. When the specified position on the display screen is moved, the controller performs a page switching operation or a move operation on the basis of a movement direction in which the specified position is moved. The page switching operation is an operation of switching an image being displayed on the display screen to another image. The move operation is an operation of moving a display position of the image being displayed on the display screen. | 02-12-2015 |
20150052472 | Creation and Exposure of Embedded Secondary Content Data Relevant to a Primary Content Page of An Electronic Book - Disclosed are several methods, apparatus, and a system to create, expose, and hide embedded secondary content data relevant to a primary content page of an electronic book generated by a content generating device. The method, system, and apparatus is enabled through a Y-axis slide apart gesture that is applied to a notification region of the primary content page such that the secondary content data is made visible when the Y-axis slide apart gesture is applied to the notification region. The method, system, and apparatus is also enabled through a Y-axis pinch close gesture that is applied to a boundary of an exposed pane that is appearing in the primary content page such that the Y-axis pinch close gesture collapses the exposed pane in which the secondary content data is made visible. In one embodiment, the system comprises an association server, an electronic book distribution server, and a content rendering device. | 02-19-2015 |
20150067576 | DISPLAY DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD - The display device includes a display section having a display surface, a touch panel, and a display control section. The display section is configured to display a plurality of pages. The touch panel is configured to detect a touch point in touch with the display surface of the display section. The display control section is configured to flip a page toward a last page or a top page of the pages in a direction corresponding to the travel direction of the touch point that the touch panel detects. The display control section changes an amount of page flip each time the touch panel detects a change in the travel direction. | 03-05-2015 |
20150089438 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GROUPING APPLICATIONS AND APPLICATION RESOURCES ON AN INTERFACE OF A COMPUTING DEVICE - Multiple groupings of application resources are displayed on, for example, an application launch interface of the computing device. Each of the multiple groupings may be associated with a corresponding category from the plurality of categories. Each application resource of each of the multiple groupings can be provided for use with one of the plurality of applications that is installed on the computing device and which is associated with the category of its grouping. The groupings of application resources can be treated as a single object in response to input. | 03-26-2015 |
20150095834 | QUOTATION INTERFACE FOR E-BOOKS - A computing device for rendering e-books, from which quotations can be selected and used to create content items. The content item can further be provided with configurations that enable the user to personalize the appearance of a selected quotation. | 04-02-2015 |
20150095835 | PROVIDING A USER SPECIFIC READER MODE ON AN ELECTRONIC PERSONAL DISPLAY - A method and system for providing a user specific reader mode on an electronic personal display is disclosed. One example receives a request to enter a reader mode from a user. A reading history related to the user is accessed. The electronic personal display is then directed to open a last viewed book at a last viewed page and initiate the reader mode. | 04-02-2015 |
20150095836 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND COMPUTER STORAGE MEDIUM FOR SWITCHING PAGES - A method, apparatus and computer storage medium for switching page are provided in the present invention. The method includes: creating several sequential virtual pages through loading a page script, and displaying the virtual pages on a touch screen; collecting touching positions in the displayed virtual pages; performing switching pages to the virtual pages displayed on the touch screen according to the touching positions. The apparatus includes: a page virtual module used to create several sequential virtual pages through loading the page script, and display the virtual pages on the touch screen; a collecting module used to collect touching positions in the displayed virtual page; a processing module used to perform switching pages to the virtual page displayed on the touch screen according to said touching positions. By applying the present invention, a cross-browser platform is enabled. | 04-02-2015 |
20150095837 | Electronic Book Version and Annotation Maintenance - A method includes transmitting a first signal associated with a first version of an electronic book. The method also includes detecting an indication of a second version of the electronic book and generating, in response to detecting, and transmitting a second signal associated with an addition instruction and the second version, wherein the addition instruction is adapted to retain the first version and add the second version. Another embodiment includes receiving a copy signal associated with a copy instruction adapted to copy a first set of annotations corresponding to the first version of the electronic book. Another embodiment includes generating and transmitting a delivery signal associated with a second set of annotations and a correlation instruction adapted to correlate the second set of annotations corresponding to the first version to the second version where the second set of annotations is associated with a copy of the first set of annotations. | 04-02-2015 |
