Electronic text viewing apparatus, electronic text viewing method, and mobile phone

• US 8,856,677 B2
• Filed: 11/06/2008
• Issued: 10/07/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 11/20/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Kurose, Takahiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Hur, Ece
• Application Number:
  US12/742,373
• Publication Number:
  US 20100257480A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,161 Days
• Field of Search: 715/784, 715/785, 715/786, 715/830, 345/341, 345/684, 345/123, 345/688
• US Class Current: 715/784
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/34 Browsing; Visualisation therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/103 Formatting, i.e. changing of presentation of documents automatic justification G06F40/189; automatic line break hyphenation G06F40/191
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/34 for rolling or scrolling
• CPC Class Codes: H03M 7/3059 Digital compression and data reduction techniques where the original information is represented by a subset or similar information, e.g. lossy compression
• CPC Class Codes: H03M 7/707 Structured documents, e.g. XML
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72403 with means for local support of applications that increase the functionality

Abstract

An electronic text viewing apparatus includes a viewing application unit that outputs viewing data for displaying a text in a viewable manner, a display unit that displays the viewing data and a fast reading button for receiving a fast reading request for the viewing data, a viewing data requesting unit that issues a request for acquirement of the viewing data to the viewing application unit, and acquires the viewing data to be viewed, a setting data storage unit that stores setting data for the acquired viewing data, and a fast reading viewer control unit that, when the fast reading button is pressed, converts the viewing data into fast reading viewer data by performing display format conversion, display speed control and scroll control of the viewing data, and displays the fast reading viewer data and a return button for converting the fast reading viewer data to the viewing data.

Claims

1. An electronic text viewing apparatus comprising:

a viewing request acceptance unit configured to accept a viewing request to a viewing application and determines which one of a plurality of viewing applications is requested, said viewing applications respectively outputting viewing data to be displayed in a viewable manner;

a display unit configured to display said viewing data outputted by said viewing application corresponding to the accepted viewing request;

a viewing data requesting unit configured to issue a request for acquirement of said viewing data to said viewing application corresponding to the accepted viewing request, acquires said viewing data to be viewed from said viewing application, and causes said display unit to display the acquired viewing data;

a setting data storage unit configured to store setting data for use to convert said viewing data into a fast reading viewer data by performing a display format conversion, a display speed control, and a scroll control on the text of said viewing data acquired;

a fast reading request acceptance unit configured to make said display unit display said viewing data outputted by said viewing application and a fast reading button for receiving a fast reading request for said viewing data outputted from said viewing application and displayed, and accepts said fast reading request by an operation of said fast reading button; and

a fast reading viewer control unit configured, when said fast reading request is accepted, to extract said text from said viewing data acquired by said viewing data requesting unit, to perform the display format conversion for the extracted text by referring to and using said setting data stored to create the fast reading viewer data, to display speed or scrolling of said fast reading viewer data being controlled according to said setting data, and to display said fast reading viewer data and a return button for making said display unit switch a display from said fast reading viewer data to said viewing data corresponding to the viewing data outputted from the viewing application which has been converted into the fast reading viewer data and displayed before converting,

wherein;

when said viewing data that is output from said viewing application contains a drawing or picture, said fast reading viewer control unit extracts only a text portion from said viewing data, refers to said setting data storage unit for said text extracted, and converts said text extracted into said fast reading viewer data, and when said return button is operated, said display unit switches a display from said fast reading viewer data including only the extracted text and said return button to said viewing data corresponding to the original acquired viewing data outputted from the viewing application and the fast reading button,

said fast reading viewer control unit selectively displays data in different display screen layouts based on whether the fast reading request is accepted, such that the fast reading viewer control unit controls the display unit to display the fast reading viewer data in accordance with the setting data in a first display screen layout when the fast reading request is accepted and controls the display unit to display the viewing data in a second display screen layout when there is no fast reading request, the first display screen layout being different from the second display screen layout,

the plurality of viewing applications comprise at least two of applications that enable viewing data from mail, browsers, documents, and electronic books, and

each of the plurality of viewing applications displays said viewing data in a different format.

2. The electronic text viewing apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein

said setting data storage unit stores at least one of selection data about vertical or horizontal display, selection data about a font used, selection data about a font size, and selection data about spacing of lines, as setting data for performing said display format conversion,

said setting data storage unit stores selection data about display speed as selection data for performing said display speed conversion, and

said setting data storage unit stores selection data about page scrolling or row scrolling as information data for performing said scroll conversion.

3. The electronic text viewing apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein

when said fast reading button displayed is selected, the display is switched from said viewing data to said fast reading viewer data, and

when said return button displayed is selected, said display is switched from said fast reading viewer data to said viewing data.

