KR20120051435A - Electronic book device and method for skimming pages of electronic book - Google Patents

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KR20120051435A
KR20120051435A KR1020100112870A KR20100112870A KR20120051435A KR 20120051435 A KR20120051435 A KR 20120051435A KR 1020100112870 A KR1020100112870 A KR 1020100112870A KR 20100112870 A KR20100112870 A KR 20100112870A KR 20120051435 A KR20120051435 A KR 20120051435A
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Abstract

PURPOSE: An electronic book device and a method for skimming through an electronic book are provided to easily find pages which a user wants to read by providing a skimming function. CONSTITUTION: A display unit(10) displays e-book contents by one page. A touch sensing unit(20) senses touch input for a front side of the display unit. A controlling unit(30) generates a preview page to a forward direction or a reverse direction based on a currently displayed page if the touch motion of a predetermined pattern is sensed in a certain region of the touch sensing unit while a page of the eBook contents is displayed on the touch sensing unit. Control performs a skimming function of successively displaying the preview page on the display unit according to a predetermined speed.

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ELECTRONIC BOOK DEVICE AND METHOD FOR SKIMMING PAGES OF ELECTRONIC BOOK}

The present invention relates to an e-book terminal and a method of performing the flipping function thereof, and to an e-book terminal and a method of performing the flipping function thereof so that the user can easily find a desired page by facilitating a quick reading function of the e-book contents. It is about.

Recently, e-book terminals that can read e-newspapers or e-books are being released as digital media replacing existing paper media. Such e-book terminals have been designed so that the user can easily read the e-book content by employing a front display for displaying the content and a touch type input means to facilitate the user's terminal operation.

However, not only can you enjoy a variety of contents using such an e-book terminal, but despite the physical aspects such as less volume and weight than ordinary books, and the economic aspect that you can enjoy a lot of content inexpensively, In fact, when reading contents, a predetermined operation must be performed for various operations such as enlargement, reduction, and page switching of the screen, so that it is not inconvenient compared to general paper books.

In addition, unlike a general paper book, an e-book device cannot perform other operations other than the actions provided in advance, and thus, there is a problem in that the contents of the e-book contents can not be read while switching each page of the e-book contents freely.

Furthermore, since the e-book terminal does not sufficiently deliver the analog emotions that can be felt in general paper books, there is a problem that it is felt heterogeneous to users who have only encountered conventional paper books and does not meet their needs.

Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to solve the problems of the prior art as described above, to provide a quick look function to switch a plurality of pages at a relatively high speed so that the user can easily find the desired page in the e-book content. It is to provide an e-book device and a method of performing the scan function thereof.

Another object of the present invention is to provide an e-book terminal and a method of performing the scan function thereof, which can make the operation for executing the sweep function similar to the operation for a general paper book.

According to a feature of the present invention for achieving the above object, the present invention includes a display unit for displaying e-book content at least one page; A touch sensing unit sensing a user's touch input to the front of the display unit; A storage unit storing one or more e-book contents displayed on the display unit; When a user touch operation of a predetermined pattern is detected in a predetermined area of the touch sensing unit while the at least one page of the e-book content is displayed on the display unit, the preview is performed in the forward or reverse order based on the currently displayed page. And a controller for generating a page and performing a look-up function of sequentially switching and displaying the generated preview page according to a set speed on the display unit.

The predetermined area may include a left area and a right area that are symmetrically positioned on the left and right sides of the display unit based on the direction in which the e-book content is displayed on the display unit.

The predetermined pattern may be a touch input traveling in a left direction in the left region and a touch input traveling in a right direction in the right region.

The control unit performs a reverse scan function when a touch input traveling in a left direction in the left area of the display unit is detected, and a forward scan function when a touch input traveling in a right direction in the right area is detected. Can be performed.

Further, when the user touch of the predetermined pattern is released, the controller may stop performing the look-up function by stopping switching of the preview page and increasing the resolution of the last displayed preview page.

In addition, the set speed may be a speed that is kept constant or increases constantly during the scan function.

The preview page may be generated to have a lower resolution than the resolution stored in the storage unit based on the page data of the e-book content.

