User interface systems and methods for manipulating and viewing digital documents

• US 8,358,290 B2
• Filed: 03/30/2010
• Issued: 01/22/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 04/14/2000
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. (Samsung Group)
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. (Samsung Group)
• Inventors: Anwar, Majid
• Primary Examiner(s): Kumar, Srilakshmi K
• Application Number:
  US12/750,263
• Publication Number:
  US 20100192062A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,029 Days
• Field of Search: 345156-184, 178/18.01, 178/18.03, 178/19.01
• 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 device for manipulating and viewing documents, comprising:

a touchscreen display for detecting tactile input and for displaying content in an integrated display of at least a current page of a first document and at least one other page from said first document or from a second document,

a processor configured for controlling the displaying of content of at least the current page of the first document and said at least one other page from said first document or from the second document on the touchscreen display according to proportional distance criteria, and

wherein the current page and said at least one other page from said first document or from the second document comprise text, image, graphics, or a combination thereof;

wherein the current page or said at least one other page from said first document or from the second document is displayed on the touchscreen display in response to a pan command;

wherein the pan command causes display according to inertia and velocity sensed by the device.

2. The device according to claim 1, wherein a display of the current page of the first document is displayed in the integrated display having a larger area than said at least one other page from said first document or from the second document.

3. The device according to claim 1, wherein said at least one other page is displayed adjacent the current page as thumbnail images, wherein the thumbnail of the at least one other page decreases in size relative to an increase in distance from the current page.

4. The device according to claim 1, wherein the current page is displayed in the integrated display with said at least one other page displayed at a perimeter of the integrated display of the touchscreen display.

5. The device according to claim 1, wherein the proportional distance criteria comprises an order of having been displayed previously on the touchscreen display.

6. The device according to claim 1, wherein the proportional distance criteria comprises an order of having been displayed previously on the touchscreen display as a respective current page.

7. The device according to claim 1, wherein the proportional distance criteria comprises a sequence of pages in the first document.

8. The device according to claim 7, wherein the sequence includes pages prior to and subsequent to the current page.

9. The device according to claim 1, wherein the proportional distance criteria comprises a sequence of pages in the first document and the second document.

10. The device according to claim 1, wherein the proportional distance criteria comprises a sequence of pages in the second document.

11. The device according to claim 1, wherein the proportional distance criteria comprises comparing an amount of time each of the current page of a first document and at least one other page from said first document or from the second document have been displayed on the touchscreen display.

12. The device according to claim 1, wherein said at least one other page from said first document or from the second document comprises a thumbnail displayed substantially adjacent the current page in the integrated display by the touchscreen display.

13. The device according to claim 1, wherein said at least one other page from said first document or from the second document comprises a plurality of thumbnails displayed with the current page.

14. The device according to claim 13, wherein the proportional distance criteria includes displaying the plurality of thumbnails in proportional size in accordance with a distance in pages from the current page.

15. The device according to claim 13, wherein the proportional distance criteria includes displaying the plurality of thumbnails at different distances from the current page according to a distance in pages from the current pages.

16. The device according to claim 13, wherein the proportional distance criteria includes displaying the plurality of thumbnails at different distances from the current page according to a duration of time displayed.

17. The device according to claim 13, wherein the proportional distance criteria includes displaying the plurality of thumbnails with decreasing size relative to the current page according to an alphabetical order.

18. The device according to claim 13, wherein the proportional distance criteria includes displaying the plurality of thumbnails with different sizes relative to the current page.

19. The device according to claim 13, wherein a size of the thumbnails decrease as a duration of time since having being previously displayed increases.

20. The device according to claim 13, wherein the thumbnails are displayed in an array adjacent the current page in the integrated display.

21. The device according to claim 13, wherein the thumbnails of the first and second document comprise web pages and the current page comprises a web page.

22. The device according to claim 13, wherein at least one of the thumbnails of the first and second documents and the current page include streaming video.

23. The device according to claim 13, wherein at least one of the thumbnails of the first and second documents and the current page displayed on the integrated display comprises a word processing document.

24. The device according to claim 13, wherein at least one of the thumbnails of the first and second documents and the current page displayed on the integrated display includes a portable document file (pdf) document from a website.

