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20080288860 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ORGANIZING VISUAL OBJECTS - A computer readable storage medium includes executable instructions to accept a set of document objects, wherein each document object is associated with a z-order. A document object in the set of document objects is passed to a pre-rendering region comprising a stack of one or more panes, wherein the document object is added in z-order. The document object is checked against each pane in the stack for document object overlap beginning with a topmost pane, until a pane selected from one of a bottommost pane and an overlap pane is reached. The document object is associated with a pane selected from one of the bottommost pane and a pane above the overlap pane. The pane above the overlap pane is selected from one of a pane in the stack and a new pane added to the top of the stack. | 11-20-2008 |
20080301546 | Systems and methods for rendering media - Methods and systems are provided for maintaining the aspect ratio of an image in the form of a graphic element or a photograph on a printed product in a theme collage. The aspect ratio of each image in the theme collage is maintained independent of any aspect ratio or resolution of the theme collage. Other methods provide for maintaining the resolution of a graphic element on a printed product in a theme collage using any desired combination of bitmap or vector based graphic data and alpha data when rendering the graphic element. An exemplary system may include one or more modules for determining the size of an image on a page while maintaining an aspect ratio of the image, displaying the image, receiving graphic data for the image, receiving alpha-transparency data for the image, and changing the image appearance according to a rendering parameter. | 12-04-2008 |
20080307302 | Display device, display method and image forming apparatus - A display device for displaying a plurality of options. When the number of the options to be displayed is to be changed according to aspects of display, the display device is controlled so that at least one of the options can be displayed in a display position which differs in accordance with the aspect of display. The display device may be controlled so as to change sizes or shapes of the options. Thus, the options can be displayed giving consideration to balance between a display screen and the options to be displayed, thereby accomplishing display which is pleasing in appearance. | 12-11-2008 |
20080313533 | DYNAMICALLY LAYING OUT IMAGES AND ASSOCIATED TEXT USING PRE-DEFINED LAYOUTS - Technologies are described herein for dynamically laying out images and associated text using pre-defined layouts. The pre-defined layouts are created and data defining the layouts is stored in a layout definition file. An application program provides a user interface for dynamically laying out the images and associated text using the contents of the layout definition file. The user interface includes a canvas onto which a user may place one or more images and a layout gallery through which a user may select a pre-defined layout to be applied to images placed on the canvas. The layout gallery includes selectable visual representations corresponding to each of the available pre-defined layouts. When one of the visual representations is selected, the corresponding pre-defined layout is dynamically applied to images on the canvas. The visual representations displayed in the layout gallery may also be utilized to generate a preview of the layout. | 12-18-2008 |
20090019360 | Electronic representations of position-coded products in digital pen systems - Disclosed methods, computer-readable media, and systems relate to position-coded products and processing data from such products. In one implementation, a computer-readable storage medium stores a program for a computer to perform a method for creating an electronic representation of a position-coded product. The method may access an electronic document file with a set of document pages and map the document pages, copy for copy, within a selected number of copies, to pattern pages according to an ordering of the pattern pages. | 01-15-2009 |
20090037809 | SERVER BASED CONTROL OF AD PLACEMENT IN CLIENT SOFTWARE - A system and methods for server based control of ad placement in client software wherein a server controls the area in which advertisements appear in the client software application. A user interface associated with the client software area reclaims an area where the advertisement was displayed after the advertisement is disabled. Different types or classes of advertisements may be displayed within a single area in user interface of the application. | 02-05-2009 |
20090055729 | ARRAY OF DOCUMENTS MANAGEMENT - A method, a system and an interface for discriminating arrays of user-selectable elements is provided, the method comprising displaying a first array of user-selectable elements, the first array of user-selectable elements being adapted to group user-selectable elements; displaying a second array of user-selectable elements, the second array of user-selectable elements being adapted to group user-selectable elements; enabling a discriminating visual feature to at least one of the first array of user-selectable elements and the second array of user-selectable elements, the discriminating visual feature being adapted to indicate a position of the array of user-selectable elements in a sequence about which the array of user-selectable elements have been displayed. A method, a system and an interface for locking and unlocking a logical array intersection is also provided. A user selectable pop-up dialog associated with a user-selectable element or an array is also provided. | 02-26-2009 |
20090070667 | Computer systems and methods for platform independent presentation design - Methods, computer systems and computer program products for constructing a presentation in a platform independent manner. A layout is defined that includes a top split. The top split includes a first orientation parameter specifying an orientation for any daughter split created within the top split. A request is received to create a daughter split within the top split. In response, the daughter split is constructed within the top split in accordance with the first orientation parameter. The daughter split includes a second orientation parameter specifying an orientation for any child split created within the daughter split. The layout is converted into the presentation. A database for storing the layout. The database including a layout table having a row for storing an identity of the layout and an identity of the top split in a hierarchy of splits within the layout. The database also including a layoutdata table that has a row for each split in the hierarchy of splits within the layout. | 03-12-2009 |
20090089660 | ARRANGING GRAPHIC OBJECTS ON A PAGE WITH RELATIVE POSITION BASED CONTROL - A user-specified layout of graphic objects is received. A relative layout specification is derived from the user-specified layout. The relative layout specification describes relative positions of the graphic objects. A final layout of the graphic objects is determined in accordance with the relative layout specification. The final layout includes a specification of size dimensions and positions of the graphic objects on a page. The final layout of graphic objects is output. | 04-02-2009 |
20090089661 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An information processing apparatus comprises an input unit adapted to input forming information, a plurality of objects and usage conditions for the plurality of objects, the usage conditions including layout information that is generated from the forming information; a control unit adapted to control usage permission of the forming information and the plurality of objects based on the usage conditions; and an output unit adapted to lay out and output the permitted plurality of objects in accordance with the permitted forming information. | 04-02-2009 |
20090094513 | Method and apparatus for assisting the evaluation of medical image data - A method for assisting the evaluation of medical image data is disclosed. In at least one embodiment of the method a current layout is displayed which presents a particular arrangement of image series or individual images which are generated using one or more data records. Further, at least one executable work step is displayed which has at least one associated further layout, wherein the further layout involves at least the arrangement being changed, and, in particular, other information from the data records or other data records are used for generating the image series or images. Finally, a check is automatically performed to determine whether execution of the displayed work step requires a layout change in which the current layout is replaced by the further layout, or the current layout can be retained. In at least one embodiment, this assists particularly a treating doctor in the evaluation of the medical image data, since the check affords the opportunity to make a decision about whether the work step is executed under the present circumstances. | 04-09-2009 |
20090106646 | LAYOUT AND LINE ROUTING COMPOSITION - The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for the facilitating the layout and composition of graphics. Embodiments of the present invention allow declarative input for creation and modification of layout compositions and also allows adjustments or modifications made to layout compositions. Layout compositions may be created, adjusted, and modified by input through a markup language or by user-commands and gestures. Relationships and associations among nodes and among line segments and connections between nodes which are embodied within a composition or created by an auto layout are preserved both during and after adjustments and modifications. | 04-23-2009 |
20090106647 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CREATING SEASONALLY ADJUSTED GREETING CARDS VIA A KIOSK - The subject application is directed to a system and method for creating seasonally adjusted tangible outputs via an associated kiosk. Template data associated with seasonal tangible output templates is first stored in a data storage associated with the kiosk. Each of the templates includes code data corresponding to an associated season. Date data is then received and tested against the code data. As a result of the testing of the received date data against the code data, a subset of the plurality of tangible output templates is isolated. Display data is then generated on an associated display in accordance with the isolated subset of tangible output templates. | 04-23-2009 |
20090106648 | POSITIONING CONTENT USING A GRID - Various embodiments provide a grid positioning system which allows grid lines to be established based upon either an implicit grid or an explicit grid. Further, at least some embodiments provide a grid positioning system which allows a repeating mechanism to be employed which is ideally suited to adapt to different screen or display resolutions. Further, various embodiments provide a language which defines a grid unit that can be utilized to allow positioning in relation to grid lines. | 04-23-2009 |
20090106649 | Label data creating apparatus, label data creating method, and computer program product - If a plurality of objects arranged on a layout and including text, word art or bar code are selected and a command is entered from the menu window to create link objects, a CPU sets an object ranked as first as a parent object constituting the link object and stores the parent object in the RAM, with a group ID for identifying the link object allocated thereto. The CPU sets the remaining objects as child objects and stores the objects in the RAM, with a group ID for identifying the link object allocated thereto. | 04-23-2009 |
20090113291 | Electronic Document Reader - We describe a method of displaying a document page with a predetermined size using a display device having edges defining lateral dimensions not substantially larger than said predetermined size and having a central re-writable display portion and a non-re-writable border, said document page comprising a central, foreground portion bearing one or both of text and graphics, a background having a background colour and at least one margin having said background colour, the method comprising: inputting page data defining a page for display; processing said page data to crop margins of said page such that, when displayed on said re-writable display portion, said non-re-writable border gives the appearance of said cropped margins, said processing generating cropped page data; and outputting said cropped page data for display on said re-writable display portion of said display. | 04-30-2009 |
20090144615 | Publication Layout System - Some embodiments disclose a computer-implemented system configured to create an advertisement. The system can include: (a) an administrative toolkit configured to facilitate a template creator at a first location to create a template comprising a plurality of template portions, and to input content components to populate the template, the administrative toolkit comprising: (1) a template definition and editing module configured to: (i) create the template at a development site accessible to the template creator and not accessible to an end user; and (ii) establish rules governing content to be placed in one or more of the template portions; and (2) a template inventory management module configured to move a copy of the template from the development site to a production site accessible to the end user, thereby updating the production site; and (b) an end-user interface configured to facilitate the end-user at a second location to: (1) access the copy of the template over an information exchange network after the copy of the template has been moved to the production site: and (2) populate one or more of the portions with content in accordance with the rules established by the template creator, whereby the end-user can create a customized advertisement that, conforms to standards set by the template creator. Other embodiments are disclosed in this application. | 06-04-2009 |
20090164886 | NON-LINEAR SLIDER SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Systems and methods disclosed herein accept a user-selected adjustment position associated with a value-selection display screen widget. A non-linear calculation is performed on the user-selected adjustment position, a length of the screen widget, a smallest represented value associated with a range of values, a largest represented value associated with a range of values, and/or an adjustment granularity associated with the display screen widget. The non-linear calculation determines a selected value corresponding to the user-selected adjustment position. The selected value is then sent to a physical output device. Additional embodiments are disclosed and claimed. | 06-25-2009 |
20090177962 | INTELLIGENTLY REPRESENTING FILES IN A VIEW - Embodiments of the invention provide a method, system, and media for intelligently presenting representations of files. The method can include determining a set of files for which information about them is to be rendered in a window of a graphical user interface even when not all of the files are the same type, conditioning a format of each representation based on a type of each file, selecting for each representation a set of file properties to be presented (the selection being based on the type of each file), and presenting the set of representations consistent with the formats and with appropriate file properties. | 07-09-2009 |
20090199087 | APPLYING RICH VISUAL EFFECTS TO ARBITRARY RUNS OF TEXT - Technologies are described herein for applying rich visual effects to arbitrary runs of text. The dimensions of the run of text following the application of the rich visual effect are determined. Once the dimensions of the run of text following the application of the rich visual effect have been determined, a layout for the run of text is determined utilizing the dimensions of the run of text following the application of the rich visual effect. The run of text is then rendered according to the layout with the rich visual effect applied thereto. Layout functions and typographical functions may be utilized in conjunction with the run of text prior to and following the application of the rich visual effect to the run of text. | 08-06-2009 |
20090204887 | MANAGING WHITE SPACE IN A PORTAL WEB PAGE - Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to web page layout and provide a novel and non-obvious system for managing white space in a web page. In one embodiment of the invention, a method for managing white space in a web page includes detecting white space adjacent to a non-rectangular shaped portlet rendered on the web page. The method further includes measuring a non-rectangular shape of the white space and selecting a graphic having a shape congruent with the shape of the white space. The method further includes rendering the graphic that was selected into the white space. | 08-13-2009 |
20090204888 | DOCUMENT PROCESSING APPARATUS, DOCUMENT PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A document processing apparatus performs document editing processing to locate a plurality of objects on a page. The document processing apparatus includes a generation unit configured to generate a synchronization field for an object to be located according to an attribute of any one of the objects located on the page, a retrieval unit configured to retrieve an index object from the page as a target having the attribute to be applied to the generated synchronization field, and a reflecting unit configured to reflect an attribute of the index object retrieved by the retrieval unit and a layout position of the index object in an attribute and a layout position of the object to be located in the synchronization field. | 08-13-2009 |
20090210786 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - It is an object of the present invention to provide an image processing technique that can separately apply, concerning a document image including plural objects, appropriate image processing to each of the objects included in the document image. An image processing method for applying image processing to a document image including plural objects includes: discriminating to which of plural kinds of predetermined layouts a layout of objects in a correction target document image corresponds; selecting, on the basis of the discriminated layout, predetermined image processing associated with positions and types of the respective objects in the discriminated layout; and applying the image processing selected for the types of the respective objects to the respective objects corresponding to the types in the correction target document image. | 08-20-2009 |
20090249195 | Computer-Implemented System For Creating A Publication And Method Thereof - In some embodiments, a computer-implemented system can be configured to facilitate creation of a publication from a master template, one or more embedded templates, and one or more content components. The computer-implemented system can include: (a) an administrative toolkit having: (1) a master template creation module configured to create and allow editing of the master template at a development site accessible to a template creator; (2) an embedded template creation module configured to create and allow editing of the one or more embedded templates at the development site by the template creator; (3) a content management module configured to establish rules regarding editing of the master template and placing the one or more content components in the master template; (4) an embedded template management module configured to establish rules regarding the editing of the one or more embedded templates, the placing the one or more embedded templates in the master template, and the placing the one or more content components in the one or more embedded templates; and (5) a template inventory management module configured to copy the master template from the development site to a production site accessible to an end-user. Other embodiments are disclosed in this application. | 10-01-2009 |
20090249196 | CALENDAR OUTPUTTING METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR THE SAME, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A size of a region to be allocated to an image layout date is bigger than a size of a region to be allocated to a date other than the image layout date (image-not-layout date). An image to be allocated to the image layout date is enlarged so that a size of the image matches a size of an allocation region allocated to the image layout date, and the enlarged images is laid. Characters indicating the dates are arranged to regions allocated to previous dates, the image layout date, and following dates. Accordingly, a calendar with an attractive appearance can be generated by altering the layout of the dates and information to be output, even if a user has taken photographs on not so many days in the unit such as a month or a week. | 10-01-2009 |
20090254813 | DOCUMENT PROCESSING APPARATUS AND DOCUMENT PROCESSING METHOD - A document processing apparatus accepts input of image information which represents a document, separates the image information as content of the document into regions, associates the image information separated as content into regions with information used to lay out the content, and holds the associated information as learning information. Subsequently, the document processing apparatus lays out the content of the inputted document based on the held learning information and outputs a document in which the content is laid out. | 10-08-2009 |
