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- the present invention relates to an electronic device. More particularly, the present invention relates to a book-like user interface of the electronic device.
- Modem handheld electronic devices such as mobile phones, smart phones, and personal digital assistants (PDAs), have operating systems whose user interfaces (UIs) are comparable to those of desktop personal computers (PCs).
- UIs user interfaces
- PCs desktop personal computers
- the UI of a handheld electronic device provides various functions and services to its user. Some of the functions and services are very popular and frequently used, such as web surfing, web searching, taking photos, displaying images and pictures, electronic map, calculator, dictionary, organizing contact information, and telephone communication.
- these functions and services are accessible to users in the form of standalone applications, convenient widgets, or web pages.
- the variety and complexity of the UI may appear confusing, even daunting.
- some of the applications and widgets are located on a desktop area of the UI.
- Some of the applications and widgets are located on pop-up or pull-down menus.
- Some services are provided as web pages which have to be selected from the bookmarks of a web browser.
- this distributed nature of the functions and services is irritating even to experienced users.
- the operating actions required for starting a widget, an application, and a web page may be very different.
- the operating actions required to start an application on the desktop may be different from the operating actions required to start an application on a menu.
- Some applications and widgets may be assigned to deeply nestled menus, which are unobtrusive and difficult to find. All of these add to the difficulty and confusion of using the UI of a handheld electronic device.
- the present invention is directed to a user interface display method for an electronic device.
- the electronic device may be a handheld electronic device.
- the user interface display method displays a book-like UI of the handheld electronic device.
- the present invention is also directed to the electronic device which executes the aforementioned user interface display method to display the book-like UI.
- a user interface display method for an electronic device organizes a plurality of computer programs and a web browser executable on the electronic device into a virtual book.
- Each page of the virtual book includes a user interface of one of the computer programs or a web page displayed by the web browser.
- the method also displays one of the pages as a destination page in response to an operating action of a user on the electronic device so that the user interface or the web page of the destination page is accessible to the user.
- an electronic device executing the user interface display method includes a touch panel and a display.
- the electronic device organizes a plurality of computer programs and a web browser executable on the electronic device into a virtual book.
- Each page of the virtual book includes a user interface of one of the computer programs or a web page displayed by the web browser.
- the electronic device senses movement and/or pressure caused by a user of the electronic device on the touch panel and interprets the movement and/or the pressure as an operating action of the user on the virtual book.
- the electronic device displays one of the pages as a destination page on the display in response to the operating action so that the user interface or the web page of the destination page is accessible to the user.
- the electronic device may further display a flipping of the virtual book from a current page to the destination page on the display according to the operating action.
- the current page is one of the pages of the virtual book.
- the flipping of the virtual book comprises a single flipping or a continuous flipping.
- the displaying of the single flipping includes displaying the flipping of the current page or the destination page, without displaying the flipping of the pages between the current page and the destination page.
- the displaying of the continuous flipping includes displaying the flipping of the pages between the current page and the destination page.
- the operating action may include a slide performed by the user on the touch panel.
- the electronic device classifies the slide into a fast slide or a slow slide according to a speed of the slide, displays the single flipping on the display in response to the fast slide, and displays the continuous flipping on the display in response to the slow slide.
- the electronic device classifies the slide into the fast slide if the speed of the slide is higher than a predetermined speed threshold, and classifies the slide into the slow slide if the speed of the slide is lower than the predetermined speed threshold.
- the electronic device may display the single flipping in response to the fast slide, and the destination page may be the page directly adjacent to the current page.
- the electronic device may further classify the fast slide into a fast short slide or a fast long slide according to a distance of the fast slide.
- the electronic device classifies the fast slide into the fast short slide if the distance of the fast slide is shorter than a predetermined distance threshold, and classifies the fast slide into the fast long slide if the distance of the fast slide is longer than the predetermined distance threshold.
- the electronic device may display the single flipping in response to the fast short slide, and the destination page may be the page directly adjacent to the current page.
- the electronic device may display the single flipping in response to the fast long slide, and the page distance from the current page to the destination page may be a predetermined number.
- the electronic device may display the single flipping in response to the fast long slide, and the page distance from the current page to the destination page may be proportional to the distance of the fast long slide.
- the electronic device may display the continuous flipping in response to the slow slide.
- one page of the virtual book may be flipped each time when the slow slide passes through a predetermined number of pixels on the touch panel.
- the continuous flipping has a constant speed.
- the continuous flipping may involve two different speeds. In this case, one page of the virtual book is flipped when the slow slide passes through a first predetermined number of pixels on the touch panel, and then another page of the virtual book is flipped when the slow slide passes through a second predetermined number of pixels on the touch panel.
- the touch panel of the electronic device may include a flip bar.
- the continuous flipping may stop or continue when the slow slide reaches an end of the flip bar.
- the third variation of the continuous flipping is treating the flip bar as a scroll bar of the virtual book.
- the ratio of the number of pages of the virtual book flipped in the continuous flipping to the total number of the pages of the virtual book is equal to the ratio of the distance of the slow slide to the total length of the flip bar.
- the operating action may include a backward slow slide in addition to the slow slide.
- the flipping of the virtual book includes the continuous flipping in response to the slow slide and a backward continuous flipping in response to the backward slow slide.
- the direction of the backward slow slide is opposite to the direction of the slow slide, and the direction of the backward continuous flipping is opposite to the direction of the continuous flipping.
- one page of the virtual book may be flipped each time when the backward slow slide passes through a predetermined number of pixels on the touch panel.
- the backward continuous flipping has also a two-speed variation, wherein initially a page of the virtual book is flipped each time when the backward slow slide passes through a first predetermined number of pixels on the touch panel, and then a page of the virtual book is flipped each time when the backward slow slide passes through a second predetermined number of pixels on the touch panel.
- the operating action may include a press performed by the user on the touch panel.
- the electronic device classifies the press into a light press or a heavy press according to a pressure of the press, displays the single flipping on the display in response to the light press, and displays the continuous flipping on the display in response to the heavy press.
- the electronic device classifies the press into the light press if the pressure of the press is lower than a predetermined pressure threshold, and classifies the press into the heavy press if the pressure of the press is higher than the predetermined pressure threshold.
- the speed of the flipping of the pages in the continuous flipping may be proportional to the pressure of the press.
- the electronic device may further display a virtual object, such as a folded page corner, on the destination page, and then return to display the current page in response to another operating action performed by the user on the virtual object.
- a virtual object such as a folded page corner
- the electronic device may further include a button.
- the operating action for displaying the destination page may include pressing the button.
- the destination page may be predetermined by the user.
- the button may be a physical button installed on the electronic device or a touch button implemented on the touch panel of the electronic device.
- the user may operate this UI through a touch panel of the handheld electronic device.
- the control mechanism connecting the operating actions of the user on the touch panel and the displayed book-like UI may be provided by the hardware or software of the handheld electronic device.
- the book-like UI proposed by the present invention unifies applications, widgets, and web pages into book pages, enabling the user to browse, use, and manage the functions and services in an intuitive and convenient way like browsing a conventional printed book.
- the user does not have to worry about whether a function or service is provided by a widget, an application, or a web page because the operating actions for using and managing them are all the same.
- the problem of unobtrusive nestled menus no longer exists because the book pages are on the same level and the only level of display.
- the user may operate the book-like UI by touching or sliding on the touch panel with his or her finger. Since the touch panel is integrated on the handheld electronic device, the user may operate on the device directly.
- the handheld electronic device of the present invention is compact and is able to receive the operation of the user and display the book-like UI simultaneously.
- the handheld electronic device does not need a separate external input device for receiving user operation.
- FIG. 1A and FIG. 1B are schematic diagrams showing arrangement of touch panels on handheld electronic devices according to various embodiments of the present invention.
- FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram illustrating a conventional resistive touch panel.
- FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram illustrating a conventional capacitive touch panel.
- FIG. 4A and FIG. 4B are schematic diagrams showing a virtual book displayed by a handheld electronic device according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- FIGS. 4C-4E are schematic diagrams showing a virtual book displayed by a handheld electronic device according to another embodiment of the present invention.
- FIGS. 5A-5D are schematic diagrams showing a book-like UI of a handheld electronic device according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 6 is a schematic diagram showing a table-of-contents page in the book-like UI in FIGS. 5A-5D .
- FIG. 7 is a schematic diagram showing the flipping of book pages in the book-like UI in FIGS. 5A-5D .
- FIG. 8 and FIG. 9 are schematic diagrams showing stand-up views of a virtual book displayed by a handheld electronic device according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- FIGS. 11A-11D are schematic diagrams showing the flow of converting the display contents of a book page into a new page in the book-like UI of a handheld electronic device according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 12 is a schematic diagram showing a book page download service in the book-like UI of a handheld electronic device according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- FIGS. 13A-13C are schematic diagrams showing notifications implemented in the book-like UI of a handheld electronic device according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 14 is a schematic diagram showing a feature for rapid switching between two book pages in the book-like UI of a handheld electronic device according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 15 is a flow chart showing the function menu of a book page in the book-like UI of a handheld electronic device according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- the book-like UI of a handheld electronic device proposed by the present invention organizes applications, widgets, and web pages into pages of a virtual book.
