APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING E-BOOK IN TERMINAL

• US 20140006998A1
• Filed: 07/01/2013
• Published: 01/02/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 07/02/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: MOK, Ji-Eun, KWAK, ByeongHoon
• Application Number:
  US13/932,344
• Publication Number:
  US 20140006998A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/776
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0483 Interaction with page-structured environments, e.g. book metaphor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/451 Execution arrangements for user interfaces

Abstract

An apparatus and method for controlling an e-Book in a terminal are provided. The electronic-Book (e-Book) control apparatus of the terminal includes a controller configured to run at least one application related to data of an e-Book, while displaying the e-Book.

Claims

1. An apparatus for controlling an electronic-Book (e-Book) in a terminal, the apparatus comprising:

a controller configured to run at least one application related to data of an e-Book, while displaying the e-Book.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein, if at least one application related to data included in a page of the e-Book is linked to or inserted into the page of the e-Book while the e-Book is authored using an e-Book authoring tool in an e-Book authoring mode, the controller is configured to run the linked or inserted application when the page of the e-Book is displayed,

wherein the at least one application is linked to or inserted into the page of the e-Book using a language supported by the e-Book authoring tool, and

wherein the language supported by the e-Book authoring tool includes a marked-up language.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein, if there is at least one application related to data included in a page of the e-Book while displaying the e-Book on an e-Book viewer in an e-Book viewer mode, the controller is configured to run the at least one application in a predetermined position of the page, and

wherein the at least one application related to data included in the page of the e-Book is linked to or inserted into the page of the e-Book.

4. The apparatus of claim 3, wherein, if there is at least one application related to data included in a page of the e-Book, the controller is configured to perform one of automatic application execution, manual application execution, and no application execution, depending on application execution conditions, and

wherein the controller is configured to control to display a User Interface (UI) indicating existence of an application related to data included in the page of the e-Book if the application execution conditions correspond to the manual application execution, and runs the application if the application is selected by the UI.

5. The apparatus of claim 3, wherein, if there are at least two applications related to data included in the page of the e-Book, the controller is configured to control to display types of the at least two applications in a predetermined position of the page, and runs a selected application from among the displayed types of the at least two applications.

6. The apparatus of claim 3, wherein the controller is configured to run the at least one application in a separate execution screen window, and

wherein the execution screen window is fixedly displayed in a position where the execution screen window does not overlap data on the page, or is movably displayed overlapping data on the page.

7. The apparatus of claim 3, wherein, if the running application is an application that can perform an interworking function with the e-Book viewer, the controller is configured to provide a data interworking function between the e-Book viewer and the application.

8. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein the controller is configured to provide the data interworking function in which the controller automatically transfers data applicable to the application, to the application to control to display the data in the page of the e-Book displayed on the e-Book viewer, and the application transfers resulting data for the data to the e-Book viewer to control to display the resulting data on the page.

9. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein the controller is configured to provide the data interworking function in which upon occurrence of a specific gesture, the controller copies data included in the page of the e-Book displayed on the e-Book viewer into the application to control to display the copied data, and the application transfers resulting data generated by performing a specific function on the copied data, to the e-Book viewer to control to display the resulting data on the page.

10. An apparatus for controlling an electronic-Book (e-Book) in a terminal, the apparatus comprising:

a controller configured to run at least one application in an execution screen window, if there is the at least one application related to data included in a page of the e-Book while controlling to display the e-Book on an e-Book viewer in an e-Book viewer mode,

wherein the execution screen window is fixedly displayed in a position where the execution screen window does not overlap data on the page of the e-Book, or is movably displayed overlapping data on the page of the e-Book.

11. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein, if at least one application related to data included in a page of the e-Book is linked to or inserted into the page of the e-Book while the e-Book is authored using an e-Book authoring tool in an e-Book authoring mode, the controller is configured to run the linked or inserted application when the page of the e-Book is displayed,

wherein the at least one application is linked to or inserted into the page of the e-Book using a language supported by the e-Book authoring tool, and

wherein the language supported by the e-Book authoring tool includes a marked-up language.

12. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the controller is configured to:

determine application execution conditions if there is at least one application related to data included in a page of the e-Book;

run the at least one application in a predetermined position of the page, if the application execution conditions correspond to automatic application execution;

control to display a User Interface (UI) indicating existence of an application related to data included in the page of the e-Book if the application execution conditions correspond to the manual application execution, and runs the application in a predetermined page of the page if the application is selected by the UI; and

run no application if the application execution conditions correspond to no application execution.

13. The apparatus of claim 12, wherein, if there are at least two applications related to data included in the page of the e-Book, the controller is configured to control to display types of the at least two applications in a predetermined position of the page, and runs a selected application from among the displayed types of the at least two applications.

14. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the controller is configured to determine whether the running application is an application that can perform an interworking function with the e-Book viewer, and provides a data interworking function between the e-Book viewer and the application if the running application is an application capable of performing an interworking function with the e-Book viewer.

15. The apparatus of claim 14, wherein the controller is configured to automatically transfer data applicable to the application, to the application to control to display the data in the page of the e-Book displayed on the e-Book viewer, and

wherein the controller is configured to control the application to transfer resulting data for the data to the e-Book viewer to control to display the resulting data on the page.