20090276694 | System and Method for Document Display - A computer implemented method for displaying document information includes receiving a document, identifying a plurality of different terms in the document, determining positions of the terms in the document, and creating an index of the terms on the document. The plurality of terms in the index are indexed to the plurality of positions in the document such that selection of any of the terms in the index identifies the selected term in the document | 11-05-2009 |
20090282329 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO IDENTIFY GRAPHICAL ELEMENTS - A system receives a selection of content within the digital composition, and derives conceptual information associated with the content. The conceptual information is used to identify the graphical element associated with the selection of content. The system obtains the graphical element associated with the content, and displays the graphical element within the digital composition. | 11-12-2009 |
20090287996 | IMAGE LAYOUT DEVICE, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND IMAGE LAYOUT METHOD - The image layout device configured to enable users to lay out images includes a layout data storing unit configured to store layout data sets that specify image arrangement regions for laying out the images, a layout selecting unit configured to automatically select the layout data set from the layout data storing unit based on a number of the users, an image storing unit configured to store images, one or more position instructing unit configured to select an image to be arranged based on the selected layout data set from stored images, and provide an instruction regarding an arrangement location with respect to the layout data set for the selected image and a layout processing unit configured to determine whether or not an instruction from the instructing unit is executable and, if it is executable, arrange the selected image in accordance with the selected layout data set. | 11-19-2009 |
20090292986 | POPULATING DYNAMIC PAGE TEMPLATE WITH DIGITAL CONTENT OBJECTS - A dynamic page template is populated with one or more digital content objects, comprising. For each digital content object, a locus is determined in relation to the dynamic page template. The locus specifies locations on the dynamic page template at which the digital content object can be placed. The digital content object is then placed on the dynamic page template at one of the locations specified by the locus. The digital content objects placed on the dynamic page template are algorithmically manipulated one or more times to change sizes and/or locations of one or more of the digital content objects. The dynamic page template is then output. | 11-26-2009 |
20090313538 | DESIGN GENERATING APPARATUS, DESIGN GENERATION METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING DESIGN GENERATION PROGRAM - A user may have trouble selecting a desired design when too many generated designs are displayed on a list. There is also a problem that the user cannot easily create a derived design if the user has little design knowledge when the user needs the derived design based on the desired design among the generated designs. | 12-17-2009 |
20090319886 | TECHNIQUE FOR EXTRACTING MODIFICATIONS TO A WEB PAGE - Embodiments of a method for modifying a document, which may be performed by a system, are described. During operation, the system receives a selection of a subset of content in a first document. Note that the subset of the content may include one or more objects, and the selection may specify one or more positions of the one or more objects in the first document. Then, the system receives additional content associated with the selected subset. Next, the system generates a second document that includes the one or more positions associated with the subset of the content and the additional content. | 12-24-2009 |
20090327871 | I/O FOR CONSTRAINED DEVICES - Systems and methodologies for providing improved input and output capabilities for computing devices are provided herein. An output manager is provided that can determine an appropriate layout for a user interface at a display area based on size and shape parameters associated with the display area. The output manager can additionally sense alterations to the display area and dynamically adjust a determined layout based on the sensed alterations. Further, the output manager can facilitate the connection of an associated device to one or more external display devices to facilitate the combined use of the external display devices and resident display areas at the associated device. An input manager is additionally provided that can obtain input from a target user by sensing patterns associated with the target user and select an appropriate input based on the sensed patterns. | 12-31-2009 |
20090327872 | OBJECT EDITING INCLUDING LAYOUT MODES DURING DRAG AND DROP OPERATIONS - Systems, methods and computer products for object editing including specification of layout modes during drag and drop operations. Exemplary embodiments include, a method for object editing including specification of layout modes during electronic editing of a document on the display, the method including retrieving a plurality of objects, displaying the objects on a display of a computer, receiving an object selection signal indicative of a selection device pointing at a selected object from the plurality of objects, in response to the object selection signal, dragging a representation of the object to a destination location on the display, receiving a pause selection signal indicative of the selection device pausing during the dragging of the presentation of the object, in response to the pause selection signal, retrieving a mode change switch from the memory, displaying the mode-change switch on the display and dropping the object at the destination location. | 12-31-2009 |
20100017704 | DYNAMIC CONTENT LAYOUT - Metrics for evaluating content layout performance are provided which enable the dynamic generation of content layouts optimized for particular target audiences, types of content, and/or delivery channels. | 01-21-2010 |
20100017705 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - When an N-upped paper document was viewed by previewing, visibility thereof was poor because contents corresponding to N pages are displayed collectively. Expansion thereof for improving the visibility makes the operability poor. An image processing device of the present invention includes: a determining unit for determining whether or not image data corresponding to an inputted document is image data of an N-up document in which contents corresponding to N pages (N≧2) are arranged in one page; a first thumbnail generating unit for generating a first thumbnail of 1-up that is a thumbnail of any of the N pages when the image data corresponding to the inputted document is determined to be the image data of the N-up document by the determining unit; and a display unit for preview-displaying the first thumbnail. | 01-21-2010 |
20100037131 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DESIGNING AND GENERATING ONLINE STATIONERY - A system and method are described for creating personalized stationery online. For example, a computer-implemented method according to one embodiment comprises: defining variable types including formatting options to be used in stationery templates; specifying variables to be used for a particular stationery template, each of the variables being assigned a particular variable type; creating a global template for a product category of stationery; extracting metadata from a file or other content provided by a stationery designer; and creating a product template using information contained in the global template and the metadata extracted from the file. | 02-11-2010 |
20100042915 | Personalized Document Creation - There is disclosed environments, systems and processes for personalized document creation. Custom fixed documents may be obtained from XPS-formatted document templates based upon customization information. Document templates may be created and related to variable content in a content database. A rendering system may use the customization information in merging a selected document template with the content database in accordance with relationships and selection criteria. | 02-18-2010 |
20100058173 | DISPLAY PROCESSING APPARATUS, DISPLAY PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - According to one embodiment, an display processing apparatus includes an operation receiver, a relation calculator, a display information generator, and a display controller. The operation receiver receives operation to select a key content of a first type. The relation calculator calculates relation between the key content and each of second contents of a plurality of types including the first type. The display information generator generates first display information of the key content and second display information of the second contents. The display controller displays list information including the first display information and second display information. Pieces of the second display information are arranged to form a plurality of concentric polygons with the first display information as the center along directions of operation such that second display information of second content with higher relation to the key content is closer to the first display information. | 03-04-2010 |
20100058174 | Image Layout System Using Communication Network - In an entire structure comprising internet network ( | 03-04-2010 |
20100058175 | ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT PROCESSING APPARATUS AND ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT PROCESSING METHOD - An electronic document processing apparatus and an electronic document processing method are provided that can perform a sophisticated search such as concept search with a high precision even on images including decorated text strings. Text strings are extracted from an electronic document containing layout information, and a baseline of the extracted text string is detected. Subsequently, a line segment A extending forward from the baseline and a line segment B of a different type from the line segment A extending backward from the baseline are provided. It is determined, for different text strings, that the different text strings are concatenated if the line segments A and B, which are provided for the different text string, overlap with each other. | 03-04-2010 |
20100070853 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISPLAYING IMAGES IN AN OUTLINE VIEW OF A DOCUMENT - One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates displaying images in an outline view of an electronic document. During operation, the system receives a command from a user to display an electronic document in an outline view. In response to the command, the system determines a location of an image in the electronic document relative to a nearby character in the electronic document by treating the image as if the image were an inline character. Finally, the system creates the outline view of the electronic document by: placing the image as an inline character in the outline view in a new location that has a same relative location to the nearby character; determining if the image is too large to fit in the new location; and if so, temporarily scaling the image to fit in the new location. | 03-18-2010 |
20100077296 | Methods for rendering data sets and systems thereof - A method, computer readable medium, and system that renders a data set includes creating a display column section for at least one column in a data grid, the display column section comprising two or more locations for data. The data is loaded in the two or more locations in the created display column section and each of the created display column sections with the loaded data is rendered for display on a display device. | 03-25-2010 |
20100077297 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, PROCESSING METHOD THEREFOR, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus selects, as layout targets, a plurality of images captured by an image capture apparatus. The information processing apparatus detects a subject or a specific portion of the subject as an object in each of the selected images, and analyzes distance information from the position of the image capture apparatus to the object based on the sizes of the image and object. The information processing apparatus edits the layout positions of the images based on the distance information obtained by the analysis, and lays out the images on a layout screen. | 03-25-2010 |
20100100811 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND LAYOUT PROCESSING METHOD - An information processing apparatus includes a simple layout generation unit configured to generate a simple layout that exemplifies layout results based on document components and a layout template used in a layout of the document components, a presentation unit configured to present the simple layout generated by the simple layout generation unit, a selection unit configured to select the simple layout according to a user operation from the simple layout presented by the presentation unit, and a layout result generation unit configured to execute the layout based on the simple layout selected by the selection unit to generate the layout result. | 04-22-2010 |
20100115399 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING AN ALBUM OF IMAGES - An album comprising a plurality of pages, each page containing at least one image, is generated by allowing a user to select a style from a plurality of candidate styles S | 05-06-2010 |
20100115400 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An information processing technology is provided that realizes an automatic layout system capable of applying a single template to different format types. The present invention relates to an information processing method performed in an information processing apparatus that creates a link between containers placed on a template, and performs layout processing corresponding to that link in response to input of data into the containers, and the method includes a step of determining an area where containers can be placed in the template according to the paper size set for the template, a step of creating a link associating a boundary line of the above-mentioned area with the containers, and a step of changing, in the case where the paper size set for the template has been changed, the position and the size of that container corresponding to the link created in the above-described creation step. | 05-06-2010 |
20100122158 | LAYOUT EDITING APPARATUS AND LAYOUT EDITING METHOD - Upon layout of plural contents on a sheet, containers to lay out the contents are automatically generated based on the sizes of the contents. The generated respective containers for the plural contents are arranged such that the containers are included in a sheet size. The plural contents are laid out with the arranged respective containers. | 05-13-2010 |
20100153840 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DATA RECORD VISUALIZATION ON A COMPUTER USER INTERFACE - Data records with one or more data objects are displayed according to layout rules on a computer user interface. The data objects associated with the record are identified, layout rules for the one or more data objects of the record are accessed and a layout is calculated based at least in part a uniqueness coefficient of the one or more data objects. The data objects are then displayed on the computer interface according to the determined layout. | 06-17-2010 |
20100174982 | IDENTIFICATION OF COMPOUND GRAPHIC ELEMENTS IN AN UNSTRUCTURED DOCUMENT - Some embodiments provide a method of analyzing an unstructured document. The method receiving the unstructured document that includes a number of primitive graphic elements, each of which is defined as a single object in the unstructured document. The unstructured document has a drawing order that indicates the order in which the primitive graphic elements are drawn when the unstructured document is displayed. The method identifies positional relationships between successive primitive graphic elements in the drawing order. Based on the positional relationships, the method defines a single structural graphic element from several of the primitive graphic elements. | 07-08-2010 |
20100174983 | Selection of Text in an Unstructured Document - Some embodiments provide a method for defining a selection of text in an unstructured document that includes a number of glyphs. The method identifies associated sets of glyphs and a reading order that specifies a flow of reading through the glyphs. The method displays the document. The method receives a start point and end point for a selection of text within the displayed document. The method defines a selection of text from the start point to the end point by using the identified sets of glyphs and intended flow of reading. | 07-08-2010 |
20100174984 | DOCUMENT EDITING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - In order to maintain consistencies of relations between objects and page attributes in document data, a document editing apparatus for editing document data including a plurality of pages, includes a determination unit which determines, when a process is executed for the document data, whether or not the process includes a move process or copy process of an object across pages, a composition unit which composites, when it is determined that the process includes the move process or copy process, information associated with a page attribute of an editing source page on which the object is currently laid out to the object to generate a composite object, and a layout unit which lays out the composite object as an object on an editing destination page as a move destination or copy destination. | 07-08-2010 |
20100211870 | DOCUMENT DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD - A device for displaying an image according to a document including a plurality of block elements on a display screen, each block element defining an image of an object having a size relative to the size of the screen when displayed, the object being capable of being overlaid with a text or another image of another object, includes: a data acquisitor for obtaining the document; and a processor for executing a process including: extracting the block elements from the document; determining at least one of the block elements defining an image of an object to be displayed on the display screen on the basis of size of the image of an object; and displaying the image of the object defined by the at least one of the block elements determined together with any associated text or another image object of another object overlaid onto the image of the object. | 08-19-2010 |
20100223546 | OPTIMIZED SEARCH RESULT COLUMNS ON SEARCH RESULTS PAGES - Computer-implemented system and methods are disclosed for optimizing the relative positions of sponsored and organic search results on a search results page displayed to a user, including calculating, by a search engine, a degree of commerciality of a search query; receiving the search query from a user by the search engine; and delivering, by the search engine to a browser of a user, a plurality of sponsored search results in at least two columns and a plurality of organic search results in at least a third column of one or more search results pages, wherein a layout of the at least three columns depends on the degree of commerciality of the search query. | 09-02-2010 |
20100251101 | Capture and Display of Digital Images Based on Related Metadata - Methods and apparatuses receive receiving a plurality of images and metadata associated with each respective image, determining a viewpoint of one of the images of the plurality, the viewpoint to represent the location and orientation of the image capture device when the image was captured and creating a view including the plurality of images, wherein placement of the images based on each images respective metadata and the determined viewpoint. | 09-30-2010 |
20100251102 | DISPLAYING DOCUMENTS ON MOBILE DEVICES - Displaying a document on an information handling system (e.g., a mobile device) having a display unit and an input unit. In one embodiment, this may comprise: analyzing the document to determine a group of selected objects to be displayed on the display unit; generating object views respectively corresponding to the selected objects; and displaying the object views on the display unit by manipulating the input unit. | 09-30-2010 |
20100251103 | APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An apparatus includes a selection unit configured to select a target page from a plurality of pages having an object, a detection unit configured to detect a page having an object which fits in a margin area in which an object is not arranged in the selected target page from among pages following the target page, and a display unit configured to display the selected target page and the detected page. | 09-30-2010 |
20100269036 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DESIGNING AND GENERATING ONLINE STATIONERY - A computer-implemented method for designing an online stationery is described. One embodiment of the computer-implemented method comprises: defining a plurality of textboxes, each of the textboxes comprising text and/or variable codes, coordinate data defining textbox positioning, and a style class defining font, font size and/or font color; defining a layout comprising specific textboxes from the plurality of textboxes; defining a global template comprising one or more of the layouts; extracting metadata from a file or other content provided by a stationery designer; and generating a product template using information contained in the global template and the metadata extracted from the file. | 10-21-2010 |
