Display data generation method, computer-readable, non-transitory medium and computer

• US 10,732,801 B2
• Filed: 06/27/2017
• Issued: 08/04/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 01/31/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: GREE Inc.
• Original Assignee: GREE Inc.
• Inventors: Takayama, Daisuke
• Primary Examiner(s): Bloomquist, Keith D
• Application Number:
  US15/633,816
• Publication Number:
  US 20170293406A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,134 Days
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/35 Details of game servers
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/355 Performing operations on behalf of clients with restricted processing capabilities, e.g. servers transform changing game scene into an encoded video stream for transmitting to a mobile phone or a thin client
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/53 involving additional visual information provided to the game scene, e.g. by overlay to simulate a head-up display [HUD] or displaying a laser sight in a shooting game
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/92 Video game devices specially adapted to be hand-held while playing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04808 Several contacts: gestures triggering a specific function, e.g. scrolling, zooming, right-click, when the user establishes several contacts with the surface simultaneously; e.g. using several fingers or a combination of fingers and pen
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• 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 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text

Abstract

A display data generation method used in a computer including an output module, includes generating display data of page numbers for scrollably displaying page numbers of a plurality of pages each containing predetermined item information, to output the display data of page numbers from the output module, retrieving page information indicating a same number of pages as a number of page numbers displayed in a distance corresponding to a distance between two points in a display region in which the page numbers are displayed when the two points are specified by the user, wherein the number of page numbers are calculated based on the distance between the two points and the distance between adjacent page numbers displayed in the display region, and generating item display data for displaying item information contained in the pages indicated in the retrieved page information, to output the item display data from the output module.

Claims

1. A page display method performed by an electronic device including a display with a touch panel, the page display method comprising:

generating display data of a plurality of page indicators for a plurality of pages, each page containing predetermined item information;

displaying the generated page indicators in a first display region of the display;

in response to receiving position information about two points among the displayed page indicators specified by a user input in the first display region to select a range of page indicators

generating a plurality of data sets for displaying the predetermined item information contained in a plurality of pages corresponding to the selected range of page indicators, each data set being selectable separately, and

displaying the generated plurality of data sets in a second display region of the display, as the plurality of data sets are scrollable in the second display region, the second display region being different from the first display region; and

in response to receiving position information from a flick operation to the touch panel by the user

retrieving position information of a starting point of the flick operation and first time information associated with the starting point,

retrieving position information of an ending point of the flick operation and second time information associated with the ending point,

calculating a movement distance between the starting point and the ending point,

calculating a movement speed of the flick operation based on the first and second time information,

displaying the page indicators moved over a display distance based on the movement distance and the movement speed in the first display region, wherein a movement amount of the page indicator is greater as the movement speed is greater,

retrieving a page indicator at a predetermined position at the end of the movement of the page indicators, and

displaying item information corresponding to the retrieved page indicator in the second display region.

2. The page display method of claim 1, further comprising:

calculating a distance between the two points.

3. The page display method of claim 2, further comprising:

determining a distance between two consecutive page indicators displayed in the first display region.

4. The page display method of claim 3, further comprising:

determining a number of the page indicators for the selected range of page indicators based on the calculated distance between the two points and the determined distance between two consecutive page indicators.

5. The page display method of claim 4, further comprising:

generating the plurality of data sets for displaying the predetermined item information contained in the plurality of pages based on the determined number of page indicators for the selected range of page indicators.

6. The page display method of claim 1, wherein each of the page indicators corresponds to a page number for each of the plurality of pages.

7. The page display method of claim 1, wherein the page indicators are displayed in a scrollable configuration in the first region of the display.

8. The page display method of claim 1, wherein the two points correspond to two points of a continuous touch input operation performed on the touch panel of the display of the electronic device.

9. The page display method according to claim 1, further comprising, in response to receiving the position information about from the flick operation to the touch panel by the user:

calculating a contact duration,

setting a scrollable time,

calculating the movement amount, and

displaying the movement amount on the display.

10. The page display method according to claim 1, wherein the selected range of page indicators is wider than the range of the displayed page indicators corresponding to the two points specified by the user input in the first display region.