20150149950 | COMPUTING DEVICE WITH TOUCH-SENSITIVE HOUSING FOR DETECTING PLACEHOLDER INPUT IN CONNECTION WITH A PAGE TURNING ACTION - A computing device includes a housing, a display assembly having a screen, and a touch sensor provided with a portion of the housing. The processor operates to display at least a portion an initial page state for an e-book. The processor interprets one or more user actions of a first type as a page turn, and then responds to the first type of user action by transitioning from displaying at least the initial page state to displaying another page state as determined by a value of the page turn. The processor also interprets user action of a second type as a placeholder. In response to interpreting the user action of the second type as the placeholder, the processor determines a given page state that coincides with the placeholder, and automatically return to displaying the given page state upon completion of an event or condition. | 05-28-2015 |
20150301704 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING PLAYBACK ORDER OF EBOOK AND ADD-ON - Provided is a method of providing the play order and add-on of e-book. The method of providing a play order and add-on of an e-book, which is executed in a viewer for playing an e-book that is a digital work described according to a certain order, include: playing an e-book in accordance with a provided play order information regardless of the order of the e-book itself as the viewer is provided with the play order information. | 10-22-2015 |
20150301705 | METHOD FOR DISPLAYING PDF FILE - The present invention relates to a method for displaying a PDF file. The method comprises: step 1: extracting the number of pages of a PDF file step 2: displaying a cubic model book by using a three-dimensional manner, and making the thickness of the model book directly proportional to the number of the pages of the PDF file step 3: determining whether page turning is required, and if yes, performing step 4 and step 5 successively, otherwise, performing step 6 step 4: receiving the number of a page to be turned to step 5: turning pages of the model book by using the three-dimensional manner, wherein a displayed page after the page turning is ended is a page whose number is equal to the number of the page turned to in the PDF file, the thickness of turned pages of the model book is directly proportional to the number of the page turned to, and the thickness of unturned pages of the model book is directly proportional to a difference obtained by subtracting the number of the page turned to from the number of pages of the PDF file and step 6: returning to step 3. By means of the present invention, the user experience in reading a DPF file can be improved. | 10-22-2015 |
20150309565 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING DISPLAY OF DIGITAL CONTENT USING EYE MOVEMENT - A computer implemented method and apparatus for controlling display of displayed digital content using eye movement. The method comprises mapping eye movements, tracked by a camera of a display device, to an area of interest of displayed content. A window containing a magnified version of display content from within the area of interest is generated. The magnified display content from the area of interest is displayed together with display content from outside the area of interest. A hovering pointer gesture is optionally displayed within the area of interest or a selectable function is performed if display content within the area of interest corresponds to a user interface function or a navigation option. According to some embodiments, the window containing magnified display content is only generated and displayed when the display content within the area of interest does not correspond to a user selectable function. | 10-29-2015 |
20150324074 | Digital Book Graphical Navigator - This touch-screen computer graphical user interface navigation mechanism consists of a horizontally oriented list of miniature images representing pages in a digital book. From any page, the user can quickly navigate to any other page in the book by performing a two-finger tap, swiping the list left or right, and selecting an image to go to that page. When the book contains chapters, a secondary list is used to navigate through the book chapters. The miniature images in the lists are displayed in the same order as the pages and chapters in the book, from beginning to end. The user swipes left or right, swiftly or slowly, forward or backward, to the desired page. The user selects the miniature image to navigate to the page. With the two-finger tap and these sliding lists, the user can quickly and easily navigate through the chapters and pages of a digital book. | 11-12-2015 |
20150331566 | ELECTRONIC ALBUM CREATING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF PRODUCING ELECTRONIC ALBUM - A family electronic album is created. Representative face images of a family are displayed. The representative face images are dragged and dropped onto corresponding areas among areas that identify family attributes (“father”, “mother”, etc.). Since the family attributes of the representative face images can be ascertained, the family attributes of face images that resemble these face images can be determined. Since images that include all family members and images that include some family members can be determined from among images that include face images the family attributes of which have been determined, these images are laid out in the electronic album. | 11-19-2015 |
