Method of taking notes from an article displayed in an electronic book

• US 20020057293A1
• Filed: 01/25/2001
• Published: 05/16/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 11/10/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Future Display Systems Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Future Display Systems Incorporated
• Inventors: Liao, Dih Lung
• Application Number:
  US09/768,341
• Publication Number:
  US 20020057293A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/781
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text

Abstract

The present invention provides a method of taking notes in reading an article displayed in an electronic book. Said method comprises: (a) highlighting a character string of an article displayed on a display of an electronic book; (b) opening a note window on the display; (c) writing on a panel of the display or speaking to the electronic book, so that the written or spoken text is displayed in the note window by recognizing the input text with a computer program stored in said electronic book, and thus a note is made; and (d) recording said marked character string and said note in a functional relationship in a nonvolatile memory of said electronic book.

Claims

1. A method of taking notes from an article displayed on an electronic book, wherein said electronic book is a pointer-based computer comprising a CPU;

a nonvolatile memory connected to said CPU;

a display connected to said CPU, which has a touch-sensitive panel; and

a touch pen;

said method comprising the following steps;

a) highlighting a character string in an article displayed on said display through an interaction between said touch pen and said panel;

b) opening a note window on said display;

c) writing a text on said panel with said touch pen, and recognizing the written text with said computer, so that the written text is displayed in the note window, and thus a note is made; and

d) recording said highlighted character string and said note in a functional relationship in said nonvolatile memory.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1 further comprising e) closing said note window.

3. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein said functional relationship is an one-to-one relationship.

4. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein steps b) to d) are repeated to take a plurality of notes on said highlighted note, wherein said functional relationship is an one-to-plural relationship between said highlighted character string and said plural notes.

5. The method as claimed in claim 4, wherein said plurality of notes are taken at different times and said times are correspondingly recorded in said nonvolatile memory, so that said plurality of notes can be distinguished according to time.

6. The method as claimed in claim 4, wherein authors of said plurality of notes are correspondingly recorded in said nonvolatile memory, such that said plurality of notes can be distinguished according to author.

7. The method as claimed in claim 6, wherein said plurality of notes are taken at different times and said times are correspondingly recorded in said nonvolatile memory, so that said plurality of notes can be distinguished according to time and author.

8. The method as claimed in claim 3, wherein steps b) to d) are repeated to edit and update said note.

9. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein said article in step a) is displayed on said display page-by-page.

10. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein said highlighted character string of step a) is given a bookmark, and said bookmark is recorded in said nonvolatile memory in step d).

11. The method as claimed in claim 10, wherein said functional relationship is based on said bookmark.

12. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein said electronic book further comprises an audio input device, wherein said method further comprises using said audio input device to receive a speech, and recognizing text of said speech with said computer in making said note in step c).