20100281359 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING GRAPHIC OBJECTS - The present application discloses a method, apparatus and system for processing graphic objects in a flow diagram. Said method comprises obtaining a flow diagram and execution stage information generated when executing said flow diagram; obtaining a layout policy, wherein said layout policy at least designates the conditions for determining a primary path in the flow diagram using the execution stage information; determining the primary path using the execution stage information based on the layout policy; and displaying prominently said primary path during displaying said flow diagram. Owing to the present invention, the elements, such as a primary path, in a diagram in which a user takes interest can be found by the user easily to facilitate the user to understand the diagram. Furthermore, the diagram automatically arranged using the present invention is usually clear enough so that it is almost not required to be manually adjusted by the user. | 11-04-2010 |
20100287463 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING AND PROCESSING INFORMATION OF AN OBJECT FOR MULTI-SOURCE-STREAMING - Preparing of information about a content source is disclosed. One method in accordance with the information preparing creates item information on a first component pertaining to an arbitrary content source, incorporates the created information on the first component into a first structure element (e.g., tag), creates a second structure element containing information making display layout information for the arbitrary content source accessible, creates information on at least one component pertaining to the arbitrary content source other than the first component, and incorporates the created information on the at least one component into at least one third structure element included within the second structure element. | 11-11-2010 |
20100293454 | STYLE GUIDE AND FORMATTING METHODS FOR PILOT QUICK REFERENCE HANDBOOKS - A method is disclosed for generating a quick reference handbook for use on a mobile platform. The method may involve providing a machine-readable medium for use with a processor having a memory. The machine-readable medium may provide instructions for causing the processor to generate a quick reference handbook (QRH). The QRH may be created through the use of checklists organized in accordance with a plurality of grouping schemes that include at least a plurality of: Immediate Action; Systems; and Engine Indication and Crew Alerting System (EICAS) messages. Differentiating criteria may also be used for decisions steps, action steps, and navigation steps within the checklists to thereby enable a user to discriminate between the steps. | 11-18-2010 |
20100299592 | CUSTOMIZATION OF GUI LAYOUT BASED ON HISTORY OF USE - A hand-held electronic device, method of operation and computer readable medium are disclosed. The device may include a case having one or more major surfaces. A visual display and a touch interface are disposed on at least one of the major surfaces. A processor is operably coupled to the visual display and touch screen. Instructions executable by the processor may be configured to a) present an image on the visual display containing one or more active elements; b) correlate one or more active portions of the touch interface to one or more corresponding active elements in the image on the visual display; and c) adjust a layout of content shown on the display according to a probability of one or more actions that may be taken with the one or more active elements. | 11-25-2010 |
20100313117 | ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT CONTROL APPARATUS, METHOD, PROGRAM AND SYSTEM - An electronic document control apparatus verifies that content to which a digital signature has been applied has not been altered; verifies that a referential target of a new page is a signature area to which a digital signature has been applied; if the electronic document has been imparted with a policy for permitting page layout, verifies that the referential target of a new page does not include anything other than the content to which the digital signature has been applied, and if the electronic document has been imparted with a policy for permitting page layout and background rendering of content, verifies that the referential target does not include anything other than the content and a background object of the content; and determines by using at least one of the first, second and third verification means, whether or not the edited electronic document has been altered. | 12-09-2010 |
20100318899 | DESIGN EDITING APPARATUS AND METHOD AND DESIGN EDITING PROGRAM - A page design edited by a general user who does not have an enough design knowledge is not always preferable in terms of a design. Since there is no means for effectively notifying the user of editing functions which a page design application has, there is a case where the user cannot fully use those functions but has completed the edition in the undesirable page design. To solve such a problem, the invention provides a function for displaying a plurality of page design candidates obtained by executing a page design modifying process to a designated layout constructing object as variations and enabling the user to select a desired page design from them. | 12-16-2010 |
20100318900 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ATTRIBUTING TEXT IN TEXT GRAPHICS - The invention relates to a method for assigning text attributes to a graphical display of text that is contained in a computer graphic, comprising the steps: determination of at least one word position value, which has a co-ordinate tuple related to the fist computer graphic, for a word in the text displayed in the first computer graphic; evaluation of at least one selection position value which has a co-ordinate tuple related to the first computer graphic; check as to whether the word position value for the word is registered by the selection position value by comparing the co-ordinate tuples for the word position value and the selection position value; determination of an attribution area of the first computer graphic on the basis of the word position value registered by the selection position value; and modification of the first computer graphic at least in the attribution area. The invention also relates to a device, an assembly and a computer programme product for said method. | 12-16-2010 |
20100332972 | DOCUMENT PROCESSOR, DOCUMENT PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A document processor includes a unit which receives document information including plural document elements as a target document, a unit which detects each of the document elements from the received target document, a unit which generates an element image enlarged by a specified ratio, of each image of the detected document elements, and a display control unit which controls display so that an element image of the corresponding document element is displayed in a range occupied by the document element in the target document. | 12-30-2010 |
20110010616 | Method, system and apparatus for document processing - The present invention provides a system, method and apparatus for document processing to process documents in different formats. The method for document processing includes: recording layout information of a document to be operated, converting the document to be operated into a document conforming to a docbase standard based on the layout information recorded; invoking a standard interface of a docbase management system to open the document conforming to the docbase standard. | 01-13-2011 |
20110016385 | EDITING APPARATUS, EDITING METHOD AND EDITING PROGRAM - The invention provides an editing apparatus for generating a layout, comprising: a first storage means for storing materials which are the objects of a layout; a second storage means for storing attribute information as to whether the materials which are the objects of a layout are arranged automatically or arranged at a fixed position; a third storage means for storing a design rule which is a rule for generating a layout; and a layout generating means for determining arrangement of the materials which are the objects of a layout on the basis of the attribute information and the design rule. | 01-20-2011 |
20110016386 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE WHICH CONTROLS DISPLAY OF SUMMARIES AND PREVIEWS OF CONTENT OF COLUMNS IN WEB CONTENT DEPENDING ON DISPLAY AREA SIZES, AND RECORDING MEDIUM WHICH RECORDS CONTROL PROGRAM THEREOF - When an information processing device expands and displays a received web content item into a web page, the device analyzes the received web content item and extracts columns respectively as constitutive units forming a layout of the web page, compares each of display areas of the columns with a threshold, in a display state of the web page by a display device, and thereby determines whether each of the display areas is sufficient or not. If the display area of any of the columns is not sufficient as a result determined, the information processing device summarizes content of the any of the columns, depending on the display area, adapts summarized content of the any of the column into a preview display format depending on the display area, and displays the adapted content on the display device. | 01-20-2011 |
20110035661 | DOCUMENT LAYOUT SYSTEM - A method for generating a document, comprising providing a set of content items in a first configuration for the document, using a processor, generating alignment data representing a measure for the alignment of the content items in the first configuration, using the alignment data to determine if the content items are aligned with one another within a predefined threshold measure for alignment for the document, and a document layout system comprising a processing module configured to generate a document layout. | 02-10-2011 |
20110041055 | PORTAL REPLAY AND FORESEE - Some embodiments of a system and a method to allow users to review prior and future versions of a website have been presented. In one embodiment, a processing module running on a web portal server tracks changes to a website hosted on the web portal server by recording the changes in a content repository of the web portal server. A graphical user interface (GUI) module running on the web portal server may generate user interface control to allow a user to review, depending on rights granted to the user, prior versions of the website and future versions of the website, which may be constructed using the changes tracked. | 02-17-2011 |
20110047454 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR EDITING DOCUMENT, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR EDITING DOCUMENT - An apparatus for editing a document containing a plurality of pages each of which includes one or more first objects is provided. The apparatus includes: an adding portion that adds a second object to each of the pages; an extraction portion that extracts, from the pages, a possible improper page that is a page to which the second object is probably not added properly, the possible improper page being extracted for each cause due to which the second object is not added properly; a quantity display portion that displays, for each cause, a quantity of the possible improper page thus extracted; an excluding portion that excludes, from the possible improper page, a selected page that is a page corresponding to the cause selected by a user; and an informing portion that informs the user of a to-be-confirmed page corresponding to the possible improper page remaining after excluding the selected page. | 02-24-2011 |
20110093775 | METHOD FOR DISPLAYING DIGITAL IMAGES - A method for presenting images to a user on a display, the method comprising the steps of providing one or more stored images each with at least a day and month of capture; based on the stored images, determining which day and month at least an image was captured; and displaying only the day and month on which at least an image was captured; and a visual indicator of whether a plurality of images was captured on the displayed day and month. | 04-21-2011 |
20110093776 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, PROCESSING METHOD THEREOF AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus includes: an image management unit configured to manage a plurality of images; a priority information management unit configured to manage, associated with each image, priority information indicating a priority that has been instructed by a supplier of the image; an approval information management unit configured to manage, associated with each image, approval information indicating whether or not to approve sharing of the image instructed by a viewer of the image; and a selection unit configured to select images from among the plurality of images based on the priority information and the approval information. | 04-21-2011 |
20110099469 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus for editing a document including a first layer and a second layer. The information processing apparatus determines, when a first layer is selected as a target layer, whether an object in a second page of the first layer, which follows a first page, can be relocated to a blank region in the first page of the first layer. When it is determined that the object in the second page of the first layer can be relocated, the information processing apparatus locates the object in the second page of the first layer to the first page of the first layer. | 04-28-2011 |
20110107202 | Automatically Detecting Layout of Bidirectional (BIDI) Text - Automatically detecting the layout of a bidirectional (BIDI) text. In one embodiment, this comprises: determining a shaping attribute of the text based on scanning the text to detect at least one character of a specific shape, while preferably ignoring initial, final, and stand-alone shaped characters; determining a text type attribute of the text from the shaping attribute; and determining an orientation attribute of the text from the determined text type. A numeric shaping attribute and a symmetric swapping attribute may also be determined. Embodiments of the invention may be used, by way of illustration but not of limitation, for bidirectional layout transformation to allow conversion of a BIDI text received from a source computer system in a source BIDI layout format into a layout format of a target computer system. | 05-05-2011 |
20110107203 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING JUDICIAL ORDERS - A system and method for providing judicial orders is provided. The system includes storage, case management data and components stored in the storage, and a user interface. The components include a set of controls that are related. At least some of the controls providing access to the case management data. The user interface enables the defining of judicial order templates, including the selection of the components included in the judicial order templates. The defined judicial order templates are used to create orders. | 05-05-2011 |
20110107204 | AUTOMATED DOCUMENT ASSEMBLY WITH OBSCURING - A document assembly system includes a storage element ( | 05-05-2011 |
20110131485 | PUBLISHING SPECIFIED CONTENT ON A WEBPAGE - A method and system for publishing specified content on a webpage. Specifically, an example method for publishing specified content at a specified location of a webpage includes the steps of performing sentiment analysis upon context surrounding a specified location where the specified content is to be published to determine a sentiment tendency of the context surrounding the specified location and selecting whether or not to publish the specified content at the specified location according to the sentiment tendency of the context surrounding the specified location. Embodiments of the invention help to make the webpage content more coherent, make the contents of a webpage matching in sentiment and rational in layout, improve a viewer's feeling of the webpage content, and increase website click rate and revenue. Embodiments help achieve a beneficial effect of providing a web electronic ad matching the sentiment of a webpage. | 06-02-2011 |
20110173530 | LAYOUT CONSTRAINT MANIPULATION VIA USER GESTURE RECOGNITION - Systems and methods are described herein for enabling a user of a diagramming system to select elements of a diagram and apply a layout constraint thereto. In accordance with certain embodiments described herein, the systems and methods provide the user with a means to perform these tasks in a manner that is faster, easier and more intuitive than interfaces provided by conventional diagramming systems. For example, in accordance with at least one embodiment described herein, a single user gesture is obtained and the steps of selecting elements of a diagram to which a layout constraint is to be applied and selecting the layout constraint are both performed based on the single user gesture. | 07-14-2011 |
20110197126 | Display Placeholders For Rich Media Content - Methods, systems, devices, and programming structures for providing temporary substitute placeholder content for rich media content in data sets downloaded to wireless communications devices. The substitute placeholder content may be logically related to the rich content for which it substitutes, and may be displayed in the same relative size and location as the rich content ultimately to be displayed. | 08-11-2011 |
20110202829 | METHOD, DEVICE AND SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING A DISPLAY ACCORDING TO A DEFINED SIZING PARAMETER - A method, device and system for controlling a display according to a sizing parameter is provided. In an example, text elements on a web page are parsed, and any text elements that are smaller than a predefined font size are increased in size to the predefined size, while the remainder are left at their original size. | 08-18-2011 |
20110231752 | E-BOOK READ APPARATUS AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF - An e-book read apparatus has a screen, a storage unit, a processing module and a layout tool. The storage saves at least one e-book having a plurality of chapters and sections, and pages. The processing is coupled to the storage unit for showing the e-book on the screen for responsing a read request. In addition, the layout is installed in the processing module or the storage unit for re-typeset the e-book for responsing a re-layout request. | 09-22-2011 |
20110252309 | OPTIMIZATIONS FOR HYBRID WORD PROCESSING AND GRAPHICAL CONTENT AUTHORING - Embodiments provide interactive computer-implemented rich heterogeneous content authoring features. In an embodiment, a computer-implemented method includes an interaction model that uses an input state associated with a user operation and an electronic page interface to provide an interactive authoring experience. In one embodiment, a note taking client can include an interaction model used in part to automatically control aspects of an electronic note page. Other embodiments are included and available. | 10-13-2011 |
20110276874 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR UNSUPERVISED GENERATION OF PAGE TEMPLATES - A computer-implemented method and system for generation of page templates are provided. The method includes providing a document in computer memory. Using a computer processor, page elements within the document are identified and labeled. For each page of the document, a set of geometric relations between pairs of page elements co-occurring on the page is computed, and the set of geometric relations is associated with the page. The method also includes generating a set of page template candidates based at least in part on the computed geometric relations, selecting page templates from the set of page template candidates, and outputting the selected page templates. | 11-10-2011 |
20110283184 | CONTOUR BASED FLOW LAYOUT - Various embodiments introduce the notion of a flow contour that is utilized to conduct layout processing. Flow contours are utilized to organize layout space in the presence of floating objects or geometries. In at least some embodiments, objects can float to the left and/or right in the layout space. Flow contours are abstractions that then represent collections of left-floating and/or right-floating objects. | 11-17-2011 |
20110283185 | ADAPTABLE LAYOUTS FOR SOCIAL FEEDS - Adaptable layouts for social feeds are described. In embodiments, shared content is received as a social network action initiated at a user device by a social network user. An activity is generated based on the social network action to collect metadata associated with the shared content. The shared content and the metadata is then mapped to layout templates that are each generated for different display layout formats associated with different types of client devices. Additionally, the shared content and the metadata is mapped to additional layout templates that are each generated for different social network form factors. | 11-17-2011 |
20110289403 | Document validation mapping system and method - Documents having a structured nature such as contracts, legislation, etc. can be graphically depicted to emphasize their logical structure. A document map may graphically show clauses of a document as nodes with the requirements of the clause as branch structures from the nodes. The requirement elements of a clause may be logically linked by a logical operator for the clause, such as AND, OR, NOT etc. Each requirement element may include a validation field that allows a user to indicate whether a requirement has been validated. Validation of the clause can be calculated based on the validation field values, typically Boolean values, and based on the logical operator. The validation map may be used to determine compliance with a document, costs of compliance, etc. | 11-24-2011 |
