KR20060130168A - A method, system, apparatus, and computer program product for controlling and browsing virtual book - Google Patents

Abstract

A hardware and software system including a controller that can be operatively combined with several methods of display screen under software and hardware control for the purpose of browsing through data stored in a memory device. The browsing of the data stored in a memory device is facilitated in such a way that it allows a rapid view of what contents are present and the organization of the material in the data, as well as rapid access to the items in the data involved. The controllers [203] in the system have specialized functions for effecting various actions on the data displayed on the display screen [201] in such a way that users can rapidly browse through the data involved. The method of display may include interaction with CD-R, CD-RW, DVD, a portable optical large volume storage disk, a portable large volume non-optical storage medium, a TV, and an HDTV.

Description

Virtual book control and browsing methods, systems, devices, and computer program products {A METHOD, SYSTEM, APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR CONTROLLING AND BROWSING VIRTUAL BOOK}

Cross-References to Related Patent Documents

This application claims the priority of US Application No. 60 / 410,278 filed September 13, 2002. The related application of this application is U.S. Patent 5,909,207, U.S. Patent 6,064,384, U.S. Patent 6,407,757, U.S. Patent 6,340,980, and U.S. Patent Application No. 09 / 617,043, filed Jul. 14, 2000, co-pending. United States Patent Application No. 09 / 686,902, filed October 12, 2000, co-pending and United States Patent Application No. 09 / 686,965, filed October 12, 2000, September 2001 US patent application Ser. No. 60 / 318,638, filed 13, US patent application Ser. No. 10 / 029,718, filed Jan. 23, 2001, co-pending, US patent application Ser. 029,868, co-pending US patent application Ser. No. 10 / 142,858, filed May 13, 2002, co-pending US patent application Ser. No. 10 / 143,005, filed May 13, 2002, co-pending March 2002 Application dated 19 United States Patent and No. 60 / 365,186 calls, and copending dated 28 March 2002 filed a US patent application No. 60 / 367,765 calls, the entire contents of which are incorporated herein included.

The present invention relates to a hardware and software system including a controller that can be operatively associated with various display methods on a display screen under software and hardware control for browsing through data stored in a memory device. This facilitates browsing of the data stored in the memory element in a manner that allows quick access to items in the relevant data as well as quick viewing of what content is present and organization of the data in the data. In particular, the present invention relates to controllers having functions specialized to affect various operations on data displayed on a display screen in a manner that users can quickly browse through the associated data.

Currently, the way to view documents stored on a virtual device is through the virtual monitor screen. For longer / larger documents that may be included in one screen, use a "mouse" in conjunction with scroll bars at the edge of the document displayed on the screen, for example, or by using a hypertext link. Means are provided for folding up and down the document or jumping to a specific point in the document.

However, most people do not think that this is a particularly convenient way of looking at documents compared to books. As a proof of this, the use of virtual devices is increasing, but the amount of paper required to print what is not only reduced in paper usage, but also conveniently stored in virtual devices that can be easily and flexibly manipulated, is increasing. . Occasionally, such as printing pictures on a sheet of paper to be applied to a surface (eg a wall), or the convenience of having a relatively light, hard paperback book that can be read in almost any possible situation and location. Although a printed version of the information is required, it is very satisfying for the reader to sit at a desk in front of the desktop virtual device or to handle a laptop virtual device away from the desk, and even the reader prefers a printed version of the document in a portable format. Sometimes. This is especially true when examining a manual, including a software manual, to understand how to operate a device or software application. Unfortunately, virtual software packages usually come with a thick and heavy manual that contains information that can be easily stored on a light CD-ROM, and although manuals are sometimes exempted from the form of CD-ROMs, most people prefer to read for convenience. Print them in the form of paper.

When a person interacts with the printed material in a book, a complex subtle process is involved. First of all, the data in a book exist in sequence, with each page being a series of data, and the presented data has a hierarchical structure (when the data is organized into chapters, paragraphs, and subparagraphs). This is because they are related to each other by the conceptual hierarchy of. The human concept system sequentially enters data, and after the book is read from beginning to end in a sequential fashion, the brain sees relevant data and then recreates the concept hierarchy. However, very often a person does not read from beginning to end (or does not enter relevant material) for the following reasons: That is, (a) a person wants to get an overview of a given material, (b) a person searches for something of interest to him, or (c) a person is interested in reading only parts of a book (say, , Read manuals to understand how to do something). In these cases, the person reads through the subject booklet to find material that is of particular interest to the reader.

Two basic things are accomplished in the browsing process. First, the browser first glances at what the book document's content is. Second, the browser has an idea of where the items of interest are roughly so that the browser can (a) return later to find them when needed, and (b) understand the relationship between the data currently being viewed and other materials ( That is, the associated hierarchical structure). When browsing a book document, many finger gestures are required in the browser to flip through the pages, which, together with the inherent sequential order imposed by the page, cause the browser to be very quickly involved in the properties, location, and organization of related materials. Make sure you understand

In the course of reading the book, a person can perform the following operations. In other words,

(a) page through pages at variable speeds depending on the level of detail a person wants to see in the book;

(b) jump to the approximate location of the item of interest;

(c) very quickly changes the turning direction (front or rear) for the following reasons:

(i) a person wishes to compare and contrast data on different pages;

(ii) after jumping to the approximate location of certain items of interest, a person would like to find their exact location;

(iii) when a person is not sure where the item of interest is and in the process of searching it,

(d) Mark the locations of certain pages of interest that a person may later want to return.

All these operations are performed very quickly with the fingers interacting with the flipping page and with minimal unnecessary movement of the fingers and hands. Interestingly, books / magazines with smooth, flexible pages are more difficult to handle because they require more finger and hand movement to read as they please, while books with hard pages can be read with little hand movement.

In the current available methods of reading a document stored in a virtual device as it is, such as using a mouse associated with a scroll bar and a button on a virtual screen, more hand movement is required to perform the various operations described above. In addition, fine control of the hand or finger may be used to place the cursor on the screen at the required location (depending on whether the mouse moves the cursor on the screen using hand movement or finger movement as in the case of a track ball). need. This process is all boringly long and awkward. This tedious long process is detrimental to the human's short-term memory ability to remember items that they have just encountered in order to establish relationships between items, and the awkwardness of the process causes disturbance and is a well-known effect in perceptual psychology. It interferes with the memory process.

Because the material of the book is organized into pages, it also enhances the reader's ability to better remember the location of the various parts of the material involved. Also, unlike the process of scrolling through a document on the screen, as is normally done in a word-processor, where content becomes blurred and unreadable , when a person moves over a book by moving it over , If not, you can still read at least the approximate content. It is due to this feature that as soon as the book is read, the reader is well informed about the content, the location of the particular item, and the organization of the material.

It is because the reasons described above, that is, people still prefer to read books in their hands, rather than document images displayed on a virtual screen using currently available methods.