On the other hand, the present invention comprises the steps of (A) detecting a user touch operation of a predetermined pattern in a predetermined region of the touch sensing unit for receiving a user's touch input; (B) sequentially generating preview pages in either a forward direction or a reverse direction based on the currently displayed e-book content page according to the user touch operation pattern detected in step (A); (C) converting and displaying the preview page generated in the step (B) according to the set speed sequentially; And (D) maintaining a state of increasing the resolution of the preview page last displayed in the step (C) when the user's touch action of a preset pattern is detected differently from the touch operation in the step (A). Can be performed.

At this time, in the step (A), the predetermined area may include two different areas, and the preset pattern may be set differently for the two areas.

The preview page of step (B) is generated by lowering the resolution of each page.

According to the method of performing the e-book terminal and the skimming function thereof according to the present invention, the following effects are obtained.

In other words, by providing a look-up function, the user can easily find the desired page has the advantage of being convenient.

In addition, according to the e-book terminal and the method of performing the scan function thereof according to the present invention, there is an advantage that the user's intimacy with the e-book terminal can be improved by transmitting analog emotion similar to that of a general paper book.

1 is a block diagram showing a schematic configuration of an e-book terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.
2 is a flowchart illustrating a step-by-step method of performing a flipping function of an e-book device according to an embodiment of the present invention.
3 is an exemplary view showing an example of an e-book terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Hereinafter, an e-book terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1 is a block diagram showing a schematic configuration of an e-book terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 1, in a specific embodiment of the present invention, the display unit 10 is configured. The display unit 10 is an image forming unit provided on the front surface of the e-book terminal. The display unit 10 is formed of, for example, a liquid crystal display, a light emitting diode display, or an electronic paper display.

In addition, the touch sensing unit 20 is configured on the front surface of the display unit 10. The touch sensing unit 20 may be a means for detecting a touch input position by receiving a user's touch input on the front of the display unit 10 and may include a touch panel.

When the touch input of the user is detected, the touch sensing unit 20 calculates coordinates of the detected touch input and transmits the coordinates to the controller 30 to be described later. The control unit 30 is a control unit that is responsible for the overall control of the e-book terminal, and serves to interpret commands, process and calculate data, and execute various programs. In particular, the control unit 30 receives a command or data by a user's touch input from the touch sensing unit 20, processes it, and displays it on the display unit 10.

In addition, the e-book terminal is provided with a storage unit 40. The storage unit 40 is a data storage unit in which data is written or read, and includes a storage medium such as a hard disk or a flash memory. In addition, the storage unit 40 may be configured to include a removable external memory, it may be provided with a variety of content from other devices. In particular, the storage unit 40 may store various e-book contents. The e-book content is digital content including test and image data composed of a plurality of pages.

The controller 30 reads the e-book contents provided from the storage 40 and displays them on the display 10. In this case, each page included in the e-book content is generally displayed on the display unit 10 according to the set number. For example, the e-book content may be displayed on the display 10 one page at a time. When the user's touch input is detected by the touch sensing unit 20 while the e-book content is displayed on the display unit 10, the page of the e-book content is turned over or the page of the e-book content is turned into a specific page. To switch to, or enlarge or reduce the e-book contents.

Hereinafter, a method of performing a function of scanning an e-book content in an e-book terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention having the above-described configuration will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. 2 is a flowchart illustrating a step-by-step method of performing a flip function of an e-book terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 3 is an exemplary view showing an example of an e-book terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 2, the method of performing a sweeping function according to an embodiment of the present invention starts from a step in which the sweeping function is started by first inputting a sweeping command by a user's touch input.

The input of the scan command may be performed by detecting a user's touch input in a predetermined region of the touch sensing unit 20 as illustrated in FIG. 3. That is, when the sweeping menus SF and SB for the sweeping command are displayed on the display unit 10, a user touch is detected at a specific position of the touch sensing unit 20 corresponding to the position where the sweeping menu is displayed. By doing so, a scan command input can be made. In this case, the scan menu may include a forward scan menu (SF) and a reverse scan menu (SB) corresponding to the two directions so as to enable both forward and reverse scanning of each page number of the e-book content. .