20110302488 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING MOBILE TERMINAL - A mobile terminal is provided that includes: a display unit configured to display a webpage having a plurality of sections; a wireless communication unit configured to provide Internet access; a memory unit configured to store history information regarding usage of the webpage; and a control unit configured to control a display of a preferred section of the plurality of sections of the webpage upon an access of the webpage such that the preferred section is visually distinguishable from other sections of the plurality of sections, wherein display of the preferred section is based on the stored history information. | 12-08-2011 |
20110320932 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CREATING PHOTOBOOKS - A method for producing a photo album includes providing a library of page layouts, selecting a first group of one or more images to be placed in the first page of the photo album, selecting a second group of one or more images to be placed in the second page of the photo album, graphically displaying the first group of one or more images within a first border that represents a first page, graphically displaying the second group of one or more images within a second border that represents a second page, automatically selecting a first page layout from the library of page layouts, and automatically placing the first group of one or more images into the one or more image receiving areas in the first page layout to produce the first page in the photo album. | 12-29-2011 |
20120005573 | AUTOMATICALLY ADJUSTING A WEBPAGE - A solution for automatically adjusting a webpage. According to the method of the present invention it can be automatically learned what the user's historical browsing behaviors is and thereby predict which block in the webpage would concerned the user more so that it would be the one to be browsed and then adjust display of the block accordingly. Thus, with the present invention, limited screen sources can be utilized to more efficiently display the content that would concern a user when the user browses a webpage. A system for automatically adjusting a webpage and a computer readable article of manufacture tangibly embodying non-transitory computer readable instructions which, when executed, cause a computer to carry out the steps of a method for automatically adjusting a webpage are also provided. | 01-05-2012 |
20120017144 | CONTENT ANALYSIS APPARATUS AND METHOD - The present invention provides a content analysis apparatus including an input section which inputs original content; a content analyzer which analyzes details of the original content input into the input section and acquires content analysis information which is information pertaining to the content; and an anchor point information generator which analyzes an anchor point where a visual line of a reader stops and a transition sequence of the anchor point with respect to the original content input into the input section pursuant to a prescribed analysis rule corresponding to the original content input into the input section, and generates anchor point information indicating the analyzed anchor point and the transition sequence of the anchor point. | 01-19-2012 |
20120036427 | DOCUMENT PROCESSING APPARATUS, DOCUMENT PROCESSING METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - A document processing apparatus which performs layout processing using first and second pages having first and second regions respectively on which content data is arranged. An obtaining processor obtains the content data and a generating processor generates a new page based on the first page in a case where the obtained content data falls inside neither the first nor second region and the first region is larger than the second region, and generates the new page based on the second page in a case where the obtained content data falls inside neither the first nor second region and the second region is larger than the first region. An arranging processor arranges the content data in the first region in the first page, the second region in the second page, and a region in the new page generated by the generating processor. | 02-09-2012 |
20120042239 | Document Templates - A method of creating a template for presenting content within a document. The method includes defining a plurality of components, each including at least one content region and at least one of a frame, a template perimeter and an object. A number of links are then defined between the components, each link representing a respective spatial relationship. A processing system is then responsive to the template to populate the content region with content, generate a representation of each component and position the representation of each component in the document using the defined links to control the relative spatial positioning of the components. | 02-16-2012 |
20120042240 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATIC PAGE LAYOUT - The present disclosure includes a system and method for automatic page layout. One automatic page layout method includes dividing a plurality of ordered graphical items into groups, and bisecting a space into regions having a reading order corresponding to an order of the ordered graphical items, each region corresponding to one of the groups and being sized according to a first layout characteristic of the ordered graphical items of the region's corresponding group in proportion to a second layout characteristic of the plurality of ordered graphical items. An output is caused in which each region has been filled with that region's associated group of ordered graphical items. | 02-16-2012 |
20120072833 | Host apparatus and screen capture control method thereof - A host apparatus which controls screen capture using a web capture application or a capture application, and a screen capture control method thereof. The host apparatus shares capture areas or saved files using a web capture application through which a screen of a web browser is captured and is compatibly saved or using a capture application through which a desktop screen is captured and is compatibly saved. | 03-22-2012 |
20120072834 | DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - A document management apparatus includes: a memory that holds an electronic document of plural pages; a written information acquisition unit that obtains information on writing with respect to respective pages of recording media on which the electronic document stored in the memory is outputted; and a page arrangement generation unit that generates a page arrangement of the electronic document based on the information on the writing obtained by the written information acquisition unit. | 03-22-2012 |
20120072835 | Microblog Client - Methods, computer readable media, and apparatuses for providing user interfaces, determining screen layouts, and displaying microblog posts are presented. A microblog client may receive a set of microblog posts and provide a user interface for displaying the received microblog posts. The microblog client also may parse the received posts and identify one or more content elements within the posts. The microblog client may then download additional information based on the content elements, and may determine a screen layout for displaying the posts based on the content elements and the additional downloaded information. In certain examples, microblog posts may be parsed and the additional related information may be downloaded prior to the selection of the posts in the user interface. The determination of a screen layout for displaying the microblog posts may also depend on the display characteristics, for example, screen size or orientation of a client device. | 03-22-2012 |
20120084642 | BALANCING MULTIPLE COLUMN LAYOUT - A method for managing multiple columns in a document. The method includes obtaining a text stream from the document; obtaining a current fill limit associated with an initial column of the multiple columns; placing, using a layout engine, the text stream within the multiple columns according to the current fill limit; identifying, after placing the text stream, a first fill level of a final column of the multiple columns; calculating a first difference between the current fill limit and the first fill level of the final column; calculating, in response to the first difference exceeding a tolerance, a revised fill limit based on the current fill limit; placing, using the layout engine, the text stream within the multiple columns according to the revised fill limit. | 04-05-2012 |
20120096343 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIA FOR PROVIDING A DYNAMIC LOUPE FOR DISPLAYED INFORMATION - Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for providing a dynamic loupe for displayed information of a document. The displayed information can be provided in various sub-regions of the document. Based on the position of an input relative to a particular sub-region, the loupe can be sized and positioned such that a portion of information from the sub-region is displayed in the loupe. The portion of information can be displayed using a loupe scale factor that may differ from a scale factor used for the rest of the displayed information. The loupe position can be selected such that the contents and or position of the loupe may be biased towards a particular sub-region. | 04-19-2012 |
20120102392 | METHOD FOR DISPLAYING A DATA SET - Embodiments of the invention are concerned with displaying a data set within a display area of a display device, where the data set includes a plurality of groups of elements, each of the groups including a higher-level element and one or more lower-level elements. Each element may for example form part of a Document Object Model for an HTML document. | 04-26-2012 |
20120102393 | DOCUMENT GENERATING APPARATUS, DOCUMENT GENERATING METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A ruby character is displayed in an appropriate display form corresponding to characteristics of a layout of a document intended for giving of ruby characters. In a document generating apparatus, a storage portion stores information on a layout of a document as document layout data, a unification judging portion reads the document layout data stored in the storage portion, and a ruby character setting portion judges unification of a layout of the whole document based on the read document layout data to set a display form of a ruby character based on a judgment result by the unification judging portion. | 04-26-2012 |
20120110438 | Proportional Font Scaling - The font size of text included in web page content is proportionally scaled based on proportional container widths and/or a minimum readable font size. The proportional font scaling improves web content readability on small-screen devices while maintaining relative proportions of font sizes between text containers when the text containers are rendered at full display width. | 05-03-2012 |
20120117461 | DOCUMENT GENERATING APPARATUS, DOCUMENT GENERATING METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A document with a supplementary explanation in which a supplementary explanation character string is given in a ruby form in a character size which conforms to a character size of a document is easily, effectively generated. Information on a character size of a character in a character area is stored; the information on the character size is read to correct the information on the character size for each character area based on a character size of each character area; one character area is divided based on information on the corrected character size; information on a display form of a supplementary explanation character string is generated based on the information on the corrected character size when information on a character size is corrected for a character in a character area made by division; and a document with a supplementary explanation is generated based on the information on the display form. | 05-10-2012 |
20120137214 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PRODUCING A PLURALITY OF CUSTOMIZED INTEGRATED MISSAL BULLETINS BASED ON COMMON BASE CONTENT - A system and method for producing an integrated missal bulletin having a base content origination system, a first and a second local entity system, and a production system. The base content origination system compiles the base content portions and assigns each base content portion a base content portion reference identifier and transmitting the compiled base content with the associated base content portion reference identifiers to the production system. The first and second local entity systems receiving local entity content and local integration instructions and them to the production system. The production system has an integration module with computer readable instructions for selecting a base content portions from the base content responsive to the base content portion reference identifiers as provided by the first local integration instructions, arranging the local content with the selected base content portion, and creating first and second integrated missal bulletin document files that are different as containing the arranged local content with the selected first base content portion for each first and second local entity systems. The production system produces a first integrated missal bulletin from the created first integrated missal bulletin document file and produces a second integrated missal bulletin from the created second integrated missal bulletin document file. | 05-31-2012 |
20120144292 | PROVIDING SUMMARY VIEW OF DOCUMENTS - As part of a document summary view system, a miniaturized version of a document is provided that presents a summary overview of the document over a user interface, enabling a user to easily read and distinguish the contents of the document. The summary view may preserve a basic format and/or layout of a document and may retain the core elements within the document including headings, bulleted lists, tables, images, and/or the first sentence of each paragraph, and obscure any remaining text and elements. | 06-07-2012 |
20120151331 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ORGANIZING USER INTERFACE FOR CATEGORIES OF RECENTLY USED DIGITAL MATERIAL - A system and method provides a user interface on an electronic device with a listing of the most recently used or viewed items that is organized by the category of item. A menu containing the most recently read items is separated into separate categories such as books and periodicals. The menu displays the most recently opened item in each of the categories. In this manner, one category will not dominate over the other categories on the menu. | 06-14-2012 |
20120159311 | Method and Apparatus for Receiving Display Limited Web Page Content - One embodiment comprises a non-transitory, tangible computer readable storage medium, encoded with processor readable instructions to perform a method of displaying content in a web page. One method optimizes the order of HTTP requests made during the downloading of a web page or web application comprising a plurality of objects, and receiving a first portion of the plurality of objects in a first order. Additionally, (i) a viewable section of the web page, (ii) centers of the viewable section of the web page and each of the plurality of objects, and (iii) a distance from the center of the viewable section of the web page to the center of each of the plurality of objects may be determined. Furthermore, the objects may then be prioritized based on their distance from the center of the viewable section. A request to receive at least one additional portion of the objects in a second order based on the prioritization of the objects may then be sent. | 06-21-2012 |
20120166937 | DOCUMENT EDITING APPARATUS, DOCUMENT EDITING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A document editing apparatus includes an extraction unit, an adjustment unit, and a control unit. The extraction unit is configured to extract a layout variable used for acquiring an evaluation value for a plurality of layout evaluation items used to evaluate a layout of a document, if any layout evaluation item among the plurality of layout evaluation values exists that does not satisfy a layout evaluation reference value. The adjustment unit is configured to adjust a value of the layout variable to satisfy the layout evaluation reference value. The control unit is configured to display the document whose layout has been adjusted by the adjustment unit. | 06-28-2012 |
20120166938 | CUSTOMIZABLE TRADING DISPLAY OF MARKET DATA - A method for providing a customizable trading display of market instrument data includes selecting a subset from a plurality of quadrants, with each quadrant associated with one benchmark instrument and each benchmark instrument associated with one or more non-benchmark instruments. Market data is automatically retrieved for the instruments associated with each selected quadrant. A customizable trading display is generated, with the display comprising the subset of quadrants in a selectable layout and each quadrant presenting the associated market data. | 06-28-2012 |
20120173968 | Bullet Point News Reporting - The invention is a method of publishing news that is based solely on the use of bullet points, indentations and categories. It is meant to be a substitute and replacement for the standard paragraph-format news article. All statements, facts, details, statistics, quotes, and other units of information are placed into bullet points as opposed to written out in sentences in a paragraph. Bullet points are indented at varying levels to signify what type, and category of information it is, creating a parent-child, hierarchical relationship between bullet points and categories. Another characteristic of Bullet Point News Reporting is the elimination of all words, characters, and formatting that does not immediately serve the purpose of providing fact or comprehension in an attempt to remove author bias, author opinion, or author commentary. | 07-05-2012 |
20120179960 | IMAGE LAYOUT ADJUSTMENT APARATUS - A computer system comprising a computer screen for digitally displaying an image product containing two or more digital images, a processor coupled to the computer screen for implementing a user interface thereon and a mouse for enabling a user to select one of the two or more digital images in the displayed image product, and for enabling the user to selectively digitally increase or decrease a size of the selected one of the digital images with a single user action with respect to at least one other of the digital images. | 07-12-2012 |
20120179961 | METHODS AND APPARATUS RELATED TO DOCUMENT PROCESSING BASED ON A DOCUMENT TYPE - In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a portion of text from a document. A document type is associated with the document based on at least one of the portion of text or an identifier associated with the document. The method also includes selecting, based on the document type, a document template having a plurality of sections. Each section from the plurality of sections being associated with a document category. At least one section from the plurality of sections including at least one policy preference. | 07-12-2012 |
20120185764 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTENT DEVELOPMENT AND MANAGEMENT - Both a relative positioned resource and an absolute positioned resource may be generated using a single editor having a single syntax for both the relative and absolute positioned elements. A layout module generates an intermediate data structure based on element information. The element information includes content of at least one element, Cartesian coordinates of the at least one element, and dimensional information of the at least one element. A unified processing module generates a first resource having absolute positioned elements by processing the intermediate data structure, and generates a second resource having relative positioned elements by processing the same intermediate data structure. | 07-19-2012 |
20120204098 | Methods and Systems for Preparing Mixed-Content Documents - Embodiments of the present invention are directed to automated methods and systems for generating mixed-content documents. In one embodiment, an automated method for generating a document layout includes receiving raw text, figures, references, and semantic information as input ( | 08-09-2012 |
20120221943 | DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, DISPLAY DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A display control method includes the steps of obtaining a plurality of thumbnail images for a document having a plurality of pages, the thumbnail images each presenting each of the plurality of pages reduced in size in a reference state, rotated about a virtual rotation axis as a center, and processed into a view overlooked from a certain viewpoint; obtaining a first search subject; obtaining a first tag image corresponding to the first search subject obtained; and displaying a thumbnail image group on a display device, the thumbnail image group including the plurality of thumbnail images in a state in which at least two thumbnail images among the plurality of thumbnail images are partially overlapped each other and the first tag image is added to a thumbnail image of a page including the first search subject. | 08-30-2012 |
20120233542 | DEFECT REVIEW SUPPORT DEVICE, DEFECT REVIEW DEVICE AND INSPECTION SUPPORT DEVICE - To reduce the time taken to prepare a defect review report and to thereby improve the convenience of a defect review device or for an inspection system user. The above object is attained by implementing a review report preparation tool having a function to edit the layout of a review report in a data processing terminal. | 09-13-2012 |