U.S. Patent 5,467,102 (Kuno et al.) Discloses an apparatus for viewing a document consisting of two display screens. One purpose of using two display screens is to allow a user to display two different pages from a document so that they can be read side by side (e.g., schematics and their written descriptions). Another purpose is to allow large pictures to be displayed simultaneously on two pages. Devices such as Kuno allow the user to change the speed of movement through the document through the pressure sensor. The more pressure is applied, the faster the pages in the document move. The device of Kuno et al. Also allows the document to be viewed forward or backward by pressing the front sensor area or the rear sensor area, respectively. A person can also select and jump to a page by pressing an icon displayed on the screen. However, Kuno et al. Still do not offer the convenience of flipping through a book, which is mainly when switching between actions for different control-the speed of travel through the document, the change of viewing direction and different parts of the document. Jumping to-because there are much more hand and finger movements compared to manipulating physical books. Moreover, while Kuno et al.'S device is a specialized, relatively expensive device with hardware consisting of a sensor and two display screens, the inventors found that lower cost and more practical devices were added by modules to existing virtual systems. I knew it could be.

 Currently, there are also virtual mice that can eliminate the aforementioned problem of placing the cursor on the virtual screen with a conventional mouse (i.e. fine control of hands or fingers is required). These mice allow the user to define "hot locations" on the screen where the cursor "homes" with less fine control than conventional mice. Moreover, a subset of these mice can cause "vertical only" or "horizontal only" movement of the cursor so that the scrolling process requires less fine control of muscle than is required in conventional mice. These mice eliminate some, if not all, of the problems associated with conventional methods of virtual input as long as virtual-based document browsing is involved.

In US Pat. No. 5,417,575 (1995), McTaggart discloses an e-book comprising laminated sheets bound together in the form of a book. In each of these sheets, the printed material is placed over the top layer and underneath that layer is an electronic backdrop comprising thin light emitting diodes (LED's) and a pressure sensitive switch attached to the backing sheet. LEDs generate a visual signal that can be seen through the top layer to highlight a portion of the printed material. Pressure switches, placed below certain items in the printed material, are for detecting user selection of such items. Speakers are also provided in the book to generate audio signals to describe text or give audio feedback to the user. Contacts or light-sensitive switches are embedded in the page, allowing the electronics to know which page is currently being viewed, so that appropriate audio and visual signals can be generated. Hardwired devices that are not reprogrammed by default, although these devices are in the form of allowing somebody to treat them like a typical book, with the convenience of accepting user feedback as well as visual and audio enhancement of printed material. And different hardware should be configured for books with different content. There is no condition for downloading document files from the virtual device for display on an electronic desk, and the electronic book cannot display any document file. Therefore, such a device is not suitable for reading documents stored in a virtual device.

U. S. Patent No. 5,909, 207 (Ho) discloses a virtual-based system that allows a user to view and manipulate documents in the form of an electronic virtual book that addresses the aforementioned problem of browsing information in an electronic medium. This virtual book system simulates very close to a paper book and has two main components. One is the display of the paper book on the virtual screen, complete with the actual flipping page and thickness display. Another is the use of a browsing device according to the following. In other words,

1. Change the turning direction quickly,

2. Change the speed of passing quickly,

3. Select and jump to any desired page

4. Bookmark the page.

The browsing device allows a person to use a lot of fingers to manipulate pages of a book in the same way as a paper book. Therefore, virtual manipulation of the pages together with the book image on the screen constitutes the virtual book system. Such a virtual book system improves the method used in current electronic means of browsing information in a very important way, so that the ease of browsing information can be approached to what can be achieved with paper books. This allows the user to quickly turn over a very large number of pages (possibly thousands of pages) of information and get an idea of the structure and related content and a good overview of the overall data collection within the "virtual book." In addition to having a good idea of the structure and content of the associated material, the process of reading as it is presented in the form of a virtual book, much like the case of a paper book, also facilitates the continuous search of items in the material. do.

In US Pat. No. 5,909,207 (Ho), a virtual book browsing device consists essentially of pressure and position sensors. The pressure applied by the finger on the pressure sensor controls the speed of turning pages in the virtual book. In a virtual book system, the movement of a finger on a position sensor on a browsing device corresponds to the movement of a finger in the thickness of a paper book for selecting a page to jump to. Therefore, the combination of pressure and position sensors allows people to read virtual books as quickly as they want.

However, the information presentation and browsing method described in US Pat. No. 5,909,207 (Ho) can be further improved by integrating it into an integrated system with several system components with a single button operation for most of the desired functions. . This will significantly improve the consumer use of the system.

Therefore, the inventors have found that there is a need for specialized systems for presenting virtual book systems for the consumer-oriented market. In particular, there is a need for specialized systems to present a virtual book system that can be interfaced to a computer, a regular or large-screen television (TV), or a regular or large-screen high-definition television (HDTV). There is also a need to interface virtual book systems with CD-R, CD-RW, DVD, and similar optical / non-optical portable mass storage disks or non-disc media.

To the above-mentioned drawbacks of the methods currently available to provide consumers with simple actions for triggering various desired actions in the virtual book system, such as controlling and browsing a virtual book with one button. In light of the above, one object of the present invention is to provide a memory and control device for providing one button operation and display operations for data transfer.

It is yet another object of the present invention to provide a controller that works in conjunction with a memory and a control device to effectively and quickly control and browse a virtual book in a virtual book system.

Yet another object of the present invention is to place and design the control of the actions performed by the fingers on the controller to minimize the movement of the fingers, thus maximizing the ease of flipping the displayed virtual book. Agility of the human finger can be used for this control.

Each of these purposes can be used to display and / or CD-R, CD-RW, DVD, and similar optical / non-optical portable mass storage discs on a computer, regular or large-screen television (TV), or regular or large-screen high-definition television (HDTV). Or for the purpose of interfacing with non-disk media.

A more complete understanding of the invention and its several attendant advantages can be readily obtained and better understood with reference to the following detailed description when considered in conjunction with the accompanying drawings.

1A is a top perspective view of a virtual book displayed on a display screen used to display information from memory and control devices.

1B is a top perspective view of a virtual book displayed on a display screen in the course of jumping forward many pages in the book;

1C is a top perspective view of a virtual book displayed on a display screen in the course of flipping to the next page;

1D is a top perspective view of a virtual book displayed on a display screen in the course of flipping many pages.

1E is a top perspective view of an exemplary fictional book displayed on a display screen during the process of selecting a page whose thickness is expanded to allow finer clarity during page selection;

2 is a front perspective view of a virtual book display and control system with three main components, a display screen, a memory and a control device and a controller.

Fig. 3A is a top perspective view of a fictitious book showing the basic flipping process.

3B is a top perspective view of some fictitious books illustrating the process of jumping to selected pages.