25. A device for manipulating and viewing documents, comprising:

a touchscreen display for detecting tactile input and for displaying content in an integrated display of at least a current page of a first document and at least one other page from said first document or from a second document,

a processor configured for controlling the displaying of content of at least the current page of the first document and said at least one other page from said first document or from the second document on the touchscreen display according to proportional distance criteria, and

wherein the current page and said at least one other page from said first document or from the second document comprise text, image, graphics, or a combination thereof; and

wherein the current page or said at least one other page from said first document or from the second document is displayed on the touchscreen display in response to a pan command; and

wherein the proportional distance criteria is varied in response to the pan command.

26. A method for displaying content in an integrated display of a touchscreen display of at least a current page of a first document and at least one other page from said first document or from a second document, comprising:

processing by a processor configured for controlling the displaying of content displayed by at least the current page of the first document and said at least one other page from said first document or from a second document on the touchscreen display; and

displaying content in an integrated display of the current page of the first document and said at least one other page from said first document or from a second document according to proportional distance criteria, and

wherein the current page and said at least one other page from said first document or from the second document comprise text, image, graphics, or a combination thereof;

wherein the current page or said at least one other page from said first document or from the second document is displayed on the touchscreen display in response to a pan command; and

wherein the pan command causes display according to inertia and velocity sensed by the device.

27. The method according to claim 26, wherein a display of the current page of the first document is displayed in the integrated display having a larger area than said at least one other page from said first document or from a second document.

28. The method according to claim 26, wherein said at least one other page is displayed adjacent the current page as thumbnail images, wherein the thumbnail of the at least one other page decrease in size relative to an increase in distance from the current page.

29. The method according to claim 26, wherein the current page is displayed in the integrated displayed with said at least one other page displayed at a perimeter of the integrated display of the touchscreen display.

30. The method according to claim 26, wherein the proportional distance criteria comprises an order of having been displayed previously on the touchscreen display.

31. The device according to claim 26, wherein the proportional distance criteria comprises an order of having been displayed previously on the touchscreen display as a respective current page.

32. The method according to claim 26, wherein the proportional distance criteria comprises a sequence of pages in the first document.

33. The method according to claim 32, wherein the sequence includes pages prior to and subsequent to the current page.

34. The method according to claim 26, wherein the proportional distance criteria comprises a sequence of pages in the first document and the second document.

35. The method according to claim 26, wherein the proportional distance criteria comprises a sequence of pages in the second document.

36. The method according to claim 26, wherein the proportional distance criteria comprises comparing an amount of time each of the current page of a first document and at least one other page from said first document or from a second document have been displayed on the touchscreen display.

37. The method according to claim 26, wherein said at least one other page from said first document or from the second document comprises a thumbnail displayed substantially adjacent the current page in the integrated display by the touchscreen display.

38. The method according to claim 26, wherein said at least one other page from said first document or from the second document comprises a plurality of thumbnails displayed with the current page.

39. The method according to claim 38, wherein the proportional distance criteria includes displaying the plurality of thumbnails in proportional size in accordance with a distance in pages from the current page.

40. The method according to claim 39, wherein at least one of the thumbnails of the first and second documents and the current page displayed on the integrated display includes a portable document file (pdf) document from a website.

41. The method according to claim 38, wherein the proportional distance criteria includes displaying the plurality of thumbnails at different distances from the current page according to a distance in pages from the current pages.

42. The method according to claim 38, wherein the proportional distance criteria includes displaying the plurality of thumbnails at different distances from the current page according to a duration of time displayed.

43. The method according to claim 38, wherein the proportional distance criteria includes displaying the plurality of thumbnails with decreasing size relative to the current page according to an alphabetical order.

44. The method according to claim 38, wherein the proportional distance criteria includes displaying the plurality of thumbnails with different sizes relative to the current page.

45. The method according to claim 38, wherein a size of the thumbnails decrease as a duration of time since having being previous displayed as a respective increases.

46. The method according to claim 38, wherein the thumbnails are displayed in an array adjacent the current page in the integrated display.

47. The method according to claim 38, wherein the thumbnails of the first and second document comprise web pages and the current page comprises a web page.

48. The method according to claim 38, wherein at least one of the thumbnails of the first and second documents and the current page include streaming video.

49. The method according to claim 38, wherein at least one of the thumbnails of the first and second documents and the current page displayed on the integrated display comprises a word processing document.

50. The method according to claim 26, where the proportional distance criteria is varied in response to the pan command.