US 2012/0084703 A1 · APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TURNING E-BOOK PAGES IN PORTABLE TERMINAL

Abstract

An apparatus and method turn electronic book (e-book) pages in a portable terminal. The method determines whether a touch is input outside of a predetermined User Interface (UI) activation region of a screen of the portable terminal. The method determines whether a drag and release is input in a direction towards the predetermined UI activation region in response to detecting the touch. The method displays one of a preceding page and a next page on the screen in response to determining that the touch is outside of the predetermined UI activation region and that the drag and release is input in the direction towards the predetermined UI activation region.

Claims24

Dependent claims

A method for turning electronic book (e-book) pages in a portable terminal, the method comprising:

determining whether a touch is input outside of a predetermined User Interface (UI) activation region of a screen of the portable terminal;
responsive to detecting the touch, determining whether a drag and release is input in a direction towards the predetermined UI activation region;
and
responsive to determining that the touch is outside of the predetermined UI activation region and that the drag and release is input in the direction towards the predetermined UI activation region, displaying one of a preceding page and a next page on the screen.

1 more element

An apparatus for turning electronic book (e-book) pages in a portable terminal, the apparatus comprising:

a controller configured to determine whether a touch is input outside of a predetermined right User Interface (UI) activation region of a screen of the portable terminal, determine whether a drag and release is input in a direction towards the predetermined UI activation region in response to detecting the touch, and control a display unit to display one of a preceding page and a next page on the screen in response to determining that the touch is outside of the predetermined UI activation region and that the drag and release is input in the direction towards the predetermined UI activation region;
and
the display unit configured to display, on the screen, one of the preceding page and the next page of the e-book according to control of the controller.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

13/232,493Filed 14 Sep 2011

Priority

KR 10-2010-00958151 Oct 2010

Published

5 Apr 2012

Term ends

Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification4 codes

G06F 3/04883
Using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures: for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
G06F 3/0483
Based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like…:…
G06F 40/169
Editing, e.g. inserting or deleting: annotation, e.g. comment data or footnotes
G06F
Computing and data processing

Apparatus and method for turning e-book pages in portable terminal

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Apparatus and method for turning e-book pages in portable terminal

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Abstract

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