APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TURNING E-BOOK PAGES IN PORTABLE TERMINAL

• US 20120084705A1
• Filed: 09/14/2011
• Published: 04/05/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 10/01/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Lee, Sung-Min, Lee, Dal-Kwang
• Application Number:
  US13/232,812
• Publication Number:
  US 20120084705A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/776
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1694 the I/O peripheral being a single or a set of motion sensors for pointer control or gesture input obtained by sensing movements of the portable computer
• 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

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.

Claims

1. A method for turning pages of an electronic-book (e-book) in a portable terminal including an e-book function, the method comprising:

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 of the second touch 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.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

responsive to a different touch being input in the second UI active area and the drag and release of the second touch while the different touch is maintained, cancelling the displaying of the one of the immediately next page and the next page corresponding to the increased page number.

3. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

cancelling the displaying of the one of the immediately next page and the next page corresponding to the increased page number when one of an acceleration value greater than or equal to a threshold is detected in a first side of the portable terminal using an acceleration sensor and an inclination value greater than or equal to a threshold is detected in a direction towards a second side of the portable terminal using an axis sensor.

4. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

removing the displaying of the first side of the e-book displaying the one of the immediately next page and the next page corresponding to the increased page number in response to detecting a release of the first touch.

5. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

displaying a second side of the e-book in response to the second touch being input in the second UI active area of the display of the portable terminal;

displaying one of an immediately previous image and a previous page corresponding to a decreased page number in response to the first touch being input in the first UI active area of the display and in response to a drag and release of the first touch while the second touch input is maintained in the first UI active area; and

cancelling the displaying of the one of the immediately previous image and the previous page corresponding to the decreased page number in response to a drag and release of the second touch being input towards the first UI active area.

6. The method of claim 5 further comprising:

responsive to a different touch being input in the first UI active area and a drag and release of the first touch while the different touch is maintained, cancelling the displaying of the one of the immediately previous image and the previous page corresponding to the decreased page number.

7. The method of claim 5, further comprising:

cancelling the displaying of the one of the immediately previous page and the previous page corresponding to the increased page number when one of an acceleration value greater than or equal to a threshold is detected in a second side of the portable terminal using an acceleration sensor and an inclination value greater than or equal to a threshold is detected in a direction towards a first side of the portable terminal using an axis sensor.

8. The method of claim 5, further comprising:

removing the displaying of second side of the e-book and displaying the one of the immediately previous page and the previous page corresponding to the increased page number in response to detecting a release of the second touch.

9. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

determining whether a touch is input in a predetermined bookmark UI activation region of the display and whether a drag is input in a direction towards a center portion of the display;

responsive to determining that the touch is input in the predetermined bookmark UI activation region of the display and that the drag is input in the direction towards the center portion of the display, generating a clip corresponding to a bookmark to be added; and

responsive to detecting a release of the touch, positioning the clip in a position where the release is detected.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the first side of the e-book is a left lateral side of the e-book and wherein the first UI active area is preset on a left side of the display.

11. An apparatus for turning pages of an electronic-book (e-book) in a portable terminal including an e-book function, the apparatus comprising:

an e-book viewer configured to execute the e-book function; and

a display unit configured to;

display 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;

display 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 of the second touch and release of the second touch while the first touch is maintained in the first UI active area;

cancel 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; and

display a corresponding page of the e-book under the control of the e-book viewer.

12. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the e-book viewer is further configured to cancel the displaying of the one of the immediately next page and the next page corresponding to the increased page number in response to a different touch being input in the second UI active area and the drag and release of the second touch while the different touch is maintained.

13. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the e-book viewer is further configured to cancel the displaying of the one of the immediately next page and the next page corresponding to the increased page number when one of an acceleration value greater than or equal to a threshold is detected in a first side of the portable terminal using an acceleration sensor and an inclination value greater than or equal to a threshold is detected in a direction towards a second side of the portable terminal using an axis sensor.

14. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the display unit is further configured to remove the displaying of the first side of the e-book and display the one of the immediately next page and the next page corresponding to the increased page number in response to detecting a release of the first touch.

15. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the display unit is further configured to:

display a second side of the e-book in response to the second touch being input in the second UI active area of the display of the portable terminal;

displaying one of an immediately previous image and a previous page corresponding to a decreased page number in response to the touch being input in the first UI active area of the display and in response to a drag and release of the first touch while the second touch is maintained in the first UI active area; and

cancelling the displaying of the one of the immediately previous image and the previous page corresponding to the decreased page number in response to a drag and release of the second touch being input towards the first UI active area.

16. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein the e-book viewer is further configured to cancel the displaying of the one of the immediately previous image and the previous page corresponding to the decreased page number in response to a different touch being input in the first UI active area and a drag and release of the first touch while the different touch is maintained.

17. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein the displaying of the one of the immediately previous page and the previous page corresponding to the increased page number is cancelled by controlling the display unit when one of an acceleration value greater than or equal to a threshold is detected in a second side of the portable terminal using an acceleration sensor and an inclination value greater than or equal to a threshold is detected in a direction towards a first side of the portable terminal using an axis sensor.

18. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein the display unit is further configured to remove the displaying of the second side of the e-book and display the one of the immediately previous page and the previous page corresponding to the increased page number in response to detecting a release of the second touch.

19. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the e-book viewer is further configured to determine whether a touch is input in a predetermined bookmark UI activation region of the display and whether a drag is input in a direction towards a center portion of the display, generate a clip corresponding to a bookmark to be added in response to determining that the touch is input in the predetermined bookmark UI activation region of the display and that the drag is input in the direction towards the center portion of the display, and position the clip in a position where a release is detected in response to detecting the release of the touch.

20. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the first side of the e-book is a left lateral side of the e-book and wherein the first UI active area is preset on a left side of the display.