MOBILE TERMINAL WITH A TOUCH SCREEN THAT DISPLAYS A PLURALITY OF PAGES

• US 20130044066A1
• Filed: 09/13/2010
• Published: 02/21/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 09/11/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Milibris S.A.
• Original Assignee: Milibris S.A.
• Inventors: Monteux, Guillaume, Rucine, Nicolas, Monrouzeau, Raphal, Vauvillier, Luc
• Granted Patent: US 10,019,152 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04803 Split screen, i.e. subdividing the display area or the window area into separate subareas
• 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

A mobile terminal with a touch screen includes a browsing and searching system that reproduces the sensation of leafing through a work on paper and a read mode that does not alter the structure or layout of the original page. The main benefit of this solution is that it can be used to read a digital publication in the same manner as the equivalent paper version, both in terms of leafing and reading, while taking account of the technical specifications of the read terminal.

Claims

1. A mobile terminal with a touch screen, the terminal comprising:

a storage device on which a plurality of pages are stored;

a display device configured to display in landscape mode two stacks of recto verso pages respectively called the left stack and the right stack and respectively ordered in the ascending direction and the descending direction, or a single stack containing all of the recto verso pages, ordered in the ascending or descending direction, all belonging to the plurality of stored pages;

a pre-loading device configured to pre-load at least two recto verso pages preceding the page whose back is displayed in the left stack, called the left current page, and/or at least two recto verso pages following the page whose front is displayed on the right stack, called the right current page, on said display device, said pre-loadings carried out within the limit of the number of pages respectively preceding and/or following the left and right current pages;

a controller configured to control said display device, the controller comprising

a detection touch device configured to detect the placement, sliding and lifting of a finger of a user;

a detecting device configured to detect the target page that is defined as being either the left current page or the right current page, depending on the detection of the finger placement;

an executing device configured to execute a rotation and/or translation composite of said target page;

a device for going from the left and right current pages, respectively called pages N−

1/N, to the next pages in the right stack, called pages N+1/N+2, or to the preceding pages in the left stack, called pages N−

3/N−

2, depending on the detection of the lifting of a finger;

a device for going from said pages N+1/N+2 to the pages following pages N+1/N+2, called pages N+3/N+4, while the passage from pages N−

1/N to pages N+1/N+2 is in progress;

a device for going from said pages N−

3/N−

2 to the pages preceding pages N−

3/N−

2, called pages N−

5/N−

4, while the passage from pages N−

1/N to pages N−

3/N−

2 is in progress.

2. The mobile terminal according to claim 1, wherein said controller comprises:

a device to stop the passage from said pages N−

1/N to the following pages, called pages N+1/N+2, and returning from the following pages, called pages N+1/N+2, to the current pages, called pages N−

1/N;

a device to stop the passage from said pages N−

1/N to the preceding pages, called pages N−

3/N−

2, and returning from the preceding pages, called pages N−

3/N−

2, to the current pages, called pages N−

1/N.

3. The mobile terminal according to claim 1, wherein said device to go from pages N−

1/N to pages N+1/N+2 or to pages N−

3/N−

2 depending on detecting the lifting of a finger make pages N−

1/N go to pages N+1/N+2 or to pages N−

3/N−

2, provided that the sliding has reached a threshold value.

4. The mobile terminal according to claim 1, wherein said controller comprises an executing device to execute a composite of a variable angle rotation and/or a variable vector translation, of said target page, these variations being dependent on said detected sliding.

5. The mobile terminal according to claim 1, wherein the terminal comprises an emitting device to emit a sound effect during passage from current pages N−

1/N to pages N+1/N+2 or to pages N−

3/N−

2.