Patent ID: 8358280

Claim:
An electronic device capable of showing page flip effect, the electronic device comprising: an input unit configured to generate instructions in response to user operations; a storage unit configured to store electronic documents and a parameter table comprising a plurality of parameters, wherein each parameter comprises a first group of coordinates, content of a flip-page figure, and a second group of coordinates; the first group of coordinates is configured to determine a first area of a page, and the second group of coordinates is configured to determine a second area of the page; a display unit configured to display the electronic documents; and a processing unit comprising: an instruction receiving module configured to receive a flip-page instruction produced by the input unit; a page determining module configured to determine the target page according to the flip-page instruction; an obtaining module configured to obtain one of the parameters from the parameter table in sequence according to the flip-page instruction received by the instruction receiving module receives; a figure producing module configured to produce the flip-page figure on a first area of a current page according to the first group of coordinates and the content of the flip-page figure; a combination module configured to cover a second area of the current page determined by the second group of coordinates with a second area of the target page determined by the second group of coordinates to produce a combined page; and a display control module configured to control the display unit to display the combined page.