Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system – Display driving control circuitry – Controlling the condition of display elements
Patent
1995-12-01
1998-06-02
Voeltz, Emanuel Todd
Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system
Display driving control circuitry
Controlling the condition of display elements
345901, 326 8, 39518701, 455411, G06F 1502, G06F 1740, G09G 102
Patent
active
057614857
ABSTRACT:
The Personal Electronic Book System invention replaces a standard handheld book with an electronic equivalent. The invention is sized and configured to be book size and to open like a book for use. When opened, the user sees two facing page-like touch-sensitive, display screens with black print on white background. Icons represent the electronically stored material, "artwork, audio clips, books, E-mail, faxes, games, magazines, movies, musical compositions, newspapers, photographs, software, video clips, etc.", which are selected by touching the icon. When a book, magazine, newspaper, or the like is selected, its table of contents is displayed and the user can then read page by page or go directly to a particular page by touching the selection listed in the table of contents. Closing the Personal Electronic Book automatically shuts down the device. Touching a page number before closing the Personal Electronic Book inserts a bookmark so that when the Personal Electronic Book is re-opened, the user is returned to the same page. New printed or multimedia material can be downloaded from an remote server, that is, "a bookstore," and old material, books read, etc., can be deleted to make room for the new material.
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Clifford Earl F.
Kik Phallaka
Todd Voeltz Emanuel
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