Patent ID: 7714837
Filing Date: 2010-05-11
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. An electronic book reading apparatus comprising: a user interface allowing a user to flip an appropriate number of pages of a displayed electronic book, the user interface comprising a plurality of sensing units for generating sensing signals in response to the user's flipping operations; an operation controlling unit for determining a speed of the flipping operations according to only a duration of the sensing signals and a direction of the flipping operations according to a sensing signal sequence of the sensing signals and generating a speed signal and a direction signal; wherein when the duration of the flipping operation is in a first predetermined time range, the operation controlling unit determines the speed of the flipping operation is mapped to a single page flipping; when the duration of the flipping operation is in a second predetermined time range, the operation controlling unit determines the speed of the flipping operation is mapped to multiple or continuous pages flipping; and a display unit for receiving the speed signal and the direction signal, flipping the appropriate number of pages of the displayed electronic book in a corresponding direction according to the received speed signal and direction signal, and displaying the resulting page of the electronic book after flipping.