TECHNIQUES FOR PAGING THROUGH DIGITAL CONTENT ON TOUCH SCREEN DEVICES

• US 20140380247A1
• Filed: 06/21/2013
• Published: 12/25/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 06/21/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nook Digital, LLC (f/k/a Barnesandnoble.com LLC) (Bahwan CyberTek Pvt Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Nook Digital, LLC (f/k/a Barnesandnoble.com LLC) (Bahwan CyberTek Pvt Ltd.)
• Inventors: Tecarro, Jaireh, Huang, Chen-Je, Pallakoff, Matthew, Jara, David, Shetty, Saj
• Granted Patent: US 9,400,601 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/863
• 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 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 13/80 2D [Two Dimensional] animation, e.g. using sprites

Abstract

Techniques are disclosed for providing a page flipping mode in electronic touch sensitive devices. The user can engage the page flipping mode by performing an activation gesture, which causes the device to display a magazine page flipping mode or a fast page flipping mode. The page flipping modes may show paginated content such as an opened book or magazine in a single stack or side-by-side layout. The fast page flipping modes may show a single page lying relatively flat or somewhat curled with the edges of subsequent pages visible at the right edge of the page. A page flipping gesture may prompt an animation showing one or more pages folding up to display subsequent pages to the user. In some cases, the number of pages being flipped and/or the speed at which the pages are flipped, is dependent upon the speed and/or length and/or duration of the page flipping gesture.

Claims

1. A device, comprising:

a touch screen display for displaying content to a user and allowing user input; and

a user interface including a page flipping mode that can be activated in response to an activation gesture, wherein the page flipping mode is configured to flip through at least one page in response to a page flipping gesture, and wherein at least one of page flipping speed and/or the number of pages flipped through is determined by the page flipping gesture'"'"'s speed and/or duration.

2. The device of claim 1 wherein the activation gesture comprises two simultaneous swipe gestures oriented toward opposite edges of the touch screen display.

3. The device of claim 1 wherein the activation gesture comprises a swipe gesture and/or a press-and-hold gesture performed over paginated content.

4. The device of claim 1 wherein the page flipping mode is further configured to show a graphic of paginated content in a stack and an edge of that content stack appears slanted or staircased, and wherein a page flipping animation commences in response to the activation gesture being received on or near the slanted or staircased edge.

5. The device of claim 1 wherein the page flipping mode is further configured to display a page flipping animation in response to a page flipping gesture, the animation showing a corner of at least one page folded upwards to display a corner portion of an adjacent page.

6. The device of claim 1 wherein the page flipping gesture includes a double-contact inward pinch gesture, and wherein the page flipping mode is further configured to display a corner portion of at least one subsequent page in response to the inward pinch gesture.

7. The device of claim 1 wherein at least one area of interest may be identified by the page flipping mode.

8. The device of claim 7 wherein the page flipping mode is further configured to decrease page flipping speed when content related to the at least one area of interest is being displayed to the user.

9. The device of claim 7 wherein the page flipping mode is further configured to stop flipping pages when content related to the at least one area of interest is being displayed to the user.

10. The device of claim 7 wherein the page flipping mode is further configured to highlight any content displayed to the user related to the at least one area of interest and/or skip pages having no area of interest.

11. A mobile computing system, comprising:

a processor and a touch screen display for displaying content to a user and allowing user input; and

a user interface executable on the processor and including a page flipping mode that can be activated in response to an activation gesture via the touch screen display, wherein the page flipping mode is configured to flip through at least one page in response to a page flipping gesture, and wherein at least one of page flipping speed and/or the number of pages flipped through is determined by the page flipping gesture'"'"'s speed and/or duration.

12. The system of claim 11 wherein the page flipping mode is further configured to receive input of at least one area of interest and to decrease page flipping speed when content related to the at least one area of interest is being displayed to the user.

13. A computer program product comprising a plurality of instructions non-transiently encoded thereon to facilitate operation of an electronic device according to the following process:

receive at the electronic device a page flipping mode activation gesture;

enter a page flipping mode;

receive at the electronic device a page flipping gesture; and

display a page flipping animation showing at least one page flipping, wherein the page flipping gesture'"'"'s speed and/or duration determines the number of pages being flipped and/or the speed of the page flipping animation.

14. The computer program product of claim 13 wherein the page flipping mode shows a graphic of paginated content in a stack and an edge of that content stack appears slanted or staircased, and wherein the page flipping animation commences in response to the page flipping gesture being received on or near the slanted or staircased edge.

15. The computer program product of claim 13 wherein at least one area of interest may be identified by the page flipping mode, and wherein pages having no area of interest are skipped in the page flipping animation.

16. The computer program product of claim 13 wherein the page flipping mode shows a first page lying flat, and wherein edges of a plurality of subsequent pages are visible behind the first page.

17. The computer program product of claim 16 wherein the page flipping animation shows a corner of at least one page folded upwards to display a corner portion of an adjacent page.

18. The computer program product of claim 16 wherein the page flipping gesture comprises a swipe gesture, and wherein the page flipping animation returns to displaying the first page in response to the page flipping swipe gesture being retraced.

19. The computer program product of claim 13 wherein the page flipping gesture includes a double-contact inward pinch gesture and/or a press and hold gesture.

20. The computer program product of claim 13 wherein the process further comprises:

receive at the electronic device at least one area of interest, and wherein the page flipping animation speed decreases, pauses, or stops when content related to the at least one area of interest is displayed to the user.