Thin-Window - an Electronic Book
Posted by Tsert.Com
The Thin-Window device is an electronic book, running an
operating system, derived from our Kodiak-BSD OS, which has
an in-kernel HTTP daemon, allowing a person to browse
through scanned books and documents (patent
pending).
Thin-Window - an Electronic Book
Posted by Tsert.Com ThinkTank
The Thin-Window device is
an electronic book, that a person can use to browse
through scanned books and documents. It comes in two
versions, a portable desktop version and a version.
The desktop version is a PI-Widget in tablet-form;
and the library version is built looking like a sheet of
paper, using electronic paper, surrounded by a frame made
of solar cells.
The display of the library version, is either, pressure
sensitive, responding to a person's finger presssure on
its surface, or relies on scroll buttons situated at each
corner, for browsing trough documents transmitted by a
central server.
The shape of the device is
squarish -- legal-paper size for libraries; and
pocket-book size for portable electronic books. The device
is thin, and most of its screen real estate is made up of
a paper-like bendable display, that is made acid-rain
resistent through appropriate compounds.
The scroll buttons are used to
scroll through a given displayed page. All modes of
traversal, through a displayed page, using scroll buttons
are patent pending. We only present the first
one on this patent application -- see ScrollDot.
A single click of the top-side
buttons, causes the cursor to skip, from one link, to
another in the vertical orientation; a single click of the
bottom-side buttons, causes the cursor to skip, from one
link, to another in the horizontal orientation. To select
a link, any one button can be double clicked.
To scroll up and down, the
top-side buttons must be momentarily pressed, and
released. The scrolling continues, to a given rate, until
the same button is clicked once.
To scroll right and left, the
bottom-side buttons must be momentarily pressed, and
released. The scrolling continues, to a given rate, until
the same button is clicked once.
Continuing pressure, on any of
the above buttons, causes a continuous scroll, which
stops, as son as, the pressed button is released.
Forward page turning is done,
by clicking once, on the bottom-right button, while the
cursor is not positioned on any link. Backwards page
turning is done, by clicking once, on the bottom-left
button, while the cursor is also not positioned on any
link.
To disable the positioning of
the cursor on a link, any one button can be pressed,
momentarily (a few milliseconds), for scrolling.
Zooming-in and out is effected through any of the four
buttons.
The device houses flat hardware
connectors for networking; as well as, power, earphone,
and speaker modules and connectors. The power is supplied
by strips of solar cells, rechargeable batteries, and
through a flat power adaptor.
Books and other types of document
can be downloaded and stored, via an internet, or cellular
network connector module. Digitized
books can simply be tranferred to the device; as if you
were syncing your portable computer to your desktop
computer.
This device can be used by
libraries, and other organizations which need to digitize
their catalogued information, and store them on servers.
The digitized information can be accessed, by this device,
by connecting to the servers through its built-in HTTP
daemon.
Patent
Pending
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