20150339015 | SELECTING AND PRESENTING ITEMS OF CONTENT BASED ON ESTIMATED TIME TO COMPLETE - A graphical user interface (GUI) element is displayed on a display screen (e.g., a touchscreen) of a computing system (e.g., an electronic-book reader). In response to the GUI element being selected by a user, different items of content are accessed. A duration value that indicates a length of time is associated with each item of the items of content. Information identifying at least a subset of the items of content is displayed on the display screen, where the subset is selected according to the duration values. | 11-26-2015 |
20150339394 | Extracting Online Recipes, and Arranging and Generating a Cookbook - As users browse web pages online they may come across a recipe in which they are interested, included in a web page. The user may then interact with a web browser tool, thereby expressing interest in the recipe. A recipe book server extracts the recipe from the web page including the recipe. The recipe book server may provide the user with an interface, via a web page for example, for editing or modifying the recipe. The recipe book server, on receiving a selection of recipes from the user to include in a cookbook may generate one or more candidate cookbooks using cookbook templates by populating the cookbook templates with the selected recipes. The user may select and modify a cookbook from the candidate cookbooks. The recipe book server then prepares the selected cookbook for printing, and may send the prepared cookbook to be printed by a professional printer. | 11-26-2015 |
20150346928 | PROVIDING E-BOOK CONTENT TO DEVICES USING ONE OF MULTIPLE FORMATS - A method and system for providing e-book content is described. A position in a content of an e-book is determined. The position can indicate when a user stopped consuming the content on a first computing device associated with the user. At least a remaining portion of the content subsequent to the position can be divided into multiple portions. A first portion of the multiple portions can be provided to a second computing device associated with the user using one of multiple formats. | 12-03-2015 |
20150355796 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An information processing apparatus includes a screen, a receiving unit that receives an operation performed on the screen, a display that displays a document having multiple pages on the screen on a page-by-page basis, a processing mode changing unit that, upon detecting a predetermined first operation on the document displayed on the screen, changes from a first processing mode that moves one page at a time to a second processing mode that moves multiple pages, and a moving unit that, upon detecting a predetermined second operation in the second processing mode, moves multiple pages within the document. As the predetermined first operation, the processing mode changing unit detects continued detection of a first position where a drag operation has ended, or detects, while the first position is detected, an operation performed at a second position different from the first position. | 12-10-2015 |
20150355798 | DOCUMENT READER, DOCUMENT PAGE TURN OVER METHOD AND PROGRAM - A document reader includes a display unit demonstrates a region representing contents of a page selected by a user of an electronic document of a style composed by a plurality of pages held together and a region which is provided neighboring to the region representing the page contents and which represents the thickness of a plurality of pages held together. The document reader also includes an action detection unit that detects contents of an action on the electronic document performed by specifying an arbitrary point in each of the regions, and a display control unit. In case an action of specifying two points, namely an arbitrary position in the region representing the page contents and an arbitrary position in the region representing the thickness of the pages held together, is carried out by a user so that the two points are specified in succession, the display control unit performs a processing of turning over pages up to a page corresponding to the position specified in the region representing the thickness of the pages held together. | 12-10-2015 |
20150370431 | System and Method for Document-Portion Social Networking - A system and method for document portion social networking is disclosed. | 12-24-2015 |
20150370432 | Flipping Through Content - Systems and methods for enabling users to rapidly flip through displayed pages of content in an intuitive manner are provided. Graphical animations for transitioning from one page to another can be executed so that portions of three or more pages can be simultaneously viewed. This enables a user to make snap judgments as to whether she wishes to explore anyone of those pages in more detail as she rapidly flips through the pages. | 12-24-2015 |
