Apparatus and method for digital content navigation

• US 9,037,991 B2
• Filed: 05/26/2011
• Issued: 05/19/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 06/01/2010
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Original Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Inventors: Habib, Babur, Rashid, Osman, Hochberg, Bradley S., Robinson, Kyrie, Sydeman, Ann, Chambers, Paul S., Rao, Mohnish
• Primary Examiner(s): Chow, Doon
• Assistant Examiner(s): CHOI, DAVID E
• Application Number:
  US13/117,080
• Publication Number:
  US 20110296344A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,454 Days
• Field of Search: 715/810, 715/702, 715/234, 345/158, 345/173, 345/629
• US Class Current: 715/776
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1616 with folding flat displays, e.g. laptop computers or notebooks having a clamshell configuration, with body parts pivoting to an open position around an axis parallel to the plane they define in closed position
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1643 the display being associated to a digitizer, e.g. laptops that can be used as penpads details related to the relative motion of the display enclosure with respect to the body enclosure, e.g. to move between laptop and tablet PC configuration G06F1/1615
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1647 including at least an additional display G06F1/1692 takes precedence
• 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 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text

Abstract

An electronic device includes a processor, a memory for storing digital content and a display. The processor forms a content navigation bar for the digital content. The content navigation bar is rendered on the display and includes a first section marker corresponding to a first section of the digital content. A set of page markers corresponds to pages within the first section of the digital content. The set of page markers includes a boundary page marker. A second section marker is adjacent to the boundary page marker.

Claims

1. An electronic device, comprising:

a processor;

a first touch screen display coupled with the processor;

a second touch screen display coupled with the processor; and

a memory having a content navigation module stored thereon, the content navigation module, when executed by the processor, causes the electronic device to;

display a first segment of a first content navigation bar on at least a portion of the first touch screen display and a second segment of the first content navigation bar on at least a portion of the second touch screen display, wherein the first content navigation bar enables a user of the electronic device to navigate digital content displayed on the first touch screen display and the second touch screen display in a two-page mode, wherein, in the two-page mode, navigation of the digital content on the first touch screen display, via the first content navigation bar, causes a corresponding navigation of the digital content on the second touch screen display and vice versa, and wherein the first content navigation bar comprises a section marker that corresponds with a section of the digital content and a plurality of page markers that correspond with pages of the digital content contained within the section of the digital content; and

detect user input to cause the electronic device to enter a single page mode, wherein the single page mode causes the first segment of the first content navigation bar to become a second content navigation bar and the second segment of the first content navigation bar to become a third content navigation bar, wherein the second content navigation bar and the third content navigation bar enable independent navigation of the digital content on the respective touch screen displays via the second content navigation bar and the third content navigation bar, respectively.

2. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein to detect user input comprises detection of a gesture applied to the first touch screen display and a gesture applied to the second touch screen display.

3. The electronic device of claim 2, wherein the gesture applied to the first touch screen comprises a multi-finger hold and the gesture applied to the second touch screen comprises at least one of a finger drag or a finger flick.

4. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein to detect user input comprises detection of a gesture applied to the first touch screen display in conjunction with activation of a link contained within a portion of the digital content displayed on the first touch screen display, the link identifying another portion of the digital content, and wherein the single page mode further causes the another portion of the digital content to be displayed on the second touch screen display while maintaining the portion of the digital content on the first touch screen display.

5. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the content navigation module, when executed by the processor, further causes the electronic device to detect another user input to cause the electronic device to return to the two-page mode, wherein to return to the two-page mode causes the second content navigation bar to become the first segment of the first content navigation bar and the third content navigation bar become the second segment of the first content navigation bar.

6. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the first segment is identical to the second segment.

7. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the digital content is an electronic book.

8. The electronic device of claim 7, wherein in two-page mode a first page of the book is displayed on the first touch screen display and a second page of the book is displayed on the second touch screen display, the first page and second page being consecutive pages of the electronic book, and wherein the plurality of page markers includes a first page marker corresponding to the first page of the book and a second page marker corresponding to the second page of the book.

9. The electronic device of claim 7, the content navigation module, when executed by the processor, further causes the electronic device to:

detect user input applied to the section marker indicating that the user would like more information on the pages contained within the corresponding section; and

activating a section magnifier comprising thumbnails of the individual pages contained within the corresponding section.