20120240035 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CREATING VARIABLE DATA PRINT SAMPLES FOR CAMPAIGNS - Methods and systems herein receive a selection of at least one variable data printing (VDP) pattern from a first user to compose an initial sample design. The methods receive image, text, and graphics into the initial sample design from the first user and the user tags such image, text and graphics with VDP pattern elements. The processes of receiving the image, text, and graphics and tagging alter the initial sample design into the tagged sample design. Further, the methods and systems can automatically convert the tagged sample design into at least one different format file. The methods and systems can automatically provide the different format file to at least one second user. Additionally, the second user can include data components into the different format file to support the composition of a targeted marketing campaign sample. | 09-20-2012 |
20120254733 | Method for Users to Create and Edit Web Page Layouts - A computer implemented method of editing a layout of areas on a page, for example for webpage design, includes displaying the layout in a user interface along with control elements operable via a user input device to manipulate user-variable attributes of the layout, the user-variable attributes including at least one of a number count of subdivisions in said layout, dimensions of said subdivisions in said layout, and border direction between each pair of adjacent subdivisions in said layout. Input via the user input device and the control elements is received to modify one or more of the user-variable attributes. Stored data representing the layout is updated based on the user input, and the display of the layout is updated based on the updated data to present a revised layout based on new values of the user-variable attributes. | 10-04-2012 |
20120254734 | GRAPHICS-PLUGIN AND SERVER METHOD FOR INVITATION DESIGNS - A computerized, web-based, method and system for improved (high-end) stationary designs for invitations to weddings and other important events. The method and system is based on two software components. One component is a plug-in for a graphics program, often a high end graphics program such as Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, and Adobe Indesign. This plug-in allows the graphics program to communicate with the second component of the system, which is a remote Internet web server loaded with a variety of different invitation templates. Using this system, the user can, while working within the familiar user interface of a stand-alone graphics program, import templates for custom paper product designs, and rapidly produce highly realistic images for client evaluation. These methods are also highly suitable for allowing users to communicate interest in new designs, as well as directly ordering materials from the manufacturer from within the same graphics program. | 10-04-2012 |
20120278704 | Template-Based Page Layout for Web Content - Page layout of web content is performed based on templates. Publishers publish web content referred to as “sources.” Each source comprises one or more assets from one or more asset types. The asset types include title, subtitle, byline, dateline, pull quote, image, video, audio, caption, and in-line text. A content processing system processes the sources using a conversion module and a rule database. The conversion module restructures a received source into a standardized format of the source, wherein each asset of the source is tagged with an asset type according to rules present in the rule database. A layout module interprets the standardized source, determines one or more templates from a template database to use for the layout of the assets of the source, and lays out the assets of the source based on the selected templates. | 11-01-2012 |
20120290925 | Incremental Graphic Object Layout Editing - A method for incremental graphic object layout editing performed by physical computing system ( | 11-15-2012 |
20120304052 | Systems And Methods For Displaying An Image In A Plurality Of Designs - Systems and methods are provided for generating a graphical design having one or more embedded images for purchase over a computer network. An system may include a processing system, a template database, and an image processing application stored in a memory device and executable by the processing system. The application may be configured to: receive one or more digital images over the computer network for inclusion in the graphical design; receive input to select a design category; receive, based on the selected design category, a set of graphical templates from the plurality of graphical templates stored in the template database; embed the one or more digital images in each graphical template in the set of graphical templates to generate a plurality of candidate graphical designs; display the plurality of candidate graphical designs simultaneously on a user interface; and receive a selection of one of the plurality of candidate graphical designs. | 11-29-2012 |
20120311435 | Devices, Methods, and Graphical User Interfaces for Document Manipulation - An electronic device displays at least a portion of an electronic document with a predefined page layout at a first magnification level on a display; detects a first input indicating a first insertion point in the document, where the first insertion point is proximate to a first portion of text in the document; and in response to detecting the first input: selects a second magnification level different from the first magnification level, where the second magnification level is selected so as to display the first portion of text at a target text display size, and, while maintaining the predefined page layout of the document, displays, at the second magnification level, a portion of the document that includes the first portion of text. | 12-06-2012 |
20120317476 | Digital Content Enhancement Platform - A computer-based system provides a user interface for displaying hyperlinked content (such as web content) and for enabling users to navigate the hyperlinks contained within such content. One benefit of various embodiments of the present invention is that they enable primary hyperlinked content to be rendered, and for associated content (i.e., content located at the destinations of hyperlinks within the primary content) to be rendered without replacing, overwriting, or otherwise obscuring the rendering of the primary content. As a result, the rendering of the primary content remains fully visible after the associated content is rendered and while the rendering of the associated content is visible. For example, the associated content may be rendered in an existing display area that does not overlap with the display area containing the rendering of the primary content. | 12-13-2012 |
20120317477 | DISPLAY PROCESSOR, METHOD OF DISPLAY PROCESSING, AND NONTRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - A display processor for controlling a display to display thereon an operation screen on which a plurality of icons are arranged, the display processor including: a classifier configured to classify a plurality of image files stored in a storage medium accessible by the display processor, into a plurality of categories whose number is equal to or less than a reference number that is the number of icons arrangeable on the operation screen and that is determined based on a size of the operation screen; and a display controller configured to control the display to display thereon the operation screen on which are arranged a plurality of icons respectively representing the plurality of categories whose number is equal to or less than the reference number. | 12-13-2012 |
20120324341 | DETECTION AND EXTRACTION OF ELEMENTS CONSTITUTING IMAGES IN UNSTRUCTURED DOCUMENT FILES - A method and a system for detecting and extracting images in an electronic document are disclosed. The method includes receiving an electronic document comprising a plurality of pages and, for each of at least one of the pages of the document, identifying elements of the page. The identified elements include a set of graphical elements and a set of text elements. The method may include identifying and excluding, from the set of graphical elements, those which serve as graphical page constructs and/or text formatting elements. The page can then be segmented, based on (remaining) graphical elements and identified white spaces, to generate a set of image blocks, each including a respective one or more of the graphical elements. Text elements that are associated with a respective image block are identified as captions. Overlapping candidate images, each including an image block and its caption(s), if any, are then grouped to form a new image. The new image can thus include candidate images which would, without the identification of their caption(s), each be treated as a respective image. | 12-20-2012 |
20120331378 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TIMELINE VISUALIZATION AND INTERACTION - A system and method for visualizing and displaying calendar and timeline data in an intuitive and easily-manipulated manner. In an embodiment, a computer system application may implement a method for reading data from a data store of timeline elements wherein each timeline elements having associated data and an associated context. The data for a timeline element may include data such as start time, end time, span, title, and other information typically associated with a calendar entry. Context may be relationships defined for displaying a timeline event within a layout and visualization scheme such as size of the timeline element, display relationship with respect to a timeline, display relationship with respect to levels or containers, and display relationship with respect to other timeline events. | 12-27-2012 |
20120331379 | LINKING SOURCES TO COPIED TEXT - A method and system for processing electronic documents. A temporary computer object is created. An address of a first electronic document is obtained. A first tag, a second tag, and the address of the first electronic document are copied into a header of the created temporary computer object. Selected text from the first electronic document is obtained. The first and second tag respectively mark the beginning and the end of the header. The address of the first electronic document is disposed between the first and second tags. The selected text and a third tag are copied into the created temporary computer object. The third tag marks the end of the created temporary computer object. The selected text is disposed between the header of the created temporary computer object and the third tag. The created temporary computer object is stored in a second electronic document. | 12-27-2012 |
20130007599 | OPTIMIZING THE LAYOUT OF ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTS - A method of optimizing a layout of an electronic document. An electronic document can be processed to identify a plurality of document sections within the document. A plurality of document sections can be recursively combined in at least a first page of a modified document and a presentation size of content within the document sections can be reduced. With each recursive combination of document sections, a first perceptual delta value can be generated based on perceptual differences between the document sections as originally presented in the electronic document and the document sections as presented when combined into the first page. When the first perceptual delta value at least equals the first threshold value, the recursive combination of document sections into the first page can cease. | 01-03-2013 |
20130007600 | USER INTERFACE SYSTEM FOR HANDHELD DEVICES - One or more handheld devices may be configured to receive and display content. A server may be configured to help the handheld devices display content. For example, by using at least some of the contents of one or more of feeds, the server may generate user interface data, which the handheld devices may use to display user interfaces that are configured to request content associated with the feeds. | 01-03-2013 |
20130014007 | METHOD FOR CREATING AN ENRICHMENT FILE ASSOCIATED WITH A PAGE OF AN ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT - A method for creating an enrichment file associated with a page of an electronic document formed by a plurality of thematic entities and having a content comprising text distributed in the form of one or more paragraphs, the method comprising determining text content areas, each comprising at least one paragraph, by means of a layout analysis, associating each content area with one of the thematic entities, and storing metadata identifying the geometric coordinates of the text content areas of the page and the thematic entities associated with said content areas of the page. | 01-10-2013 |
20130019164 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING DOCUMENT - A method and computing system are provided for identifying a plurality of indicators of hierarchy within a document. A hierarchical level associated with each of the plurality of indicators may be determined. One or more portions of the document may be associated with a respective hierarchical level associated with each of the plurality of indicators. | 01-17-2013 |
20130031470 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PERSONALIZING WEB PAGE LAYOUT - Method and system for generating personalizing website layout. The method and system monitors a user's behaviors and assigns a user to a user group, which has an assigned personalized template. The templates are personalized in response to the user's behaviors and arranges content to be displayed to the user based on that behavior. | 01-31-2013 |
20130073951 | DISPLAY CONTROL PROGRAM, RECORDING MEDIUM RECORDING DISPLAY CONTROL PROGRAM, DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS, AND DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD - When display of an advertising content among a plurality of contents is deleted according to an operation by a user in a terminal apparatus that displays a Web page where the plurality of contents are arranged, a display area of a main content with the display area adjacent to the deleted advertising content among the plurality of contents is expanded. Content specific information indicating the deleted advertising content is stored, and the advertising content indicated by the stored content specific information is regenerated at predetermined timing. | 03-21-2013 |
20130080879 | Methods and apparatus providing document elements formatting - A system implements a style within a graphical user interface application by defining a style containing sets of attributes, each set respectively associated with a different type of display element. A user, using the system, defines a display element for display within the graphical user interface. The system then applies, to the display element, respective attributes of the style that correspond to a type of the display element; and displays the display element in accordance with the applied respective attributes of the style. | 03-28-2013 |
20130086468 | EFFICIENT CREATION OF DOCUMENTS - Some embodiments provide a method that efficiently designs a document. The method provides the user with a selection of templates, each with a default configuration for content. After the user selects a template, the method provides the user with a selection of page designs to add to the selected template. When the user selects one of the page designs, the method adds the page design to a document that it presents to the user based on the selected template. Some embodiments provide methods for modifying default content of template documents that have several default text fields. When a user selects a default text field, the method of some embodiments selects the entire default text field for immediate editing by the user. | 04-04-2013 |
20130097488 | CUSTOM OPTIMIZATION OF WEB PAGES - A web page optimization system disclosed herein allows a user to generate web pages that are optimized for use with different user devices. In one implementation of the web page optimization system, a number of master pages and page layouts used to generate the web pages are defined, with each of the master pages defining generalized regions shared by all pages of a website and each of the page layouts defining the content and the arrangement of such content on the web pages. The web page optimization system also defines a number of channels and associates the master pages and the page layouts to the channels. Each of the channels is associated with a user device. The web page optimization system identifies components the user agent string of a web page request, such as the user device generating the request, the browser used to generate the request, etc., and renders a web page in response to such web page request using the master page and the page layout associated with the channel identified by such components of the web page request. | 04-18-2013 |
20130117662 | UTILIZING SCROLLING DETECTION FOR SCREEN CONTENT ENCODING - A method, a device and computer readable storage media facilitate detecting a scrolling area within digital content comprising a plurality of frames, wherein the detection includes a comparison between a current frame and a previous frame to determine at least one location within the current frame in which pixel values change in relation to a corresponding location of the reference frame, searching for a reference line of pixels within the scrolling area of the previous frame, in response to finding a reference line, searching for a corresponding matching line of pixels in the current frame that matches the reference line, and, in response to finding a corresponding matching line of pixels in the current frame, determining a degree of scrolling of content in the scrolling area of the current frame in relation to the previous frame. | 05-09-2013 |
20130117663 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SELECTIVELY DISPLAYING WEB PAGE ELEMENTS - Systems and methods are disclosed for selectively displaying content corresponding to web page elements. A web page element can comprise one or more DIV tags that may be used to encapsulate and identify other elements and information. The first name and the first address of the element are stored. In a receiving operation, a display request to visibly display the element, is received. A received display request identifies the first name or the first address, or both, of the element. In response to receiving the display request, content associated with the first address, and at least a portion of the content comprising the identified element are retrieved. The content to obtain the identified element is parsed, and the identified element is subsequently displayed. The displayed content be altered or adjusted based identification of a second element. | 05-09-2013 |
20130124978 | TEXT IMAGE REVIEW PROCESS - Techniques that facilitate review of bitmapped representations of text in a file are described. In some embodiments, one or more signals representative of cursor movements over a bitmapped representation of text in a bitmap image may be received. One or more selected text elements may be determined based on the cursor movements. Determining may include searching a data structure, separate from the bitmap image, which includes information regarding text element locations corresponding to the bitmapped text representation in the bitmap image. A portion of the bitmapped representation of text corresponding to the determined selected text elements may be highlighted. | 05-16-2013 |
20130124979 | Method and Apparatus for Capturing, Analyzing, and Converting Scripts - Methods and apparatus for capturing, analyzing, and converting documents are provided. Provided in some embodiments is a method that includes obtaining a script document comprising script elements, assessing a layout of the script document, wherein the layout comprises a physical location of the script elements within the script document, determining an identification of one or more of the script elements based at least in part on the physical location of the one or more script elements within the script document, and assessing the one of the script elements using a finite state machine, wherein the finite state machine assesses one or more of the script elements preceding or following the one of the script elements to determine an accuracy of the identification of the one or more of the script elements determined. | 05-16-2013 |
20130124980 | FRAMEWORK FOR CREATING INTERACTIVE DIGITAL CONTENT - A digital content creation platform can include a variety of features for creating an interactive digital publication. The functionality can include adding one or more sections, one or more pages to a section, and one or more layers to a page, such as box, story, image, video, table, map, and annotation layer types. Additionally, the digital content creation platform can include functionality to add multimedia content to a layer, link layers, and/or add some other action, such as an interactivity feature or behavior. The digital content creation platform can also include functionality to generate a template from the current layout or convert the current layout to a different template layout. At any point during the design, the digital content creation platform can be used to preview or run the digital publication. Finally, after adding content, the digital content creation platform can compile the digital publication for distribution. | 05-16-2013 |
20130124981 | Inserting Content and Exclusion Zone(s) Into A Page - Information relating to an exclusion zone to be provided on a page is received ( | 05-16-2013 |