20150378533 | GEOSOCIAL NETWORK FOR BOOK READING AND USER INTERFACE THEREOF - System and method for facilitating location-based social networking among book readers. An electronic reading device installed with a networking application program is allowed to submit a request for discovering compatible readers within a distance from its current location. Compatible readers can be automatically located based on the reading devices associated therewith and based on compatibilities of the reading profiles. The information of the discovered compatible readers can be presented to the requesting reader and allow the requesting reader to initiate an on-line communication with a selected compatible reader. Moreover, a reader can purchase books listed in another reader's reading profile. | 12-31-2015 |
20150378534 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTINUOUS READING MODE - A computing device includes a housing and a display assembly having a screen and a set of touch sensors. The housing at least partially circumvents the screen so that the screen is viewable. A processor is provided within the housing to display content pertaining to an e-book on the screen of the display assembly. The processor further detects a first user interaction with the set of touch sensors and interprets the first user interaction as a first user input. In response to the first user input, the processor scrolls the e-book content displayed on the screen. For example, the first user input may correspond with a user tapping and holding the screen of the display assembly. | 12-31-2015 |
20150378535 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DIGITAL CONTENT NAVIGATION - An electronic device includes a processor, a memory for storing digital content and a display. The processor forms a content navigation bar for the digital content. The content navigation bar is rendered on the display and includes a first section marker corresponding to a first section of the digital content. A set of page markers corresponds to pages within the first section of the digital content. The set of page markers includes a boundary page marker. A second section marker is adjacent to the boundary page marker. | 12-31-2015 |
20160018957 | STACKABLE PAGINATION INDICATORS - Instead of displaying interface elements such as pagination indicators side-by-side on a display, a device can present such interface elements in other visible configurations relative to each other. For example, the device can display pagination indicators of different sizes stacked on top of each other. When such stacked pagination indicators are presented as viewed from directly overhead, the pagination indicators can be appear as concentric rings. Alternatively, the device can display such stacked pagination indicators from various different non-overhead angle perspectives. When shown at some of these angles, the stacked pagination indicators can appear as a three-dimensional stack of discs. The device can highlight a particular pagination indicator to distinguish that particular pagination indicator visibly from the other pagination indicators. The highlighted pagination indicator can serve to indicate which of several interface segments, such as pages, is currently being shown on the display. | 01-21-2016 |
20160026351 | COMPUTING DEVICE PROVIDING ELECTRONIC BOOK DATA WITH ROLLING IMAGES AND RELATED METHODS - A computing device may include a display, a memory to store electronic textbook data comprising a plurality of different images associated with at least one location within the electronic textbook data, a user input device, and a processor coupled to the display, the memory, and the user input device. The processor may be configured to display the electronic textbook data with a primary image from among the plurality of different images at the at least one location on the display, and selectively replace the primary image with at least one secondary image from among the plurality of different images at the at least one location on the display based upon the user input device. | 01-28-2016 |
20160041713 | DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR EXECUTING THE DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD - Provided is a computer-implemented display control method including a first display operation of displaying, in a second region of a screen, a first page on which contents belonging to a first category are arranged, and listing a plurality of categories in a vertical or horizontal direction and displaying the plurality of categories in a first region of the screen, wherein the first page is displayed to be scrollable in a direction in which the plurality of categories are listed, a recognition operation of recognizing a scroll signal which is input with respect to the first page, a determination operation of scrolling the first page based on the scroll signal, and generating a category change command based on the scroll signal if scrolling is not possible according to a position of the first page, and a second display operation of displaying, on the second region, a second page on which contents belonging to a second category are arranged, if it is determined to change the category based on the scroll signal. | 02-11-2016 |
20160044165 | ON-BOARD HANDLING OF CALLER IDENTIFICATION FOR WIRELESS TELEPHONY DEVICE - A telephony device comprises a radio interface; a user interface section; a memory; and a processor. The radio interface is configured to receive a notification of an incoming call from a telephony network. The user interface section is configured to facilitate interaction with a user of the telephony device. The memory comprises a local contact book, the local contact book comprising a pairing of calling party telephone information and corresponding caller identification information. The processor is configured, upon receipt of the notification of the incoming call, to use the calling party telephone information to obtain paired caller identification information from the local contact book and to provide an indication of the paired caller identification information to the user interface section. | 02-11-2016 |
