Method for making mark in electronic book and mobile terminal

• US 20120317471A1
• Filed: 11/04/2010
• Published: 12/13/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 09/15/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: ZTE Corporation
• Original Assignee: ZTE Corporation
• Inventors: Ma, Meizhen
• Application Number:
  US13/577,426
• Publication Number:
  US 20120317471A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/232
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/169 Annotation, e.g. comment data or footnotes

Abstract

The disclosure provides a method for making a mark in an electronic book and a mobile terminal. In the method, coordinates of a starting point and an ending point that a user has intended to mark are obtained; the coordinates of the starting point and the ending point are transformed to a starting character offset and an ending character offset respectively; characters from a character corresponding to the starting character offset to a character corresponding to the ending character offset are marked in a preset marking manner, the marks are displayed, and the starting character offset and the ending character offset are stored. The method for making a mark in an electronic book and the mobile terminal provided by the disclosure implement the marking function of an electronic book by obtaining and storing a starting character offset and an ending character offset, thereby meeting the marking requirement of a user in using an electronic book and improving the user'"'"'s experience of usage. Moreover, the disclosure is simple to design and easy to implement.

Claims

1. A method for making a mark in an electronic book, comprising:

obtaining coordinates of a starting point and an ending point that a user has intended to mark;

transforming the coordinates of the starting point and the ending point to a starting character offset and an ending character offset respectively;

marking characters from a character corresponding to the starting character offset to a character corresponding to the ending character offset in a preset marking manner, displaying the marks, and storing the starting character offset and the ending character offset.

2. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

before obtaining coordinates of the starting point and the ending point that the user has intended to mark,

establishing a coordinate system of a display screen based on a resolution of the display screen.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein the obtaining coordinates of the starting point and the ending point that the user has intended to mark comprises:

receiving the starting point and the ending point input by the user; and

obtaining coordinates of the starting point and the ending point that the user has intended to mark, according to correspondences between the starting point/the ending point and pixels in the display screen, and the coordinate system.

4. The method according to claim 3, wherein the receiving the starting point and the ending point input by the user comprises:

receiving screen touching signals input by the user through touching the screen at a starting position and an ending position that are intended to mark, to obtain the starting point and ending point;

or taking a position in which a cursor is located right now is as the starting point or the ending point, in response to reception of mark confirmation information input by the user.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the transforming the coordinates of the starting point and the ending point to the starting character offset and the ending character offset comprises:

obtaining a number of characters displayed in each screen, according to a height of an area in the display screen for displaying texts and a height of each character;

obtaining a number of characters displayed in each row, according to a width of the area for displaying texts and a width of each character;

transforming the coordinates of the starting point and the ending point, and determining a position of a starting character corresponding to the coordinates of the starting point and a position of an ending character corresponding to the coordinates of the ending point;

obtaining offsets of the starting character and the ending character from the starting position of the electronic book respectively, according to the positions of the starting character and the ending character and an offset of a first character on a page on which the starting character and the ending character are located from the starting position of the electronic book.

6. A mobile terminal, comprising:

a coordinate obtaining unit, configured to obtain coordinates of a starting point and an ending point that a user has intended to mark;

an offset calculation unit, configured to transform the coordinates obtained by the coordinate obtaining unit to a starting character offset and an ending character offset;

a marking unit, configured to mark characters from a character corresponding to a starting character offset to a character corresponding to an ending character offset in a preset marking manner, and to display the marks; and

a storage unit, configured to store the starting character offset and the ending character offset obtained by the offset calculation unit.

7. The mobile terminal according to claim 6, further comprising a coordinate system establishment unit configured to establish a coordinate system based on a resolution of a display screen.

8. The mobile terminal according to claim 7, wherein the coordinate obtaining unit is specifically configured to receive the starting point and the ending point input by the user;

and to obtain coordinates of the starting point and the ending point that the user has intended to mark, according to correspondences between the starting point/the ending point and pixels in the display screen, and the coordinate system established by the coordinate system establishment unit.

9. The mobile terminal according to claim 8, wherein when the mobile terminal is a touch mobile terminal, the coordinate obtaining unit is specifically configured to receive screen touching signals input by the user at a starting position and an ending position that are intended to mark, so as to obtain the starting point and the ending point;

and

the mobile terminal further comprises a confirmation unit configured to trigger the coordinate obtaining unit to take a position in which a cursor is located right now as the starting point or the ending point, in response to reception of mark confirmation information input by the user.

10. The mobile terminal according to claim 6, wherein the offset calculation unit is specifically configured to obtain a number of characters displayed in each screen, according to a height of an area in the display screen for displaying texts and a height of each character;

to obtain a number of characters displayed in each row, according to a width of the area for displaying texts and a width of each character;

to transform the coordinates of the starting point and the ending point, and to determine a position of a starting character corresponding to the coordinates of the starting point and a position of an ending character corresponding to the coordinates of the ending point; and

to obtain offsets of the starting character and the ending character from the starting position of the electronic book respectively, according to the positions of the starting character and the ending character and an offset of a first character on a page on which the starting character and the ending character are located from the starting position of the electronic book.