4. The electronic text viewing apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein

when there is a change in said setting data stored in said setting data storage unit,

said setting data storage unit notifies said fast reading viewer control unit that there is a change in said setting data, and

said fast reading viewer control unit makes a change to said setting data with respect to said fast reading viewer data.

5. An electronic text viewing method comprising:

accepting a viewing request to a viewing application and determines which one of a plurality of viewing applications is requested, the viewing applications respectively outputting viewing data to be displayed in a viewable manner;

displaying said viewing data outputted by the viewing application corresponding to the accepted viewing requests;

in said viewing application, issuing a request for acquirement of said viewing data corresponding to the accepted request, to acquire said viewing data to be viewed from the viewing application, and causing said display unit to display the acquired viewing data;

storing setting data for use to convert said viewing data into a fast reading viewer data that is used for performing a display format conversion, a display speed control, and a scroll control on the text of said viewing data acquired; and

displaying said viewing data outputted by said viewing application;

receiving a fast reading request for said viewing data outputted from said viewing application and displayed and accepting said fast reading request by an operation of said fast reading button;

when said fast reading is accepted, extracting said text from said viewing data acquired, performing the display format conversion for the extracted text by referring and using to said stored setting data to create the fast reading viewer data, displays speed or scrolling of said fast reading viewer data being controlled according to said setting data, and displaying said fast reading viewer data and a return button for making a display unit switch from said fast reading viewer data to said viewing data corresponding to the viewing data outputted from the viewing application which has been converted into the fast reading viewer data and displayed before converting, and

selectively displaying data in different display screen layouts based on whether the fast reading request is accepted, such that the fast reading viewer control unit controls the display unit to display the fast reading viewer data in accordance with the setting data in a first display screen layout when the fast reading request is accepted and controls the display unit to display the viewing data in a second display screen layout when there is no fast reading request, the first display screen layout being different from the second display screen layout, and

wherein;

when said viewing data that is output from said viewing application contains a drawing or picture, extracting only a text portion from said viewing data, referring to said setting data storage unit for said text extracted, and converting said text extracted into said fast reading viewer data, and when said return button is operated, said display unit switches a display from said fast reading viewer data including only the extracted text and said return button to said viewing data corresponding to the original acquired viewing data outputted from the viewing application and the fast reading button,

the plurality of viewing applications comprise at least two of applications that enable viewing data from mail, browsers, documents, and electronic books, and

each of the plurality of viewing applications displays said viewing data in a different format.

6. A mobile phone comprising:

a viewing request acceptance unit configured to accept a viewing request to a viewing application and determines which one of a plurality of viewing applications is requested, said viewing applications respectively outputting viewing data to be displayed in a viewable manner;

a display unit configured to display said viewing data output by said viewing application corresponding to the accepted viewing request;

a viewing data requesting unit configured to issue a request for acquirement of said viewing data to said viewing application unit corresponding to the accepted viewing request, acquires said viewing data to be viewed from said viewing application, and causes said display unit to display the acquired viewing data;

a setting data storage unit configured to store setting data for use to convert said viewing data into a fast reading viewer data by performing a display format conversion, a display speed control, and a scroll control on the text of said viewing data acquired;

a fast reading request acceptance unit configured to make said display unit display said viewing data outputted by said viewing application and a fast reading button for receiving a fast reading request for said viewing data outputted from said viewing application and displayed, and accepts said fast reading request by an operation of said fast reading button; and

a fast reading viewer control unit configured, when said fast reading request is accepted, to extract said text from said viewing data acquired by said viewing data requesting unit, to perform the display format conversion for the extracted text by referring to and using said setting data stored to create the fast reading viewer data, to display speed or scrolling of said fast reading viewer data being controlled according to said setting data, and to display said fast reading viewer data and a return button for making said display unit switch a display from said fast reading viewer data to said viewing data corresponding to the viewing data outputted from the viewing application which has been converted into the fast reading viewer data and displayed before converting,

wherein;

when said viewing data that is output from said viewing application unit contains a drawing or picture, said fast reading viewer control unit extracts only a text portion from said viewing data, refers to said setting data storage unit for said text extracted, and converts said text extracted into said fast reading viewer data, and when said return button is operated, said display unit switches a display from said fast reading viewer data including only the extracted text and said return button to said viewing data corresponding to the original acquired viewing data outputted from the viewing application and the fast reading button,

said fast reading viewer control unit selectively displays data in different display screen layouts based on whether the fast reading request is accepted, such that the fast reading viewer control unit controls the display unit to display the fast reading viewer data in accordance with the setting data in a first display screen layout when the fast reading request is accepted and controls the display unit to display the viewing data in a second display screen layout when there is no fast reading request, the first display screen layout being different from the second display screen layout,

the plurality of viewing applications comprise at least two of applications that enable viewing data from mail, browsers, documents, and electronic books, and

each of the plurality of viewing applications displays said viewing data in a different format.