4A is a top perspective view of a virtual book at the beginning of any complex flipping processed.

4B is a top perspective view of a fictitious book showing a change in orientation of all flipping pages.

4C is a top perspective view of a fictitious book showing a change in orientation of a trailing page;

4D is a top perspective view of a fictitious book showing a change in orientation of a group of trailing pages.

4E is a top perspective view of a fictitious book showing the opening of an area in a flipping page.

Fig. 4F is a top perspective view of a fictitious book showing the change of orientation of the right subgroup of the flipping pages.

Fig. 4G is a top perspective view of a fictitious book showing the change of orientation of multiple trailing pages in the right subgroup of the flipping pages.

Fig. 4H is a top perspective view of a fictitious book showing the change of orientation of multiple trailing pages in the left subgroup of the flipping pages.

4I is a top perspective view of the virtual book showing stopping the flipping operation of the page in the middle of flipping across the virtual book.

5A is a top perspective view of a fictitious book showing a collection of flipping pages following a series of single flipping pages.

5B is a top perspective view of a fictitious book showing one or more flipping page collections with multiple single flipping pages.

Fig. 6A is a top perspective view of a fictitious book showing the right page picked up.

6B is a top perspective view of a fictitious book showing pinned and flipped pickup pages.

Fig. 7 is a top perspective view of the fictitious book showing the pickup page being fixed while the other pages are returned to respective rest positions on the left and right sides of the imaginary book.

Figure 8 is a top perspective view of a fictitious book showing the collection of pages being pinned and flipped.

9 is a top perspective view of a fictitious book showing a collection of multiple single pages and pages that are pinned and flipped.

Fig. 10A is a top perspective view of a fictitious book showing a single page that is fixed while multiple different flipping pages are being collected.

Fig. 10B is a top perspective view of a fictitious book showing the effect of maintaining and flipping a collection of multiple pages.

Fig. 10C is a top perspective view of a fictitious book showing the effect of releasing multiple pages from collection of pages.

Fig. 11A is a top perspective view of a virtual book showing the collection of pages that are fixed while flipping and browsing operations are performed on multiple pages between them and forming a sub-book with the right thickness of the virtual book.

Figure 11B is a top perspective view of a fictitious book showing two collections that are fixed while forming flipping and browsing operations on multiple pages between them to form a sub-book between them.

12 is a list of basic and complex flipping operations.

Figure 13 is a top perspective view of a controller for controlling virtual books and other displayed items on a display screen.

Figure 14 is a front perspective view of a memory and control device for transmitting signals for displaying and controlling an image displayed on a display screen.

Figure 15 is an interface displayed on a display screen for selection and manipulation of an image displayed on a display screen.

Figure 16 is a front perspective view of a virtual book display and control system with three components, a menu displayed on the display screen, as well as a display screen, memory and control device, and a controller.

FIG. 17 is a virtual book top level menu showing selections for activating memory in a memory copy, viewed from various memory sources. FIG.

Fig. 18 is a menu for selecting and operating a folder on a memory source.

Fig. 19 is another menu for selecting and operating a folder on a memory source.

20 is a menu for setting system parameters.

Figure 21 is a front perspective view of a virtual book displayed on the display screen of the main system.

Figure 22 is a menu superimposed on a front perspective view of a virtual book displayed on a display screen of the main system, illustrating various options including recording the virtual book on a memory medium.

Figure 23 is a front perspective view of a virtual book displayed on the display screen of the main system with the displayed jump cursor.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS In the drawings, like reference numerals designate like or corresponding parts in the various figures, in particular FIG. Basically, information is displayed on two pages as in an open book. At this stage, many pages were read as desired and collected in the "virtual book" 100. The amount of data before and after the current pages (visible pages) is shown as the varying thickness of each of the left and right sides 101 and 102 of the book (as well as the left and right bottom edges 103 and 104). The left and right thicknesses 101 and 102 show a number of bookmarks 105-107 that bookmark a portion of the page already viewed. There are three types of bookmarks in this thickness. These are page bookmarks 105, annotation bookmarks 106, and finger bookmarks 107. A plurality of keyword bookmarks 108 are shown in floor thicknesses 103 and 104. The Internet URL (Universal Resource Locator) field 109 on the virtual book 100 allows a URL address to be entered.

In order to allow the user to select a certain page, jump cursors 110 and 111 are provided on the left and right thicknesses 101 and 102. The user can move the left or right jump cursors 110 and 111 respectively up and down the left and right thicknesses 101 and 102 using a mouse or other control. The page number can appear on the tag of the jump cursor to display the page selected by the jump cursor. When the user decides to jump to a page using the jump cursor to select that page, the user can use a mouse or other input device to activate the jump.

1B is a diagram illustrating a process in which a selected page in the virtual book 100 is jumped. This jump was activated by the selection of a bookmark (eg, page-bookmark 105) or by a jump cursor (eg, jump cursor 110 or 111). The thickness 112 between the original page in view 113 and the page jumped to 114 is shown to move across a virtual screen in a continuous animation much like the case of a physical book.

1C illustrates the process by which one page 120 in the virtual book 100 is flipped. Page 120 is shown to be moving across the virtual screen to reveal the folded page 121 lying below.

FIG. 1D illustrates a process in which more than one page 122-125 is shown moving across the virtual screen at the same time due to the increased speed of moving through the virtual book 100 by flipping pages. The user can choose to stop all moving pages.

1E shows a particular cursor mode in which the thickness of the page in the area of the jump cursor 110 or 111 is selected to enter the fine adjustment mode. Due to the resolution of the screen, if the thickness of the page 101 or 102 is used to display a large number of pages while the thickness indication on the virtual screen has only a limited number of pixels, then the thickness 101 or The movement of the jump cursor 110 or 111 at 102 may not allow the user to select some pages. Therefore, a fine adjustment mode is needed. One embodiment is to immediately click on a jump cursor (ie, jump cursor 111), and the thickness area near jump cursor 111 is " expanded " The thickness indicated in the rectangle 150 indicates a subset of the page indicated by the full thickness 102, near the page currently pointed to by the jump cursor 111. When the jump cursor 111 moves up and down the thickness in the rectangle 150, it can traverse the page at a finer level than at the original thickness 102. Another thickness 102 can also be “enlarged”, allowing even finer page access on thickness 102.

2 illustrates one embodiment of a system 200 targeted to a general consumer market. System 200 consists of a display screen 201, a memory and control device 202, and a controller 203. The display screen 201 may be a computer screen, a TV screen or another kind of display screen. Apparatus 200 may be a computer-based system or other kind of system for generating a virtual book interface on display screen 201 to display information in virtual book format 204 with instructions. The controller 203 may be any signal generating signal required for the device 202 to generate the necessary image for a mouse, keyboard, custom (wireless or wired) remote controller, or display screen (e.g., TV or DVD remote controller). It can be another kind of input device.