19. The electronic device of claim 9, wherein the item information is information corresponding to a stage in a quest or information corresponding to an enemy in a battle in a computer-based game.

11. An electronic device comprising:

a display with a touch panel; and

circuitry configured to

generate display data of a plurality of page indicators for a plurality of pages, each page containing predetermined item information;

control the display to display the generated page indicators in a first display region of the display;

in response to receiving position information about two points among the displayed page indicators specified by a user input in the first display region to select a range of page indicators, the circuitry is further configured to

generate a plurality of data sets for displaying the predetermined item information contained in a plurality of pages corresponding to the selected range of page indicators, each data set being selectable separately,and

control the display to display the generated plurality of data sets in a second display region of the display, as the plurality of data sets are scrollable in the second display region, the second display region being different from the first display region; and

in response to receiving position information from a flick operation to the touch panel by the user, the circuitry is further configured to

retrieve position information of a starting point of the flick operation and first time information associated with the starting point,

retrieve position information of an ending point of the flick operation and second time information associated with the ending point,

calculate a movement distance between the starting point and the ending point,

calculate a movement speed of the flick operation based on the first and second time information,

control the display to display the page indicators moved over a display distance based on the movement distance and the movement speed in the first display region, wherein a movement amount of the page indicator is greater as the movement speed is greater,

retrieve a page indicator at a predetermined position at the end of the movement of the page indicators, and

control the display to display item information corresponding to the retrieved page indicator in the second display region.

12. The electronic device of claim 11, wherein the circuitry is configured to calculate a distance between the two points.

13. The electronic device of claim 12, wherein the circuitry is configured to determine a distance between two consecutive page indicators displayed in the first display region.

14. The electronic device of claim 13, wherein the circuitry is configured to determine a number of the page indicators for the selected range of page indicators based on the calculated distance between the two points and the determined distance between two consecutive page indicators.

15. The electronic device of claim 14, wherein the circuitry is configured to generate the plurality of data sets for displaying the predetermined item information contained in the plurality of pages based on the determined number of page indicators for the selected range of page indicators.

16. The electronic device of claim 11, wherein the circuitry is further configured to:

receive a user input selecting a first page indicator from the plurality of page indicators displayed in the first display region; and

generate the plurality of data sets so that the generated plurality of data sets includes the predetermined item information contained in the page corresponding to the selected first page indicator.

17. The electronic device of claim 11, wherein the two points correspond to two points of a continuous touch input operation performed on the touch panel of the display of the electronic device.

18. The electronic device of claim 11, wherein the two points correspond to a start point and an end point of a swipe input, or the two points correspond to two end points of a pinch out input.

20. The electronic device of claim 11, wherein the circuitry is configured to scroll the page indicators in response to a user input.

21. A non-transitory computer-readable medium including computer-program instructions, which when executed by an electronic device that includes a display with a touch panel, cause the electronic device to:

generate display data of a plurality of page indicators for a plurality of pages, each page containing predetermined item information;

control the display to display the generated page indicators in a first display region of the display;

in response to receiving position information about two points among the displayed page indicators specified by a user input in the first display region to select a range of page indicators, the computer-program instructions further cause the electronic device to

generate a plurality of data sets for displaying the predetermined item information contained in a plurality of pages corresponding to the selected range of page indicators, each data set being selectable separately, and

control the display to display the generated plurality of data sets in a second display region of the display, as the plurality of data sets are scrollable in the second display region, the second display region being different from the first display region; and

in response to receiving position information from a flick operation to the touch panel by the user, the computer-program instructions further cause the electronic device to

retrieve position information of a starting point of the flick operation and first time information associated with the starting point,

retrieve position information of an ending point of the flick operation and second time information associated with the ending point,

calculate a movement distance between the starting point and the ending point,

calculate a movement speed of the flick operation based on the first and second time information,

control the display to display the page indicators moved over a display distance based on the movement distance and the movement speed in the first display region, wherein a movement amount of the page indicator is greater as the movement speed is greater,

retrieve a page indicator at a predetermined position at the end of the movement of the page indicators, and

control the display to display item information corresponding to the retrieved page indicator in the second display region.