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).

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

Pierre Innocent