Mobile terminal with a touch screen that displays a plurality of pages

• US 10,019,152 B2
• Filed: 09/13/2010
• Issued: 07/10/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 09/11/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Milibris S.A.
• Original Assignee: Milibris S.A.
• Inventors: Monteux, Guillaume, Rucine, Nicolas, Monrouzeau, Raphael, Vauvillier, Luc
• Primary Examiner(s): Awad, Amr
• Assistant Examiner(s): Chow, Wing
• Application Number:
  US13/394,913
• Publication Number:
  US 20130044066A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,857 Days
• Field of Search: 345173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04803 Split screen, i.e. subdividing the display area or the window area into separate subareas
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0483 Interaction with page-structured environments, e.g. book metaphor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04886 by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the surface of the digitising tablet into independently controllable areas, e.g. virtual keyboards or menus

Abstract

A mobile terminal with a touch screen includes a browsing and searching system that reproduces the sensation of leafing through a work on paper and a read mode that does not alter the structure or layout of the original page. The main benefit of this solution is that it can be used to read a digital publication in the same manner as the equivalent paper version, both in terms of leafing and reading, while taking account of the technical specifications of the read terminal.

Claims

1. A mobile terminal with a touch screen, the terminal comprising:

a storage device on which a plurality of pages are stored;

a display device configured to display in landscape mode simultaneously a left stack of recto verso pages and a right stack of recto verso pages, the recto verso pages of the left stack ordered in the ascending direction and the recto verso pages of the right stack ordered in the descending direction, or said display device configured to display a single stack containing all of the recto verso pages, ordered in the ascending or descending direction, all of the recto verso pages belonging to the plurality of stored pages;

a pre-loading device configured to pre-load at least two recto verso pages preceding a current verso page N−

1 displayed in the left stack, and/or at least two recto verso pages following a current recto page N displayed on the right stack, on said display device, said pre-loadings carried out within the limit of the number of pages respectively preceding and/or following the current verso page N−

1 of the left stack and the current recto page N of the right stack;

a controller configured to control said display device, the controller comprising

a detection touch device configured to detect the placement, sliding and lifting of a finger of a user;

a detecting device configured to detect a target page that is defined as being either the current verso page N−

1 of the left stack or the current recto page N of the right stack, depending on the detection of the finger placement;

an executing device configured to execute a rotation and/or translation composite of said target page;

a device for going from the current verso page N−

1 and current recto page N, to next recto verso pages N+1/N+2 in the right stack of recto verso pages, or to preceding recto verso pages N−

3/N−

2 in the left stack of recto verso pages, depending on the detection of the lifting of a finger;

a device for going from said next recto verso pages N+1/N+2 to following recto verso pages N+3/N+4 that follow next recto verso pages N+1/N+2 while the passage from current recto verso pages N−

1/N to next recto verso pages N+1/N+2 is in progress;

a device for going from said preceding recto verso pages N−

3/N−

2 to preceding recto verso pages N−

5/N−

4 that precede preceding recto verso pages N−

3/N−

2, while the passage from current recto verso pages N−

1/N to preceding recto verso pages N−

3/N−

2 is in progress,

wherein an end of page turning animation displayed on the display device is independent of a control of another page turning animation displayed on the display device, and

wherein a rotation R of said target page is defined as follows;

R=(delta X*180)/width of the touch screen,

wherein delta X corresponds to a displacement of the finger of the user on the touch screen along the width of the touch screen.

2. The mobile terminal according to claim 1, wherein said controller comprises:

a device to stop the passage from said current recto verso pages N−

1/N to the next recto verso pages N+1/N+2, and returning from the next recto verso pages N+1/N+2, to the current recto verso pages N−

1/N;

a device to stop the passage from said current recto verso pages N−

1/N to the preceding recto verso pages N−

3/N−

2, and returning from the preceding recto verso pages N−

3/N−

2, to the current recto verso pages N−

1/N.

3. The mobile terminal according to claim 1, wherein said device to go from the current recto verso pages N−

1/N to the next recto verso pages N+1/N+2 or to the preceding recto verso pages N−

3/N−

2 depending on detecting the lifting of a finger make the current recto verso pages N−

1/N go to the next recto verso pages N+1/N+2 or to the preceding recto verso pages N−

3/N−

2, provided that the sliding has reached a threshold value.

4. The mobile terminal according to claim 1, wherein said controller comprises an executing device to execute a composite of a variable angle rotation and/or a variable vector translation, of said target page, said variations being dependent on said detected sliding.

5. The mobile terminal according to claim 1, wherein the terminal comprises an emitting device to emit a sound effect during passage from the current recto verso pages N−

1/N to the next recto verso pages N+1/N+2 or to the preceding recto verso pages N−

3/N−

2.

6. The mobile terminal according to claim 1, wherein when delta X is greater than one third of the width of the touch screen, the page turning animation is triggered.