Transferring content to a substantially similar location in a virtual notebook using a stylus enabled device

• US 9,256,588 B1
• Filed: 09/28/2011
• Issued: 02/09/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 09/28/2011
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Inventors: Moscovich, Tomer, Bozarth, Bradley J., Beguin, Julien G., Rosenberg, Ilya D., Yun, Tiffany
• Primary Examiner(s): Paula, Cesar
• Assistant Examiner(s): ZUBERI, MOHAMMED H
• Application Number:
  US13/247,605
• Time in Patent Office: 1,595 Days
• Field of Search: 175/230, 715/230
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/169 Annotation, e.g. comment data or footnotes
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/171 by use of digital ink

Abstract

A device comprising a magnetic stylus, touch sensor, and reflective display provides new opportunities for content presentation and interaction. A user interface is configured to use input from the touch sensor, the stylus, and one or more magnetometers to modify content presented on the reflective display. This modification may include generating a virtual notebook comprising clippings of content.

Claims

1. A device comprising:

a processor;

memory coupled to the processor;

a touch sensor coupled to the processor;

a reflective display coupled to the processor and configured to render at least a portion of an item of content; and

a user interface module stored in the memory and executable by the processor to;

detect an underline input gesture via the touch sensor, the underline input gesture selecting a word of the item of content being rendered on the display, the word being displayed at a first location on the display;

at least partly in response to detecting the underline input gesture;

present a raw underline underneath the word; and

present a processed underline underneath the word after presenting the raw underline;

detect an erasure input gesture via the touch sensor, the erasure input gesture corresponding to the processed underline; and

at least partly in response to detecting the erasure input gesture;

remove from the display a portion of the processed underline; and

transfer the portion of the processed underline directly to a location on a page in a virtual notebook, wherein the location on the page in the virtual notebook is substantially similar to the first location on the display.

2. The device of claim 1, wherein the touch sensor comprises an interpolating force-sensing resistance sensor and the reflective display comprises an electrophoretic display.

3. The device of claim 1, wherein the underline input gesture selects a portion of the word that is less than the entirety of the word, and the presenting of the processed underline comprises snapping the raw underline to the entirety of the word.

4. The device of claim 1, wherein the underline input gesture selects one or more letters, and the presenting of the processed underline comprises snapping the raw underline to the one or more letters.

5. The device of claim 1, wherein the underline input gesture comprises a user placing a stylus tip of a stylus in contact with the touch sensor and the processed underline results in a machine-generated underline rendered on the reflective display underneath the word.

6. The device of claim 1, wherein the underline input gesture comprises a user drawing a line with a stylus along a portion of a vertical margin on the reflective display and the word is adjacent to the portion of the vertical margin.

7. The device of claim 1, wherein the user interface module is further configured to merge two sets of underlines when the two sets of underlines are within a pre-determined distance of one another.

8. The device of claim 1, wherein the user interface module is further configured to separate into two sets of underlines a previously single underline.

9. The device of claim 1, wherein the raw underline comprises an underline generated prior to removal of contact with the touch sensor.

10. The device of claim 1, further comprising:

one or more magnetometers disposed about the device and coupled to the processor;

a magnetic stylus configured with a magnetic field detectable to the one or more magnetometers; and

the user interface module stored in the memory and executable by the processor further configured to;

further detect the underline input gesture via the input from the one or more magnetometers detecting the magnetic field of the magnetic stylus.

11. The device of claim 1, wherein the touch sensor comprises at least one or more magnetometers, the one or more magnetometers being coupled to the processor to detect a magnetic field associated with the display.

12. One or more non-transitory computer readable media comprising instructions, which when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to:

present at least a portion of an item of digital content on a display;

detect an input gesture corresponding to a word of the digital content being rendered on the display, the word being in a first location on the display;

determine a proximity of a first end of a stylus to the display based on a magnetic field generated by the stylus;

present a raw underline on the display underneath the word;

copy the word automatically to a first location on a page in a virtual notebook, wherein the first location on the page in the virtual notebook corresponds to a substantially similar location to the first location on the display;

determine that the first end of the stylus is no longer proximate to the display; and

present a processed underline on the display underneath the word after presenting the raw underline.

13. The one or more non-transitory computer readable media of claim 12, wherein:

the word is part of an image caption; and

the copying the word further comprises copying an image related to the image caption to a location on the page in the virtual notebook, wherein the location on the page in the virtual notebook corresponds to a location of the image on the display.

14. The one or more non-transitory computer readable media of claim 12, instructions, which when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to snap the processed underline to the word.

15. The one or more non-transitory computer readable media of claim 12, further comprising instructions, which when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to:

receive a command to present a thumbnail view of at least a portion of the virtual notebook on the display; and

present at least one page of the virtual notebook on the display as a thumbnail.

16. The one or more non-transitory computer readable media of claim 15, further comprising instructions, which when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to:

receive input selecting the thumbnail; and

present the at least one page of the virtual notebook at a pre-determined size on the display.

17. The one or more computer readable media of claim 15, wherein the portion of the virtual notebook corresponds to the word copied to the virtual notebook.

18. The one or more non-transitory computer readable media of claim 12, wherein the substantially similar location comprises substantially the same location as the first location on the display.

19. A device comprising:

one or more processors;

one or more computer readable media coupled to the one or more processors;

a display coupled to the one or more processors and configured to render part of an item of content;

one or more magnetometers disposed about the device and coupled to the one or more processors to detect a magnetic field associated with the display; and

a user interface module stored in the one or more computer readable media, which when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to;

detect a selection by a stylus, of a portion of the item of content rendered on the display, the portion being in a first location on the display;

determine a proximity of a first end of the stylus to the display based on data from the one or more magnetometers;

present a raw underline underneath the portion;

determine that the first end of the stylus is no longer proximate to the display;

present a processed underline underneath the portion after presenting the raw underline; and

copy the portion directly to a first location on a page in a virtual notebook, wherein the first location on the page in the virtual notebook corresponds to a substantially similar location to the first location on the display.

20. The device of claim 19, wherein the detecting the selection of the portion the item of content comprises detecting a user drawing a line along a vertical margin corresponding to the portion the item of content.

21. The device of claim 19, wherein the portion of the item of content comprises an image caption and the user interface module, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to copy the portion of the eBook and an image associated with the image caption to a location on a page in a virtual notebook, wherein the location on the page in a virtual notebook corresponds to a location of the portion of the item of content and the image on the display.

22. The device of claim 21, wherein the raw underline comprises an underline generated prior to removal of a contact with the item of content detected by the one or more magnetometers.

23. The device of claim 19, wherein the user interface module when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to snap the raw underline underneath letters of the portion.

24. The device of claim 19, wherein the user interface module when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to:

to receive a command to present a thumbnail view of at least a portion of a virtual notebook on the display; and

at least partly in response, present a thumbnail of at least one page of the virtual notebook on the display.

25. The device of claim 24, wherein the user interface module when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to:

receive input selecting the thumbnail; and

at least partly in response, present the at least one page of the virtual notebook on the display.

26. The device of claim 19, wherein the item of digital content comprises an eBook.