Mobile terminal device, storage medium, and display control method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9767080-B2
Application number	US-201214113766-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 24, 2012
Priority date	Apr 26, 2011
Publication date	Sep 19, 2017
Grant date	Sep 19, 2017

Abstract

A cellular phone includes a display surface; a touch sensor configured to detect an input with respect to the display surface; and a CPU configured to control a display. In the case where a predetermined page of an electronic document is displayed on the display, the CPU updates, while an input is continuously detected by the touch sensor, an amount to be turned when pages of the electronic document are turned, and determines an amount to be turned by which the electronic document is turned based on the updated amount to be turned at a timing when the input is terminated.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A mobile terminal device, comprising:
a display panel having a display surface and a touch sensor associated with the display surface;
at least one processor configured to detect an input with respect to the touch sensor and to control the display panel wherein in the case where a current page P of an electronic document remains displayed on the display surface,
the at least one processor is configured:
to update an estimated number of pages to be turned while an input on the display surface is continuously detected by the touch sensor, and
to determine an actual number N of pages to be turned based on the estimated number of pages to be turned when the input on the display surface is terminated,
to determine a targeted page of the electronic document (P+N) based on the current page and the actual number N of pages to be turned and to display on the display surface a plurality of thumbnail images of previously tagged pages of the electronic document within a predetermined page range before and after the targeted page of the electronic document, wherein the previously tagged pages include at least one of a page to which a tag is put by a user, a page where each chapter of the electronic document starts and a page including predetermined key words, and
in response to receiving an input for selecting one of the displayed thumbnail images, to further display the tagged page corresponding to the selected thumbnail image as the current page on the display surface.

2. The mobile terminal device according to claim 1 , wherein
the at least one processor is further configured to detect an input position with respect to the touch sensor, and
to determine increase or decrease of the updated estimated number of pages to be turned based on a change of the input position while the input with respect to the touch sensor continues.

3. The mobile terminal device according to claim 1 , wherein
the at least one processor is further configured to detect an input position with respect to the touch sensor, and
to change an updating rate of the updated estimated number of pages to be turned in the input continuing period, based on a change of the input position while the input with respect to the touch sensor continues.

4. The mobile terminal device according to claim 1 , wherein
the at least one processor is further configured to detect an input dimensions with respect to the touch sensor, and to determine an updating rate of the updated estimated number of pages to be turned in the input continuing period, based on a change of the input dimensions while the input with respect to the touch sensor continues.

5. The mobile terminal device according to claim 1 , wherein
the at least one processor is further configured to display a thumbnail image of a page of the electronic document which is obtained by turning pages by the determined actual number of pages to be turned from a currently displayed page on the display surface.

6. The mobile terminal device according to claim 5 , wherein
the at least one processor is further configured to display the thumbnail image on the display surface while a change of the updated estimated number of pages to be turned is stopped.

7. The mobile terminal device according to claim 1 , wherein
the at least one processor is further configured to determine that a selection input to turn a page forward or backward is performed with respect to the touch sensor, and, according to a result of the determination, to display a page of the electronic document which is obtained by turning pages forward or backward by the determined number of pages to be turned from the currently displayed page on the display surface.

8. The mobile terminal device according to claim 1 , wherein
the at least one processor is configured to display a thumbnail table including the plurality of thumbnail images corresponding to the previously tagged pages on the display surface, and to scroll the thumbnail images on the thumbnail table to display thumbnail images of tagged pages based on detection of a predetermined user input for scrolling the thumbnail table being performed with respect to the display surface.

9. The mobile terminal device according to claim 1 , wherein
the at least one processor is configured to update a number of pages to be turned for the electronic document as the updated estimated number of pages to be turned.

10. The mobile terminal device according to claim 1 , wherein the processor is configured to display a scale on the display surface which indicates a series of updating degrees where each updating degree comprises a selected number of pages to be turned.

11. The mobile terminal device according to claim 10 , wherein the processor is configured to change the updating degree based on an input touch position on the touch sensor.

Assignees

• Imamura Hitoshi
• Kyocera Corp

Inventors

• Imamura Hitoshi

Classifications

• G06F3/0485

  Scrolling or panning · CPC title

• G06F3/0488

  using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures · CPC title

• G06F3/04883

  for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text · CPC title

• G06F3/04817

  using icons (graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34) · CPC title

• G06F40/114 Primary

  Pagination · CPC title