- Each page of the virtual book is the UI of a service or function of the handheld electronic device. Flipping the pages of the virtual book means browsing and selecting the services and functions provided by the handheld electronic device.
- This book-like UI enables the user to use and manage these applications, widgets, and web pages in an easy and intuitive way like browsing a conventional printed book.
- the book-like UI hides the differences among applications, widgets, and web pages so that the handheld electronic device can be accessed through a uniform and convenient UI.
- FIG. 1A is a schematic diagram showing a handheld electronic device with the book-like UI according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- the handheld electronic device in FIG. 1A includes a casing 100 , a touch panel 110 , and a display 120 .
- the touch panel 110 not only covers the display 120 but also extends beyond the boundary of the display 120 .
- the extended portion of the touch panel 110 may be located on the upper side, lower side, right side, or left side of the display 120 . In FIG. 1A , it is the lower side on which the extended portion is located.
- the extended portion of the touch panel 110 includes a flip bar 140 and two buttons 130 and 150 . The user may slide one of his/her fingers on the flip bar 140 or press the buttons 130 and 150 .
- the handheld electronic device senses the movement on the flip bar 140 and the pressure on the buttons 130 and 150 through the touch panel 110 , and then interpret the movement and pressure into operating actions of the user for the book-like UI. Since the touch panel 110 can also sense pressure and movement on the display 120 , in some other embodiments of the present invention the operating actions may be performed on the display 120 as well.
- FIG. 1B is a schematic diagram showing a design variation of the handheld electronic device in FIG. 1A according to another embodiment of the present invention.
- the handheld electronic device in FIG. 1B includes two touch panels 160 and 170 .
- the touch panel 160 has the same dimensions as those of the display 120 and the touch panel 160 covers the display 120 .
- the touch panel 170 is separate from the touch panel 160 and is located on one side of the touch panel 160 .
- the touch panel 170 includes the flip bar 140 and the buttons 130 and 150 . Except the differences mentioned above, the handheld electronic device in FIG. 1B is identical to the handheld electronic device in FIG. 1A .
- Each one of the touch panels 110 , 160 , and 170 may be a resistive touch panel as shown in FIG. 2 or a capacitive touch panel as shown in FIG. 3 .
- a resistive touch panel consists of an indium tin oxide (ITO) film, ITO glass, and some dot spacers (DOT) in between.
- ITO indium tin oxide
- DOT dot spacers
- the handheld electronic device converts the voltage variation from analog signals into digital signals and then processes the digital signals to obtain the (X, Y) position of the touch. In this way the handheld electronic device can detect the touch and movement of the finger or stylus on the resistive touch panel.
- a capacitive touch panel consists of silicon oxide (SiO 2 ), ITO, and glass, as shown in FIG. 3 .
- SiO 2 silicon oxide
- ITO indium gallium oxide
- FIG. 3 A smooth electric field is established on the surface of the glass.
- the variation of the electric field is detected by four sensors disposed at the four corners of the capacitive touch panel in order to locate the contact.
- the purpose of the flip bar 140 is separating operating actions for flipping the virtual book from operating actions for the UI of a book page.
- Operating actions on the display 120 control the current book page, while operating actions on the flip bar 140 flip the virtual book.
- a book page is an application for browsing photos.
- the user may turn to the next photo by a rapid stroke with his/her finger on the display 120 .
- the user may flip to the next book page (switch to the next function or service of the handheld electronic device) by the same rapid stroke on the flip bar 140 .
- the same action by the user is interpreted into different events according to the area in which the action is performed. If the next book page is a music channel broadcast service, the same rapid stroke on the display 120 may mean switching to the next music channel, while the same rapid stroke on the flip bar 140 still means flipping to the next book page of the virtual book.
- both the operating actions for the current book page and the operating actions for flipping the virtual book may be performed on the display 120 .
- these two classes of operating actions can no longer share the same action.
- the operating actions for switching to the next music channel and flipping to the next virtual book page have to be different.
- the difference may be implemented as the existence or non-existence of a brief pause. If the finger slides rapidly without a pause or with a pause shorter than a predetermined duration, this action is interpreted as flipping the virtual book. If the finger pauses for longer than the predetermined duration and then slides rapidly, this action is interpreted as switching to the next music channel.
- the handheld electronic device does not need a separate flip bar 140 . However, such a design limits the option of operating actions available to a virtual book page because some operating actions must be assigned to the virtual book flipping.
- the handheld electronic device When the handheld electronic device is idle, it displays an idle screen as shown in FIG. 4A .
- the idle screen shows a virtual book 400 in a zoom-out view including the cover and the thickness of the virtual book 400 .
- the virtual book 400 is a loose-leaf notebook with a zipper 410 .
- the zipper 410 represents a screen lock function. The user may drag the slider of the zipper 410 with a finger sliding along the zipper 410 on the display 120 . When the slider of the zipper 410 is dragged to the bottom as shown in FIG. 4A , the handheld electronic device is under a screen lock. The user may drag the slider of the zipper 410 to the top, as shown in FIG. 4B , to unlock the screen.
- the screen lock may be represented by other images and the screen may be unlocked with various operating actions.
- FIG. 4C , FIG. 4D , and FIG. 4E illustrate another example of the screen lock function.
- the virtual book 420 is rendered in the form of a magazine.
- the cover of the magazine shows the current date and the current time.
- the area 421 shows that there are three missed telephone calls, two unread messages, and one schedule notification.
- the presence of the ribbon 422 and the padlock 423 means that the screen is locked.
- the user may unlock the screen by a horizontal long slide of the finger along the ribbon 422 . After the horizontal long slide, the ribbon 422 is untied, as shown in FIG. 4D . After a predetermined brief duration, the ribbon 422 and the padlock 423 disappear, as shown in FIG. 4E , which means the screen is unlocked.
- the area 421 in FIG. 4E displays more detailed summary of the missed calls, unread messages and schedule notification.
- FIG. 5A is a schematic diagram showing a handheld electronic device 500 according to another embodiment of the present invention.
- the touch panel is not shown in FIG. 5A .
- a virtual book 520 and its cover page 521 are shown in the zoom-out view on the display 510 of the handheld electronic device 500 .
- the user flips the cover page 521 (details later)
- the handheld electronic device 500 displays the cover page 521 , the table-of-contents (TOC) page 522 , and the first book page 523 of the virtual book 520 at the same time.
- the cover page 521 is fully flipped and the TOC page 522 is partially flipped.
- the first book page 523 is partially obscured.
- FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram showing a handheld electronic device 500 according to another embodiment of the present invention.
- the touch panel is not shown in FIG. 5A .
- a virtual book 520 and its cover page 521 are shown in the zoom-out view on the display 510 of the handheld electronic device 500 .
- the TOC page 522 becomes fully flipped and the first book page 523 is fully revealed.
- the first book page 523 is displayed in a zoom-in view and occupies the entire display 510 .
- the zoom-in view provides a clearer view to the user so that the user can focus on the function or service of the current book page.
- the user may flip the virtual book 520 to the next page or to the previous page.
- the flow is similar to that shown in FIGS. 5A-5D except that only one page is turned over.
- this current book page is displayed in the zoom-in view.
- the animation of flipping the virtual book is displayed in the zoom-out view until the flipping is finished, and then the destination page is displayed in the zoom-in view.
- the TOC page 522 is displayed as shown in FIG. 6 .
- the TOC page 522 lists all book pages of the virtual book 520 . The user may turn to any page immediately by clicking the list entry corresponding to the desired book page with a finger.
- the handheld electronic device 500 may provide a preference option for the user to determine the destination page when the user flips the cover page 521 of the virtual book 520 .
- the destination page may be the TOC page 522 , the first book page 523 , or a book page other than the first book page 523 predetermined by the user.
- a finger slide is classified into a slow slide or a fast slide according to its speed. If a finger moves with a speed lower than a predetermined speed threshold, it is classified as a slow slide. If a finger moves with a speed higher than the predetermined speed threshold, it is classified as a fast slide.
- a fast slide is further classified as a fast short slide or a fast long slide according to its distance. If the distance of a fast slide is shorter than a predetermined distance threshold, it is classified as a fast short slide. If the distance of a fast slide is longer than the predetermined distance threshold, it is classified as a fast long slide.
- Table 1 summarizes the classification of finger slides.
- the flipping of the pages of the virtual book is classified into two types, single flipping and continuous flipping.
- the user may perform a single flipping with a fast slide and performs a continuous flipping with a slow slide.
- a single flipping the user flips the virtual book from the current page to a destination page.
- the flipping animation shows only the current page being flipped, as shown in FIG. 5B . No matter how many pages are actually between the current page and the destination page, the intervening pages are simply skipped over.
- Table 2 there are three rules for the single flipping.
- Rule 1 is the simplest, in which a fast slide always flips one book page.
- rule 2 a fast short slide flips only one book page and a fast long slide flips a predetermined number of book pages. The predetermined number may be set by the user. For example, a fast long slide may flip 5 or 10 pages of the virtual book.
- rule 3 a fast short slide flips only one book page and a fast long slide flips a number of book pages proportional to the slide distance.