16. The apparatus of claim 14, wherein upon occurrence of a specific gesture, the controller is configured to copy data included in the page of the e-Book displayed on the e-Book viewer into the application to control to display the copied data, and the controller is configured to control the application to transfer resulting data generated by performing a specific function on the copied data, to the e-Book viewer to control to display the resulting data on the page.

17. A method for controlling an electronic-Book (e-Book) in a terminal, the method comprising:

determining whether there is at least one application related to data of an e-Book, while displaying the e-Book; and

running the at least one application while displaying the e-Book, if there is at least one application related to data of the e-Book.

18. The method of claim 17, further comprising linking or inserting at least one application related to data included in a page of the e-Book, to or into the page of the e-Book, while authoring the e-Book in an e-Book authoring mode using an e-Book authoring tool,

wherein the at least one application is linked to or inserted into the page of the e-Book using a language supported by the e-Book authoring tool, and

wherein the language supported by the e-Book authoring tool includes a marked-up language.

19. The method of claim 17, wherein the determining comprises determining whether there is at least one application linked to or inserted into a page of the e-Book, while displaying the e-Book on an e-Book viewer in an e-Book viewer mode.

20. The method of claim 17, wherein the running comprises:

determining application execution conditions if there is at least one application related to data included in a page of the e-Book;

if the application execution conditions correspond to automatic application execution, running the at least one application in a predetermined position of the page;

if the application execution conditions correspond to manual application execution, displaying a User Interface (UI) indicating existence of an application related to data included in the page of the e-Book, and running the application in a predetermined position of the page if the application is selected by the UI; and

if the application execution conditions correspond to no application execution, running no application.

21. The method of claim 17, wherein the running comprises:

if there are at least two applications related to data included in a page of the e-Book, displaying types of the at least two applications in a predetermined position of the page; and

running a selected application from among the displayed types of the at least two applications.

22. The method of claim 17, further comprising displaying and running the application in an execution screen window,

wherein the execution screen window is fixedly displayed in a position where the execution screen window does not overlap data on the page, or is movably displayed overlapping data on the page.

23. The method of claim 17, wherein the running comprises:

determining whether the running application is an application capable of performing an interworking function with an e-Book viewer; and

providing a data interworking function between the e-Book viewer and the application, if the application is an application capable of performing an interworking function with the e-Book viewer.

24. The method of claim 23, wherein the providing a data interworking function comprises:

automatically transferring data applicable to the application, to the application to display the data in a page displayed on the e-Book viewer; and

transferring, by the application, resulting data for the data to the e-Book viewer to display the resulting data on the page.

25. The method of claim 23, wherein the providing of the data interworking function comprises:

copying data of the page displayed on the e-Book viewer into the application to display the copied data, upon occurrence of a specific gesture; and

transferring, by the application, resulting data generated by performing a specific function on the copied data, to the e-Book viewer to display the resulting data on the page.

26. A method for controlling an electronic-Book (e-Book) in a terminal, the method comprising:

determining whether there is at least one application related to data included in a page of the e-Book, while displaying the e-Book on an e-Book viewer in an e-Book viewer mode; and

if there is at least one application related to data included in the page of the e-Book, running the at least one application in an execution screen window while displaying the e-Book,

wherein the execution screen window is fixedly displayed in a position where the execution screen window does not overlap data on the page the e-Book, or is movably displayed overlapping data on the page of the e-Book.

27. The method of claim 26, further comprising linking or inserting at least one application related to data included in a page of the e-Book, to or into the page of the e-Book, while authoring the e-Book in an e-Book authoring mode using an e-Book authoring tool,

wherein the at least one application is linked to or inserted into the page of the e-Book using a language supported by the e-Book authoring tool, and

wherein the language supported by the e-Book authoring tool includes a marked-up language.

28. The method of claim 26, wherein the running comprises:

determining application execution conditions if there is at least one application linked to or inserted into a page of the e-Book;

if the application execution conditions correspond to automatic application execution, running the at least one application in a predetermined position of the page;

if the application execution conditions correspond to manual application execution, displaying a User Interface (UI) indicating existence of an application related to data included in the page of the e-Book, and running the application in a predetermined position of the page if the application is selected by the UI; and

if the application execution conditions correspond to no application execution, running no application.

29. The method of claim 26, wherein the running comprises:

if there are at least two applications linked to or inserted into a page of the e-Book, displaying types of the at least two applications in a predetermined position of the page; and

running a selected application from among the displayed types of the at least two applications.

30. The method of claim 26, wherein the running comprises:

determining whether the running application is an application capable of performing an interworking function with an e-Book viewer; and

providing a data interworking function between the e-Book viewer and the application, if the application is an application capable of performing an interworking function with the e-Book viewer.

31. The method of claim 30, wherein the providing of the data interworking function comprises:

automatically transferring data applicable to the application, to the application to display the data in a page displayed on the e-Book viewer; and

transferring, by the application, resulting data for the data to the e-Book viewer to display the resulting data on the page.

32. The method of claim 30, wherein the providing of the data interworking function comprises:

copying data of the page displayed on the e-Book viewer into the application to display the copied data, upon occurrence of a specific gesture; and

transferring, by the application, resulting data generated by performing a specific function on the copied data, to the e-Book viewer to display the resulting data on the page.