Alternatively, as shown in FIG. 3, the previous page switching menu P, the next page switching menu N, page skip menus FF and REW, etc. of the e-book content of the display unit 10 of the e-book terminal may be provided. When displayed, a user touch input is simultaneously detected on a predetermined area of the touch sensing unit 20 corresponding to the position of the display unit 10 on which two page switching menus N and P are displayed, or any one of them. If a user's touch input maintained for a predetermined time is detected, the scan command may be preset. Or in a predetermined area of the touch sensing unit 20 at a position corresponding to the position of the display unit 10 on which the page skip menus FF and REW for skipping a predetermined number of pages in a forward or reverse direction are displayed. At the same time, when a user touch input is detected or when a user touch input that is maintained for more than a predetermined time is detected in either of the two regions, the scan command may be predetermined.

In addition, in order to provide a user interface similar to a real reading environment, the user's left and right sides as shown in FIG. 3 based on the direction in which the e-book contents are displayed on the display unit 10 of the e-book terminal. When the touch input is made in the left direction or the right direction, as when browsing an actual book, the forward or reverse lookup command may be set to be input. That is, as shown in FIG. 3, when the user's hand H moves while forming a trajectory in the right direction on the right side of the display unit 10 based on the direction in which the e-book content is displayed, the forward scan command is executed. When the user input is detected and a user's touch input forming a trajectory traveling in the left direction is detected on the left side, the reverse lookup command may be input. To this end, some areas on both the left and right sides of the touch sensing unit 20 may be predetermined as areas for recognizing a sweep command based on the direction in which the e-book content is displayed.

The Quick Look feature is a feature that allows you to quickly switch between pages of e-book content in sequence and display them, and when a user wants to jump to a specific page but does not know the page number, he or she can select multiple pages to find the desired page. It can be used to quickly see the outline or content of each page while switching quickly.

As such, when the scan function is started by the user inputting the scan command, the controller 10 reads out each page image to be displayed according to the scan direction from the storage unit 40, and reads the page image data. When reading, instead of reading all the image data stored in the storage unit 40, only a part of the image data is read to generate a preview image having a reduced resolution (S100). That is, the controller 10 sequentially reads and displays the image data of the page to be displayed among the image data of each page included in the e-book content, and selectively reads only a part of the image data without reading the entire image data of each page. Create a preview page image with a lower resolution than the stored page image. This is to shorten the processing time of the image data of each page so that quick page switching is possible when the scan function is executed.

At this time, the controller 10 generates a preview image sequentially in the forward direction from the next page based on the page displayed when the sweep command is input, and in the case of reverse scan, the sweep command is input. Based on the page displayed at the time, the preview image is sequentially generated from the previous page in the reverse direction.

After the control unit 10 generates preview page images having a low resolution, the controller 10 sequentially converts and displays the generated preview page images according to a set speed (S200). In this case, the set speed is a predetermined speed at which the preview image of each page of the e-book content is switched, and may be set at a constant speed, and the speed increases with a constant acceleration as time passes after the scan command is input. It may be set.

This 200 step S200 is performed until the stop scan command is input from the user in step 300 (S300), where the stop scan command is, for example, as shown in FIG. When the user's touch input is maintained while the user's touch input is maintained on the user's touch screen, the user's touch input (SF, SB) is displayed on the display unit 10 in advance. Can be set. That is, when the user maintains the touch input in the scanning menus SF and SB and maintains the touch image while the preview image of each page of the e-book content is sequentially switched and the user's touch input is released, The controller 30 may be set in advance to recognize that the stop command of the sweep function is input.