- Rule 3 A fast slide A fast short slide flips one A fast short slide flips one always flips book page. A fast long book page. A fast long one book page. slide flips a predetermined slide flips a number of number of book pages. book pages proportional to the slide distance.
- the first book page is flipped when the finger slides across a first predetermined number of pixels on the flip bar, and then a following book page is flipped each time when the finger slides across a second predetermined number of pixels on the flip bar.
- the first predetermined number may be 60 pixels and the second predetermined number may be 15 pixels.
- the second and the latter book pages are flipped faster in rule 2 than they are in rule 1.
- the continuous flipping may simply stop. If the user wants to continue flipping in this case, he/she has to perform another slow slide across the flip bar. Alternatively, the flipping may continue when the finger of the user reaches one end of the flip bar.
- the flip bar is used like a scroll bar.
- the ratio of the number of book pages being turned to the total number of book pages is equal to the ratio of the distance of the slow slide to the total length of the flip bar.
- Rule 2 Flip a page each time Flip a page when the finger slides The flip when the finger slides across a first predetermined number bar is across a predetermined of pixels on the flip bar, and then flip used like number of pixels on a page each time when the finger a scroll the flip bar. slides across a second predetermined bar. number of pixels on the flip bar.
- the handheld electronic device may also support “backward” continuous flipping.
- the user may perform a backward continuous flipping by slowly sliding a finger in a direction opposite to the direction of the previous forward continuous flipping.
- the backward continuous flipping can be used to return to the desired book page when the user accidentally flips too many pages with the forward continuous flipping.
- Table 4 There are two rules for the backward continuous flipping as summarized in the following Table 4.
- Rule 2 Flip a page each time when the Each of the first few pages is flipped finger slides across a when the finger slides across a first predetermined number predetermined number of pixels on the of pixels on the flip bar. flip bar. Each of the following pages is flipped when the finger slides across a second predetermined number of pixels on the flip bar.
- rule 1 of the backward continuous flipping each time when a finger of the user slides across a predetermined number of pixels on the flip bar, one book page is flipped.
- this predetermined number may be 25 pixels.
- the flipping speed of the backward continuous flipping is slower than that of rule 2 of the forward continuous flipping (15 pixels per page). The reason for the slower speed is that it is easier to find the desired book page at a slower speed.
- Rule 2 of the backward continuous flipping implements two different flipping speeds.
- each of the first few pages is flipped when the finger slides across a first predetermined number of pixels on the flip bar, and each of the following pages is flipped when the finger slides across a second predetermined number of pixels on the flip bar.
- the first predetermined number may be 25 pixels
- the second predetermined number may be 15 pixels
- the first few pages mentioned above may be the first three pages.
- the user may flip the book pages by pressing the display or the flip bar of the handheld electronic device with a finger. If the pressure of the finger is lower than a predetermined pressure threshold, it is classified as a light press. If the pressure of the finger is higher than the predetermined pressure threshold, it is classified as a heavy press.
- the user may perform a single flipping with a light press and a continuous flipping with a heavy press. In the continuous flipping, the flipping speed may be proportional to the pressure.
- the handheld electronic device senses the contact pressure or the contact area of the finger on the touch panel in order to estimate the pressure of the finger.
- the handheld electronic device may include some buttons for rapid switching to predetermined pages of the virtual book.
- the handheld electronic device in FIG. 1A includes two touch buttons 130 and 150 . Touching the button 130 flips the virtual book to the TOC page, while touching the button 150 flips the virtual book to the telephone page.
- such rapid switching buttons may be assigned to other book pages. The assignment may be default or determined by the user. The number and positions of the rapid switching buttons may be adjusted according to practical requirement.
- the rapid switching buttons may be physical buttons installed on the casing of the handheld electronic device or virtual touch buttons implemented on the touch panel of the handheld electronic device.
- the virtual book may be rendered as a loose-leaf notebook which allows the user to adjust the positions of its book pages.
- the virtual book 800 is a loose-leaf notebook.
- the user In order to adjust the position of a book page, the user has to flip to the book page first, and then presses the book page for a predetermined duration. This predetermined duration may be a few seconds. If the current book page is pressed for the predetermined duration, the virtual book is displayed in a stand-up view as shown in FIG. 8 . In the stand-up view, the user may press the switch 830 with a finger to unlock the current book page. The unlocked book page becomes a loose leaf 810 . The user may drag the loose leaf 810 horizontally with a finger to adjust the position of the loose leaf 810 . When the user releases his/her finger, the loose leaf 810 returns to the form of a book page and is attached to the new position.
- the user may also adjust the position of a book page by dragging the table entry corresponding to the book page in the TOC page.
- the book pages with small tabs in the stand-up view in FIG. 8 are classification pages.
- the classification pages are designed for advanced users who need to organize a lot of book pages.
- Each classification page is a small TOC page including table entries corresponding to all book pages between the classification page and the next classification page or the bottom cover of the virtual book.
- the classification pages may be rendered with different colors for easier management and identification.
- the user may assign words or messages for identification to the tabs of the classification pages.
- the user may also perform single flipping and continuous flipping in the stand-up view. Since the stand-up view displays many book pages at the same time, the user may turn to a book page directly by clicking on the book page with a finger.
- the stand-up view includes an index button 840 .
- the user may press the index button 840 with a finger to turn to the TOC page directly.
- the user may flip to the TOC page immediately by sliding a finger from the left end of the screen to the right end of the screen or from the right end of the screen to the left end of the screen.
- a finger slide from the left end of the screen to the right end of the screen may activate a predetermined function other than flipping to the TOC page.
- a finger slide from the right end of the screen to the left end of the screen may activate another different predetermined function.
- FIGS. 10A-10D illustrate an exemplary flow of deleting a book page.
- the user flips the virtual book to a book page 1010 and then presses the page 1010 with a finger for a predetermined time duration. If the book page 1010 is pressed for the predetermined time duration, the display changes from the zoom-in view to the stand-up view.
- the user presses the button 1020 and the book page 1010 becomes a loose leaf, as shown in FIG. 10B .
- the user may drag the loose leaf 1010 downward with a finger, as shown in FIG. 10C . During the downward drag, the loose leaf 1010 crushes into waste paper.
- a dialog box 1030 appears to prompt the user to confirm the deletion, as shown in FIG. 10D . If the user selects “Yes” in the dialog box 1030 , the book page 1010 is deleted from the virtual book.
- the display contents of their book pages may be extracted to become new book pages.
- the photo currently displayed by a photo browser application may be extracted to become a new book page. This new book page only displays the extracted photo and does not include the other functions of the photo browser.
- the web page currently displayed by a web browser may be extracted to become a new book page. This new book page only accesses the extracted web page.
- FIGS. 11A-11D illustrate an exemplary flow of adding a new book page by extraction.
- the current book page 1010 is a photo browser application and the user wants to extract the photo currently being displayed to become a new book page.
- the user presses the current page 1010 for a predetermined time duration as shown in FIG. 11A .
- the display changes from the zoom-in view to the stand-up view.
- the user may drag the loose leaf 1010 upward with a finger, as shown in FIG. 11C .
- a dialog box 1040 appears to prompt the user to confirm the extraction, as shown in FIG. 11D . If the user selects “Yes” in the dialog box 1040 , the photo displayed on the book page 1010 becomes a new book page. This new book page may be directly behind the book page 1010 . Alternatively, the position of this new book page may be determined by the user. If the book page 1010 is a web browser, the flow of extraction is the same as that illustrated in FIGS. 11A-11D .
- the TOC page may include an “edit” button.
- a context menu appears on top of the TOC page.
- the user may delete a book page or extract the current display contents of a book page as a new book page.
- FIG. 12 is a schematic diagram showing a book page 1200 providing access to the download server.
- the book page 1200 represents the downloadable book pages in the form of the cards of a library catalog.
- the cards are arranged as a stack. Each card is corresponding to a downloadable book page.
- the user may scroll up or scroll down the stack to browse the cards.
- the downloadable book pages may include various widgets, applications, services, and classification pages.
- the middle card in the stack shows summary introduction of its corresponding downloadable book page.
- the middle card 1230 also shows a preview 1240 of its corresponding downloadable book page.
- the user may click on the preview 1240 with a finger to see a full-screen view of the UI of the downloadable book page. If the user is interested, he/she may download this book page from the download server by clicking the download button 1250 with a finger. When the download is complete, this book page is added into the virtual book of the handheld electronic device.
- FIG. 12 is just an example.
- the downloadable book pages may be represented in different ways.
- the UI in FIG. 12 may be adjusted to have each card show summary introduction and a preview of its corresponding downloadable book pages.
- a predetermined number of pages of the virtual book may be reserved for corporate operators of wireless service networks. These operator book pages may provide various services of the operators. For example, one of the operator book pages may display advertisements pushed from one of the operator. Moreover, the pushed advertisement may be updated at predetermined time intervals.
- the operator book pages are more noticeable to the user and are easier to find than conventional menu options.
- the operator book pages may be built-in, which already exist when the user purchases the handheld electronic device. If the user wants more operator book pages, he/she may download additional operator book pages from the download server mentioned above.
- FIG. 13A is a schematic diagram showing a book page 1300 and a dialog box 1310 .