3A illustrates the basic flipping mechanism of a virtual book 1000 on a computer screen. The left page 1010 and the right page 1011 are stationary while three pages 1020, 1021, 1022 are flipped across from the right side to the left side simultaneously. The faster you move through a book, the more pages flip at the same time and vice versa. (At least, one page can be flipped across). The movement speed through the virtual book 1000 is proportional to the movement speed of each flipped page while flipping from the right side to the left side of the virtual book 1000 and vice versa. When flipping pages 1020, 1021, and 1022 reach the left side of the virtual book 1000, they are collected there, forming part of the left side of the virtual book 1000. Therefore, the thicknesses 1005 and 1006 on both sides of the virtual book are changed as a result of page disappearing from the corresponding side or stacking of pages on the corresponding page.

3B shows the basic jumping mechanism as a result of activation of the jump cursor 1030 on the right thickness 1006 or bookmark 1035 on the right thickness 1006. The page collection between the current right page 1011 and the jumping page 1006 is shown flipped across from the right side to the left side of the virtual book 1000. The thickness 1040 proportional to the number of pages between the right page 1011 and the page 1045 for jumping is shown as moving across the virtual book 1000 accordingly.

4 through 11 illustrate more complex flipping operations of a page as a result of receiving a browsing control command described in detail later.

4A shows a number of pages 1110-1113 and the like flipped from the right side of the virtual book 1100 to the left side of the virtual book 1100. (Pages 1114 and 1115 are still resting on the right side of the virtual book 1100). Starting from this flipping state of all pages 1110-1113 and the like in Fig. 4A, Fig. 4B shows the flipping direction of all pages 1110-1113 and the like whose direction is reversed and changed in the middle of flipping. Starting from the flipping state of all pages 1110-1113 in FIG. 4A, FIG. 4C shows the direction of the trailing page 1113 that is reversed and changed in the middle flip while the other pages 1110-1112 The flip is continued to the left of the virtual book 1100.

Starting from the flipping state of all four pages 1110-1113 of the virtual book 1100 in FIG. 4A and several more pages 1114, 1115 that are launched in the same direction (from right to left) in succession. 4D shows the flipping direction of the group of trailing pages 1113, 1114 and 1115 that are reversed and changed in direction from left to right. The region 1120 between two sets of pages (1110-1112 on the one hand and 1113-1115 on the other) begins to "open" and as both sets of pages continue to be flipped further in the opposite direction, Figure 4E. In the region 1112 on the one hand (pages 1110-1112 and on the other hand, the area 1121 between pages 1113-1115 is further opened.

A portion of all pages 1110-1115 of the virtual book 1100 in FIG. 4E, with portions of pages 1110-1112 flipped from right to left and portions of pages 1113-1115 flipped from left to right. Starting from the ripping state, when some browsing control command is given, Fig. 4D shows the flipping direction of the trailing pages 1113, 1114, and 1112 that are reversed and changed in the direction of progressing from left to right, while The other pages 1110, 1111, 1112 are continuously flipped from right to left.

Flipping of all pages 1100-1115 of the virtual book 1100 in FIG. 4E, with some pages 1110-1112 flipping from right to left and some pages 1113-1115 flipping from left to right. Starting from the state, when any browsing control command is given, as shown in Fig. 4G, the flipping direction of the group of trailing pages 1113 and 1114 of the group of pages 1113-1115 on the right side is reversed to the right. It is changed to flip to the left, thereby creating a progressively expanding area 1124.

Some pages 1110-1112 are flipped from right to left and some pages 1113-1115 are flipped from left to right, flipping of all pages 1110-1115 of the virtual book 1100 in FIG. 4E. Starting from the state, when any browsing control command is given, as shown in Fig. 4H, the flipping direction of the group of trailing pages 1111 and 1112 of the page 1110-1112 group on the left side is inverted to the left. Is changed from to to the right to create a progressively expanding region 1125.

4I starts with the flipped configuration of the virtual book 1100 in FIG. 4A, that is to say starting with the flipped configuration of the virtual book 1100 in FIGS. 4B-4H, all pages stop flipping. And "stop" in the middle of the flip.

After the pages enter this stationary state, they can be "unfreeted". After "freeze" there are four situations. That is, 1. the page is released and the individual pages continue to flip in the direction before the stop, 2. the page is released and all the pages are flipped in the same direction, 3. the page is released and some pages are paused on the left To flip from right to left so that some are flipped from left to right to rest on the right side of the book, and 4. the page is released and the subgroups of the page are flipped in different directions.

FIG. 5A first shows that the collection of page 1212 is being flipped from right to left as a result of a jump operation due to a bookmark or jump cursor activation as shown in FIG. 3B, and this collection then continues to have multiple launches. Trailing single flipped pages 1213-1215.

Starting with the flipping configuration of FIG. 5A, where collection of flipping pages 1212 is in accordance with multiple flipped single pages 1213-1215, further launching collection of pages 1216 is shown in FIG. 3B. It is activated as shown in Fig. 5B as a result of the jump operation due to the same bookmark or jump cursor activation. Subsequently, it is possible to further launch any combination of a single flipping page and / or a collection of flipping pages. Flipping includes stopping at an intermediate flip of all or some subgroups of this combination of collection of single flipping pages and / or flipping pages in a manner similar to that described for the single flipping pages of FIGS. 4B-4I. Subsequent changes to the direction of and other moving effects are possible. In other words, collection of pages such as 1212 and 1216 operates like a single page of FIGS. 4B-4I.

6A and 6B illustrate a hold and flip method for manipulating flipping pages. The page is initially paused, i.e., starting from the configuration on the right side of the virtual book 1300, such as the page 1306 shown in Figure 6A, the pointer 1310 is on the right side of the virtual book 1310. The page 1306 is picked up from its rest position, and then the page is flipped by the pointer 1310 from right to left or left to right as shown in FIG. 6B. In this way, both sides of page 1306 can be inspected repeatedly in predetermined multiples.

In another way to enter the "hold and flip" mode, Figure 7 shows the pointer 1410 picking up the flipping page 1404 in the middle of the flipping operation, which is the flipping configuration shown in Figure 4A. It can be either a flipping page or a page in a stationary state as shown in Fig. 4I. Thereafter, all the pages 1401-1403 on the left side and all the pages 1405-1407 on the right side are inclined, and ends at the left and right sides of the virtual book 1400, respectively, with a pause.

8 picks up a collection of pages 1503 in a virtual book 1500 and illustrates the subsequent flipping operation. This is a hold and flip method that manipulates the collection of flipping pages instead of just a single page. The collection of pages 1503 is, in other words, from the right side of the virtual book 1500 or, in other words, the operation of flipping in a configuration such as that shown in FIG. 5B, which is shown such that the collection of multiple flipping pages is a flipping operation. It can be picked up from the middle.