20160054875 | Method And System For Displaying Recommended Pages By Terminal Device - Displaying a recommended page by a terminal device may include page presenting recommended information being displayed. Click information of a click operation is captured, which is performed by a user on a display area of the recommended information via a display screen. The page includes a calculated hotspot range. The hotspot range is a range determined after analyzing previous click information and valid information, where a valid click probability is greater than a probability set value. Whether the click operation is valid may be determined based on the click information and the hotspot range. When determining that the click operation is valid, a request for obtaining the recommended page corresponding to the recommended information may be transmitted to a server. | 02-25-2016 |
20160092060 | META GUIDING INTERFACE FOR AN E-READING DEVICE - A meta guiding mode can be implemented on a computing device to alter or disable touch inputs that the computing device otherwise recognizes as input. | 03-31-2016 |
20160098163 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISPLAYING PREVIEWS - A method and an apparatus for providing a content preview in a server are provided. An electronic device includes a display; a communication interface configured to send and receive signals to and from a server; and a processor configured to display a preview image of content received from the server on the display, and in response to an input, switch from the displayed preview image to a different preview image of the content or switch from the displayed preview image to a preview image of a different content. Thus, the electronic device may consecutively display the content preview screens without having to switch the screen. | 04-07-2016 |
20160132477 | DIGITAL INTRA-PAGE BOOKMARK FOR USE WITH E-BOOKS - Examples described herein provide for a bookmark feature for inserting a bookmark pointer at a bookmarked text location within a page of an e-book rendered on a user interface display. Certain examples also provide an ability to shift the bookmarked text location from a first screen location to another bookmarked screen location, and to repaginate the e-book around the bookmarked text location at the bookmarked screen location. | 05-12-2016 |
20160139763 | SYLLABARY-BASED AUDIO-DICTIONARY FUNCTIONALITY FOR DIGITAL READING CONTENT - A computing device includes a housing and a display assembly having a screen and a set of touch sensors. The housing at least partially circumvents the screen so that the screen is viewable. A processor is provided within the housing to display content pertaining to an e-book on the screen of the display assembly. The processor further detects a first user interaction with the set of touch sensors and interprets the first user interaction as a first user input corresponding with a selection of a first portion of an underlying word in the displayed content. The processor then displays syllabary content for at least the first portion of the underlying word. | 05-19-2016 |
20160140252 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PAGE FLIP INTERFACE - A method for providing a page flip interface on an electronic personal display is provided. The method includes receiving a request to enter a page flip mode from a user, determining a first page of an e-book displayed as a full page, adjusting a size of the first page of the e-book such that the size is not the full page and displaying a second page of the e-book simultaneously with the first page of the e-book. | 05-19-2016 |
20160147298 | E-READING DEVICE PAGE CONTINUITY BOOKMARK INDICIUM AND INVOCATION - A method and system for page continuity bookmark indicium and invocation on an e-reading device is disclosed. The system utilizes a camera that tracks an eye movement of a user of the e-reading device. In addition a gaze to page portion correlation logic correlates a gaze of the user with a portion of a page presented on the e-reading device. An operation implementation responsive to gaze logic implements a marking of the portion of the page presented on the e-reading device in response to the gaze being removed from the page for a pre-defined time period. | 05-26-2016 |
20160154551 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMPARATIVE TIME-TO-COMPLETION DISPLAY VIEW FOR QUEUED E-READING CONTENT ITEMS | 06-02-2016 |
20160154552 | SMART BOOKS | 06-02-2016 |
20160154553 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TERM OCCURRENCE PAGINATION INTERFACE | 06-02-2016 |