- the dialog box 1310 is rendered as a sticky note attached to the book page 1300 .
- the dialog box 1310 notifies the user that there is an incoming short message and asks whether the user would like to view the short message or ignore it for now. If the user chooses to view the short message, the short message is displayed. If the user chooses to ignore the short message, as shown in FIG. 13B , a small icon 1320 appears on top of the book page 1300 to remind the user that there is an unviewed short message.
- the handheld electronic device may notify the user of important events, such as an incoming e-mail, an incoming phone call, or the low voltage level of the battery, with a similar sticky note dialog box on the book page.
- the handheld electronic device When the handheld electronic device is in the idle mode, the handheld electronic device displays an idle screen which shows the virtual book in the zoom-out view, as shown in FIG. 13C .
- the handheld electronic device may notify the user of important events with a sticky note attached to the cover of the virtual book. If there is more than one important event, the handheld electronic device may consolidate them into a single sticky note, as shown in FIG. 13C .
- the display 1300 of the handheld electronic device shows a virtual book 1330 in the zoom-out view.
- a sticky note 1340 is attached to the cover of the virtual book 1330 .
- the icon 1341 stands for an incoming phone call.
- the icon 1342 stands for an incoming short message.
- the icon 1343 stands for an incoming e-mail. There may be other icons representing other types of important events.
- the virtual book may provide a “fast return” function, which allows the user to switch from a first book page to a second book page and then return to the first book page rapidly.
- a “fast return” function allows the user to switch from a first book page to a second book page and then return to the first book page rapidly.
- FIG. 14 shows the address book page 1400 with a folded corner 1410 .
- the folded corner is displayed by the fast return function. After the address checking, the user may return to the telephone book page rapidly by touching the folded corner 1410 with a finger.
- FIG. 15 is a flow chart showing the function menu of a book page of the virtual book.
- the steps S 1510 -S 1570 in FIG. 15 show the UI of a book page 1581 providing short message service (SMS) in different situations.
- SMS short message service
- the book page 1581 displays a preview of a short message 1582 (step S 1510 ).
- the user may presses a “sub-menu” button (not shown) to reveal a menu 1583 of the book page 1581 (step S 1520 ).
- the “sub-menu” button may be a physical button installed on the handheld electronic device, a touch button implemented on the touch panel of the handheld electronic device, or a virtual button displayed on the book page 1581 .
- the menu 1583 is revealed by a visual effect of uncovering the lower part of the book page 1581 and revealing the menu 1583 beneath the book page 1581 .
- the menu 1583 includes four options, namely, creating a new short message (new), replying the short message (reply), forwarding the short message (forward), and deleting the short message (delete). The user may select any one of the options with a finger.
- step S 1530 The handheld electronic device displays a keyboard 1584 for the user to enter a new short message. If the user selects the “reply” option of the menu 1583 , the flow goes to step S 1540 . The handheld electronic device displays the keyboard 1584 for the user to reply to the short message 1582 .
- step S 1550 The handheld electronic device displays the entire short message 1582 for viewing.
- the user may presses the “sub-menu” button to reveal another menu 1585 of the book page 1581 (step S 1560 ).
- the menu 1585 is revealed by a visual effect of uncovering the lower part of the book page 1581 .
- the menu 1585 includes three options, namely, replying the short message (reply), forwarding the short message (forward), and deleting the short message (delete). The user may select any one of the options with a finger. If the user selects the “reply” option, the flow goes to step S 1570 .
- the handheld electronic device displays the keyboard 1584 for the user to reply to the short message 1582 .
- Each page of the virtual book may reveal its own function menu in the way mentioned above.
- the functions menus of the book pages may be different according to the functions and services provided by the book pages.
Abstract
An electronic device and a user interface display method thereof are provided. The method organizes a plurality of computer programs and a web browser executable on the electronic device into a virtual book. Each page of the virtual book includes a user interface of one of the computer programs or a web page displayed by the web browser. The method also displays one of the pages as a destination page in response to an operating action of a user on the electronic device so that the user interface or the web page of the destination page is accessible to the user.
Description
- This application claims the priority benefit of U.S.A. provisional application Ser. No. 61/048,219, filed on Apr. 27, 2008. The entirety of the above-mentioned patent application is hereby incorporated by reference herein and made a part of specification.
- 1. Field of the Invention
- The present invention relates to an electronic device. More particularly, the present invention relates to a book-like user interface of the electronic device.
- 2. Description of the Related Art
- Modem handheld electronic devices, such as mobile phones, smart phones, and personal digital assistants (PDAs), have operating systems whose user interfaces (UIs) are comparable to those of desktop personal computers (PCs). The UI of a handheld electronic device provides various functions and services to its user. Some of the functions and services are very popular and frequently used, such as web surfing, web searching, taking photos, displaying images and pictures, electronic map, calculator, dictionary, organizing contact information, and telephone communication.
- Generally, these functions and services are accessible to users in the form of standalone applications, convenient widgets, or web pages. For beginners and casual users with little experiences of modern handheld electronic devices, the variety and complexity of the UI may appear confusing, even daunting. For example, some of the applications and widgets are located on a desktop area of the UI. Some of the applications and widgets are located on pop-up or pull-down menus. Some services are provided as web pages which have to be selected from the bookmarks of a web browser. Sometimes this distributed nature of the functions and services is irritating even to experienced users. Moreover, the operating actions required for starting a widget, an application, and a web page may be very different. The operating actions required to start an application on the desktop may be different from the operating actions required to start an application on a menu. Some applications and widgets may be assigned to deeply nestled menus, which are unobtrusive and difficult to find. All of these add to the difficulty and confusion of using the UI of a handheld electronic device.
- Accordingly, the present invention is directed to a user interface display method for an electronic device. For example, the electronic device may be a handheld electronic device. The user interface display method displays a book-like UI of the handheld electronic device.
- The present invention is also directed to the electronic device which executes the aforementioned user interface display method to display the book-like UI.
- According to an embodiment of the present invention, a user interface display method for an electronic device is provided. The method organizes a plurality of computer programs and a web browser executable on the electronic device into a virtual book. Each page of the virtual book includes a user interface of one of the computer programs or a web page displayed by the web browser. The method also displays one of the pages as a destination page in response to an operating action of a user on the electronic device so that the user interface or the web page of the destination page is accessible to the user.
- According to another embodiment of the present invention, an electronic device executing the user interface display method is provided. The electronic device includes a touch panel and a display. The electronic device organizes a plurality of computer programs and a web browser executable on the electronic device into a virtual book. Each page of the virtual book includes a user interface of one of the computer programs or a web page displayed by the web browser. The electronic device senses movement and/or pressure caused by a user of the electronic device on the touch panel and interprets the movement and/or the pressure as an operating action of the user on the virtual book. Moreover, the electronic device displays one of the pages as a destination page on the display in response to the operating action so that the user interface or the web page of the destination page is accessible to the user.
- The electronic device may further display a flipping of the virtual book from a current page to the destination page on the display according to the operating action. The current page is one of the pages of the virtual book. The flipping of the virtual book comprises a single flipping or a continuous flipping. The displaying of the single flipping includes displaying the flipping of the current page or the destination page, without displaying the flipping of the pages between the current page and the destination page. The displaying of the continuous flipping includes displaying the flipping of the pages between the current page and the destination page.
- The operating action may include a slide performed by the user on the touch panel. In this case, the electronic device classifies the slide into a fast slide or a slow slide according to a speed of the slide, displays the single flipping on the display in response to the fast slide, and displays the continuous flipping on the display in response to the slow slide. The electronic device classifies the slide into the fast slide if the speed of the slide is higher than a predetermined speed threshold, and classifies the slide into the slow slide if the speed of the slide is lower than the predetermined speed threshold.
- The electronic device may display the single flipping in response to the fast slide, and the destination page may be the page directly adjacent to the current page.
- The electronic device may further classify the fast slide into a fast short slide or a fast long slide according to a distance of the fast slide. In this case, the electronic device classifies the fast slide into the fast short slide if the distance of the fast slide is shorter than a predetermined distance threshold, and classifies the fast slide into the fast long slide if the distance of the fast slide is longer than the predetermined distance threshold.
- The electronic device may display the single flipping in response to the fast short slide, and the destination page may be the page directly adjacent to the current page.
- The electronic device may display the single flipping in response to the fast long slide, and the page distance from the current page to the destination page may be a predetermined number.
- The electronic device may display the single flipping in response to the fast long slide, and the page distance from the current page to the destination page may be proportional to the distance of the fast long slide.
- The electronic device may display the continuous flipping in response to the slow slide. In the continuous flipping, one page of the virtual book may be flipped each time when the slow slide passes through a predetermined number of pixels on the touch panel. In this way, the continuous flipping has a constant speed. Alternatively, the continuous flipping may involve two different speeds. In this case, one page of the virtual book is flipped when the slow slide passes through a first predetermined number of pixels on the touch panel, and then another page of the virtual book is flipped when the slow slide passes through a second predetermined number of pixels on the touch panel.
- The touch panel of the electronic device may include a flip bar. The continuous flipping may stop or continue when the slow slide reaches an end of the flip bar.