9 illustrates a simultaneous hold and flip operation applied to the collection of one or more single pages (eg, 1603, 1604) and / or pages (eg, 1605). A number of pointers 1610-1612 are involved in the fixing and flipping operations.

10A and 10B illustrate a fixing and collecting method of manipulating pages in the virtual book 1700. The page 1705 in the virtual book 1700 is first picked up by the pointer 1710 (when the page 1705 is resting on the right or left side of the virtual book 1700 or in the middle of some flipping operation). . Then, for its left and / or right sides, the pages 1720-1725 are initially in the middle of some flipping operation or on the left and / or right side of the virtual book 1700, whether at rest on the page ( All are "collected" to 1705, thus causing the collection of pages 1706 as shown in Figure 10B. This entire collection 1706 can be flipped as shown in FIG. 10B.

10C shows a number of pages 1730-1733 that are released from the collection of pages 1707 that are pinned at the intermediate flips by pointer 1710.

11A illustrates a hold and browse method for manipulating pages in a virtual book 1800. A single page and / or collection of pages 1801 is first picked up by pointer 1810. This collection of pages 1801 and right thickness 1803 then becomes a new "subbook", in which all sorts of browsing and flipping operations are applied to multiple pages (such as pages 1805-1808). May occur.

11B illustrates another hold and browse method for manipulating pages in a virtual book 1800 that includes a collection of two pages 1801 and 1804. The collection of two pages 1801 and 1804 is picked up by two pointers 1810 and 1811 respectively. The collection of these two pages 1810, 1811 then becomes a "sub book", where all sorts of browsing and flipping operations can occur for multiple pages (such as pages 1805-1808). have. In general, the collection of any two pages and / or pages may be a “subbook,” and a general browsing and flipping operation of multiple pages may occur between them.

12 is a diagram summarizing both the basic and complex flipping operations described above.

All of the complex flipping operations shown in FIGS. 3-11 are directed to a mouse, one of the browsing controllers described in US Pat. No. 5,909,207 (Ho), and one of these browsing controllers associated with a mouse and / or other pointing and control method. Can be controlled by In particular, the flipping operation can be controlled by a controller as shown in FIG.

The controller 3001 shown in Fig. 13 combines several functions into a single controller. The remote controller 3001

1. Control 204 flipping operation of the virtual book,

2. display one or more menus and select to be displayed on display screen 201,

3. Select the item on the displayed menu that is displayed on the display screen 201,

4. Ejection of the DVD drive or trigger some operation, such as erasing any selected memory on the memory and control device 202.

The STANDBY button 3010 on the controller (computer) turns on or off the display screen 201 and / or any other circuitry in the memory and control device 202. The CLOSE button 3011 closes the menu or virtual book 204 on the display screen 201, returns from full-screen zoom (described below), or returns from thickness or bookmark selection mode (described below).

The ZOOM-LEFT and ZOOM-RIGHT buttons 3012 and 3013 enlarge the left and right pages in full screen mode, respectively. The UP and DOWN buttons 3014 and 3018 are for moving up and down selections on the menus or bookmarks 105-107 displayed on the side of the virtual book 204. (I.e., when there is no mouse, the method for selecting multiple bookmarks is to first choose to enter bookmark mode (e.g. by pressing button 3024 described below), then highlight several vertically placed bookmarks. Use the UP and DOWN buttons 3014 and 3018 to select it, and when something is needed, it is selected by pressing the "OK" button 3017 (described below).)

The LEFT and RIGHT buttons 3015 and 3016 are for the Y-direction and right-direction selection movement on the menu, on the bookmark, on the thickness 101, 102, or on the left and right pages. When a menu, bookmark, thickness or other mode is entered, the LEFT and RIGHT buttons 3015 and 3016 are for flipping the page to the left or right, respectively, unless the LEFT and RIGHT buttons 3015 and 3016 are entered. OK button 3017 is for confirmation of any selected option. LEFT THICKNESS and RIGHT THICKNESS 3019 and 3020 are for selection of left and right thicknesses 101 and 102 on the virtual books 100 and 204. The BOOKMARK button 3021 is for selecting to enter a bookmark mode. In bookmark mode, a person can choose to add a bookmark as a page, remove a bookmark from a page, or jump to a bookmark page. The process is as follows. First, the BOOKMARK button 3012 is pressed. The system then enters the bookmark mode. Subsequently, assuming that there are already a number of bookmarks (eg, bookmarks 105-107 in FIG. 1A) placed on the virtual book 100 or 204, the user selects one of the bookmarks from the left thickness 101. The LEFT button 3015 may then be used to highlight that the UP and DOWN buttons 3014 and 3018 are intended to select the particular bookmark desired. When a given bookmark is selected, pressing the OK button 3017 causes the virtual book 204 to flip to the bookmarked page, matching the thickness animation as shown in FIG. 1B.

The use of the LEFT and RIGHT THICKNESS buttons 3019 and 3020 is as follows. First, the user uses buttons 3019 and 3020 to select left or right thicknesses 101 and 102 in the virtual book 100 or 204. A jump cursor 110 or 111 appears on the thickness indicating the selected position in the thickness. (The location selected in the thickness corresponds to a point in the virtual book 204). To change the selected position on the thickness, the user uses the LEFT or RIGHT button to move the cursor (110 or 111 in the virtual book 100) to the left or right until a predetermined position is reached. Then, pressing the OK button 3017, the virtual book 204 is flipped to a predetermined page, to coincide with the thickness animation as shown in Fig. 1B.

The MENU button 3022, when pressed, displays a menu on the display screen 201 to trigger various actions. The AUTOFLIP button 3023, when pressed, causes the virtual book 204 to enter an auto-fliping mode in which the page automatically flips without having to press any flipping page. The FLIPTO button 3024 allows the user to choose to flip to a number of predetermined pages. When the button 3024 is pressed, a menu appears on the display screen 201 and the user can choose to flip to any predetermined page based on the front cover, back cover, or page number.

When pressed, the COPY button 3025 causes the contents of the memory on the memory and control device 202 to be copied to another recording medium (such as a recordable CD) that is inserted into the memory and control device 202. EJECT button 3027, when pressed, causes a DVD, CD or other type of memory drive to be ejected from memory and control device 202. The DELECT button 3026 causes the memory and the memory in the control device 202 to be erased when pressed.

14 shows a front view of an embodiment 4001 of the memory and control device 202. The memory and control device 4001 consists of a memory device 4002 and a memory card slot 4003. Button 4004 is a power on / off button and indicator light 4005 indicates whether the memory and control device 4001 is turned on or off. The memory card slot 4003 allows the memory card to be inserted and read as though a number of images were stored therein and then removed from the digital camera. CD drive 4002 allows an empty recordable CD / DVD, pre-recorded CD / DVD or other similar memory medium to be inserted and recorded or read therefrom. Pressing the COPY button 4006 can, in other words, transfer all data from the memory card in the memory card slot 4003 to the media in the memory drive 4002. Indicator light 4007, when on, indicates that delivery is in progress. The DELETE button 4008 causes the memory card in the memory slot 4003 to be erased when pressed. Indicator light 4009, when lit, indicates that the erase is in progress. The eject button 4010 causes the memory drive 4002 to eject when pressed. Indicator light 4011, when on, indicates that the ejection is in progress.

