ELECTRONIC TEXT MANIPULATION AND DISPLAY

• US 20130219321A1
• Filed: 03/25/2013
• Published: 08/22/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 01/11/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Original Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Inventors: Cranfill, Elizabeth Caroline Furches, Heller, David, Robbin, Jeffrey, Cannistraro, Alan C., Bachman, William Martin, Martin, Timothy B., Evans, Matt, Howard, Joe R.
• Granted Patent: US 10,824,322 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/776
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/93 Document management systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0483 Interaction with page-structured environments, e.g. book metaphor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/109 Font handling; Temporal or kinetic typography
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/166 Editing, e.g. inserting or deleting
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/123 Shopping for digital content

Abstract

Information is presented to a user by accessing a library of electronic publications that includes a first publication, generating a representation of the first publication in an electronic bookshelf, determining a state for the first publication and modifying the representation of the first publication to reflect the state of the first publication.

Claims

1. A method of presenting information to a user, the method comprising:

presenting, within an electronic book reader application on an electronic device, a representation of an electronic book that includes an electronic representation of a paper page;

enabling a user to interact with the page through a touch screen control to navigate through the electronic book;

recording, on the electronic device, physical characteristics of the user interaction with the touch screen control to navigate through the electronic book;

identifying, based on the physical characteristics of the user interaction, a modeled impact on the electronic representation of a paper page; and

generating an animated transition reflecting a page turning of the electronic representation of a paper page that reflects the modeled impact.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein identifying the modeled impact reflects a location within the electronic representation of the paper page where the user touched the electronic representation of a paper page.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein identifying the modeled impact reflects a velocity at which the user swiped the electronic representation of the paper page to turn the page.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein identifying the modeled impact reflects an acceleration at which the user swiped the electronic representation of the paper page to turn the page.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein identifying the modeled impact reflects a direction at which the user swiped the electronic representation of the paper page to turn the page.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein identifying the modeled impact reflects a user tilting the electronic device to turn the page.

7. The method of claim 6 wherein identifying the modeled impact reflects an acceleration applied in tilting the electronic device to turn the page.

8. The method of claim 6 wherein identifying the modeled impact reflects an angle applied by a user to tilt the electronic device to turn the page.

9. The method of claim 6 wherein identifying the modeled impact reflects differences in an orientation of the electronic device applied by a user to tilt the electronic device to turn the page.

10. The method of claim 9 wherein identifying the modeled impact reflects whether the orientation of the electronic device has been changed by more than a threshold amount.

11. A system, comprising a processor and instructions that when performed on the processor cause the processor to perform operations that include:

presenting, within an electronic book reader application on an electronic device, a representation of an electronic book that includes an electronic representation of a paper page;

enabling a user to interact with the page through a touch screen control to navigate through the electronic book;

recording, on the electronic device, physical characteristics of the user interaction with the touch screen control to navigate through the electronic book;

identifying, based on the physical characteristics of the user interaction, a modeled impact on the electronic representation of a paper page; and

generating an animated transition reflecting a page turning of the electronic representation of a paper page that reflects the modeled impact.

12. A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising instructions that when executed on a processor cause the processor to perform operations that include:

presenting, within an electronic book reader application on an electronic device, a representation of an electronic book that includes an electronic representation of a paper page;

enabling a user to interact with the page through a touch screen control to navigate through the electronic book;

recording, on the electronic device, physical characteristics of the user interaction with the touch screen control to navigate through the electronic book;

identifying, based on the physical characteristics of the user interaction, a modeled impact on the electronic representation of a paper page; and

generating an animated transition reflecting a page turning of the electronic representation of a paper page that reflects the modeled impact.