Handheld document reading device with auxiliary display
AssigneeBrigham Young University
InventorDan R. Olsen, Jr.
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Abstract
A method to display an electronic document includes receiving an electronic document, displaying a current page of the electronic document on a screen of a handheld device operated by a user, and displaying one or more adjacent pages of the electronic document on an external display. The method may also include changing the current page on the screen of the handheld device and the adjacent pages on the external display in response to user input. In some embodiments, the method includes pinning or unpinning one or more selected page(s) on the external display in response to user input. A corresponding apparatus, system, and computer readable medium are also disclosed herein.
Claims22
A method for displaying an electronic document, the method comprising:
- receiving an electronic document;
- displaying a current page of the electronic document on a screen of a handheld device operated by a user;
- and
- displaying an adjacent page of the electronic document on a display that is external to the handheld device, wherein the adjacent page is adjacent to the current page within the electronic document.
An apparatus for displaying an electronic document, the apparatus comprising:
- a navigation module configured to initiate rendering of a current page of an electronic document on a screen of a handheld device operated by a user;
- a display module further configured to initiate rendering an adjacent page of the electronic document on a display that is external to the handheld device, wherein the adjacent page is adjacent to the current page within the electronic document;
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- a reading module configured to receive the electronic document and provide the current page to the navigation module and the adjacent page to the display module.
A system for displaying an electronic document, the system comprising:
- a handheld device operated by a user and configured to render a current page of an electronic document on a screen of the handheld device;
- a display server configured to render an adjacent page of the electronic document on a display external to the handheld device, wherein the adjacent page is adjacent to the current page within the electronic document;
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- a reading device configured to receive the electronic document and provide the current page to the handheld device and the adjacent page to the display server.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising one or more executable instructions that, when executed by at least one digital processing apparatus, cause the at least one digital processing apparatus to:
- receive an electronic document;
- display a current page of the electronic document on a screen of a handheld device operated by a user;
- and
- display an adjacent page of the electronic document on a display that is external to the handheld device, wherein the adjacent page is adjacent to the current page within the electronic document.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.