The above-described memory device 4002 and memory card slot 4003 are merely specific embodiments. In general, they can be some type of drive for reading and writing to some type of memory medium and they can be more than two.

When the memory and control device 202 starts to operate and before any memory media is inserted, the display screen 5001 (FIG. 15) is empty (instead of shown, a frame 5002 as shown in FIG. 15). To indicate that the memory and control device 202 is turned on). When a memory card is inserted into the memory card slot 4003, if there is data on the card, that is to say, arranged into three separate folders / files, the screen 5001 will be moved from the media in the memory card slot 4003. It shows three separate folders / files 5010, 5011, 5012 with graphical / text representations that appear. When the medium is inserted into the memory drive 4002, icons representing folders / files in the medium 5020, 5021, 5022 are also shown on the display screen 5001.

Using folders / files on the screen, the user can use the UP / DOWN and LEFT / RIGHT buttons 3014, 3018, 3015, 3016 to select a given folder / file. When a given folder / file is selected, pressing the OK button 3017 causes the virtual book 204 to be displayed on the display screen 201 containing the contents of the selected folder / file.

The information displayed on the display screen 204 and controlled by the controller 203 can come from the memory and the memory medium within the control device 202 or from the Internet, via a wired or wireless connection or other device.

More buttons can be added to the controller 203 to perform other complex flipping operations as listed in FIG. 12 and shown in FIGS. These buttons can also be used to perform fine control to retrieve pages that are jumped by using fine-controlled thickness area 150 as shown in FIG. 1E and described above.

The memory and control device 202 (FIG. 2) or 4001 (FIG. 14) does not derive its data from the memory card inserted into the memory card slot 4003 (FIG. 14), but rather from the memory device 4002 ( Data shown on screen 201 (FIG. 2) as a virtual book 204 can be derived from a CD or other memory medium inserted into FIG. 14 or from a connection to the Internet, wireless or otherwise.

16 illustrates a system 1600 and process by which a virtual book shown on the screen can be transferred to a CD or other type of memory medium 1605. In the process of showing the virtual book 1604 on the screen 1601 using the memory and control device 1602, a button 1606 on the controller 1603 is pressed, a menu 1607 pops up, and a selection 1606 is selected. The entire virtual book 1604 can be delivered to a CD or other media 1605. This process is different from that described above for transferring data directly to a CD or other medium 1605 using COPY button 3025 (FIG. 13) or COPY button 4006 (FIG. 14). In the case described above, the file is delivered as before. In the process shown in FIG. 16, a virtual book 1604 is created and delivered to a medium 1605 (CD or other medium). This menu allows the recipient of the medium 1605 to insert the medium 1605 into a computer, another memory and control device 1602, or another device that can read the medium 1605, and automatically the same virtual. Book 1604 appears on the associated screen (eg, 1601). To this end, one method is to deliver the viewer software along with the contents of the virtual book 1604 to the media 1605 so that the associated screen (e.g., when the media 1605 is read by the reader, whatever the reader is) 1601, the virtual book 1604 can be played back.

Instead of using selection 1608 on menu 1607 to activate the virtual book delivery process described above, a person may use a specialized button 1609 on controller 1603.

The controller 3001 shown in FIG. 13 can be used to control all the complicated flipping operations shown in FIGS. 3 to 12 in addition to controlling the basic flipping operation shown in FIG. This can be done by the button shown in FIG. 13 or additional buttons added to the write 3001 on the controller 3001. These buttons can be used by themselves or in combination with other buttons to launch this complex flipping operation (FIGS. 3-12).

Controller for controlling all the basic operations shown in FIG. 1 and the complex flipping operations shown in FIGS. 3-12 of the virtual book 204 displayed on the screen 201 (FIG. 2) (3001 or FIG. 13). Instead of using 203 of 2, a computer mouse or other control / input device may be used.

17-22 illustrate one embodiment of a series of menus that appear on screen 201 (FIG. 2) to perform various operations on system 200.

17 shows menu 1701 when system 200 first starts. The selection includes a view memory card 1702, a view CD content 1703, a memory card to CD copy 1704, and a selection 1705.

FIG. 18 shows a display on screen 201 with menu 1801 when view memory card 1702 in FIG. 17 is selected. There are three folders 1802, 1803, and 1804 in the memory card (Fig. 14), and the currently selected folder is 1802 CAN001. Preview 1805 shows a portion of the contents of selected folder 1802 CAN001.

FIG. 19 shows a display on screen 201 with menu 1901 when view CD content 1703 of FIG. 17 is selected. This shows that there are three folders 1902, 1903, 1904 on a memory drive (e.g., CD drive) 4002 (FIG. 14) and that the currently selected folder is 1902 London. Preview 1905 shows a portion of the content of selected folder 1902 London.

On the menu 1701 in Fig. 17, when item memory card or CD copy 1704 is selected, all the contents of the memory card 4003 are copied to a CD (or other recordable medium) in the memory drive 4002. This action can be performed by pressing the COPY button 4006 on the memory and control device 4001 (FIG. 14). Generally, a source of data copied to a CD (or other recordable medium) in the memory device 4002 is a memory card 4003 or other memory connected to the memory and control device 4001 via USB or other connection or the like. Can stick to the media. The data source can also come from the Internet through a connection with the Internet.

On menu 1701 of FIG. 17, if item option 1705 is selected, option menu 2001 (FIG. 20) appears, where the person is responsible for sound effects, album music, album theme, memory card, compact disc, and autoplay. You can choose to set several parameters such as spacing.

In the menu 1801 shown in Fig. 18, the currently selected folder is 1801 CAN001, and when the OK button 3017 on the controller 301 (Fig. 13) is pressed, a photo album / based on the contents of the folder 1802 CAN001 A virtual book 2101 is created as shown in FIG.

In the menu 1901 shown in FIG. 19, the currently selected folder is 1902 London, and when the OK button 3017 on the controller 3001 (FIG. 13) is pressed, a photo album based on the contents of the folder 1802 CAN001 A virtual book 2101 is created as shown in FIG.

