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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 29, 2009
Filed:
Jul. 22, 2004
Stuart Kent Card, Los Altos Hill, CA (US);
Richard Carl Gossweiler, Iii, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Allison Gyle Woodruff, Foster City, CA (US);
Jock Douglas Mackinlay, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Stuart Kent Card, Los Altos Hill, CA (US);
Richard Carl Gossweiler, III, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Allison Gyle Woodruff, Foster City, CA (US);
Jock Douglas MacKinlay, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Xerox Corporation, Norwalk, CT (US);
Abstract
A system is described for displaying images of a virtual three-dimensional book having one or more virtual pages. The system comprises a display system capable of executing a display program wherein images of the virtual three-dimensional book are produced on the display system. A degree of interest (DOI) function is provided for allocating available space on the display system. A page selection function may provide a user-selectable scale along a long axis of the virtual book for selecting virtual pages. Virtual chapter tabs may also be provided for navigating within the virtual book. The display system may also include a page flipping function with several different page flipping speeds and several different page flipping animations for moving between virtual pages in the virtual book. Moreover, a scroll bar function provided to facilitate page navigation wherein space on the scroll bar is allocated using a DOI function. Finally, a computer program product comprising a computer usable medium having computer readable code embodied therein for producing images of a virtual three-dimensional book is also disclosed.