Electronic device capable of showing page flip effect and method thereof

1. An electronic device capable of showing page flip effect, the electronic device comprising:

a touch input unit configured to generate touch signals in response to user operations;

a storage unit configured to store electronic documents, a plurality of flip effect parameters, and a flip-page operation table, wherein the flip effect parameters comprises a plurality of effect pages, the flip-page operation table defines relationships between the effect pages and lengths of a first touch path or a second touch path produced by touching the touching input unit with finger or stylus, wherein, each of the effect pages comprises a first part, a second part, and a third part, the first part and the third part are both transparent figure, the second part is a flip-page figure representing the page flip effect;

a display unit configured to display the electronic documents;

a processing unit comprising:

an instruction receiving module configured to receive the touch signals produced by the touch input unit;

a touch path detection module configured to determine a touch path and a length of the touch path according to the touch signals;

a page determining module configured to determine a target page according to the touch path; and

a view control module comprising:

an obtaining sub-module configured to obtain an effect page when the touch path increases to lengths defined in the flip-page operation table;

a combination sub-module configured to cover the current page with the obtained effect page, and cover the third part of the obtained effect page with a part of the target page whose size and location is the same as that of the third part of the obtained effect page, and produce a combined page if the touch path is the first touch path, and configured to cover the current page with the obtained effect page, and cover the first part of the obtained effect page with a part of the target page whose size and location is the same as that of the first part of the obtained effect page, and produce a combined page if the touch path is the second touch path; and

a display control sub-module configured to display the combined page on the display unit.

2. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein the touch input unit comprises a plurality of touch sensors, the touch path detection module determines the touch path according to the sequence of the touch signals received by the instruction receiving module and determines the length of the touch path according to the number of the touch sensors between an initial touch point and current touch point.

3. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein the page determining module determines the target page is a next page if the touch path detection module determines the touch path is a first touch path, and determines the target page is a previous page if the touch path detection module determines the touch path is a second touch path.

4. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein the first touch path is from right to left, and the second touch path is from left to right.

5. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein the electronic device is selected from the group consisting of an e-reader, a mobile phone, and a digital photo frame.

6. A method of an electronic device for showing page flip effect when flipping a page, the electronic device comprising a storage unit which stores a flip-page operation table and flip effect parameters, wherein, the flip page parameters are a plurality of effect pages, each of the effect pages comprises a first part, a second part, and a third part, the flip-page operation table defines relationships between the effect pages and lengths of a first touch path or a second touch path, wherein, the method comprising:

receiving touch signals produced by a touch input unit;

determining whether a touch input is a first touch path or a second touch path and lengths of the touch input according to the touch signals;

determining a target page according to the touch input being a first touch path or a second touch path; and

rendering a series of combined pages by:

obtaining an effect page when the touch path increase to lengths defined in the flip-page operation table;

covering the current page with the obtained effect page, and covering the third part of the obtained effect page with a part of the target page whose size and location is the same as that of the third part of the obtained effect page, and produce a combined page if the touch path is the first touch path;

covering the current page with the obtained effect page, and covering the first part of the obtained effect page with a part of the target page whose size and location is the same as that of the first part of the obtained effect page, and produce a combined page if the touch path is the second touch path; and

displaying the combined page on the display unit.

7. The method of claim 6 , wherein the step of determining a target page according to the touch input being a first touch path or a second touch path comprises:

determining the target page is a next page if the touch path is the first touch path; and

determining the target page is a previous page if the touch path is the second touch path.

8. The method of claim 7 , wherein the first touch path is from right to left, and the second touch path is from left to right.