- The third variation of the continuous flipping is treating the flip bar as a scroll bar of the virtual book. In this case, the ratio of the number of pages of the virtual book flipped in the continuous flipping to the total number of the pages of the virtual book is equal to the ratio of the distance of the slow slide to the total length of the flip bar.
- The operating action may include a backward slow slide in addition to the slow slide. In this case, the flipping of the virtual book includes the continuous flipping in response to the slow slide and a backward continuous flipping in response to the backward slow slide. The direction of the backward slow slide is opposite to the direction of the slow slide, and the direction of the backward continuous flipping is opposite to the direction of the continuous flipping.
- In the backward continuous flipping, one page of the virtual book may be flipped each time when the backward slow slide passes through a predetermined number of pixels on the touch panel. The backward continuous flipping has also a two-speed variation, wherein initially a page of the virtual book is flipped each time when the backward slow slide passes through a first predetermined number of pixels on the touch panel, and then a page of the virtual book is flipped each time when the backward slow slide passes through a second predetermined number of pixels on the touch panel.
- The operating action may include a press performed by the user on the touch panel. In this case, the electronic device classifies the press into a light press or a heavy press according to a pressure of the press, displays the single flipping on the display in response to the light press, and displays the continuous flipping on the display in response to the heavy press. The electronic device classifies the press into the light press if the pressure of the press is lower than a predetermined pressure threshold, and classifies the press into the heavy press if the pressure of the press is higher than the predetermined pressure threshold. The speed of the flipping of the pages in the continuous flipping may be proportional to the pressure of the press.
- The electronic device may further display a virtual object, such as a folded page corner, on the destination page, and then return to display the current page in response to another operating action performed by the user on the virtual object.
- The electronic device may further include a button. The operating action for displaying the destination page may include pressing the button. The destination page may be predetermined by the user. The button may be a physical button installed on the electronic device or a touch button implemented on the touch panel of the electronic device.
- The user may operate this UI through a touch panel of the handheld electronic device. The control mechanism connecting the operating actions of the user on the touch panel and the displayed book-like UI may be provided by the hardware or software of the handheld electronic device.
- The book-like UI proposed by the present invention unifies applications, widgets, and web pages into book pages, enabling the user to browse, use, and manage the functions and services in an intuitive and convenient way like browsing a conventional printed book. By using the book-like UI, the user does not have to worry about whether a function or service is provided by a widget, an application, or a web page because the operating actions for using and managing them are all the same. Furthermore, the problem of unobtrusive nestled menus no longer exists because the book pages are on the same level and the only level of display.
- The user may operate the book-like UI by touching or sliding on the touch panel with his or her finger. Since the touch panel is integrated on the handheld electronic device, the user may operate on the device directly. The handheld electronic device of the present invention is compact and is able to receive the operation of the user and display the book-like UI simultaneously. The handheld electronic device does not need a separate external input device for receiving user operation.
- The accompanying drawings are included to provide a further understanding of the invention, and are incorporated in and constitute a part of this specification. The drawings illustrate embodiments of the invention and, together with the description, serve to explain the principles of the invention.
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FIG. 1A andFIG. 1B are schematic diagrams showing arrangement of touch panels on handheld electronic devices according to various embodiments of the present invention. -
FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram illustrating a conventional resistive touch panel. -
FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram illustrating a conventional capacitive touch panel. -
FIG. 4A andFIG. 4B are schematic diagrams showing a virtual book displayed by a handheld electronic device according to an embodiment of the present invention. -
FIGS. 4C-4E are schematic diagrams showing a virtual book displayed by a handheld electronic device according to another embodiment of the present invention. -
FIGS. 5A-5D are schematic diagrams showing a book-like UI of a handheld electronic device according to an embodiment of the present invention. -
FIG. 6 is a schematic diagram showing a table-of-contents page in the book-like UI inFIGS. 5A-5D . -
FIG. 7 is a schematic diagram showing the flipping of book pages in the book-like UI inFIGS. 5A-5D . -
FIG. 8 andFIG. 9 are schematic diagrams showing stand-up views of a virtual book displayed by a handheld electronic device according to an embodiment of the present invention. -
FIGS. 10A-10D are schematic diagrams showing the flow of deleting a book page in the book-like UI of a handheld electronic device according to an embodiment of the present invention. -
FIGS. 11A-11D are schematic diagrams showing the flow of converting the display contents of a book page into a new page in the book-like UI of a handheld electronic device according to an embodiment of the present invention. -
FIG. 12 is a schematic diagram showing a book page download service in the book-like UI of a handheld electronic device according to an embodiment of the present invention. -
FIGS. 13A-13C are schematic diagrams showing notifications implemented in the book-like UI of a handheld electronic device according to an embodiment of the present invention. -
FIG. 14 is a schematic diagram showing a feature for rapid switching between two book pages in the book-like UI of a handheld electronic device according to an embodiment of the present invention. -
FIG. 15 is a flow chart showing the function menu of a book page in the book-like UI of a handheld electronic device according to an embodiment of the present invention. - Reference will now be made in detail to the present embodiments of the invention, examples of which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings. Wherever possible, the same reference numbers are used in the drawings and the description to refer to the same or like parts.
- The book-like UI of a handheld electronic device proposed by the present invention organizes applications, widgets, and web pages into pages of a virtual book. Each page of the virtual book is the UI of a service or function of the handheld electronic device. Flipping the pages of the virtual book means browsing and selecting the services and functions provided by the handheld electronic device. This book-like UI enables the user to use and manage these applications, widgets, and web pages in an easy and intuitive way like browsing a conventional printed book. The book-like UI hides the differences among applications, widgets, and web pages so that the handheld electronic device can be accessed through a uniform and convenient UI.
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FIG. 1A is a schematic diagram showing a handheld electronic device with the book-like UI according to an embodiment of the present invention. The handheld electronic device inFIG. 1A includes acasing 100, atouch panel 110, and adisplay 120. Thetouch panel 110 not only covers thedisplay 120 but also extends beyond the boundary of thedisplay 120. The extended portion of thetouch panel 110 may be located on the upper side, lower side, right side, or left side of thedisplay 120. InFIG. 1A , it is the lower side on which the extended portion is located. The extended portion of thetouch panel 110 includes aflip bar 140 and twobuttons flip bar 140 or press thebuttons flip bar 140 and the pressure on thebuttons touch panel 110, and then interpret the movement and pressure into operating actions of the user for the book-like UI. Since thetouch panel 110 can also sense pressure and movement on thedisplay 120, in some other embodiments of the present invention the operating actions may be performed on thedisplay 120 as well. -
FIG. 1B is a schematic diagram showing a design variation of the handheld electronic device inFIG. 1A according to another embodiment of the present invention. The handheld electronic device inFIG. 1B includes twotouch panels touch panel 160 has the same dimensions as those of thedisplay 120 and thetouch panel 160 covers thedisplay 120. Thetouch panel 170 is separate from thetouch panel 160 and is located on one side of thetouch panel 160. Thetouch panel 170 includes theflip bar 140 and thebuttons FIG. 1B is identical to the handheld electronic device inFIG. 1A . - Each one of the
touch panels FIG. 2 or a capacitive touch panel as shown inFIG. 3 . A resistive touch panel consists of an indium tin oxide (ITO) film, ITO glass, and some dot spacers (DOT) in between. When a finger or stylus touches the ITO film, the ITO film contacts with the ITO glass and generates voltage variation. The handheld electronic device converts the voltage variation from analog signals into digital signals and then processes the digital signals to obtain the (X, Y) position of the touch. In this way the handheld electronic device can detect the touch and movement of the finger or stylus on the resistive touch panel. On the other hand, a capacitive touch panel consists of silicon oxide (SiO2), ITO, and glass, as shown inFIG. 3 . A smooth electric field is established on the surface of the glass. When the finger or stylus contacts with the ITO, the variation of the electric field is detected by four sensors disposed at the four corners of the capacitive touch panel in order to locate the contact. - The purpose of the
flip bar 140 is separating operating actions for flipping the virtual book from operating actions for the UI of a book page. Operating actions on thedisplay 120 control the current book page, while operating actions on theflip bar 140 flip the virtual book. For example, assume a book page is an application for browsing photos. The user may turn to the next photo by a rapid stroke with his/her finger on thedisplay 120. The user may flip to the next book page (switch to the next function or service of the handheld electronic device) by the same rapid stroke on theflip bar 140. The same action by the user is interpreted into different events according to the area in which the action is performed. If the next book page is a music channel broadcast service, the same rapid stroke on thedisplay 120 may mean switching to the next music channel, while the same rapid stroke on theflip bar 140 still means flipping to the next book page of the virtual book. - In another embodiment of the present invention, both the operating actions for the current book page and the operating actions for flipping the virtual book may be performed on the
display 120. In this case, these two classes of operating actions can no longer share the same action. For example, the operating actions for switching to the next music channel and flipping to the next virtual book page have to be different. The difference may be implemented as the existence or non-existence of a brief pause. If the finger slides rapidly without a pause or with a pause shorter than a predetermined duration, this action is interpreted as flipping the virtual book. If the finger pauses for longer than the predetermined duration and then slides rapidly, this action is interpreted as switching to the next music channel. In this embodiment the handheld electronic device does not need aseparate flip bar 140. However, such a design limits the option of operating actions available to a virtual book page because some operating actions must be assigned to the virtual book flipping. - In additional to a finger, the user may also use a stylus to perform any operating action for the book-like UI mentioned above or below. Since the display, the touch panel, the flip bar, and the buttons are all integrated on the compact handheld electronic device, the user may operate by touching the display or the flip bar directly without the need for a separate input device for receiving user operation.