20130132827 | AUTOMATIC ABSTRACT DETERMINATION METHOD OF DOCUMENT CLUSTERING - An automatic abstract determination method of a document clustering is disclosed. The method includes forming a database for correspondingly packing and storing each document clustering including several abstract contents and body contents of subdocuments preloaded by a user as a document clustering process record file. Each document clustering process record file records the original abstract contents and the body contents of the subdocuments, and sets several determination values for analysis. When the user wishes to browse the contents of one document clustering, the method then determines whether or not to generate new abstract contents which is much more closer to the key points of the body contents to all of the subdocuments in the document clustering, according to the contents and values recorded in the corresponding document clustering process record file of the document clustering. | 05-23-2013 |
20130132828 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPLEMENTING MICROBLOG MESSAGE PAGES - Various embodiments provide methods and apparatus for implementing a microblog message page. An exemplary method can include encapsulating common logics of a plurality of message pages into a message page control base, pulling content data of a message page control of one message page of the plurality of message pages; and enabling the message page control of the one message page to inherit from the common logics encapsulated in the message page control base. The exemplary method can also include executing the common logics based on the pulled content data, to load the message page control of the one message page and to display the message page control on the one message page. The disclosed methods and apparatus can simplify the sorting algorithm with improved efficiency for the message pages to sort and manage layout of various types of controls. | 05-23-2013 |
20130132829 | DOCUMENT GENERATION APPARATUS, METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A document generation apparatus comprises: a first acquisition unit adapted to acquire, based on identification information appended to a first document, layout data and data acquisition information required to acquire data to be laid out in accordance with the layout data; a second acquisition unit adapted to acquire data based on the data acquisition information acquired by the first acquisition unit; and a generation unit adapted to generate a second document on which the data acquired by the second acquisition unit are laid out in accordance with the layout data acquired by the first acquisition unit. | 05-23-2013 |
20130145257 | Edition Designer - A system, computer-implemented method and computer-readable medium for designing different magazine editions are provided. A studio backend provides a user interface for designing magazine editions and enabling a user to select content sources to provide the edition content in magazine editions. The studio backend, through the user interface, further enables the user to select layout templates for different magazine editions. Each layout template being associated with a specific type of a mobile device. The selected layout templates may be configured to define the display of edition content in magazine editions. The studio backend then sends the configured layout templates for the magazine editions to the plurality of mobile devices, where magazine editions may be displayed on mobile devices according to the configured layout templates and include the edition content for the magazine editions. | 06-06-2013 |
20130151952 | DISPLAY PROCESSING DEVICE, CONTROL PROGRAM, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING THE CONTROL PROGRAM - The content display processing device ( | 06-13-2013 |
20130159841 | DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE, DISPLAY CONTROL SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - A display control device includes an acquiring unit that acquires a display request of display information including a display item with respect to a device; a first storage unit that stores therein a minimum item size that is a minimum value of an item size of the display item displayed on a display screen on which the display information is to be displayed; an item size determination unit that sets, based on a screen size of the display screen, an item size of the display item when displayed on the display screen, to an item size that is equal to or larger than the minimum item size; and a display information generating unit that generates the display information including the display item having the set item size. | 06-20-2013 |
20130159842 | DISPLAY PLACEHOLDERS FOR RICH MEDIA CONTENT - Methods, systems, devices, and programming structures for providing temporary substitute placeholder content for rich media content in data sets downloaded to wireless communications devices. The substitute placeholder content may be logically related to the rich content for which it substitutes, and may be displayed in the same relative size and location as the rich content ultimately to be displayed. | 06-20-2013 |
20130167015 | Panoptic Visualization Document Navigation - A panoptic visualization document navigation system includes a navigation engine and request interface coupled thereto. The navigation engine is configured to receive a layout of document components of a panoptic visualization document collection of document components each of which has associated metadata providing information about the respective document component. The layout includes a panoptic arrangement of visual representations of document components according to the associated metadata. The navigation engine is also configured to select navigation option(s) for navigating a visual presentation of the layout, with the navigation options being selected according to the associated metadata for document components of the layout. The request interface is configured to receive and communicate to the navigation engine, a request according to one or more of the selected navigation options. The navigation engine is further configured to effect an adjustment of the visual presentation of the layout in response and according to the request. | 06-27-2013 |
20130167016 | Panoptic Visualization Document Layout - A panoptic visualization document layout system includes a search engine and a layout engine coupled thereto. The search engine is configured to identify a document component including requested media content from a panoptic visualization document collection having a plurality of document components each of which has associated metadata providing information about the respective document component. The layout engine is configured to select a layout model according to the associated metadata for the identified document component, which metadata further includes information identifying link(s) between the identified document component and one or more other document components. The layout engine is configured to retrieve document components including the identified document component and other document component(s), and generate a layout of panoptically-arranged visual representations of the retrieved document components according to the selected layout model, and the retrieved document components and associated metadata. And the layout engine is configured to communicate the layout. | 06-27-2013 |
20130167017 | DISPLAY PROCESSING DEVICE, DISPLAY PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - A display processing device includes a storage unit ( | 06-27-2013 |
20130179777 | METHOD OF REDUCING COMPUTING TIME AND APPARATUS THEREOF - A method, a system and an interface adapted to enhance the computing power of computer systems, the method being designed to calculate the position of documents as they are displayed on computer screens. The documents are displayed on axes belonging to axes group(s). The method relates to reducing and/or minimizing the computing power necessary to identify the position of documents when they are subject to displacement caused by the movement of the axes groups to which they belong and/or of the display screen. | 07-11-2013 |
20130185630 | DOCUMENT AESTHETICS EVALUATION - In one implementation, a document aesthetics evaluation system accesses a plurality of content layout descriptors associated with a document template and a plurality of aesthetics measures. Each aesthetics measure from the plurality of aesthetics measures being assigned by a designer to a content layout descriptor from the plurality of content layout descriptors. The document aesthetics evaluation system also defines a content layout model for the document template based on the plurality of content layout descriptors and the plurality of aesthetics measures. | 07-18-2013 |
20130185631 | Identification of Compound Graphic Elements in an Unstructured Document - Some embodiments provide a method of analyzing an unstructured document. The method receiving the unstructured document that includes a number of primitive graphic elements, each of which is defined as a single object in the unstructured document. The unstructured document has a drawing order that indicates the order in which the primitive graphic elements are drawn when the unstructured document is displayed. The method identifies positional relationships between successive primitive graphic elements in the drawing order. Based on the positional relationships, the method defines a single structural graphic element from several of the primitive graphic elements. | 07-18-2013 |
20130185632 | GENERATING VARIABLE DOCUMENT TEMPLATES - A graphical user interface | 07-18-2013 |
20130191728 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND MEDIA FOR GENERATING ELECTRONIC BOOKS - Systems, methods, and media for generating electronic books are provided herein. Methods may include obtaining digital source content, the digital source content being arranged in a native format, the native format determining how the digital source content is displayed on a user interface, and determining characteristics from the digital source content, the characteristics at least defining a layout of the digital source content in the native format; and rendering the determined content into an electronic book according to an electronic book standard, based upon the characteristics such that a generated format of the electronic book substantially corresponds to the native format of the digital source content. | 07-25-2013 |
20130191729 | Method of Generating an Electronic Report - In a method of processing data and generating an electronic report which can be printed on paper or displayed on a monitor screen, wherein the electronic report relates to operation characteristics of a system ( | 07-25-2013 |
20130191730 | PREVIEWING DIFFERENT TYPES OF DOCUMENTS - This is directed to a preview application for displaying several documents simultaneously in a single window, where the several documents are displayed as books. To view the pages of a document, the preview application can open the book and display the pages of the document (e.g., in a one or two-dimensional array). A user can also search for particular terms within the several documents. In response to a search, the preview application can filter the pages of the several documents and only display those pages that include the search terms. The displayed pages can be ordered in any suitable manner, including for example by search rank. | 07-25-2013 |
20130198615 | Creating Flexible Structure Descriptions - In one embodiment, the invention provides a method, comprising detecting data fields on a scanned document image; generating a flexible document description based on the detected data fields, including creating a set of search elements for each data field, each search element having associated search criteria; and training or modifying the flexible document description using, for example, a search algorithm to detect the data fields on additional training images based on the set of search elements. | 08-01-2013 |
20130198616 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FORMATION OF ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTS - A method and system for creation of customized documents over a network as well as for negotiation of contents for documents over a network (e.g., Internet) are disclosed. In one aspect, professional documents can be created in an automated manner. In another aspect, negotiation of documents (or their contents) can be performed in an automated manner. In either case, the customization and/or negotiation is efficient, cost-effective and useful. | 08-01-2013 |
20130205199 | Variable Template Based Document Generation - Document content ( | 08-08-2013 |
20130212470 | Device, Method, and Graphical User Interface for Sharing a Content Object in a Document - An electronic device with a display: concurrently displays a first electronic document and a second electronic document, the first electronic document including a displayed content object; detects a first user input that starts on the content object; in response to a determination that the first user input corresponds to a first command, creates and displays a copy of the content object in the second electronic document; and, in response to a determination that the first user input corresponds to a second command, distinct from the first command: selects the content object; displays an animation of the content object separating from the first electronic document; and initiates display of a plurality of icons proximate to the separated content object, the plurality of icons including at least one icon to initiate display of a user interface for sending the content object to one or more other users. | 08-15-2013 |
20130212471 | Optimizing Hyper Parameters of Probabilistic Model for Mixed Text-and-Graphics Layout Template - Example pages in which text and graphics have been laid out using a mixed text-and-graphics layout template are received from a user. Hyper parameters of a probabilistic model for the mixed text-and-graphics layout template are optimized, based on the example pages. | 08-15-2013 |
20130246910 | DIAGRAM LAYOUT PATTERNS - Defining a layout of diagram elements can be performed in response to user input that includes one or more declarative statements specifying conditional patterns based on attributes of diagram elements, wherein the conditional patterns define layouts of diagram elements. Implementation of the layouts is dependent on conditions defined in the declarative statements and one or more values of one or more of the attributes. Implementations can further include organizing the conditional patterns as a pattern definition, wherein the pattern definition is stored on a computer readable medium in such a way that the pattern definition is retrievable by an application program that uses the pattern definition to evaluate the conditional patterns using values of attributes of one or more diagram elements. Representations of the diagram elements can be displayed according to the layouts when conditions for implementing the layouts are satisfied. | 09-19-2013 |
20130246911 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR REARRANGING PARAGRAPHS OF WEBPAGE PICTURE CONTENT - The present invention provides a method for recomposing individual characters obtained by segmenting webpage image, comprising: determining whether the line of words is the start line of a new paragraph in the webpage image based on the blank space at the beginning of the line on the webpage image being processed; when a line of words is determined as the start line of a new paragraph in the webpage image, it is set as the start line of the new paragraph being recomposed and the original blank space at the beginning of line is retained, and all of the individual characters segmented are recomposed according to the screen size of the mobile terminal; and when the line of words is determined as not the start line of a new paragraph in the webpage images, all of the individual characters segmented are recomposed so as to be immediately after the ending character of the recomposed previous line of words according to the screen size of the mobile terminal. With the aforementioned method, the segmented individual characters may be recomposed according to the screen size of the mobile terminal so as to be adapted to be displayed on screens of mobile terminals to enhance the user experience. | 09-19-2013 |
20130262988 | LAYOUT APPARATUS, LAYOUT METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - A layout apparatus includes: an item storage unit that stores items used in a layout; a first database that stores user's personal layout information and evaluation values with respect to each user; a second database that stores layout information and evaluation values of categories with respect to each category corresponding to attributes of the user; and a layout generation unit that generates a layout of a predetermined item using the predetermined item stored in the item storage unit based on at least either the personal layout information and evaluation values of a predetermined user stored in the first database or the layout information and evaluation values of a category corresponding to attributes of the predetermined user stored in the second database. | 10-03-2013 |
20130262989 | METHOD OF PRESERVING TAGS FOR EDITED CONTENT - A method for updating tags in original content after editing the content is disclosed. The method reapplies tags presented in original image to the edited image in proper position and place. In case of any transform effects or distortion effects, the method calculates a new second position of tags. In case of image combination effects, the method adds tags from one or more images and recalculates the new position of tags based on the combination chosen. The method thus ensures that the tags from the original images are updated without being lost, and updates the tags as per editing operations performed on the content and reapplies on the edited content as per the format supported by hosting platform. | 10-03-2013 |
20130290834 | SYNCHRONIZED THREE-DIMENSIONAL DISPLAY OF CONNECTED DOCUMENTS - A system and method for synchronizing the display and edit of a plurality of connected layouts or documents within a single display. A first document or plurality of elements may be displayed as active and a second document or plurality of elements may be displayed as non-active background in a first window. The second document or plurality of elements may be displayed as active and the first document or plurality of elements may be displayed as non-active background in a second window. Any action detected in either window may be displayed in the other window. According to an embodiment, the layouts or documents may be connected via an interposer. | 10-31-2013 |
20130298012 | Document Design Capture and Reuse System | 11-07-2013 |
20130298013 | System and Method for Generation of a Layout of Document Elements | 11-07-2013 |
20130305143 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF DISPLAYING NON-RECTANGLUAR IMAGES IN ELECTRONIC CONTENT ON A READER DEVICE - A system for and method of displaying non-rectangular images in electronic content on an electronic device in accordance with exemplary embodiments may include identifying, using a template identification computing apparatus, an image shape template associated with a non-rectangular image that is part of electronic content to be displayed on the electronic device, determining, using a boundary region determination computing apparatus, a boundary region of the image shape template, placing, using an image placement computing apparatus, the non-rectangular image inside the boundary region of the image shape template and on the electronic content, flowing, using a text flow computing apparatus, text that is part of the electronic content outside and along the boundary region of the image shape template, and transmitting, using a communication computing apparatus, the electronic content along with the non-rectangular image to the electronic device via a network. | 11-14-2013 |
20130326338 | Methods and systems for organizing content using tags and for laying out images - Methods and systems for placing images on a display such that images that are closely related to each other are placed near each other, and images that are unrelated are placed further away. The invention encompasses various techniques that may be used to determine how related or similar images are to one another, including methods that take into account user-supplied tags or other tags that describe the image's content and/or source. Color content, image content, time of image capture, and/or, other attributes may also be used in assessing image similarity. For example, one embodiment of the invention is a method for laying out images based on the similarity of the images with respect to color, tags, and/or other metadata. The layout of images may also involve removing overlap between images. | 12-05-2013 |
20130326339 | DOCUMENT CREATION SYSTEM, DOCUMENT CREATION DEVICE, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - There is provided a document creation system comprising a document creation device and a document browsing device, wherein the document creation device has a functional layer storage that stores functional layers which are to be superposed on an image, which are transparent at least partially, and whose functions are defined in predetermined regions of the layers, a selection section that selects the functional layer to be applied, from among the functional layers stored in the functional layer storage, and a synthesis section that superposes the functional layer selected by the selection section onto the image, and wherein the document browsing device performs display processing, input acceptance processing, or output processing on the image onto which the functional layer is superposed by the synthesis section in accordance with the superposed functional layer. | 12-05-2013 |
