ELECTRONIC TEXT VIEWING APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC TEXT VIEWING METHOD, ELECTRONIC TEXT VIEWING PROGRAM, AND MOBILE PHONE

• US 20100257480A1
• Filed: 11/06/2008
• Published: 10/07/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 11/20/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Kurose, Takahiro
• Granted Patent: US 8,856,677 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• 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 converting the display format of the viewing data, controlling the display speed of the viewing data, and controlling the scrolling 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 application unit that outputs viewing data for displaying a text in a viewable manner;

a display unit that displays said viewing data and a fast reading button for receiving a fast reading request for said viewing data;

a viewing data requesting unit that issues a request for acquirement of said viewing data to said viewing application unit, and acquires said viewing data to be viewed;

a setting data storage unit that stores setting data for performing a display format conversion, a display speed conversion, and a scroll conversion on said viewing data acquired; and

a fast reading viewer control unit that, when said fast reading button is pressed, converts said viewing data acquired by said viewing data requesting unit into fast reading viewer data by referring to said setting data stored, converting a display format of said viewing data, controlling a display speed of said viewing data, and controlling scrolling of said viewing data, and displays said fast reading viewer data and a return button for converting said fast reading viewer data to said viewing data.

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/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 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.

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

when said fast reading button displayed is selected, a 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.

5. 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.

6. An electronic text viewing method comprising:

performing a viewing application to output viewing data for displaying a text in a viewable manner;

displaying said viewing data and a fast reading button for receiving a fast reading request for said viewing data;

in said viewing application, issuing a request for acquirement of said viewing data, to acquire said viewing data to be viewed;

storing setting data that is used for performing a display format conversion, a display speed conversion, and a scroll conversion on said viewing data acquired; and

when said fast reading button is pressed, converting said viewing data acquired into fast reading viewer data by referring to said stored setting data, converting a display format of said viewing data, controlling a display speed of said viewing data, and controlling scrolling of said viewing data, and displaying said fast reading viewer data and a return button for converting said fast reading viewer data to said viewing data.

7. (canceled)

8. A mobile phone comprising:

a viewing application unit that outputs viewing data for displaying a text in a viewable manner;

a display unit that displays said viewing data and a fast reading button for receiving a fast reading request for said viewing data;

a viewing data requesting unit that issues a request for acquirement of said viewing data to said viewing application unit, and acquires said viewing data to be viewed;

a setting data storage unit that stores setting data for performing a display format conversion, a display speed conversion, and a scroll conversion on said viewing data acquired; and

a fast reading viewer control unit that, when said fast reading button is pressed, converts said viewing data acquired by said viewing data requesting unit into fast reading viewer data by referring to said setting data stored, converting a display format of said viewing data, controlling a display speed of said viewing data, and controlling scrolling of said viewing data, and displays said fast reading viewer data and a return button for converting said fast reading viewer data to said viewing data.