Patent ID: 7015910
Filing Date: 2006-03-21
Classification: G06F,G06T

Abstract:
1. A system comprising: a display system capable of executing a display program for producing images of a virtual three-dimensional book having a plurality of virtual pages for display; wherein an image of two bound facing consecutive pages of the virtual three-dimensional book is produced for display on the display system; wherein the image of the virtual three-dimensional book is displayed in a first view having a first virtual page substantially parallel to a surface of the display system and a second virtual page substantially perpendicular to the surface of the display system and in a second view having the first virtual page displayed substantially perpendicular to the surface of the display system and the second virtual page displayed substantially parallel to the surface of the display system; wherein a page selection operation shifts the image of the virtual three-dimensional book on the display system between the first view and the second view; and wherein the image of the virtual three-dimensional book is produced such that the virtual page substantially perpendicular to the surface of the display system has (a) a first side that appears to project out of the display system and (b) a second side that appears (i) to project into the display system and (ii) to be bound to one side of the virtual page substantially parallel to the surface of the display system.