ELECTRONIC DEVICE, ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT CONTROL PROGRAM, AND ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT CONTROL METHOD

• US 20130027302A1
• Filed: 07/25/2012
• Published: 01/31/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 07/25/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Original Assignee: Kyocera Corporation
• Inventors: IWAIZUMI, Tomoki, YAMADA, Seiji
• Application Number:
  US13/558,216
• Publication Number:
  US 20130027302A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/158
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1686 the I/O peripheral being an integrated camera
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/013 Eye tracking input arrangements G06F3/015 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance

Abstract

There are provided an electronic device, an electronic document control program and an electronic document control method for the electronic device. The electronic device includes a display unit configured to display an electronic document, an image taking unit configured to take an image, an eye-gaze position detecting unit configured to detect an eye-gaze position with respect to the display unit based on the image taken by the image taking unit, a determining unit configured to determine whether the electronic document displayed on the display unit has been read based on the eye-gaze position detected by the eye-gaze position detecting unit, and a performing unit configured to perform a predetermined process on the electronic document if the determining unit determines that the electronic document has been read.

Claims

1. An electronic device comprising:

a display unit configured to display an electronic document;

an image taking unit configured to take an image;

an eye-gaze position detecting unit configured to detect an eye-gaze position with respect to the display unit based on the image taken by the image taking unit;

a determining unit configured to determine whether the electronic document displayed on the display unit has been read based on the eye-gaze position detected by the eye-gaze position detecting unit; and

a performing unit configured to perform a predetermined process on the electronic document if the determining unit determines that the electronic document has been read.

2. The electronic device according to claim 1, further comprising:

an eye-gaze speed calculating unit configured to calculate an eye-gaze moving speed based on the eye-gaze position detected by the eye-gaze position detecting unit,

wherein, if the eye-gaze speed calculated by the eye-gaze speed calculating unit is equal to or smaller than a first threshold value, the determining unit determines that the electronic document displayed on the display unit has been read.

3. The electronic device according to claim 1,

wherein the electronic document includes a detection area for displaying a text or an image, the electronic device further comprising:

a staying-time measuring unit configured to measure a staying time of the eye-gaze position detected by the eye-gaze position detecting unit within the detection area,

wherein, if the staying time measured by the staying-time measuring unit is equal to or longer than a second threshold value, the determining unit determines that the electronic document displayed on the display unit has been read.

4. The electronic device according to claim 1,

wherein the electronic document includes a detection area for displaying a text or an image, the electronic device further comprising:

an eye-gaze speed calculating unit configured to calculate an eye-gaze moving speed based on the eye-gaze position detected by the eye-gaze position detecting unit; and

a staying-time measuring unit configured to measures a staying time of the eye-gaze position detected by the eye-gaze position detecting unit within the detection area,

wherein, if the eye-gaze speed calculated by the eye-gaze speed calculating unit is equal to or smaller than a first threshold value and if the staying time measured by the staying-time measuring unit is equal to longer than a second threshold value, the determining unit determines that the electronic document displayed on the display unit has been read.

5. The electronic device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a termination operation determining unit configured to determine whether a termination operation is performed; and

a storing unit configured to store stop data based on the eye-gaze position detected by the eye-gaze position detecting unit if the termination operation determining unit determines that the termination operation is performed.

6. The electronic device according to claim 1,

wherein the electronic document includes a plurality of pages, and

wherein the performing unit includes a next-page display unit configured to display a next page if the determining unit determines that one page of the electronic document has been read.

7. The electronic device according to claim 1,

wherein the performing unit includes a key display unit configured to display a key for inputting agreement or disagreement to contents of the electronic document to be operable if the determining unit determines that the electronic document has been read.

8. The electronic device according to claim 3,

wherein the performing unit includes a first additional information display unit configured to display additional information in the detection area if the determining unit determines that the detection area of the electronic document has been read.

9. The electronic device according to claim 3,

wherein the performing unit includes a second additional information display unit configured to display additional information in another detection area different from the detection area which displays an image if the determining unit determines that the detection area displaying the texts has been read.

10. A computer-readable storage medium having an electronic document control program stored thereon and readable by a processor of an electronic device which includes a display unit configured to display an electronic document and an image taking unit configured to take an image, the program, when executed by the processor, causing the processor to perform operations comprising:

detecting an eye-gaze position with respect to the display unit based on the image taken by the image taking unit;

determining whether the electronic document displayed on the display unit has been read based on the detected eye-gaze position; and

performing a predetermined process on the electronic document if it is determined that the electronic document has been read.

11. An electronic document control method for an electronic device including a display unit configured to display an electronic document and an image taking unit configured to take an image, the method comprising:

detecting an eye-gaze position with respect to the display unit based on the image taken by the image taking unit;

determining whether the electronic document displayed on the display unit has been read based on the detected eye-gaze position; and

performing a predetermined process on the electronic document if it is determined that the electronic document has been read.