Alternatively, as shown in FIG. 3, the previous page switching menu P, the next page switching menu N, page skip menus FF and REW, etc. of the e-book content are displayed on the display unit 10 of the e-book terminal. Is displayed, a user touch input is simultaneously detected in a predetermined area of the touch sensing unit 20 corresponding to the position of the display unit 10 in which two page switching menus N and P are displayed, or any of When a user's touch input that is maintained for more than a predetermined time is detected, the scan command is inputted in advance, or the position corresponding to the position of the display unit 10 in which the page skip menus FF and REW are displayed is displayed. When a user touch input is simultaneously detected in a predetermined area of the touch sensing unit 20 or a user touch input that is maintained for more than a predetermined time is detected in either of the two areas, In the case where the command is previously input, when the user's touch input is sensed by the touch sensing unit 20 again in the state where step 200 is performed, the user may be configured to recognize that the stop scan command is input.

Furthermore, when a user's touch input drawing a trajectory in the left direction on the left predetermined area is detected based on the direction in which the e-book content is displayed on the display unit 10 of the e-book terminal, a reverse scan function is performed, and the right predetermined When the user's touch input in the right direction is detected in the area, when the forward scan function is set to be performed, step 200 is performed while the user's touch input is maintained, and when the touch input is released, the 300th operation is performed. You can also preset that the stop browsing command is entered in the step.

On the other hand, if the stop scanning command is input in step 300, the control unit 30 stores image data corresponding to the e-book content page displayed on the display unit 10 at the moment when the stop scanning command is input. In operation S400, the display unit 10 reads from the display unit 40 and displays it on the display unit 10. In this case, in step 400, the controller 30 reads out all the image data stored in the storage unit 40 and displays the image data stored in the storage unit 40 on the display unit 10. A relatively high resolution image is output to the display unit 10 in comparison with the preview page image.

As a result, the user can quickly find the location of a desired page by quickly checking the outline or contents of a plurality of pages while performing the Quick Look function, and more faithfully read the specific contents of the desired page after the Quick Look function is completed. You can do it.

10: display unit 20: touch detection unit
30: control unit 40: storage unit

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A display unit which displays the e-book contents at least one page;
A touch sensing unit sensing a user's touch input to the front of the display unit;
A storage unit storing one or more e-book contents displayed on the display unit; And
When at least one page of the e-book content is displayed on the display unit, and when a user touch operation of a predetermined pattern is detected in a predetermined area of the touch sensing unit, the preview page in a forward or reverse order based on the currently displayed page. And a control unit for performing a browsing function of sequentially switching and displaying the generated preview page according to a setting speed on the display unit. The method of claim 1,
The predetermined area,
And a left area and a right area which are located symmetrically on the left and right sides of the display unit with respect to the direction in which the e-book content is displayed on the display unit. The method of claim 2,
The predetermined pattern is
And a touch input traveling in a left direction in the left region and a touch input traveling in a right direction in the right region. The method of claim 3,
The control unit,
Perform a reverse scan function when a touch input traveling in a left direction in the left area of the display unit is detected, and perform a forward scan function when a touch input traveling in a right direction in the right area is detected E-book terminal. The method according to claim 2 or 3,
The control unit,
When the user touch of the predetermined pattern is released, the e-book terminal stops performing the look-up function by stopping the preview page switching and increasing the resolution of the last displayed preview page. The method of claim 6,
The set speed is,
E-book terminal, characterized in that the speed of maintaining or constantly increasing during the scan function. The method of claim 1,
And the preview page is generated to have a resolution lower than the resolution stored in the storage based on the page data of the e-book content. (A) detecting a user touch operation of a preset pattern in a predetermined region of the touch sensing unit that receives a user's touch input;
(B) sequentially generating preview pages in either a forward direction or a reverse direction based on the currently displayed e-book content page according to the user touch operation pattern detected in step (A);
(C) converting and displaying the preview page generated in the step (B) according to the set speed sequentially; And
(D) if the user's touch action of the preset pattern is detected differently from the touch action in step (A), increasing the resolution of the preview page last displayed in step (C) and maintaining the displayed state; A method of performing a skimming function of an e-book device, characterized in that performed. The method of claim 8,
In the step (A),
And the predetermined area includes two different areas, and the preset pattern is set differently for the two areas. The method of claim 8,
The preview page of step (B), the method of performing a look-up function of the e-book terminal, characterized in that to generate a lower resolution of each page.
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