ELECTRONIC DEVICE, METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM

• US 20150121177A1
• Filed: 04/25/2014
• Published: 04/30/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 10/30/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Iida, Takayuki, Ogura, Makito, Horiuchi, Kensuke
• Application Number:
  US14/262,458
• Publication Number:
  US 20150121177A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/201
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0483 Interaction with page-structured environments, e.g. book metaphor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04847 Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04855 Interaction with scrollbars
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/106 Display of layout of documents; Previewing

Abstract

According to one embodiment, an electronic device includes a receiver configured to receive data of an electronic book, and a display controller configured to display a slider, and to display a designated page in response to a designation by the slider. The display controller is configured to display a first thumbnail in accordance with a first position corresponding to the first page, the first thumbnail including at least one of a part of first information, relating to the first page, included in a page of a table of contents and second information of an illustration of the first page or a page close to the first page.

Claims

1. An electronic device comprising:

a receiver configured to receive data of an electronic book comprising pages; and

a display controller configured to display a slider for designating one of pages in the electronic book, and to display a designated page in response to a designation by the slider,

wherein the display controller is configured to further display a first thumbnail in accordance with a first position corresponding to the first page on the slider, the first thumbnail comprising at least one of a part of first information, relating to the first page, included in a page of a table of contents and second information of an illustration of the first page or a page close to the first page.

2. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein

the first information comprises a mark configured to indicate the electronic book, and an icon displayed in association with the mark and configured to indicate a position of a displayed page, and

the mark is configured to be displayed in a different form for each chapter.

3. The electronic device of claim 2, wherein

the first information comprises a page number of the displayed page for each page of the electronic book.

4. The electronic device of claim 1, further comprising:

storage configured to store the first page by a first user operation; and

a display configured to display the first page, in response to a second user operation performed while a second page of the electronic book is displayed.

5. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein

the thumbnail comprises information of an illustration of a page that is close to the first page and has already been read.

6. A method for an electronic device comprising a receiver configured to receive data of an electronic book comprising pages, and a display controller configured to display a slider for designating one pages in the electronic book, and to display a designated page in response to a designation by the slider, the method comprising:

displaying a first thumbnail in accordance with a first position corresponding to the first page on the slider, the first thumbnail comprising at least one of a part of first information, relating to the first page, included in a page of a table of contents and second information of an illustration of the first page or a page close to the first page.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein

the first information comprises a mark configured to indicate the electronic book, and an icon displayed in association with the mark and configured to indicate a position of a displayed page, and

the mark is configured to be displayed in a different form for each chapter.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein

the first information comprises a page number of the displayed page for each page of the electronic book.

9. The method of claim 6, further comprising:

storage configured to store the first page by a first user operation; and

a display configured to display the first page, in response to a second user operation performed while a second page of the electronic book is displayed.

10. The method of claim 6, wherein the thumbnail comprises information of an illustration of a page that is close to the first page and has already been read.

11. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon a computer program which is executable by a computer comprising a receiver configured to receive data of an electronic book comprising pages, and a display controller configured to display a slider for designating one of pages in the electronic book, and to display a designated page in response to a designation by the slider, the computer program comprising instructions capable of causing the computer to execute functions of:

displaying a first thumbnail in accordance with a first position corresponding to the first page on the slider, the first thumbnail comprising at least one of a part of first information relating to the first page, included in a page of a table of contents and second information of an illustration of the first page or a page close to the first page.

12. The storage medium of claim 11, wherein

the first information comprises a mark configured to indicate the electronic book, and an icon displayed in association with the mark and configured to indicate a position of a displayed page, and

the mark is configured to be displayed in a different form for each of chapters.

13. The storage medium of claim 12, wherein

the first information comprises a page number of the displayed page for each page of the electronic book.

14. The storage medium of claim 11, further comprising:

storage configured to store the first page by a first user operation; and

a display configured to display the first page, in response to a second user operation performed while a second page of the electronic book is displayed.

15. The storage medium of claim 11, wherein

the thumbnail comprises information of an illustration of a page that is close to the first page and has already been read.