Electronic device capable of showing page flip effect and method thereof

• US 8,358,280 B2
• Filed: 01/12/2009
• Issued: 01/22/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 02/29/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hong Fu Jin Precision Industry (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.), Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hong Fu Jin Precision Industry (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.), Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Li, Xiao-Guang, Chou, Hsiao-Chung, Hsieh, Kuan-Hong
• Primary Examiner(s): MERCEDES, DISMERY E
• Application Number:
  US12/351,859
• Publication Number:
  US 20090219248A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,471 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0483 Interaction with page-structured environments, e.g. book metaphor

Abstract

A method for showing page flip effect when use electronic device enjoy electronic documents, including: when receiving a flip-page instruction, obtain a parameter from a parameter table from a storage unit, the parameter table contains several parameters, each parameter include a first group of coordinates, a content of a flip-page figure and a second group of coordinates; determining a target page according to the flip-page instruction; producing the flip-page figure of the current page according to the first group coordinates and the content; covering a second area of the current page determined by the second group of coordinates with a second area of the target page determined by the second group of coordinates to form a combined page; displaying the combined page. Present invention also provides an electronic device capable of showing a page flip effect.

Claims

1. An electronic device capable of showing page flip effect, the electronic device comprising:

an input unit configured to generate instructions in response to user operations;

a storage unit configured to store electronic documents and a parameter table comprising a plurality of parameters, wherein each parameter comprises a first group of coordinates, content of a flip-page figure, and a second group of coordinates;

the first group of coordinates is configured to determine a first area of a page, and the second group of coordinates is configured to determine a second area of the page;

a display unit configured to display the electronic documents; and

a processing unit comprising;

an instruction receiving module configured to receive a flip-page instruction produced by the input unit;

a page determining module configured to determine the target page according to the flip-page instruction;

an obtaining module configured to obtain one of the parameters from the parameter table in sequence according to the flip-page instruction received by the instruction receiving module receives;

a figure producing module configured to produce the flip-page figure on a first area of a current page according to the first group of coordinates and the content of the flip-page figure;

a combination module configured to cover a second area of the current page determined by the second group of coordinates with a second area of the target page determined by the second group of coordinates to produce a combined page; and

a display control module configured to control the display unit to display the combined page.

2. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the obtaining module is further configured for determining whether there is another parameter to be processed, if there is another parameter to be processed, the obtaining module, the figure producing module, the combination module, and the display control module repeats the obtaining, producing, covering, and displaying processes;

if all of the parameters have been processed, the display control module controls the display unit to display the whole target page.

3. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the processing unit further comprises an effect setting module configured to set flipping effect information, the flipping effect information comprises content of the flip-page figure, the number of the parameters of a full process of flipping a page, a predetermined time interval of obtaining one of the parameters and displaying each combined page, and the number of coordinates associated with each parameter.

4. The electronic device of claim 3, wherein the content of the flip-page figure is selected from the group consisting of image, text, and blank.

5. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the figure producing module is capable of determining positioning points of the first area of the current page according to the first group of coordinates, and obtaining the area of displaying the flip-page figure by connecting every two adjacent positioning points, and adding the content of the flip-page figure to the obtained area, thus forming the flip-page figure on the current page.

6. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the input unit is a key board which comprises a page up key, a page down key, and other functional keys, the page determining module determines the target page according to the flip-page instruction is produced by the page up key or the page down key.

7. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the input unit is a touch panel, the page determining module determines the target page according to the movement direction of user'"'"'s touch.

8. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the electronic device is selected from the group consisting of an e-reader, a mobile phone or a digital photo frame.

9. A method of an electronic device for showing page flip effect when the electronic device displays a change of electronic documents, the method comprising:

receiving a flip-page instruction produced by an input unit;

determining a target page according to the flip-page instruction;

obtaining one of parameters in sequence, wherein each of the parameter comprises a first group of coordinates, content of a flip-page figure, and a second group of coordinates, the first group of coordinates is configured to determine a first area of a page, the second group of coordinates is configured to determine a second area of the page;

producing a flip-page figure on a first area of current page according to the first group of coordinates and the content of the flip-page figure;

covering a second area of the current page determined by the second group of coordinates with the second area of the target page determined by the second group of coordinates to form a combined page; and

displaying the combined page.

10. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

determining whether there is still another parameter to be processed;

displaying the whole target page if all of the parameters have been processed;

returning to the step of obtaining one of parameters if there is still another parameter to be processed.

11. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

setting flipping effect information, the flipping effect information comprises content of the flip-page figure, the number of the parameter of a full process of flip a page, a predetermined time interval of obtaining each parameter and displaying each combined page, and the number of coordinates associated with each parameter;

storing the flipping effect information.

12. The method of claim 9, wherein the step of obtaining one of parameters in sequence comprises:

obtaining a parameter from the parameter table in sequence according to a previous obtained parameter.

13. The method of claim 9, wherein the step of producing a flip-page figure on a first area of current page according to the first group of coordinates and the content of the flip-page figure comprises:

determining the positioning points of the first area of the current page according to the first group of coordinates;

obtaining the area of displaying the flip-page figure by connecting every two adjacent positioning points, and

adding the content of the flip-page figure to the obtained area.