When a person is looking at a photo album / virtual book 2101 (FIG. 21) and the MENU button 3022 on the controller 3001 (FIG. 13) is pressed, the menu 2202 is displayed as shown in FIG. Appear on the screen of the top of the album / virtual book 2101. There is an effect that can be applied to the photos or contents of the left and right pages. Operations such as erase, rotate, and other editing functions can be applied to the right page content using the Left Page selection 2203 and similarly can be applied to the content on the right page using the Right Page selection 2204. There are other album options 2205 that can be selected including sound effects, album music, and the like. Burn album to CD option 2206 in this menu 2202 allows the entire photo album / virtual book to be burned to the media (e.g., compact disc, CD) in memory device 4002 (FIG. 14). do. When burn album to CD command 2206 is activated, one method of transferring photo albums / virtual books to a memory medium (eg, CD) in memory drive 4402 is another system 200 (FIG. 2) Inserting a memory medium (e.g. a CD) into a memory drive in a computer system or in another system configured to read from the memory medium results in the entire photo album / virtual book being screen 201 (e.g. For example, it appears on the screen of any of these systems showing the same content organized in the same way as shown on the virtual book 2101. In order to do this, it records the record of the viewer software onto a medium or CD. It is left in a memory medium with the content being delivered.To enhance the viewing experience, this viewer software inserts the media or CD into the memory drive of the receiving system. When auto - may be a lunch.

When the user is on the menu 2001 (FIG. 20), the user can change the album music 2002 or the album theme 2003. When any of these items are selected, they are prompted to insert a memory medium into a memory card 4003 or memory drive 4002 (FIG. 14) containing music or image files. These may include album music (music played and accompanied by a view of the photo album / virtual book 2101) or album theme (may include a front cover, page, back cover, and other graphics on a photo album or virtual desk) You can select one or more of these files to change them.

When the user uses the controller 3001 (FIG. 13) and the secret light 3020 button is pressed while viewing the virtual book 2101 (FIG. 23), the jump cursor 2302 is shown in FIG. As shown in the right thickness 2301. Now, when the user presses the LEFT 3015 and RIGHT 3016 buttons (FIG. 13), the jump cursor moves left or right, respectively, to select the page of interest. The number 2303 associated with the jump cursor 2302 can be displayed to show the page number of the selected page. The jump cursor can be used to jump to the next / selected page later. For example, when a jump cursor is placed on a particular selected page and the OK 3017 button (FIG. 13) is pressed, the virtual book 2101 is flipped to the selected page and the screen as shown in FIG. The display of pages is skipped in the form of animators of thick collections of pages moving across, and the thickness of the collection of pages is proportional to the number of pages skipped. Correspondingly, the jump cursor can be displayed on the left thickness 2305 of the virtual book 2101 and can be similarly controlled and used.

Like one button burn album to CD option 2206 on menu 2202, all control inputs in FIG. 22, all actions on left page 2203, right page 2204 and other albums on menu 2202. Options 2204, all selected view memory cards 1702 on menu 1701 (FIG. 17), view CD content 1703, memory card to CD copy 1704 and options 1705, menus in FIGS. 18-20. All selections on 1801, 1901, 2001, and all basic and complex flipping operations listed in FIG. 12 will be available as specialized buttons on the memory and control device 202 or remote controller 203 (FIG. 2). Can be.

A memory medium on the memory and control device 4001 (FIG. 14), such as the memory card 4003 and the memory drive 4002, which the system 200 (FIG. 2) writes or reads, is external to the memory control device 4001. Or another physical device connected to the memory and control device 4001 via a wired connection, wireless connection, or the Internet.

Each of these embodiments displays a virtual book or comparable information on a computer, a regular or large-screen television (TV), or a regular or large-screen high-definition television (HDTV) and / or a CD-R, CD-RW, DVD or similar optical The non-optical portable mass storage disk or non-disk media can be configured to interface with it.

While specific embodiments of the invention have been illustrated and described, it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various changes and modifications are possible, and that the appended claims include all changes and modifications as long as they fall within the spirit and scope of the invention. .

