Display controller, display control method, and computer-readable storage medium

• US 9,092,118 B2
• Filed: 02/21/2011
• Issued: 07/28/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 03/10/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Canon Ayutthaya Limited (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Ayutthaya Limited (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Gunji, Daisuke, Hiraishi, Tomonobu, Ito, Chieko
• Primary Examiner(s): SPAR, ILANA L
• Application Number:
  US13/395,665
• Publication Number:
  US 20120176385A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,618 Days
• Field of Search: 345/156, 345/157, 345173-178, 345/901, 178 1801- 2004
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0483 Interaction with page-structured environments, e.g. book metaphor
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2380/14 Electronic books and readers

Abstract

A display controller which displays an electronic book and enables a user to perform intuitive operations when switching between pages to be displayed. A CPU detects a cursor position on the most frontally-displayed one of a plurality of pages in response to a user operation. Further, the CPU extracts respective areas of shapes dependent on the detected cursor position, from an image representing the most frontally-displayed page and an image representing a reverse page with respect to the most frontally-displayed page. Then, the CPU draws the extracted areas on the screen.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus configured to execute display control of an electronic book having a plurality of pages, the information processing apparatus comprising:

a display unit configured to display double pages of the electronic book in a double-page spread state together with first and second fore edge areas of the electronic book while displaying a cursor capable of moving according to a user instruction, the first fore edge area representing a thickness corresponding to a first number of pages from a front cover of the electronic book to the displayed double pages, and the second fore edge area representing a thickness corresponding to a second number of pages from the displayed double pages to a back cover of the electronic book;

a detection unit configured to detect a cursor position when the cursor overlaps one of the first and second fore edge areas displayed by said display unit;

a calculating unit configured to calculate a number of pages from the displayed double pages to a page corresponding to the detected cursor position;

a comparing unit configured to compare the calculated number of pages with a predetermined number; and

a page turning unit configured to perform a plural page-continuously-turning process in which a plurality of pages are sequentially and continuously turned if the calculated number of pages is not larger than the predetermined number, as compared by the comparing unit, and a plural page-collectively-turning process in which a plurality of pages are collectively turned if the calculated number of pages is larger than the predetermined number, as compared by the comparing unit.

2. The display controller according to claim 1, wherein said page turning unit is configured to perform a single-page-turning process if said detection unit detects the cursor position when the cursor overlaps a page display region indicative of an area showing only pages of the book display region, wherein the single-page-turning process is a process for turning a single page.

3. The display controller according to claim 1, wherein the plural page-continuously-turning process and the plural page-collectively-turning process are page-turning processes, and wherein said page turning unit is configured to perform either or both of the page-turning processes based on a page turning direction, which is a forward direction or a backward direction, in accordance with the detected cursor position.

4. The display controller according to claim 1, further comprising a turning reference point setting unit configured to set a turning reference point in accordance with the detected cursor position,

wherein said page turning unit is configured to perform the plural page-continuously-turning process, the plural page-collectively-turning process, or both in a manner such that a point of a page, to which the turning reference point is set, is moved to the position of the cursor.

5. The display controller according to claim 1, wherein the plural page-continuously-turning process and the plural page-collectively-turning process are page-turning processes, and wherein said page turning unit is configured to further determine whether or not the cursor has crossed a reference line preliminarily set away from a center line of a book display region, and said page turning unit is configured to perform either or both of the page-turning processes when it is determined that the cursor has crossed the reference line.

6. The display controller according to claim 1,

wherein corner turning areas are defined as four corner areas of a book display region,

wherein the detection unit is configured to detect the cursor position when the cursor overlaps one of the four corner areas, and

wherein said page turning unit is configured to perform a partial-page-turning process in which a page displayed in the book display region is partially turned when it is determined that the detected cursor position overlaps one of the four corner areas.

7. A method executed by an information processing apparatus configured to execute display control of an electronic book having a plurality of pages, the method comprising:

displaying double pages of the electronic book in a double-page spread state together with first and second fore edge areas of the electronic book while displaying a cursor capable of moving according to a user instruction, the first fore edge area representing a thickness corresponding to a first number of pages from a front cover of the electronic book to the displayed double pages, and the second fore edge area representing a thickness corresponding to a second number of pages from the displayed double pages to a back cover of the electronic book;

detecting a cursor position when the cursor overlaps one of the first and second fore edge areas displayed in the displaying;

calculating a number of pages from the displayed double pages to a page corresponding to the detected cursor position;

comparing the calculated number of pages with a predetermined number; and

performing a plural page-continuously-turning process in which a plurality of pages are sequentially and continuously turned if the calculated number of pages is not larger than the predetermined number, as compared in the comparing, and a plural page-collectively-turning process in which a plurality of pages are collectively turned if the calculated number of pages is larger than the predetermined number, as compared in the comparing.

8. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a computer-executable program configured to control an information processing apparatus configured to execute display control of an electronic book having a plurality of pages, the program comprising:

display instructions configured to display double pages of the electronic book in a double-page spread state together with first and second fore edge areas of the electronic book while displaying a cursor capable of moving according to a user instruction, the first fore edge area representing a thickness corresponding to a first number of pages from a front cover of the electronic book to the displayed double pages, and the second fore edge area representing a thickness corresponding to a second number of pages from the displayed double pages to a back cover of the electronic book;

detection unit configured to detect a cursor position when the cursor overlaps one of the first and second fore edge areas displayed according to said display instructions;

calculating instructions configured to calculate a number of pages from the displayed double pages to a page corresponding to the detected cursor position;

comparing instructions configured to compare the calculated number of pages with a predetermined number; and

page turning instructions configured to perform a plural page-continuously-turning process in which a plurality of pages are sequentially and continuously turned if the calculated number of pages is not larger than the predetermined number, as compared according to the comparing instructions, and a plural page-collectively-turning process in which a plurality of pages are collectively turned if the calculated number of pages is larger than the predetermined number, as compared according to the comparing instructions.