20130326340 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - This specification related to a mobile terminal and a control method thereof. The mobile terminal includes a display unit to output an electronic document page including at least one object, and a controller to select one area on the page in response to a touch input applied onto the display unit, and control the display unit to display the selected one area in a distinguishing manner from the page. | 12-05-2013 |
20140006935 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PRODUCING DOCUMENTS | 01-02-2014 |
20140013212 | DYNAMIC TEMPLATE GALLERIES - Provided herein are systems, methods, and software for facilitating templates within productivity applications. Upon launching a productivity application, a template gallery is rendered within the productivity application. Within the template gallery graphical representations of several templates are also rendered, including a graphical representation of a blank template, a graphical representation of a roaming template, and a graphical representation of a suggested template. | 01-09-2014 |
20140013213 | APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - This invention provides a technique for generating a layout which matches preferences of a larger number of persons by selecting images with higher preference evaluations based on not only preference degrees which are explicitly set by the user, and access counts in accordance with browse designations. To this end, an importance degree (preference evaluation value) for a given image is obtained using both a value indicating a preference degree which is explicitly set by the user for that image and an interest degree (automatic preference degree) determined by a browse count. In this case, the preference degree explicitly set by the user is multiplied by a larger weight than the interest degree. Then, images to be laid out on a template are determined according to the importance degrees. | 01-09-2014 |
20140019850 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SELECTIVE SYNCHRONIZATION OF A DISPLAY LAYOUT - A method and apparatus for synchronizing selected attributes of a target page element on a target display layout with modified attributes of a source page element on a source display layout is disclosed. The method comprises receiving a command to synchronize a target display layout, wherein the target display layout comprises at least one target page element linked to a source page element on a source display layout; accessing a plurality of synchronization preferences, wherein the synchronization preferences define at least one selected attribute of a plurality of attributes of a target page element to be synchronized with an attribute of the linked source page element; determining whether the selected attribute of the source page element has been synchronized with the target page element; and updating the target page element when the modified attribute of the source page element has not been synchronized with the target page element. | 01-16-2014 |
20140019851 | AUTOMATICALLY TAGGING VARIABLE DATA DOCUMENTS - Systems and methods inputting a plurality of different input documents, automatically identify repeated elements and unique elements within each of the different input documents, and automatically generate templates having the repeated elements and dynamic objects corresponding to the unique elements. The repeated elements are similar for all documents that are represented by a given template, and the unique elements have at least one difference between documents that are represented by the given template. The dynamic objects are placeholders for the unique elements within the templates. The systems and methods automatically store variable data for each of the dynamic objects from the unique elements, output the templates and the variable data, and receive user acceptance and refusal of the templates. The systems and methods automatically learn patterns of acceptable template objects and refuse template objects based on the user acceptance and refusal, and automatically revise the processes for generating the templates. | 01-16-2014 |
20140068422 | INSERTING RULES-DRIVEN PARAGRAPHS INTO USER-DESIGNATED LOCATIONS IN A DOCUMENT IRRESPECTIVE OF MODIFICATIONS TO THE STRUCTURE OF THE DOCUMENT - A computer implemented method commences by receiving document construction rules, then selecting a document template from a template library. The document template comprises a plurality of paragraphs that are associated with document construction rules. The method evaluates the construction rules and applies visibility to any of the associated paragraphs. Low latency processing of the visibility is accomplished in part by forming a document graph formed of conditional nodes, where the nodes have a paragraph label and a respective visibility flag. Further, a mapping datastructure serves to map from a paragraph label to a location of the corresponding conditional node within the document graph. A processor evaluates the document construction rules and, using the mapping datastructure, determines the location of the conditional node in order to modify the value of the visibility flag. In some cases, the document graph is a tree structure, and the mapping datastructure is a hash table. | 03-06-2014 |
20140068423 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus comprises: a generation unit configured to generate one group object by grouping a plurality of objects; and a layout unit configured to lay out the group object in a state that an object of a predetermined attribute of the plurality of objects included in the group object is selected. | 03-06-2014 |
20140075294 | Panoptic Visualization Of A Document According To The Structure Thereof - A system is provided for panoptic visualization of a document having a structure defined according to a particular schema. The system is configured to generate a layout of pages of the document, panoptically arranged in a manner that reflects logical relationships between the pages according to the structure of the document, which may in turn reflect relationships between the subjects or their objects depicted by the content. These logical relationships may be established by links between pages, which may be identified by information provided in associated metadata for the pages. This type of arrangement may enable a user to see the content in a single view, and in an arrangement that facilitates a better understanding of the relationships between the content and their subjects or objects, which may be otherwise difficult to comprehend. | 03-13-2014 |
20140075295 | Personalized medical record - The present disclosure provides a method of producing a personalized medical record, comprising: sensing capabilities of a receiving device; retrieving stock information; retrieving personalized information; combining at least a portion of the stock information and at least a portion of the personalized information into the personalized record; formatting the personalized record based on a combination of the capabilities of the receiving device and a user's preference; and, transmitting the formatted personalized record to the device. | 03-13-2014 |
20140075296 | Generating a Cover for a Section of a Digital Magazine - A digital magazine application executing on a client device presents a digital magazine to a user including content items retrieved from one or more sources based on information associated with the user. When presenting the digital magazine, a cover is presented including an image and one or more headlines describing one or more content items included in the digital magazine. The cover may be generated by clustering content items included in the digital magazine and ranking content items in various clusters based on their characteristics. Based on the rankings, information describing content items from various clusters is included on the cover. Alternatively, the cover includes information describing content items identified based on the order in which the content items are presented by the digital magazine. | 03-13-2014 |
20140082485 | SYNCHRONIZATION OF CONTEXTUAL TEMPLATES IN A CUSTOMIZED WEB CONFERENCE PRESENTATION - In a method for customization of contextual information during a web conference presentation, a computer system executes a presentation program during a conference presentation. The computer system receives a request to access presentation templates based on parameters of a presenter, wherein the presentation templates including parameters identifying one or more of template texture, template font, template name of the presenter or template photo of the presenter of the conference presentation. In addition, the computer system determines an identity of the presenter during the conference presentation and matching the identity of the presenter against the parameter of the presenter. Moreover, the computer system extracts the presentation templates in the repository based on the match. The computer system further applies the extracted presentation template to presentation contents of the presentation program. In one aspect, the extracted presentation template alters visual characteristics of the presentation content based on the applied presentation template. | 03-20-2014 |
20140089789 | Electronic Document Modification - Electronic document design methods and computer programs allowing a user to separately control and modify layout and the design components of an electronic document. A number of possible document layouts and possible document designs are stored. A document is based on the combination of one of the stored layouts and one of the stored designs. While the user is viewing the electronic document, controls are available to the user allowing the user to view and select among alternate layouts and designs for that document. Color schemes and font schemes for the document may also be separated controlled. | 03-27-2014 |
20140095985 | ARRANGING DIGITAL RECEIPT ITEMS - The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for arranging digital receipt items at a mobile device. A customer's digital receipts are stored at a mobile device. Receipt items are accessed from one or more stored digital receipts. Each receipt item includes item information for a purchased item. The plurality of receipt items are displayed in a first display arrangement at a display of the mobile device. A user request is received to change the first display arrangement. The user request includes arrangement criteria indicating how the plurality of receipt items is to be rearranged for display. In response to the user request, a second display arrangement is formed in accordance with the arrangement criteria. The plurality of receipt items are displayed in the second display arrangement at the display. | 04-03-2014 |
20140095986 | Baseline Alignment - The instant application discloses, among other things, techniques to allow baseline alignment. Aligning baselines across columns may improve readability and aesthetics. Baseline alignment may include having lines of body text, images, titles, or other elements have a common lower horizontal guideline. | 04-03-2014 |
20140095987 | Panoptic Visualization Document Access Control - A panoptic visualization system includes an enforcer and a layout engine coupled thereto. The enforcer is configured to identify a restricted document component of a panoptic visualization document collection having a plurality of document components each of which includes respective media content and has associated metadata providing information about the respective document component. The associated metadata for the document components may further include information identifying links between the respective document components. The layout engine is configured to generate a layout of panoptically-arranged visual representations of the document components according to the document components and associated metadata. For the restricted document component, the layout engine is configured to generate the layout according to the associated metadata for the restricted document component, but the generated layout includes a visual representation of the restriction in place of the restricted document component. And the layout engine is configured to communicate the layout. | 04-03-2014 |
20140115446 | Content Control Tools for a Document Authoring Application - Some embodiments provide a non-transitory machine-readable medium that stores a document authoring application which when executed by at least one processing unit provides a graphical user interface (“GUI”) for the document authoring application. The GUI includes a display area for displaying a document being authored. The GUI also includes a document authoring tool for adding to the document a floatable content control. The floatable content control includes (1) a content display area for displaying content specified for the floatable content control and (2) a selectable user interface item (UI) that when selected causes the document authoring application to display the content display area. The floatable content control for display by a document viewing application such that the document viewing application displays the specified content through the content display area when the document viewing application receives a selection of the UI item. | 04-24-2014 |
20140136959 | Generating Multiple Versions of a Content Item for Multiple Platforms - In one embodiment, a method includes constructing a plurality of versions of a first content item respectively for a plurality of device platforms, the first content item comprising one or more second content items. For each version of the first content item corresponding to a specific device platform, selecting at least one of the second content items to be included in the version of the first content item based on a screen configuration of the specific device platform; and arranging the at least one of the second content items for presentation on a screen of the specific device platform according to the screen configuration of the specific device platform. | 05-15-2014 |
20140143658 | Method And System For Displaying Network Medium Information - A medium information displaying apparatus located at a terminal device and a medium information playing apparatus located at a network side. The terminal device searches display positions of a display medium, obtains identification information of at least one display position, sending an information playing request to a network side after adding the obtained identification information into the information playing request. The network side obtains the identification information in the information playing request, searches for display data corresponding to the at least one display position, sends an information playing response to the terminal device after adding the identification information and the display data into the information playing response. The terminal device displays medium information on the display position of the display medium according to the display data corresponding to the at least one display position. | 05-22-2014 |
20140149854 | SERVER AND METHOD FOR GENERATING OBJECT DOCUMENT - A server stores a plurality of initial files and parameters of the initial files. When a user inputs contents of the initial files to the server, the server obtains a template for each initial file. The server searches for contents of all columns in each template from the parameters and the input contents. The searched contents are put in the columns of each template. The templates with the put contents are generated to object files corresponding to the initial files. | 05-29-2014 |
20140164911 | PRESERVING LAYOUT OF REGION OF CONTENT DURING MODIFICATION - An e-reader application preserves a layout of a region of content during a modification. A detected modification of a region of the content initiates an analysis for how to preserve the region. A configuration located within the content determines a behavior for preserving the region. The configuration is evaluated and compared to other configurations to determine overriding attributes to apply to the region during the modification. The attributes are applied to the associated objects in the region while applying the modification to other objects to maintain a pre-modification appearance of the region after the modification. | 06-12-2014 |
20140164912 | GENERATING SYSTEM, METHOD OF INTERACTIVE PAGE TEMPLATES AND STORAGE MEDIUM THEREOF - A method for generating at least one interactive page template is provided. The at least one interactive page template includes at least one interactive component. The interactive component is a material which can be operated by at least one input signals of the mobile device and be presented by at least one output signals of a mobile device. The method includes: receiving, via a user interface, a setting command, wherein the setting command includes at least one material type and the input signals and output signals; obtaining, by a page component exploring module, at least one interactive page component from a page component repository according to the setting command; generating, by a template generating module, at least one interactive page template, wherein the interactive page template contains the interactive page component, according to the template integrating principle stored in a template integrating principle storage module; and displaying, by the user interface, the at least one interactive page template. | 06-12-2014 |
20140164913 | DYNAMIC CONTENT MAPPING - Briefly, embodiments disclosed herein may relate to dynamic display of representations of digital content for user interaction on computing devices, for example. | 06-12-2014 |
20140173421 | SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING A TRAVEL GUIDE - A system for providing a travel guide transmits place information indicating a place to a computer in response to a travel guide being requested for the place. The system receives from the computer visit time information about the place generated based on analyzing times at which corresponding media files were generated in the place and configures a travel guide based on the received visit time information. | 06-19-2014 |
20140181644 | PREVIEWING PROMINENT FEATURES OF REMOTE DOCUMENTS - A document previewing system includes a display device including a user interface and a document previewing engine coupled to the display device. The document previewing engine is configured to download an outline of a document including outline features and filler content in between the outline features. The filler content replaces secondary content of the document. The document previewing engine is further configured to display the outline on the display device, and download the secondary content corresponding to an outline feature in response to a user navigating to the outline feature and the outline feature displaying on the display device for a period of time. | 06-26-2014 |
20140189501 | Augmenting Text With Multimedia Assets - Systems and methods are provided for providing a navigation interface to access or otherwise use electronic content items. In one embodiment, an augmentation application identifies at least one entity referenced in a document. The entity can be referenced in at least two portions of the document by at least two different words or phrases. The augmentation application associates the at least one entity with at least one multimedia asset. The augmentation application generates a layout including at least some content of the document referencing the at least one entity and the at least one multimedia asset associated with the at least one entity. The augmentation application renders the layout for display. | 07-03-2014 |
20140201624 | SENTIMENTAL CARD SELECTION, CREATION AND PROCESSING APPLICATION - Certain embodiments of the present application allow a user to preview a plurality of cards on a portable computing device, select a card from the plurality of cards, and modify the selected card. One example method of operation may include accessing a customizable data input templates stored in memory, selecting one of the customizable data input templates, inputting data to incorporate into the selected customizable data input template and transmitting the data to the remote server to be saved. The changes may be presented to the user in a preview with the inputted data overlaid on the predefined area of the customizable data input template, the preview may permit an acceptance option to finalize or reject the customizable data input template. The finalized customizable data input template may be saved as an acceptance message is received. | 07-17-2014 |
20140215317 | Panoptic Visualization Of Elements Of A Complex System Using A Model Viewer - A system is provided that includes a model viewer configured to receive selection of a point on a visual presentation of a digital 3D model of a complex system, and translate the point to a location within a coordinate system of the complex system. A search engine configured to identify a document component that depicts an element of the complex system at or within a volume about the location. The document component is from a collection for which at least some components depict elements of the complex system and have associated metadata that includes information reflecting the 3D geometry of at least some depicted elements. A layout engine configured to generate a layout of panoptically-arranged document components including the identified document component and other document component(s) identified according to the associated metadata for the identified document component, which further includes information identifying a link between the respective document components. | 07-31-2014 |
