Information processing device, information processing method, and program for changing a number of pages of contents to be displayed

• US 10,296,560 B2
• Filed: 10/30/2014
• Issued: 05/21/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 12/02/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Linfiny Corporation
• Original Assignee: Lifiny Corporation
• Inventors: Fukayama, Kazuteru, Utsuki, Shingo, Tamehiro, Fumiaki
• Primary Examiner(s): Amin, Mustafa A
• Application Number:
  US14/527,905
• Publication Number:
  US 20150154153A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,664 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0483 Interaction with page-structured environments, e.g. book metaphor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04855 Interaction with scrollbars
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/114 Pagination

Abstract

There is provided an information processing device including a page feed unit configured to continuously feed pages in contents including a plurality of pages, and a display control unit configured to change the number of the pages to be displayed on a display screen according to an operation by a user when the pages are fed by the page feed unit.

Claims

1. An information processing method comprising:

detecting a touch operation by a user at a first location on a display screen;

continuously feeding pages in contents including a plurality of pages of a document on the display screen according to a sliding operation in which the user continues to touch the display screen for a holding operation after sliding from the first location to a second location on the display screen, wherein the plurality of the pages are displayed on the display screen in units of a number of consecutive pages, and the consecutive pages of the plurality of the pages in a first unit are different from each of the consecutive pages of the plurality of the pages in a second unit having the same number of the pages as the first unit after continuously feeding the pages based on the holding operation;

displaying a guide for the user at a current location of the sliding operation or the holding operation on the display screen to specify the number of pages of the plurality of pages to be displayed on the display screen; and

changing the number of the consecutive pages to be displayed on the display screen by a processor according to a selecting operation by the user performed with respect to the displayed guide,

wherein the current location of the sliding operation dynamically follows the sliding operation such that the guide specifying the number of the consecutive pages to be displayed is moved in order to be displayed at each point where the user touches the display screen while sliding from the first location to the second location.

2. An information processing device comprising:

circuitry configured to

detect a touch operation by a user at a first location on a display screen of the information processing device,

continuously feed pages in contents including a plurality of pages of a document on the display screen according to a sliding operation in which the user continues to touch the display screen for a holding operation after sliding from the first location to a second location on the display screen, wherein the plurality of the pages are displayed on the display screen in units of a number of consecutive pages, and the consecutive pages of the plurality of the pages in a first unit are different from each of the consecutive pages of the plurality of the pages in a second unit having the same number of the pages as the first unit after continuously feed the pages based on the holding operation,

display a guide for the user at a current location of the sliding operation or the holding operation on the display screen to specify the number of the consecutive pages of the plurality of pages to be displayed on the display screen, and

change the number of the consecutive pages to be displayed on the display screen according to a selecting operation by the user performed with respect to the displayed guide,

wherein the current location of the sliding operation dynamically follows the sliding operation such that the guide specifying the number of the consecutive pages to be displayed is moved in order to be displayed at each point where the user touches the display screen while sliding from the first location to the second location.

3. The information processing device according to claim 2,

wherein the circuitry is further configured to continuously feed the pages according to the number of the pages to be displayed on the display screen.

4. The information processing device according to claim 2, wherein a speed of feeding the pages is independent of the number of the pages to be displayed on the display screen.

5. The information processing device according to claim 2, wherein the circuitry is further configured to continuously feed the pages when the sliding operation by the user in a first direction is detected.

6. The information processing device according to claim 2,

wherein the guide indicates a plurality of candidates for the number of the pages to be displayed on the display screen,

wherein the circuitry is further configured to specify the candidate selected by the user among the plurality of candidates for the number of the pages included in the guide, on the basis of a detection result of the selecting operation, and

wherein the circuitry is further configured to control the display screen to display the pages in the number specified by the selecting operation.

7. The information processing device according to claim 6,

wherein the selecting operation by the user includes an operation that the user slides from the second location to a third location on the display screen, and

wherein the circuitry is further configured to specify which candidate is selected by the user among the plurality of candidates for the number of the pages included in the guide, according to a slide amount of the selecting operation of the user in a direction on the display screen, which is different from a direction of the sliding operation.

8. The information processing device according to claim 2,

wherein the circuitry is further configured to stop the page feed when a second touch operation by the user is detected on the display screen.

9. The information processing device according to claim 8,

wherein the circuitry is further configured to restart the page feed upon release of the second touch operation of the user from the display screen.

10. The information processing device according to claim 2,

wherein the information processing device is a portable device, and

wherein the information processing device further comprises a display surface upon which the display screen is displayed.

11. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having embodied thereon a program, which when executed by a computer, causes the computer to execute a method, the method comprising:

detecting a touch operation by a user at a first location on a display screen;

continuously feeding pages in contents including a plurality of pages of a document on the display screen according to a sliding operation in which the user continues to touch the display screen for a holding operation after sliding from the first location to a second location on the display screen, wherein the plurality of the pages are displayed on the display screen in units of a number of consecutive pages, the plurality of the consecutive pages in a first unit are different from each of the consecutive pages of the plurality of the pages in a second unit having the same number of the pages as the first unit after continuously feeding the pages based on the holding operation;

displaying a guide for the user at a current location of the sliding operation or the holding operation on the display screen to specify the number of pages of the plurality of the consecutive pages to be displayed on the display screen; and

changing the number of the consecutive pages to be displayed on the display screen according to a selecting operation by the user performed with respect to the displayed guide,

wherein the current location of the sliding operation dynamically follows the sliding operation such that the guide specifying the number of the consecutive pages to be displayed is moved in order to be displayed at each point where the user touches the display screen while sliding from the first location to the second location.