Electronic device with touch screen and page flipping method

An electronic device, comprising:

• a touch screen, configured for displaying an interface on the touch screen, the interface comprising a page preview region and a page flipping region, the touch screen configured for displaying a page on the page flipping region, and displaying an icon group comprising a plurality of icons on the page preview region, the plurality of icons corresponding to the page on the page flipping region and pages adjacent to the page;
• a storage unit storing a function table recording the corresponding relationships between a plurality of types of touch operations and a plurality of page flipping manners;
• and
• a processor comprising:
• a region confirming module, configured for generating corresponding operation signals in response to a user's touch operation applied on the touch screen, displaying a page on the page flipping region, and displaying an icon group comprising a plurality of icons on the page preview region, the plurality of icons corresponding to the current page and pages adjacent to the current page;
• a gesture identifying module, configure for determining whether a flipping gesture is applied on the page flipping region, and if a flipping gesture is a slide operation applied on the page flipping region, determining a type of the flipping gesture, the type of the flipping gesture being selected from a group consisting of:
• obliquely sliding to the lower left, obliquely sliding to the upper left, obliquely sliding to the lower right, and obliquely sliding to the upper right;
• a page processing module, configured for:
• retrieving a page associated with the icon at the upper right side of the icon associated with the current page as a target page, if the flipping gesture of obliquely sliding to the lower left is applied on the page flipping region;
• retrieving a page associated with the icon at the lower right side of the icon associated with the current page as a target page, if the flipping gesture of obliquely sliding to the upper left is applied on the page flipping region;
• retrieving a page associated with the icon at the upper left side of the icon associated with the current page as a target page, if the flipping gesture of obliquely sliding to the lower right is applied on the page flipping region;
• and retrieving a page associated with the icon at the lower left side of the icon associated with the current page as a target page, if the flipping gesture of obliquely sliding to the upper right is applied on the page flipping region;
• and
• a display control module, configured for displaying the target page on the page flipping region, and displaying the created new icon group on the page preview region.

A page flipping method, comprising:

• displaying an icon group on a first region of a display screen, and a current page on a second region thereof, the icon group comprising a plurality of icons, each icon corresponding to a page, the icon corresponding to the current page being marked;
• determining a touch gesture applied on the second region, where the touch gesture is a slide operation selected from a group consisting of:
• horizontally leftward, horizontally rightward, vertically upward, vertically downward, obliquely to the lower left, obliquely to the upper left, obliquely to the lower right, and obliquely to the upper right;
• determining a target page according to the touch gesture, wherein:
• if the slide operation is performed horizontally leftward, the icon associated with the target page is at the right side of the marked icon;
• if the slide operation is performed horizontally rightward, the icon associated with the target page is at the left side of the marked icon;
• if the slide operation is performed vertically upward, the icon associated with the target page is below the marked icon;
• and if the slide operation is performed vertically downward, the icon associated with the target page is above the marked icon;
• if the slide operation is performed obliquely to the lower left, the icon associated with the target page is at the upper right side of the marked icon;
• if the slide operation is performed obliquely to the upper right, the icon associated with the target page is at the lower left side of the marked icon;
• if the slide operation is performed obliquely to the upper left, the icon associated with the target page is at the lower right side of the marked icon;
• and if the slide operation is performed obliquely to the lower right, the icon associated with the target page is at the upper left side of the marked icon;
• retrieving the target page from a storage unit;
• creating a new icon group according to the retrieved target page;
• and
• displaying the retrieved target page on the second region and displaying the created new icon group on the first region.