- When the handheld electronic device is idle, it displays an idle screen as shown in
FIG. 4A . The idle screen shows avirtual book 400 in a zoom-out view including the cover and the thickness of thevirtual book 400. Thevirtual book 400 is a loose-leaf notebook with azipper 410. Thezipper 410 represents a screen lock function. The user may drag the slider of thezipper 410 with a finger sliding along thezipper 410 on thedisplay 120. When the slider of thezipper 410 is dragged to the bottom as shown inFIG. 4A , the handheld electronic device is under a screen lock. The user may drag the slider of thezipper 410 to the top, as shown inFIG. 4B , to unlock the screen. - In other embodiments of the present invention, the screen lock may be represented by other images and the screen may be unlocked with various operating actions.
FIG. 4C ,FIG. 4D , andFIG. 4E illustrate another example of the screen lock function. InFIGS. 4C-4E , thevirtual book 420 is rendered in the form of a magazine. The cover of the magazine shows the current date and the current time. Thearea 421 shows that there are three missed telephone calls, two unread messages, and one schedule notification. The presence of theribbon 422 and thepadlock 423 means that the screen is locked. The user may unlock the screen by a horizontal long slide of the finger along theribbon 422. After the horizontal long slide, theribbon 422 is untied, as shown inFIG. 4D . After a predetermined brief duration, theribbon 422 and thepadlock 423 disappear, as shown inFIG. 4E , which means the screen is unlocked. Thearea 421 inFIG. 4E displays more detailed summary of the missed calls, unread messages and schedule notification. -
FIG. 5A is a schematic diagram showing a handheldelectronic device 500 according to another embodiment of the present invention. For simplicity, the touch panel is not shown inFIG. 5A . Avirtual book 520 and itscover page 521 are shown in the zoom-out view on thedisplay 510 of the handheldelectronic device 500. When the user flips the cover page 521 (details later), as shown inFIG. 5B , at first the handheldelectronic device 500 displays thecover page 521, the table-of-contents (TOC)page 522, and thefirst book page 523 of thevirtual book 520 at the same time. Thecover page 521 is fully flipped and theTOC page 522 is partially flipped. Thefirst book page 523 is partially obscured. Next, as shown inFIG. 5C , theTOC page 522 becomes fully flipped and thefirst book page 523 is fully revealed. Next, as shown inFIG. 5D , thefirst book page 523 is displayed in a zoom-in view and occupies theentire display 510. The zoom-in view provides a clearer view to the user so that the user can focus on the function or service of the current book page. - From the
first book page 523, the user may flip thevirtual book 520 to the next page or to the previous page. The flow is similar to that shown inFIGS. 5A-5D except that only one page is turned over. When the user is using a book page, this current book page is displayed in the zoom-in view. When the user flips the current book page, as shown inFIGS. 5A-5D , the animation of flipping the virtual book is displayed in the zoom-out view until the flipping is finished, and then the destination page is displayed in the zoom-in view. - If the user flips from the
first book page 523 to its previous book page, theTOC page 522 is displayed as shown inFIG. 6 . TheTOC page 522 lists all book pages of thevirtual book 520. The user may turn to any page immediately by clicking the list entry corresponding to the desired book page with a finger. - The handheld
electronic device 500 may provide a preference option for the user to determine the destination page when the user flips thecover page 521 of thevirtual book 520. According to the preference option, the destination page may be theTOC page 522, thefirst book page 523, or a book page other than thefirst book page 523 predetermined by the user. - The user may flip the pages of the virtual book by sliding a finger on the display or the flip bar of the handheld electronic device. In this embodiment, a finger slide is classified into a slow slide or a fast slide according to its speed. If a finger moves with a speed lower than a predetermined speed threshold, it is classified as a slow slide. If a finger moves with a speed higher than the predetermined speed threshold, it is classified as a fast slide. A fast slide is further classified as a fast short slide or a fast long slide according to its distance. If the distance of a fast slide is shorter than a predetermined distance threshold, it is classified as a fast short slide. If the distance of a fast slide is longer than the predetermined distance threshold, it is classified as a fast long slide. The following Table 1 summarizes the classification of finger slides.
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TABLE 1 Finger slide classification according to speed and distance Short distance Long distance Low speed Slow slide High speed Fast short slide Fast long slide - The flipping of the pages of the virtual book is classified into two types, single flipping and continuous flipping. The user may perform a single flipping with a fast slide and performs a continuous flipping with a slow slide.
- In a single flipping, the user flips the virtual book from the current page to a destination page. The flipping animation shows only the current page being flipped, as shown in
FIG. 5B . No matter how many pages are actually between the current page and the destination page, the intervening pages are simply skipped over. As shown in the following Table 2, there are three rules for the single flipping. The handheld electronic device may implement any one of the three rules.Rule 1 is the simplest, in which a fast slide always flips one book page. Inrule 2, a fast short slide flips only one book page and a fast long slide flips a predetermined number of book pages. The predetermined number may be set by the user. For example, a fast long slide may flip 5 or 10 pages of the virtual book. Inrule 3, a fast short slide flips only one book page and a fast long slide flips a number of book pages proportional to the slide distance. -
TABLE 2 Rules of single flipping Rule 1 Rule 2Rule 3 A fast slide A fast short slide flips one A fast short slide flips one always flips book page. A fast long book page. A fast long one book page. slide flips a predetermined slide flips a number of number of book pages. book pages proportional to the slide distance. - In a continuous flipping, several book pages are flipped at the same time as a slow slide of the user moves across the flip bar. The flipping continues until the user reaches the desired destination page and stops the slow slide. The flipping animation shows all the pages being flipped, as shown in
FIG. 7 . There are three rules for the continuous flipping as summarized in the following Table 3. Inrule 1, a book page is flipped each time when the finger slides across a predetermined number of pixels on the flip bar. For example, this predetermined number may be 60 pixels. In this case, one book page is flipped when a finger of the user slides across 60 pixels on the flip bar. Two book pages are flipped when the finger slides across 120 pixels on the flip bar, and so on. The number of book pages being flipped is proportional to the number of pixels the slow slide passes. - In
rule 2, the first book page is flipped when the finger slides across a first predetermined number of pixels on the flip bar, and then a following book page is flipped each time when the finger slides across a second predetermined number of pixels on the flip bar. For example, the first predetermined number may be 60 pixels and the second predetermined number may be 15 pixels. In this case, the second and the latter book pages are flipped faster inrule 2 than they are inrule 1. - In both
rule 1 andrule 2 of the continuous flipping, when the finger of the user reaches an end of the flip bar, the continuous flipping may simply stop. If the user wants to continue flipping in this case, he/she has to perform another slow slide across the flip bar. Alternatively, the flipping may continue when the finger of the user reaches one end of the flip bar. - In
rule 3, the flip bar is used like a scroll bar. The ratio of the number of book pages being turned to the total number of book pages is equal to the ratio of the distance of the slow slide to the total length of the flip bar. -
TABLE 3 Rules of continuous flipping Rule 1 Rule 2Rule 3Flip a page each time Flip a page when the finger slides The flip when the finger slides across a first predetermined number bar is across a predetermined of pixels on the flip bar, and then flip used like number of pixels on a page each time when the finger a scroll the flip bar. slides across a second predetermined bar. number of pixels on the flip bar. - In addition to the “forward” continuous flipping discussed above, the handheld electronic device may also support “backward” continuous flipping. After a forward continuous flipping, the user may perform a backward continuous flipping by slowly sliding a finger in a direction opposite to the direction of the previous forward continuous flipping. The backward continuous flipping can be used to return to the desired book page when the user accidentally flips too many pages with the forward continuous flipping. There are two rules for the backward continuous flipping as summarized in the following Table 4.
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TABLE 4 Rules of backward continuous flipping Rule 1 Rule 2Flip a page each time when the Each of the first few pages is flipped finger slides across a when the finger slides across a first predetermined number predetermined number of pixels on the of pixels on the flip bar. flip bar. Each of the following pages is flipped when the finger slides across a second predetermined number of pixels on the flip bar. - In
rule 1 of the backward continuous flipping, each time when a finger of the user slides across a predetermined number of pixels on the flip bar, one book page is flipped. For example, this predetermined number may be 25 pixels. In this case, the flipping speed of the backward continuous flipping is slower than that ofrule 2 of the forward continuous flipping (15 pixels per page). The reason for the slower speed is that it is easier to find the desired book page at a slower speed. -
Rule 2 of the backward continuous flipping implements two different flipping speeds. Inrule 2, each of the first few pages is flipped when the finger slides across a first predetermined number of pixels on the flip bar, and each of the following pages is flipped when the finger slides across a second predetermined number of pixels on the flip bar. For example, the first predetermined number may be 25 pixels, the second predetermined number may be 15 pixels, and the first few pages mentioned above may be the first three pages. - In another embodiment of the present invention, the user may flip the book pages by pressing the display or the flip bar of the handheld electronic device with a finger. If the pressure of the finger is lower than a predetermined pressure threshold, it is classified as a light press. If the pressure of the finger is higher than the predetermined pressure threshold, it is classified as a heavy press. The user may perform a single flipping with a light press and a continuous flipping with a heavy press. In the continuous flipping, the flipping speed may be proportional to the pressure. The handheld electronic device senses the contact pressure or the contact area of the finger on the touch panel in order to estimate the pressure of the finger.
