User interface systems and methods for manipulating and viewing digital documents

• US 7,450,114 B2
• Filed: 04/16/2001
• Issued: 11/11/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 04/14/2000
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Picsel (Research) Limited
• Inventors: Anwar, Majid
• Primary Examiner(s): Lefkowitz, Sumati
• Assistant Examiner(s): Kumar, Srilakshmi K
• Application Number:
  US09/835,458
• Publication Number:
  US 20020011990A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,766 Days
• Field of Search: 345156-184, 178/18.01, 178/18.03, 178/19.01, 178/20.01
• US Class Current: 345/179
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04804 Transparency, e.g. transparent or translucent windows
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04805 Virtual magnifying lens, i.e. window or frame movable on top of displayed information to enlarge it for better reading or selection
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• 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 3/04847 Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1203 Improving or facilitating administration, e.g. print management
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1206 resulting in increased flexibility in input data format or job format or job type
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1208 resulting in improved quality of the output result, e.g. print layout, colours, workflows, print preview
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1228 Printing driverless or using generic drivers
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1245 by conversion to intermediate or common format
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1256 User feedback, e.g. print preview, test print, proofing, pre-flight checks
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1292 Mobile client, e.g. wireless printing
• 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: G06T 11/60 Editing figures and text; Combining figures or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 15/00 3D [Three Dimensional] image rendering
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 15/005 General purpose rendering architectures
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/10 Mixing of images, i.e. displayed pixel being the result of an operation, e.g. adding, on the corresponding input pixels

Abstract

Systems, including handheld computing devices that include system code stored within the memory and adapted to be executed by the processor. The system code can process an input byte stream that is representative of contents to be displayed on the touch sensitive display and can generate a content document file representative of an internal representation of the content. A tool document file may also be stored in the memory and may provide an internal representation of a document providing an image that is representative of a graphical tool. Associated with a tool document can be tool code that is capable of processing the content document file to create an internal representation of the contents that presents the content in a manner that achieves a display effect associated with the tool. The device will also include parsing code that processes the content document file, the tool document file, and the processed internal representation to generate a screen document for display on the touch sensitive display in a manner that portrays the display effect.

Claims

1. A computer device having a system for simulating tactile control over a document, comprising

a processor, memory, and a touch-sensitive display,

system code stored within the memory and adapted to be executed by the processor to provide a digital representation of a document including data content and a page structure representative of a page layout of the document,

an engine for rendering an image of at least a portion of the page layout of the digital representation on the touch-sensitive display,

a display monitor in communication with the touch-sensitive display screen for detecting motion of a pointer across the touch-sensitive display,

a velocity detector for determining a velocity vector based on a velocity of the detected motion,

an interface process in communication with the display monitor for processing the motion detected by the display monitor to detect one of a plurality of commands, wherein the plurality of commands includes a pan command,

wherein, in response to the command detected by the interface process being the pan command, the engine pans the displayed document on the display at a rate based on the determined velocity vector.

2. The computing device of claim 1, wherein panning the displayed document comprises rendering different views of the document on the touch-sensitive display at a rate based on the determined velocity vector and a page inertia.

3. A computer device having a system for simulating tactile control over a document, comprising

a processor, memory, and a touch-sensitive display,

system code stored within the memory and adapted to be executed by the processor to provide a digital representation of a document including data content and a page structure representative of a page layout of the document,

an engine for rendering an image of at least a portion of the page layout of the digital representation on the touch-sensitive display,

a display monitor in communication with the touch-sensitive display screen for detecting motion of a pointer across the touch-sensitive display,

a velocity detector for determining a velocity vector associated with the detected motion,

an interface process in communication with the display monitor for processing the motion detected by the display monitor to detect one of a plurality of commands, wherein the plurality of commands includes a pan command,

wherein, in response to the command detected by the interface process being the pan command, the engine renders a series of pages of the document on the touch-sensitive display at a rate based on the determined velocity vector and a page inertia.

4. A computing device according to claim 3, wherein the rate at which the engine renders the series of pages of the document decreases over time based on the page inertia.

5. A computing device according to claim 3, wherein in response to the interface process detecting a subsequent pan command based on a subsequent motion of a pointer across the display, the engine alters the rate at which it renders the series of pages based on a velocity vector the velocity detector determines in relation to the subsequent motion.