10. The electronic device of claim 9, wherein in single page mode one page of the electronic book is displayed on the first touch screen display and another page of the book is displayed on the second touch screen display, and

wherein the second content navigation bar comprises a first section marker corresponding to a first section of the electronic book and a first plurality of page markers corresponding to pages contained within the first section of the electronic book including the one page of the electronic book displayed on the first touch screen display, and

wherein the third content navigation bar comprises a second section marker corresponding to a second section of the electronic book and a second plurality of page markers corresponding to pages contained within the second section of the electronic book including the another page of the electronic book displayed on the second touch screen display.

11. A computer readable non-transitory storage medium having instructions stored thereon which, when executed by a processor of a computing device, cause the computing device to:

display a first segment of a first content navigation bar on at least a portion of a first touch screen display of the computing device and a second segment of the first content navigation bar on at least a portion of a second touch screen display of the computing device, wherein the first content navigation bar enables a user of the computing device to navigate digital content displayed on the first touch screen display and the second touch screen display in a two-page mode, wherein, in the two-page mode, navigation of the digital content on the first touch screen display, via the first content navigation bar, causes a corresponding navigation of the digital content on the second touch screen display and vice versa, and wherein the first content navigation bar comprises a section marker that corresponds with a section of the digital content and a plurality of page markers that correspond with pages of the digital content contained within the section of the digital content; and

detect user input to cause the computing device to enter a single page mode, wherein the single page mode causes the first segment of the first content navigation bar to become a second content navigation bar and the second segment of the first content navigation to become a third content navigation bar, wherein the second content navigation bar and the third content navigation bar enable independent navigation of the digital content on the respective touch screen displays via the second content navigation bar and the third content navigation bar, respectively.

12. The computer readable storage medium of claim 11, wherein to detect user input comprises detection of a gesture applied to the first touch screen display and a gesture applied to the second touch screen display.

13. The computer readable storage medium of claim 12, wherein the gesture applied to the first touch screen comprises a multi-finger hold and the gesture applied to the second touch screen comprises at least one of a finger drag or a finger flick.

14. The computer readable storage medium of claim 11, wherein to detect user input comprises detection of a gesture applied to the first touch screen display in conjunction with activation of a link contained within a portion of the digital content displayed on the first touch screen display, the link identifying another portion of the digital content, and wherein the single page mode further causes the another portion of the digital content to be displayed on the second touch screen display while maintaining the portion of the digital content on the first touch screen display.

15. The computer readable storage medium of claim 11, wherein the instructions, when executed by the processor, further cause the computing device to detect another user input to cause the computing device to return to the two-page mode, wherein to return to the two-page mode causes the second content navigation bar to become the first segment of the first content navigation bar and the third content navigation bar to become the second segment of the first content navigation bar.

16. The computer readable storage medium of claim 11, wherein the first segment is identical to the second segment.

17. The computer readable storage medium of claim 11, wherein the digital content is an electronic book.

18. The computer readable storage medium of claim 17, wherein in two-page mode a first page of the book is displayed on the first touch screen display and a second page of the book is displayed on the second touch screen display, the first page and second page being consecutive pages of the electronic book, and wherein the plurality of page markers include a first page marker corresponding to the first page of the book and a second page marker corresponding to the second page of the book.

19. The computer readable storage medium of claim 17, wherein the instructions, when executed by the processor, further cause the computing device to:

detect user input applied to the section marker indicating that the user would like more information on the pages contained within the corresponding section; and

activate a section magnifier comprising thumbnails of the individual pages contained within the corresponding section.

20. The computer readable storage medium of claim 19, wherein in single page mode one page of the electronic book is displayed on the first touch screen display and another page of the book is displayed on the second touch screen display, and

wherein the second content navigation bar comprises a first section marker corresponding to a first section of the electronic book and a first plurality of page markers corresponding to pages contained within the first section of the electronic book including the one page of the electronic book displayed on the first touch screen display, and

wherein the third content navigation bar comprises a second section marker corresponding to a second section of the electronic book and a second plurality of page markers corresponding to pages contained within the second section of the electronic book including the another page of the electronic book displayed on the second touch screen display.