E-Book with User-Manipulatable Graphical Objects
First Claim
18. A computer readable storage medium or media having stored thereon machine readable instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to:
- cause an e-book page of an e-book to be displayed on a display coupled to the processor, wherein the e-book page includes an embedded moving image object; and
cause the moving image object to be animated in place in the e-book page in response to a multi-touch user input received via a multi-touch touchscreen associated with the display, wherein the multi-touch user input corresponds to a user input command to animate the moving image object.
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Abstract
A method and apparatus of providing graphics in an e-book page includes displaying an e-book page of an e-book on a display, wherein the e-book page includes an embedded moving image object, receiving a multi-touch user input via a multi-touch touchscreen associated with the display, wherein the multi-touch user input corresponds to a user input command to animate the moving image object, and animating the moving image object in place in the e-book page in response to the multi-touch user input. The embedded moving object may be one of a plurality of embedded moving image objects included in the e-book page and the method and apparatus may receive a plurality of multi-touch user inputs via the multi-touch touchscreen associated with the display, with each multi-touch user input corresponding to a respective user input command to animate a respective moving image object. The method and apparatus may then animate each of the plurality of moving image objects in place in the e-book page in response to the plurality of multi-touch user inputs.
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40 Claims
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18. A computer readable storage medium or media having stored thereon machine readable instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to:
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cause an e-book page of an e-book to be displayed on a display coupled to the processor, wherein the e-book page includes an embedded moving image object; and cause the moving image object to be animated in place in the e-book page in response to a multi-touch user input received via a multi-touch touchscreen associated with the display, wherein the multi-touch user input corresponds to a user input command to animate the moving image object. - View Dependent Claims (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32)
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32-1. A computer readable storage medium or media according to claim 18, wherein the e-book page includes multiple embedded moving image objects and wherein the machine readable instructions detect which of the multiple moving image objects to animate based on the multi-touch user input, by detecting which of the multiple moving image objects has a center point closest to one of the touches of the multi-touch user input.
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33. A method, comprising:
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transmitting, via a communication network, machine readable instructions to a computing device having a display, a multi-touch touchscreen associated with the display, and a processor coupled to the display and the touchscreen; wherein the transmitted machine readable instructions, when executed by the processor of the computing device, cause the processor to; cause an e-book page of an e-book to be displayed on the display, wherein the e-book page includes an embedded moving image object; and cause the moving image object to be animated in place in the e-book page in response to a multi-touch user input received via the multi-touch touchscreen, wherein the multi-touch user input corresponds to a user input command to animate the moving image object. - View Dependent Claims (34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40)
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