20160162136 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR E-BOOK READING-LAUNCH INTERFACE - A method and system for presenting an e-book reading interface for a subsequent reading, as an alternative to a fixedly-configured table of contents pages typical of physical paper books. The method includes receiving annotation entries at respective content portions of an e-book having text content presented in an ordered sequence; generating an annotations interface page including indicia for the annotation entries, the indicia presented in the pre-ordered sequence of the content portions; receiving a further annotation entry at a further content portion of the e-book; arranging an indicium of the further annotation entry within the respective indicia of the annotation entries of the annotations interface page consistent with an order of the further content portion within the respective content portions; and upon receiving a start-reading input action enacted upon a graphical icon representing the e-book, launching the annotations interface page for display. | 06-09-2016 |
20160162137 | Interactive Digital Workbook Using Smart Pens - A system and method are disclosed for interacting with digital workbooks. An identifier, identifying a physical workbook, is received. The physical workbook is associated with a digital book and can be displayed on a display screen of a computing system. Captured interactions between the smart pen and the writing surface of the workbook are received. One or more completed areas of the workbook are identified based on the one or more captured interactions. Based on the one or more completed areas of the workbook, a portion of the digital book is selected and displayed. | 06-09-2016 |
20160162138 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR NAVIGATING PAGES OF ELECTRONIC DEVICE - In a method for searching for navigating pages of an operation object of an electronic device, a corresponding relationship between gestures of a user and page functions of the operation object is preset. When the operation object comprises more than one page, the method detects a gesture of the user on a touch screen of the electronic device. A page function of the operation object is determined according to the detected gesture and the corresponding relationship. The method calculates a destination page number of a destination page to which the operation object is to be turned according to the determined page function and a current page number of a current page of the operation object. The method further navigates the operation object to the destination page and displays the destination page of the operation object on the touch screen. | 06-09-2016 |
20160162139 | INFORMATION DISPLAY TERMINAL - An information display terminal achieves a suitable display of types of electronic content such as electronic books with a display unit, an operation unit for receiving an operation instruction directed to the information display terminal, and a scroll control unit for controlling the operation for automatic scroll processing of the electronic content displayed on the display unit. An operation instruction instructing initiation of the automatic scroll processing is input to the operation unit, the scroll control unit performs control to initiate automatic scroll processing by which the electronic content displayed on the display unit is displayed in such a manner that the electronic content is moved a predetermined distance per predetermined time period; and when an operation instruction instructing interruption of the automatic scroll processing is input to the operation unit, the scroll control unit performs control to interrupt the automatic scroll processing. | 06-09-2016 |
20160162146 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MOBILE DEVICE AIRSPACE ALTERNATE GESTURE INTERFACE AND INVOCATION THEREOF - A computing device, or electronic personal display, includes a housing and a touch screen display. The housing includes a 3-dimension motion sensor operational within an airspace thereof. The processor is capable of detecting a presence of one or more extraneous objects on the display screen. In response to detecting the presence of the one or more extraneous objects on the display screen, an the input command is dissociated from a touch-based gesture interface, and instead is re-associated via re-mapping to an airspace gesture received at the computing device for performing a given output operation. | 06-09-2016 |
20160179313 | PAGE-INDEPENDENT MULTI-FIELD VALIDATION IN DOCUMENT CAPTURE | 06-23-2016 |
20160188137 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR E-BOOK EXPRESSION RANDOMIZER AND INTERFACE THEREFOR - A method and system for providing an expression randomizer for selected portions of e-book content rendered on a device display screen, with an interface therefore. The method, executed in a processor of the device, comprises receiving, at the touch screen display, a selection of an expression within the content of e-book, the expression comprising a plurality of characters; generating a randomized version of plurality of characters of the expression; receiving an action, at the touch screen display, to create a re-arranged version from the randomized version by re-arranging a sequence at least one character within the randomized version; and presenting the selected expression and the re-arranged version within a digitally repaginated content page of the e-book at the touch screen display. | 06-30-2016 |
20160189406 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR QUEUED E-READING SCREEN SAVER - A method for queued e-reading screen saver is provided. The method for queued e-reading screen saver includes determining a computing device is in a sleep mode, providing a screen saver image to display on the computing device during the sleep mode, accessing a content queue associated with a user and augmenting the screen saver image with content from the content queue. | 06-30-2016 |
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