- The handheld electronic device may include some buttons for rapid switching to predetermined pages of the virtual book. For example, please refer to
FIG. 1A . The handheld electronic device inFIG. 1A includes twotouch buttons button 130 flips the virtual book to the TOC page, while touching thebutton 150 flips the virtual book to the telephone page. In other embodiments of the present invention, such rapid switching buttons may be assigned to other book pages. The assignment may be default or determined by the user. The number and positions of the rapid switching buttons may be adjusted according to practical requirement. The rapid switching buttons may be physical buttons installed on the casing of the handheld electronic device or virtual touch buttons implemented on the touch panel of the handheld electronic device. - The virtual book may be rendered as a loose-leaf notebook which allows the user to adjust the positions of its book pages. Please refer to
FIG. 8 . Thevirtual book 800 is a loose-leaf notebook. In order to adjust the position of a book page, the user has to flip to the book page first, and then presses the book page for a predetermined duration. This predetermined duration may be a few seconds. If the current book page is pressed for the predetermined duration, the virtual book is displayed in a stand-up view as shown inFIG. 8 . In the stand-up view, the user may press theswitch 830 with a finger to unlock the current book page. The unlocked book page becomes aloose leaf 810. The user may drag theloose leaf 810 horizontally with a finger to adjust the position of theloose leaf 810. When the user releases his/her finger, theloose leaf 810 returns to the form of a book page and is attached to the new position. - In addition to moving a book page in the stand-up view, the user may also adjust the position of a book page by dragging the table entry corresponding to the book page in the TOC page.
- The book pages with small tabs in the stand-up view in
FIG. 8 , such as thebook page 820, are classification pages. The classification pages are designed for advanced users who need to organize a lot of book pages. Each classification page is a small TOC page including table entries corresponding to all book pages between the classification page and the next classification page or the bottom cover of the virtual book. The classification pages may be rendered with different colors for easier management and identification. Moreover, the user may assign words or messages for identification to the tabs of the classification pages. - In addition to moving book pages in the stand-up view, the user may also perform single flipping and continuous flipping in the stand-up view. Since the stand-up view displays many book pages at the same time, the user may turn to a book page directly by clicking on the book page with a finger.
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FIG. 9 . InFIG. 9 , the stand-up view includes anindex button 840. The user may press theindex button 840 with a finger to turn to the TOC page directly. Alternatively, the user may flip to the TOC page immediately by sliding a finger from the left end of the screen to the right end of the screen or from the right end of the screen to the left end of the screen. In other embodiments of the present invention, a finger slide from the left end of the screen to the right end of the screen may activate a predetermined function other than flipping to the TOC page. Similarly, a finger slide from the right end of the screen to the left end of the screen may activate another different predetermined function. - The user may delete a book page in the stand-up view.
FIGS. 10A-10D illustrate an exemplary flow of deleting a book page. First, as shown inFIG. 10A , the user flips the virtual book to abook page 1010 and then presses thepage 1010 with a finger for a predetermined time duration. If thebook page 1010 is pressed for the predetermined time duration, the display changes from the zoom-in view to the stand-up view. Next, the user presses thebutton 1020 and thebook page 1010 becomes a loose leaf, as shown inFIG. 10B . The user may drag theloose leaf 1010 downward with a finger, as shown inFIG. 10C . During the downward drag, theloose leaf 1010 crushes into waste paper. Adialog box 1030 appears to prompt the user to confirm the deletion, as shown inFIG. 10D . If the user selects “Yes” in thedialog box 1030, thebook page 1010 is deleted from the virtual book. - For some functions and services provided by the handheld electronic device, the display contents of their book pages may be extracted to become new book pages. For example, the photo currently displayed by a photo browser application may be extracted to become a new book page. This new book page only displays the extracted photo and does not include the other functions of the photo browser. Similarly, the web page currently displayed by a web browser may be extracted to become a new book page. This new book page only accesses the extracted web page.
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FIGS. 11A-11D illustrate an exemplary flow of adding a new book page by extraction. Assume thecurrent book page 1010 is a photo browser application and the user wants to extract the photo currently being displayed to become a new book page. First, the user presses thecurrent page 1010 for a predetermined time duration, as shown inFIG. 11A . After the user presses thecurrent page 1010 for the predetermined time duration, the display changes from the zoom-in view to the stand-up view. In the stand-up view, the user presses thebutton 1020 and thecurrent page 1010 becomes a loose leaf, as shown inFIG. 11B . The user may drag theloose leaf 1010 upward with a finger, as shown inFIG. 11C . When the upward drag is complete, adialog box 1040 appears to prompt the user to confirm the extraction, as shown inFIG. 11D . If the user selects “Yes” in thedialog box 1040, the photo displayed on thebook page 1010 becomes a new book page. This new book page may be directly behind thebook page 1010. Alternatively, the position of this new book page may be determined by the user. If thebook page 1010 is a web browser, the flow of extraction is the same as that illustrated inFIGS. 11A-11D . - Another way to delete or extract a book page is provided in the TOC page of the virtual book. The TOC page may include an “edit” button. When the user presses the edit button, a context menu appears on top of the TOC page. By selecting appropriate functions in the context menu, the user may delete a book page or extract the current display contents of a book page as a new book page.
- The virtual book of the handheld electronic device is expandable. The user may connect to a download server through the handheld electronic device to download additional book pages.
FIG. 12 is a schematic diagram showing abook page 1200 providing access to the download server. Thebook page 1200 represents the downloadable book pages in the form of the cards of a library catalog. The cards are arranged as a stack. Each card is corresponding to a downloadable book page. The user may scroll up or scroll down the stack to browse the cards. There are classification cards, such as thecards - The middle card in the stack, such as the
card 1230 inFIG. 12 , shows summary introduction of its corresponding downloadable book page. Themiddle card 1230 also shows apreview 1240 of its corresponding downloadable book page. The user may click on thepreview 1240 with a finger to see a full-screen view of the UI of the downloadable book page. If the user is interested, he/she may download this book page from the download server by clicking thedownload button 1250 with a finger. When the download is complete, this book page is added into the virtual book of the handheld electronic device. -
FIG. 12 is just an example. In some other embodiments of the present invention, the downloadable book pages may be represented in different ways. For example, the UI inFIG. 12 may be adjusted to have each card show summary introduction and a preview of its corresponding downloadable book pages. - A predetermined number of pages of the virtual book may be reserved for corporate operators of wireless service networks. These operator book pages may provide various services of the operators. For example, one of the operator book pages may display advertisements pushed from one of the operator. Moreover, the pushed advertisement may be updated at predetermined time intervals. The operator book pages are more noticeable to the user and are easier to find than conventional menu options. The operator book pages may be built-in, which already exist when the user purchases the handheld electronic device. If the user wants more operator book pages, he/she may download additional operator book pages from the download server mentioned above.
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FIG. 13A .FIG. 13A is a schematic diagram showing abook page 1300 and adialog box 1310. Thedialog box 1310 is rendered as a sticky note attached to thebook page 1300. Thedialog box 1310 notifies the user that there is an incoming short message and asks whether the user would like to view the short message or ignore it for now. If the user chooses to view the short message, the short message is displayed. If the user chooses to ignore the short message, as shown inFIG. 13B , asmall icon 1320 appears on top of thebook page 1300 to remind the user that there is an unviewed short message. In addition, the handheld electronic device may notify the user of important events, such as an incoming e-mail, an incoming phone call, or the low voltage level of the battery, with a similar sticky note dialog box on the book page. - When the handheld electronic device is in the idle mode, the handheld electronic device displays an idle screen which shows the virtual book in the zoom-out view, as shown in
FIG. 13C . In the idle screen, the handheld electronic device may notify the user of important events with a sticky note attached to the cover of the virtual book. If there is more than one important event, the handheld electronic device may consolidate them into a single sticky note, as shown inFIG. 13C . InFIG. 13C , thedisplay 1300 of the handheld electronic device shows avirtual book 1330 in the zoom-out view. Asticky note 1340 is attached to the cover of thevirtual book 1330. There are several icons on thesticky note 1340 representing various event notification. Theicon 1341 stands for an incoming phone call. Theicon 1342 stands for an incoming short message. Theicon 1343 stands for an incoming e-mail. There may be other icons representing other types of important events. - The virtual book may provide a “fast return” function, which allows the user to switch from a first book page to a second book page and then return to the first book page rapidly. For example, when the user is in a telephone conversation and wants to check the address of a friend, the user may turn to the book page of the address book through the fast return function.
