Stationary or mobile terminal controlled by a pointing or input peripheral

• US 8,982,148 B2
• Filed: 09/21/2010
• Issued: 03/17/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 09/23/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Milibris S.A.
• Original Assignee: Milibris S.A.
• Inventors: Monteux, Guillaume, Rucine, Nicolas, Monrouzeau, Raphal, Vauvillier, Luc
• Primary Examiner(s): Tung, Kee M
• Assistant Examiner(s): Du, Haixia
• Application Number:
  US13/395,504
• Publication Number:
  US 20130033499A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,638 Days
• Field of Search: 345/619, 715/200
• US Class Current: 345/619
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0483 Interaction with page-structured environments, e.g. book metaphor

Abstract

A stationary or mobile terminal controlled by a pointing or input peripheral device is presented. The invention pertains to the field of man-machine interfaces (MMI) applied to digital reading. There is provided a stationary or mobile terminal that is capable of reproducing, when used, the sensation of reading paper on a screen, of developing novel modes of reading, and of enabling press groups to render the publications thereof paperless while doing away with the material and technical limitations of various reading terminals.

Claims

1. A stationary or mobile terminal capable of being controlled by a pointing or input peripheral, the terminal comprising:

storage means on which a plurality of pages are stored;

means for displaying the plurality of stored pages in a form of a grid defining a breadcrumb trail, each element of said breadcrumb trail being composed of a front or back of a single page, or a front of one page and a back of another conjoined page that form a double page, an assembly of said elements being ordered by default in an ascending direction of the pages;

means for displaying a leafing view composed of two stacks of recto verso pages respectively forming a left stack and a right stack and respectively ordered in the ascending direction and a descending direction, or a single stack containing all of the recto verso pages, ordered in the ascending or descending direction, all belonging to the plurality of stored pages;

means for controlling said means for displaying comprising;

means for detecting user interaction by means of a mouse and/or a keyboard, comprising a detection of the position and movements of a cursor, a pressure and release of a button, a direction and amplitude of a scroll wheel movement, and a single, maintained or repeated pressing of one or more keys of a keyboard simultaneously;

means for detecting a single or double target page of said breadcrumb trail that is defined as being one of said single or double pages depending on the detection of the position of the cursor or the position of said breadcrumb trail on a screen of the stationary or mobile terminal;

means for executing an animation simulating a zoom-in or zoom-out composed of a homothety and/or a translation of said breadcrumb trail;

means for modifying the animation simulating a zoom-in or zoom-out composed of a homothety and/or a translation of said breadcrumb trail, enabling a progressive refocusing of said single or double target page of the breadcrumb trail as their respective dimensions move towards fixed dimensions of left and right current pages of the leafing view;

means for displaying and masking said breadcrumb trail and leafing view, ensuring an invisible transition for the user by stacking said single or double target page and said left and right current pages when their respective dimensions and positions are identical.

2. The stationary or mobile terminal according to claim 1, wherein said means for controlling comprise means for detecting a change of current pages by the user in said leafing view, and for modifying the position of said breadcrumb trail when said breadcrumb trail is masked, enabling a continuity of invisible transitions for the user by stacking the new current pages of said leafing view with a corresponding double page of said breadcrumb trail.

3. A method for controlling a stationary or mobile terminal, the method comprising:

storing a plurality of pages in a storage device of the stationary or mobile terminal;

displaying, on a screen of the stationary or mobile terminal, the plurality of stored pages in a form of a grid defining a breadcrumb trail, each element of said breadcrumb trail being composed of a front or back of a single page, or a front of one page and a back of another conjoined page that form a double page, an assembly of said elements being ordered by default in an ascending direction of the pages;

displaying, on the screen of the stationary or mobile terminal, a leafing view composed of two stacks of recto verso pages respectively forming a left stack and a right stack and respectively ordered in the ascending direction and a descending direction, or a single stack containing all of the recto verso pages, ordered in the ascending or descending direction, all belonging to the plurality of stored pages;

controlling said displaying by

detecting user interaction with a mouse and/or a keyboard, the detecting comprising a detection of the position and movements of a cursor, a pressure and release of a button, a direction and amplitude of a scroll wheel movement, and a single, maintained or repeated pressing of one or more keys of a keyboard simultaneously;

detecting a single or double target page of said breadcrumb trail that is defined as being one of said single or double pages depending on the detection of the position of the cursor or the position of said breadcrumb trail on the screen of the stationary or mobile terminal;

executing an animation simulating a zoom-in or zoom-out composed of a homothety and/or a translation of said breadcrumb trail;

modifying the animation simulating a zoom-in or zoom-out composed of a homothety and/or a translation of said breadcrumb trail, enabling a progressive refocusing of said single or double target page of the breadcrumb trail as their respective dimensions move towards fixed dimensions of left and right current pages of the leafing view;

displaying and masking said breadcrumb trail and leafing view, ensuring an invisible transition for the user by stacking said single or double target page and said left and right current pages when their respective dimensions and positions are identical.

4. The method for controlling a stationary or mobile terminal according to claim 3, wherein said controlling comprise detecting a change of current pages by the user in said leafing view, and modifying the position of said breadcrumb trail when said breadcrumb trail is masked, enabling a continuity of invisible transitions for the user by stacking new current pages of said leafing view with a corresponding double page of said breadcrumb trail.