User interface systems and methods for manipulating and viewing digital documents

• US 8,593,436 B2
• Filed: 09/30/2008
• Issued: 11/26/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 04/14/2000
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Anwar, Majid
• Primary Examiner(s): Kumar, Srilakshmi K
• Application Number:
  US12/242,066
• Publication Number:
  US 20090063960A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,883 Days
• Field of Search: 345156-184, 178 1801- 1803, 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 computing device comprising:

a touch display; and

a processor configured to;

display a content of a document on the touch display,

in response to user input, adjust graphic properties of one or more selected portions of the document, thereby adjusting a graphical prominence degree of the one or more selected portions of the document relative to other portions of the document, and

display the content of the document using the adjusted graphic properties,

wherein a display of said other portions of the document are graphically modified to adjust or enhance the graphical prominence degree of the one or more selected portions of the document that further includes in response to tactile control adjusting a degree prominence of said other portions of the document by changing a fade characteristic of said other portions of the document relative to the one or more selected portions of the document, and includes a positional change when a dragging, scrolling or change in scale of the one or more selected portions is determined.

2. The computing device according to claim 1, wherein the one or more selected portions of the document are hyperlinks.

3. The computing device according to claim 1, wherein the one or more selected portions of the document are highlighted text.

4. The computing device according to claim 1, wherein the user input comprises a slider control.

5. The computing device according to claim 4, comprising a touch screen, and the processor is configured to accept input to the slider control via the touch screen.

6. The computing device according to claim 1, wherein the graphic properties of the one or more selected portions of the document include transparency, and the prominence degree is adjusted by adjusting the transparency of either said one or more selected portions or said other portions of the document.

7. A method of adjusting graphic properties of a document comprising:

displaying a content of a document on a touch display,

in response to user input, adjusting, by a processor, graphic properties of one or more selected portions of the document, thereby adjusting a graphical prominence of the one or more selected portions of the document relative to other portions of the document, and

displaying the content of the document on the display using the adjusted graphic properties,

wherein a display of said other portions of the document are graphically modified to adjust or enhance the graphical prominence degree of the one or more selected portions of the document that further includes in response to tactile control adjusting a degree prominence of said other portions of the document by changing a fade characteristic of said other portions of the document relative to the one or more selected portions of the document, and includes a positional change when a dragging, scrolling or change in scale of the one or more selected portions is determined.

8. The method according to claim 7, wherein the one or more selected portions of the document are hyperlinks.

9. The method according to claim 7, wherein the one or more selected portions of the document are highlighted text.

10. The method according to claim 7, wherein the user input comprises a slider control.

11. The method according to claim 7, comprising receiving the user input from a touch screen.

12. A method according to claim 7, wherein the one or more graphic properties of the selected portions of the document include transparency, and the prominence is adjusted by adjusting the transparency degree of either said one or more selected portions or said other portions of the document.

13. A computing device comprising:

a touch display; and

a processor configured to;

display a content of a document on the display,

in response to user input, adjust graphic properties of one or more selected portions of the document, thereby adjusting a graphical prominence of the one or more selected portions of the document relative to other portions of the document, and

display the content of the document using the adjusted graphic properties,

a tool that adjusts graphic properties of the content of the displayed document shown on the display by tactile control of the displayed document to adjust the graphic properties of the one or more selected portions of the document, and wherein a display of said other portions of the document are graphically modified in accordance with the adjusted graphic properties of the one or more selected portions of the document to adjust or enhance the graphical prominence degree of the one or more selected portions of the document that further includes in response to tactile control reducing adjusting prominence of said other portions of the document by changing a fade characteristic of said other portions of the document relative to the one or more selected portions of the document, and includes a positional change when a dragging, scrolling or change in scale of the one or more selected portions is determined.

14. The computing device according to claim 13, wherein a plurality of documents having respectively selected portions are shown simultaneously in a single integrated display.

15. The computing device according to claim 14, wherein a plurality of subdocuments of a single document are shown by the display in a single integrated display.

16. The computing device according to claim 14, wherein a plurality of applications each have a respective content displayed as a single integrated display by the display, each respective content being configured for tactile-control of its respective display.

17. A method of adjusting graphic properties of a document comprising:

displaying a content of a document on a display,

in response to user input, adjusting, by a processor, graphic properties of one or more selected portions of the document, thereby adjusting a graphical prominence of the one or more selected portions relative to other portions of the document, and

displaying the content of the document on the display using the adjusted graphic properties;

wherein the graphic properties of the content of the displayed document being display are adjusted by tactile control of tool shown on the display, and

wherein said one or more selected portions of the document are graphically adjusted, and wherein displaying said other portions of the document are graphically modified in accordance with the adjusted properties of said selected portions of the document to adjust or enhance the graphical prominence degree of the one or more selected portions of the document that further includes in response to tactile control adjusting a degree prominence of said other portions of the document by changing a fade characteristic of said other portions of the document relative to the one or more selected portions of the document, and includes a positional change when a dragging, scrolling or change in scale of the one or more selected portions is determined.

18. The method according to claim 17, wherein selected portions of a plurality of documents are shown simultaneously in a single integrated display.

19. The method according to claim 17, wherein a plurality of sub-documents of a single document are shown simultaneously by the display in a single integrated display.

20. The method according to claim 17, wherein a plurality of applications each having a respective content are displayed as a single integrated display, each respective content being configured for tactile-control of its respective display.