FIG. 14 shows theaddress book page 1400 with a foldedcorner 1410. The folded corner is displayed by the fast return function. After the address checking, the user may return to the telephone book page rapidly by touching the foldedcorner 1410 with a finger. -
FIG. 15 is a flow chart showing the function menu of a book page of the virtual book. The steps S1510-S1570 inFIG. 15 show the UI of abook page 1581 providing short message service (SMS) in different situations. The flow begins at step S1510. - First, the
book page 1581 displays a preview of a short message 1582 (step S1510). The user may presses a “sub-menu” button (not shown) to reveal amenu 1583 of the book page 1581 (step S1520). The “sub-menu” button may be a physical button installed on the handheld electronic device, a touch button implemented on the touch panel of the handheld electronic device, or a virtual button displayed on thebook page 1581. Themenu 1583 is revealed by a visual effect of uncovering the lower part of thebook page 1581 and revealing themenu 1583 beneath thebook page 1581. Themenu 1583 includes four options, namely, creating a new short message (new), replying the short message (reply), forwarding the short message (forward), and deleting the short message (delete). The user may select any one of the options with a finger. - If the user selects the “new” option of the
menu 1583, the flow goes to step S1530. The handheld electronic device displays akeyboard 1584 for the user to enter a new short message. If the user selects the “reply” option of themenu 1583, the flow goes to step S1540. The handheld electronic device displays thekeyboard 1584 for the user to reply to theshort message 1582. - If the user touches the
short message 1582 with a finger at step S1510, the flow goes to step S1550. The handheld electronic device displays the entireshort message 1582 for viewing. The user may presses the “sub-menu” button to reveal anothermenu 1585 of the book page 1581 (step S1560). Similarly, themenu 1585 is revealed by a visual effect of uncovering the lower part of thebook page 1581. Themenu 1585 includes three options, namely, replying the short message (reply), forwarding the short message (forward), and deleting the short message (delete). The user may select any one of the options with a finger. If the user selects the “reply” option, the flow goes to step S1570. The handheld electronic device displays thekeyboard 1584 for the user to reply to theshort message 1582. - Each page of the virtual book may reveal its own function menu in the way mentioned above. The functions menus of the book pages may be different according to the functions and services provided by the book pages.
- It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various modifications and variations can be made to the structure of the present invention without departing from the scope or spirit of the invention. In view of the foregoing, it is intended that the present invention cover modifications and variations of this invention provided they fall within the scope of the following claims and their equivalents.
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1. A user interface display method for an electronic device, comprising:
organizing a plurality of computer programs and a web browser executable on the electronic device into a virtual book, wherein each page of the virtual book comprises a user interface of one of the computer programs or a web page displayed by the web browser; and
displaying one of the pages as a destination page in response to an operating action of a user on the electronic device so that the user interface or the web page of the destination page is accessible to the user.
2. The user interface display method of claim 1 , wherein the step of displaying the destination page comprises:
displaying a flipping of the virtual book from a current page to the destination page according to the operating action, wherein
the current page is one of the pages of the virtual book;
the flipping of the virtual book comprises a single flipping or a continuous flipping;
the displaying of the single flipping comprises displaying the flipping of the current page or the destination page, without displaying the flipping of the pages between the current page and the destination page; and
the displaying of the continuous flipping comprises displaying the flipping of the pages between the current page and the destination page.
3. The user interface display method of claim 2 , wherein the operating action comprises a slide performed by the user on a touch panel of the electronic device, and the user interface display method further comprises:
classifying the slide into a fast slide or a slow slide according to a speed of the slide;
displaying the single flipping in response to the fast slide; and
displaying the continuous flipping in response to the slow slide.
4. The user interface display method of claim 3 , wherein the single flipping is displayed in response to the fast slide and the destination page is the page directly adjacent to the current page.
5. The user interface display method of claim 3 , wherein the step of classifying the slide comprises:
classifying the fast slide into a fast short slide or a fast long slide according to a distance of the fast slide.
6. The user interface display method of claim 5 , wherein the step of classifying the fast slide comprises:
classifying the fast slide into the fast short slide if the distance of the fast slide is shorter than a predetermined distance threshold; and
classifying the fast slide into the fast long slide if the distance of the fast slide is longer than the predetermined distance threshold.
7. The user interface display method of claim 5 , wherein the single flipping is displayed in response to the fast short slide and the destination page is the page directly adjacent to the current page.
8. The user interface display method of claim 7 , wherein the single flipping is displayed in response to the fast long slide and a page distance from the current page to the destination page is a predetermined number.
9. The user interface display method of claim 7 , wherein the single flipping is displayed in response to the fast long slide and a page distance from the current page to the destination page is proportional to the distance of the fast long slide.
10. The user interface display method of claim 3 , wherein the continuous flipping is displayed in response to the slow slide and, in the continuous flipping, one page of the virtual book is flipped each time when the slow slide passes through a predetermined number of pixels on the touch panel.
11. The user interface display method of claim 3 , wherein the continuous flipping is displayed in response to the slow slide and, in the continuous flipping, one page of the virtual book is flipped when the slow slide passes through a first predetermined number of pixels on the touch panel, and then another page of the virtual book is flipped when the slow slide passes through a second predetermined number of pixels on the touch panel.
12. The user interface display method of claim 3 , wherein the continuous flipping is displayed in response to the slow slide, the touch panel comprises a flip bar, and a first ratio of a number of pages of the virtual book flipped in the continuous flipping to a total number of the pages of the virtual book is equal to a second ratio of the distance of the slow slide to a total length of the flip bar.
13. The user interface display method of claim 3 , wherein the operating action comprises the slow slide and a backward slow slide, the flipping of the virtual book comprises the continuous flipping in response to the slow slide and a backward continuous flipping in response to the backward slow slide, a direction of the backward slow slide is opposite to a direction of the slow slide, and a direction of the backward continuous flipping is opposite to a direction of the continuous flipping.
14. The user interface display method of claim 13 , wherein, in the backward continuous flipping, one page of the virtual book is flipped each time when the backward slow slide passes through a predetermined number of pixels on the touch panel.
15. The user interface display method of claim 13 , wherein, in the backward continuous flipping, one page of the virtual book is flipped when the backward slow slide passes through a first predetermined number of pixels on the touch panel, and then another page of the virtual book is flipped when the backward slow slide passes through a second predetermined number of pixels on the touch panel.
16. The user interface display method of claim 2 , wherein the operating action comprises a press performed by the user on a touch panel of the electronic device, and the user interface display method further comprises:
classifying the press into a light press or a heavy press according to a pressure of the press;
displaying the single flipping in response to the light press; and
displaying the continuous flipping in response to the heavy press.
17. The user interface display method of claim 16 , wherein a speed of the flipping of the pages in the continuous flipping is proportional to the pressure of the press.
18. An electronic device, comprising:
a touch panel; and
a display; wherein
the electronic device organizes a plurality of computer programs and a web browser executable on the electronic device into a virtual book, each page of the virtual book comprises a user interface of one of the computer programs or a web page displayed by the web browser;
the electronic device senses movement and/or pressure caused by a user of the electronic device on the touch panel and interprets the movement and/or the pressure as an operating action of the user on the virtual book;
the electronic device displays one of the pages as a destination page on the display in response to the operating action so that the user interface or the web page of the destination page is accessible to the user.
19. The electronic device of claim 18 , wherein the electronic device further displays a flipping of the virtual book from a current page to the destination page on the display according to the operating action; the current page is one of the pages of the virtual book; the flipping of the virtual book comprises a single flipping or a continuous flipping; the displaying of the single flipping comprises displaying the flipping of the current page or the destination page, without displaying the flipping of the pages between the current page and the destination page; the displaying of the continuous flipping comprises displaying the flipping of the pages between the current page and the destination page.
20. The electronic device of claim 19 , wherein the operating action comprises a slide performed by the user on the touch panel; the electronic device classifies the slide into a fast slide or a slow slide according to a speed of the slide, displays the single flipping on the display in response to the fast slide, and displays the continuous flipping on the display in response to the slow slide.
21. The electronic device of claim 20 , wherein the electronic device further classifies the fast slide into a fast short slide or a fast long slide according to a distance of the fast slide.
22. The electronic device of claim 21 , wherein the electronic device displays the single flipping in response to the fast short slide and the destination page is the page directly adjacent to the current page.
23. The electronic device of claim 22 , wherein the electronic device displays the single flipping in response to the fast long slide and a page distance from the current page to the destination page is a predetermined number.
24. The electronic device of claim 20 , wherein the electronic device displays the continuous flipping in response to the slow slide and, in the continuous flipping, one page of the virtual book is flipped each time when the slow slide passes through a predetermined number of pixels on the touch panel.
25. The electronic device of claim 20 , wherein the operating action comprises the slow slide and a backward slow slide, the flipping of the virtual book comprises the continuous flipping in response to the slow slide and a backward continuous flipping in response to the backward slow slide, a direction of the backward slow slide is opposite to a direction of the slow slide, and a direction of the backward continuous flipping is opposite to a direction of the continuous flipping.
26. The electronic device of claim 25 , wherein, in the backward continuous flipping, one page of the virtual book is flipped when the backward slow slide passes through a first predetermined number of pixels on the touch panel, and then another page of the virtual book is flipped when the backward slow slide passes through a second predetermined number of pixels on the touch panel.
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