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In the method for controlling and browsing a virtual book, Display information on two pages of an e-book, Display left and right book thicknesses, the left and right book thicknesses corresponding to respective amounts of information in the e-book before and after the displayed information, Displaying one or more pages that flip individually or in series across the e-book. The method of claim 1, Displays one of page-bookmarks, annotation bookmarks, finger bookmarks, and keyword bookmarks, And displaying an Internet Universal Resource Locator field. The method of claim 1, And displaying one of the left and right jump cursors. The method of claim 1, Controlling the display with a control device. The method of claim 4, wherein The control device comprises at least one of a computer, a keyboard, a mouse and a remote control. The method of claim 3, And displaying a page number, the page number corresponding to the page selected by the one of the left and right cursors. The method of claim 3, And selecting one of the page-bookmark, the annotation bookmark, the finger bookmark, and the keyword bookmark, and jumping to a page selected by one of activating one of the left and right jump cursors. Way. The method of claim 7, wherein Display one or more pages that flip to the selected page individually or in line, And adjusting the left and right thicknesses to correspond to jumping to the selected page. The method of claim 1, Adjust the displayed movement speed throughout the e-book, Displaying the increased number of flipped pages, the increased number corresponding to the adjusted speed. The method of claim 8, Stopping at least one flipping page in a partially flipped position. The method of claim 9, And controllably flipping the paused one or more pages. The method of claim 1, And displaying one of the coarse and fine thickness representations. The method of claim 1, And displaying the left and right pages of the float while additionally displaying pages flipped simultaneously from the first side to the second side, wherein the additional pages are disposed between the floating left and right pages. Way. The method of claim 1, Adjust your book browsing speed, Simultaneously display some pages flipped to match the adjusted book browsing speed, And adjusting the left and right thicknesses in proportion to the direction of page flipping and the book browsing speed. The method of claim 7, wherein Displaying a first collection of pages that are flipped between a current page and the page being jumped to, wherein the thickness of the first collection of pages is proportional to the number of pages between the current page and the page being jumped to How to. The method of claim 1, Display a plurality of pages that are simultaneously flipped in a first direction, Stops flipping one or all of the multiple pages that are flipped at the same time, And displaying the rest of the plurality of pages flipped simultaneously in the first direction while displaying the paused one or all pages flipped in a direction opposite to the first direction. The method of claim 16, Stop flipping the one or all subsets of the plurality of pages that are flipped simultaneously, Displaying the rest of the subset that is simultaneously flipped in the opposite direction while displaying the paused subset of the one or all pages flipped in the first direction. The method of claim 17, Stop flipping the remaining subset of the plurality of pages, Displaying the remainder of the plurality of pages flipped simultaneously in the first direction while displaying the paused subset of the remainder of the plurality of pages flipped in the opposite direction. How to. The method of claim 10, And further freezing some or all of the one or more paused pages. The method of claim 19, Displays a paused page that is flipped in the same direction as the pre-stop flipping direction, Displays a paused page that is flipped in a direction opposite to the pre-stop flipping direction, Display a second subset of the paused pages that are flipped in the same direction as the pre-stop flipping direction while displaying a first subset of the paused pages that are flipped in the same direction as the pre-stop flipping direction And further comprising one of. The method of claim 8, Jumping to a second selected page by selecting another of the page-bookmark, the annotating bookmark, the finger bookmark, and the keyword bookmark, and activating one of the left and right jump cursors, Display a second collection of pages flipped between the current page and a second jumped page, the thickness of the second collection of pages being proportional to the number of pages between the trailing edge page and the second jumped page , Wherein said jumping to a second selected page further occurs while displaying a first collection of pages to be flipped between a current page and a jumped page. The method of claim 4, wherein Freeze the one or more flipped pages that are floating on the display, Moving the fixed one or more pages across the screen by controlling a position control component of a control device. The method of claim 4, wherein Picking up a first page or first page collection from one of the right thickness and the left thickness, Collect a collection of additional pages in the first book subsection on the first page picked up or the first page picked up, Fixing or flipping the first book subsection. The method of claim 23, wherein Skipping at least one page from the first book subsection. The method of claim 4, wherein Picking up a first page collection from one of the right thickness and the left thickness, Fixing or flipping the first page collection. The method of claim 25, Skipping at least one page from the first page collection. The method of claim 23, wherein Picking up a second single page or a second page collection with the control device to form a second book subsection, Forming a sub-book with the first and second book subsections. The method of claim 27, Skipping at least one page from at least one of the first and second page collections. The method of claim 4, wherein And displaying the menu. The method of claim 4, wherein Viewing the contents of the memory card, Looking at the contents of a CD or DVD. View the contents of one or more storage media, Copy content from the memory card to a CD or DVD, Copy content from the CD or DVD to the memory card, Copy content from the first storage medium to the second storage medium, Copy content from the control device to the memory card, the one or more storage media, or a CD or DVD, Copy content from one of said memory card, one or more storage media, CD or DVD to a control device, And applying one of the optional features to one of an image, text, audio object, video object, multimedia object, page, and virtual book. The method of claim 30, And viewing the content of the memory card, the one or more storage media, or a CD or DVD as a thumb, as a slide show or as a book to flip. The method of claim 31, wherein And selecting the folder to be previewed. The method of claim 30, Copy the content of one of a memory card, a CD or a DVD, and one or more storage media to a recordable medium, the recordable medium further comprising being connected to the control device directly or via a network. . The method of claim 30, Copying one of an image, text, audio file, video file, and multimedia object from at least one of the Internet and an intranet. The method of claim 30, The step of setting the parameter comprises selecting one of a sound effect, album music, album theme, memory card, compact disc, and autoplay interval. The method of claim 30, And applying the visual effect to the image. The method of claim 30, And deleting, rotating, and editing the image on the page. The method of claim 30, Further comprising applying a sound effect and applying music to one of the image and the page. The method of claim 30, Copying the entire virtual book to a recordable medium, the recordable medium further comprising being connected to the control device either directly or via a network. The method of claim 30, View the contents of a memory card, view the contents of one or more storage media, view the contents of a CD or DVD, copy content from a memory card to a CD or DVD, copy content from a CD or DVD to a memory card, Copy content from one storage medium to a second storage medium, copy content from a control device to a memory card, one or more storage media, or CD or DVD, and copy the content to a memory card, one or more storage media, or CD or DVD Copy the content to a control device, wherein at least one of applying optional features to an image, text, audio object, video object, multimedia object, page or virtual book comprises one button action How to. The method of claim 30, Copying the content from the control device to a memory card, one or more storage media, or a CD or DVD, Installing viewing software on each memory card, one or more storage media, CDs or DVDs from the control device. E-book display and editing system, Display screen, Memory and control devices, and A system comprising a controller. The method of claim 42, wherein The display screen, Computer screen, and And one of the TV screens. The method of claim 43, The TV screen, Analog display screen, Digital display screens, Large screen display screen, Non-aspect ratio display screens, NTSC display screen, and A system comprising one of a PAL display screen or another type of display screen. The method of claim 42, wherein The controller, mouse, Keyboard, and A system comprising one of a wired or a wireless remote controller. The method of claim 42, wherein At least one of the controller and the memory and the control device, STANDBY button, CLOSE button, ZOOM-LEFT button, ZOOM-RIGHT button, UP button, DOWN button, DOWN button, OK button, LEFT button, RIGHT button, LEFT THICKNESS button, RIGHT THICKNESS button, BOOKMARK button, MENU button, AUTOFLIP button, FLIPTO button, COPY button, EJECT button, and And at least one of the DELETE buttons. 47. The method of claim 46 wherein At least one of said buttons operates in cooperation with a displayed menu. The method of claim 42, wherein At least one of the controller and the memory and the control device, Direction of travel command, Moving speed command, Select command to jump to a specific point in the document, Jump to a specific point in the document, Permanent-marking instruction, Finger-Marking Instruction, A single flipping page launch command, Multiple flipping page launch commands at specific intervals, Reverse command on a single last trailing page, Reverse command for multiple last trailing pages, Reverse command for the selected flipping page group, At least one flipping page stop command in mid-flip, Unfreeze the paused page and cause the page to continue flipping in the direction before the stop, Unfreezes a frozen page and causes all pages to flip in the same direction, Unfreeze paused pages, flip some pages to the left side of the book, flip some pages to the right, Unfreeze a frozen page and cause subgroups of the page to flip in different directions, Command to jump and flip a thick collection of pages together, Flipping page launch command when thick page collection is flipping, At least one other thick page collection launch command when another page is flipping, Select command to pin the page, Move a single page fixed in the selected direction and at the selected speed, A selection command for fixing at least one of at least two pages and a collection of thick pages, Move at least one of fixed page and thick page collection at a selected direction and at a selected speed; Another page gather command that pins a single page in the middle flip and flips from the middle flip to a single page, Another page collection command that pins a single thick page collection on the middle flip and flips it to a single thick page collection on the middle flip, Execution of at least one of the setting of a page flipping command between the thickness of the side of the book and at least one of fixing a single page and a collection of thick pages in the middle flip and fixing at least one of a single page and a collection of thick pages in the middle flip , And An execution instruction of at least one of a set of page flip instructions between at least one of the two pages and a collection of thick pages in the intermediate flip command, fixing the collection of thick pages and at least one of the two pages; Wherein the system is configured to initiate at least one of the following. The method of claim 48, At least one of the commands is executed via a menu. The method of claim 42, wherein The memory and control device includes a computer. The method of claim 42, wherein The memory and control device, Memory integrated with the computer, Portable memory module, Memory card, Memory sticks, and And at least one of the compact discs. The method of claim 42, wherein CD-R, CD-RW, DVD, Portable large capacity optical storage disk, Portable large capacity non-optical storage media, and And a storage medium resident in said memory and control device and connected to said memory and control device via a wired or wireless connection or the Internet. An apparatus configured to perform at least one of the methods recited in claims 1-41. A computer program product configured to receive instructions corresponding to at least one of the methods recited in claims 1-41.

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