Touch Screen Page Flipping with Preview Region
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing electronic devices with touch screens require multiple sliding operations to navigate through numerous pages, making it cumbersome and unnatural to flip to a target page that is far away from the displayed page.
Innovation Solution
An electronic device with a touch screen and a page flipping method that includes a page preview region and a page flipping region, allowing users to perform sliding gestures to quickly and accurately navigate through pages by determining the type of gesture and using a stored function table to retrieve and display the target page, enabling efficient page flipping.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If multiple sliding operations are used to navigate through numerous pages, then the target page can be reached, but the operation becomes cumbersome and time-consuming
Solution Approach 1:
The touch screen is divided into multiple touch zones corresponding to different pages or page ranges. Each touch zone can be independently activated to navigate to its associated page, allowing users to jump directly to distant pages without sequential sliding through intermediate pages.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a spatial dimension to page navigation by mapping different regions of the touch screen to different pages. Instead of linear sequential navigation, users can perform touch operations in different spatial zones to access different pages directly, transforming one-dimensional sequential navigation into multi-dimensional direct access.
2Adaptability or versatility
If sequential sliding is used to flip through pages, then all pages can be accessed in order, but the process is rigid and unnatural
Solution Approach 1:
The navigation system dynamically adapts to user intent based on touch position, duration, and gesture type. Different touch patterns trigger different navigation behaviors, allowing the system to provide both sequential and direct navigation modes depending on user needs, making the interaction more natural and adaptable.
Solution Approach 2:
The touch screen serves multiple navigation functions simultaneously - it can detect both sequential sliding gestures for ordered navigation and zone-based touch gestures for direct page access. This multi-functionality allows users to choose the most appropriate navigation method for their current task, whether browsing sequentially or jumping to a specific page.
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AI summary
A page flipping method for an electronic device is provided. An exemplary method includes the following steps: displaying an interface comprising a page preview region and a page flipping region; displaying a page on the page flipping region, and displaying an icon group comprising a plurality of icons on the page preview region; determining whether a flipping gesture is applied on the page flipping region; determining the type of the flipping gesture; determining a page flipping manner according to the determined result of the gesture and a function table, and retrieving a corresponding target page according to the determined page flipping manner; creating a new icon group according to the retrieved target page; and displaying the target page on the page flipping region, and displaying the created new icon group on the page preview region. An electronic device using the page processing method is also provided.