DISPLAY DEVICE AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING DISPLAY PROGRAM

• US 20080204400A1
• Filed: 03/27/2008
• Published: 08/28/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 09/30/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
• Original Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
• Inventors: Fujii, Norihisa
• Application Number:
  US12/057,354
• Publication Number:
  US 20080204400A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/107
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1626 with a single-body enclosure integrating a flat display, e.g. Personal Digital Assistants [PDAs]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1671 Special purpose buttons or auxiliary keyboards, e.g. retractable mini keypads, keypads or buttons that remain accessible at closed laptop G06F1/1666 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0483 Interaction with page-structured environments, e.g. book metaphor

Abstract

A display device allows a user to move displayed pages as the user actually reads a paper book. The display device includes an n-page forwarder for moving a displayed page forward by n pages (n is an arbitrary integer equal to or larger than 3), a one-page forwarder for moving a displayed page forward by one page, and a page backwarder for moving a displayed page backward either by (n/2) pages if “n” is an even number, or by {(n−1)/2} pages if “n” is an odd number.

Claims

1. A display device comprising:

a display panel;

an n-page forwarder that moves a page displayed on the display panel forward by n pages, n being an integer equal to or larger than 3;

a one-page forwarder that moves a page displayed on the display panel forward by one page; and

a page backwarder that moves a page displayed on the display panel backward by (n/2) pages if n is an even number and by {(n−

1)/2} pages if n is an odd number.

2. The display device according to claim 1, wherein the display panel comprises an electrophoretic display medium, the electrophoretic display medium having first and second substrates disposed in opposition to each other and a dispersion medium with dispersed charged particles interposed therebetween.

3. The display device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a memory having a display page number storage area for storing a display page number; and

a controller that is connected to the memory and controls the display panel,

wherein each of the n-page forwarder, the onepage forwarder, and the page backwarder is enabled when operated by a user, the n-page forwarder producing an output instructing the page displayed on the display panel to move forward by n pages when the n-page forwarder is enabled, the one-page forwarder instructing the page displayed on the display panel to move forward by one page when the one-page forwarder is enabled, and the page backwarder instructing the page displayed on the display panel to move backward by (n/2) pages if n is an even number and by {(n−

1)/2} pages if n is an odd number when the page backwarder is enabled, and wherein the controller controls the display panel to display a target page based on the page number stored in the memory and the outputs from the n-page forwarder, the one-page forwarder, and the page backwarder.

4. A display device comprising:

a display panel;

at least two page forwarders including a first page forwarder and a second page forwarder, the first page forwarder causing a page displayed on the display panel to move forward by a first preset number of pages, the second page forwarder causing a page displayed on the display panel to move forward by a second preset number of pages, the first preset number of pages being different from the second preset number of pages; and

at least one page backwarder including a first page backwarder that causes a page displayed on the display panel to move backward by a third preset number of pages,

wherein the first preset number of pages is equal to or larger than the third preset number of pages, and the second preset number of pages is equal to or smaller than the third preset number of pages.

5. The display device according to claim 4, wherein the third preset number of pages is equal to or smaller than a half of a sum of the first preset number of pages and the second preset number of pages.

6. The display device according to claim 5, wherein the first preset number of pages is n, n being an integer equal to or larger than 3, the second preset number of pages is one, and the third preset number of pages is (n/2) if n is an even number and {(n−

1)/2} if n is an odd number.

7. The display device according to claim 4, wherein a number of the page backwarders is smaller than a number of the page forwarders.

8. The display device according to claim 7, wherein the number of the page forwarders is two, and the number of the page backwarders is one.

9. A recording medium storing a display program readable by a computer of a display device capable of displaying data and switching a displayed page to another on a page basis, the display program comprising:

instructing an n-page forwarder to move a page displayed on a display panel forward by n pages (n is an integer equal to or larger than

     3), when enabled by a user'"'"'s operation;

instructing a one-page forwarder to move a page displayed on the display panel forward by one page when enabled by the user'"'"'s operation; and

instructing a page backwarder to move a page displayed on the display panel backward either by (n/2) pages if n is an even number, or by {(n−

1)/2} pages if n is an odd number, when enabled by the user'"'"'s operation.

10. A recording medium storing a display program readable by a computer of a display device capable of displaying data and switching a displayed page to another on a page basis, a display program comprising:

instructing at least two page forwarders, including a first page forwarder and a second page forwarder, to move a page displayed on a display panel forward by a preset number of pages when enabled by a user'"'"'s operation, the first page forwarder causing a page displayed on the display panel to move forward by a first preset number of pages, the second page forwarder causing a page displayed on the display panel to move forward by a second preset number of pages, the first preset number of pages being different from the second preset number of pages; and

instructing at least one page backwarder, including a first page backwarder, to move a page displayed on the display panel backward by a preset number of pages when enabled by the user'"'"'s operation, the first page backwarder causing a page displayed on the display panel to move backward by a third preset number of pages,

wherein the first preset number of pages is equal to or larger than the third preset number of pages, and the second preset number of pages is equal to or smaller than the third preset number of pages.