20140215318 | Panoptic Visualization Of Elements Of A Complex System Using Localization Of A Point On A Physical Instance Of The Complex System - A system is provided that includes a localization module configured to receive and process range measurements and odometry data relative to a physical instance of a complex system to calculate an unknown location within a coordinate system of the complex system. A search engine configured to identify a document component that depicts an element of the complex system at or within a volume about the location. The document component is from a collection for which at least some components depict elements of the complex system and have associated metadata that includes information reflecting the 3D geometry of at least some depicted elements. A layout engine configured to generate a layout of panoptically-arranged document components including the identified document component and other document component(s) identified according to the associated metadata for the identified document component, which further includes information identifying a link between the respective document components. | 07-31-2014 |
20140215319 | PRODUCT SPECIFICATION GENERATION - A specification document, such as a specification of a product, is automatically generated. A modular database structure is used to populate a template. Product modifications are incorporated, resulting in change, alteration, or different data being in the specification than without the modification. For example, a modification may result in the use of a different enclosure for the as-built product. The specification document includes dimension values, images, and/or other information representing the modification and the as-built product rather than a base product without the modification. | 07-31-2014 |
20140215320 | MARKER PLACEMENT SUPPORT APPARATUS, MARKER PLACEMENT SUPPORT METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A marker placement support apparatus includes an acquiring unit, a generating unit, and an output unit. The acquiring unit acquires image feature information included in a target image on which a marker of a specified size is to be placed. The generating unit generates, in accordance with image feature information included in an area of the target image in which a marker of a specified size is to be placed, display information indicating an area suitable for placing the marker on the target image. The output unit outputs the display information so that the display information is displayed while being superposed on the target image. | 07-31-2014 |
20140245135 | Dynamic Preview Of Electronic Signature Appearance - Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques for signing an electronic document, including establishing an electronic signature appearance for an electronic signature, determining a bounding region on the electronic document for the display of the electronic signature appearance, at the time of signing an electronic document, previewing the electronic signature appearance in the bounding region and signing the electronic document with an electronic signature, the electronic signature associated with the electronic signature appearance. The electronic signature appearance can be configured at the time of signing the electronic document. | 08-28-2014 |
20140250371 | Methods and Systems for Page Layout Using a Virtual Art Director - A layout manager can generate a layout for displaying a plurality of content units in a display area using a layout strategy, with the layout strategy specifying a layout design rule. The generated layout can indicate a position in the display area for the plurality of content units. In some embodiments, the design rule(s) may in effect “codify” traditional graphic design principles. When the layout is generated, the content units can be placed into a display area of a page and then the layout can be checked against at least one design rule and the layout adjusted as needed to meet the design rule. The system can comprise a user interface module that renders the content units in the display area using the generated layout. In some embodiments, content units are placed into a layout on a one-by-one basis according to priority, available display space, and one or more design rules. | 09-04-2014 |
20140258849 | Automatic Alignment of a Multi-Dimensional Layout - A plurality of content items for a content stream is determined by a system. The system estimates size dimensions for the content items, and determines a multidimensional layout by placing the content items into two or more adjacent containers based on the size dimensions. The system determines a difference in size between the two or more adjacent containers and adjusts an aspect of one or more of the content items to substantially equalize a size of the two or more containers. | 09-11-2014 |
20140258850 | Systems and Methods for Managing the Display of Images - Methods and systems for updating a user interface with images having common attributes or parameters. According to aspects, a user of a social networking application may be connected to multiple other users of the application. The multiple other users may upload respective images to a server for viewing by the user via the social networking application. The systems and methods examine the multiple images identify a location object or event that is common to two or more of the multiple images. An electronic device of the user is configured to present the image having common location objects or events in a common area of a user interface. Further, the electronic device is configured to dynamically update the user interface in response to receiving additional images having the common location object or event. | 09-11-2014 |
20140281928 | CONTENT-DRIVEN LAYOUT - The disclosure generally describes computer-implemented methods, software, and systems for generating content-driven layouts. One method includes: receiving a first user input specifying a template rule for a template being generated, receiving a second user input specifying a template part rule for a part of the template, wherein the template part rule takes precedence over the template rule, and receiving a third user input specifying a container rule for a container located in the part of the template, wherein the container rule takes precedence over the template part rule and the template rule. Based on content provided for the template, at least one of the template rule, template part rule and the container rule is applied based on the precedence, and the template is presented. | 09-18-2014 |
20140281929 | THEME-BASED MEDIA CONTENT GENERATION SYSTEM AND METHOD - A computerized system and method are presented that creates implicit content on a mobile device by monitoring and recording input from sensors on the device. Using the metadata and event identification, the content is created into clusters, which can be confirmed by the user as actual events. Events can then be grouped according to metadata and event information into a presentation grouping. Presentation groupings can be presented using a map and timeline interface, and can be augmented using content from external sources, other users, or viewers of the content. Themes can be created for presentation groupings that format the presentation groupings according to stored formatting appropriate to the theme. Themes can suggest theme events to which users can assign places and times. Information about future theme events can then be used to trigger a request for content or to trigger the creation of implicit content. | 09-18-2014 |
20140281930 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR CREATING PRINTOUTS THAT MAY BE MANIPULATED BY MFD - A method for a document authoring tool, the method comprising determining a visual feature distribution of a document. The document is modified by redistributing visual features of the document based on the visual feature distribution to create a modified document. A document template is generated from the modified document. | 09-18-2014 |
20140281931 | E-PUB CREATOR - A system and method for the preparation of electronic publications or “ePubs” that provide a rich multimedia experience to readers using any of a variety of user devices, without requiring those individuals wishing to prepare such ePubs to install proprietary client applications on the computing device used to prepare the ePubs, and without the need to download a large portion or all of the ePub to enable viewing on an electronic device of an end-user. | 09-18-2014 |
20140281932 | DOCUMENT SCALE AND POSITION OPTIMIZATION - Methods for optimizing a scale and position of a document in response to a user input is provided are provided. In one aspect, a method includes receiving an initial input request to scale a document to display a target portion of the document, and identifying at least one relevant portion of content at or near the target portion of the document. The method also includes adjusting a position and scale of the document while receiving the initial input request to an optimal position and to an optimal scale for viewing the at least one relevant portion. Systems and machine-readable media are also provided. | 09-18-2014 |
20140281933 | DOCUMENT SCALE AND POSITION OPTIMIZATION - Methods for optimizing a scale and position of a document in response to a user input is provided are provided. In one aspect, a method includes receiving an initial input request to scroll a document to a target position of the document, and identifying at least one relevant portion of content at or near the target position of the document. The method also includes adjusting a position and scale of the document while receiving the initial input request to an optimal position and an optimal scale for viewing the at least one relevant portion. Systems and machine-readable media are also provided. | 09-18-2014 |
20140281934 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISPLAY ADJUSTMENT - The present invention discloses a method and apparatus for display adjustment, relates to the field of applications of electronic devices, and can solve the problem of inconvenience during the adjustment to the display content. The method provided in the present invention includes: acquiring a first parameter, the first parameter being used for adjusting display content; displaying a display effect corresponding to the first parameter in a preview interface; if receiving a confirmation instruction, then adjusting the display content according to the first parameter. The present invention is mainly applied in the process of rearranging the layout of a browser page. | 09-18-2014 |
20140289613 | REORDERING NODES IN A HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURE - This disclosure describes a user interface and methods for quickly and easily modifying graphical content. Specifically, content having a hierarchical format may be received in a content pane. The hierarchical format may include one or more hierarchical levels and a plurality of content portions occupying one or more hierarchical positions within each of the one or more hierarchical levels. Further, a graphical definition may be applied to the content creating graphical content. As will be appreciated, the graphical content may comprise a hierarchical structure corresponding to the hierarchical format of the content. The hierarchical structure may include a plurality of nodes occupying one or more node positions within each of one or more node levels. A content portion occupying a hierarchical position may be reordered within a hierarchical level and may automatically cause a corresponding node in a corresponding node position to be reordered within a corresponding node level. | 09-25-2014 |
20140298164 | ELECTRONIC BOOK PRODUCTION APPARATUS, ELECTRONIC BOOK SYSTEM, ELECTRONIC BOOK PRODUCTION METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - An electronic book production apparatus includes; an image obtaining unit; a character area detecting unit; a character recognizing unit; a character position information obtaining unit; a reading-order determining unit which determines a reading order among the character areas in the page image based on positions of the character areas in the page image and continuity from a character to another character between the character areas in the page image; an electronic book data generating unit which generates electronic book data including character information indicating the recognized characters, the character position information indicating the position of each of the recognized characters in the page image, and order information about the characters or the character areas corresponding to the reading order among the character areas in the page image; and an electronic book data output unit which outputs the electronic book data generated by the electronic book data generating unit. | 10-02-2014 |
20140304594 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR REDACTING CONTENT IN A DOCUMENT - A system redacts content in a multi-layered document by executing a content modifier process that redacts a first portion of content in a source layer and then automatically redacts related content in at least one target layer. The content modifier process overlays the source redaction region on corresponding areas of other layers in the document to identify target redaction regions in those other layers that contain target content. In turn, the content modifier process automatically identifies and redacts the target content within target redaction regions. | 10-09-2014 |
20140331124 | METHOD FOR MAINTAINING COMMON DATA ACROSS MULTIPLE PLATFORMS - Systems and methods are described for maintaining a user's common data across multiple platforms. The common data is information about the user and graphical and design elements of publications that should be consistently presented across online, other electronic, and non-electronic platforms, such as websites, social networking profiles, electronic and printed business listings, email and print newsletters, business cards, letterhead, and the like. The common data may be stored and updated by a centralized or distributed system including one or more servers communicating with the platforms and with a content database that retains the common data in a stored data structure. The system may provide an interface to the user, receive common data elements input by the user, add the common data elements to the stored data structure, and distribute the common data elements to the platforms. The system may identify which platforms require which elements of the common data. | 11-06-2014 |
20140337717 | LOGIC PROCESSING APPARATUS AND LOGIC PROCESSING METHOD FOR COMPOSITE GRAPHS IN FIXED LAYOUT DOCUMENT - A logic process apparatus for composite graphs in a fixed layout document is provided in this invention, comprising: a composite graph block extraction unit, for extracting composite graph blocks from the fixed layout document; a document parsing unit, for parsing the fixed layout document to obtain text primitives contained therein; a legend primitive extraction unit, for extracting legend primitives from the text primitives; a correlation detection unit, for detecting correlations between the composite graph blocks and the legend primitives; a correlation storage unit, for storing the detected correlations. A logic process method for composite graphs in a fixed layout document is also provided. | 11-13-2014 |
20140351695 | TERMINAL, APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING THE DESCRIPTION OF TEXT CONTENTS IN A FIXED-LAYOUT DOCUMENT - Apparatus for optimizing the description of contents in a layout document is disclosed. The apparatus comprises: a parsing unit, for paring the content of an original layout document to obtain text graphic unit data; an identification unit, for identifying text properties of each character of the text graphic unit data; a text node classification unit, for classifying characters of the text graphic unit data according to the text properties, and saving characters with the same text properties to the same text node along with the same text properties; a text content node classification unit, for, with respect to characters saved in each text node, saving characters on the same line or column. A terminal and a method for optimising the description of contents in a layout document are disclosed. | 11-27-2014 |
20140365872 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR GENERATION OF DOCUMENT STRUCTURES BASED ON SEQUENTIAL CONSTRAINTS - Disclosed is a method that structures a sequentially-ordered set of elements, each being characterized by a set of features. N-grams (sequence of n features) are computed from a set for n contiguous elements, and n-grams which are repetitive (Kleene cross) are selected. Elements matching the most frequent repetitive n-gram are grouped together under a new node, and a new sequence is created. The method is iteratively applied to this new sequence. The output is an ordered set of trees. | 12-11-2014 |
20140365873 | COMPUTING DEVICES FOR GENERATING CONTENT LAYOUT - Examples disclosed herein relate to arranging content displayed on a display of a computing device. The computing device receives a content change to alter one or more items displayed on the computing device. The computing device generates a content layout responsive to the content change, wherein positioning of remaining items displayed on the computing device remains the same with respect to positioning of the one or more items. The computing device displays the content layout on the computing device. | 12-11-2014 |
20140365874 | DOCUMENT DATA ENTRY SUGGESTIONS - A document having multiple data entry areas can be presented, and a list of suggestions for a designated data entry area can be generated. Generating the list can include analyzing a first set of data previously entered into one or more data entry areas of the document other than the designated data entry area and analyzing a second set of data including data outside the first set of data. The list of suggestions can be presented without having received manual entry of data in the designated data entry area, and user input selecting one of the suggestions can be received. Data represented by the selected suggestion can be entered in the data entry area in response to receiving the user input selecting the selected suggestion. | 12-11-2014 |
20140372873 | Detecting Main Page Content - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for identifying main content of a webpage. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a web document and analyzing the web document to identify sections of the web document and to determine a sequence of the sections. Each section corresponds to a logical portion of a graphical representation of the web document. A particular section is identified as containing main content of the web document based on characteristics of the particular section relative to characteristics of the sections overall. A modified web document is generated based on the identification of the particular section containing the main content. | 12-18-2014 |
20140372874 | RESPONSIVE RENDERING OF DATA SETS - Approaches are presented for rendering the content of a data set in a grid that changes depending on screen size and/or orientation. For example, a tool such as a rendering engine distributes groups and sub-groups of a data set differently depending on screen width, which can help use available screen space efficiently. Or, the tool determines the layout of a data set on a grid so as to guide reading in a reading direction. By adjusting distances between groups and sub-groups, the layout can guide the user along the intended direction for reading. Or, the tool wraps long text blocks of a group into multiple text columns in order to distribute text evenly across the available space. Or, the tool adjusts the width of a page and/or the widths of groups depending on the width of text, which can help manage available space when content is translated between languages. | 12-18-2014 |
20140372875 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - It is a non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program causing a computer to execute a process for information processing, the process including: calculating a feature amount of each of document contents to which common attribute information is added; and generating distribution map information by plotting each of document contents in a feature amount space on the basis of the calculated feature amount. | 12-18-2014 |
20140380152 | DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A display control apparatus includes: a display control unit that displays a first page to which an object is affixed at a designated position and a second page as arranged side by side on a display; a detecting unit that detects overlap between the object and the second page when the first page and the second page are arranged side by side; and a processing unit that performs a process for preventing a reduction in visual recognizability of the second page displayed on the display due to the overlap in the case where the overlap is detected by the detecting unit. | 12-25-2014 |
20150019957 | DYNAMIC LAYOUT ENGINE FOR A DIGITAL MAGAZINE - A digital magazine server creates a section of a digital magazine including content items based on a page template describing the relative positioning and sizing of content items. A page template may include display regions specifying the size of content items as a percentage of a display area. Additionally, a display region in a page template may specify use of a sub-template for presenting content items. The sub-template includes display regions specifying the relative positioning of content items presented in the display region specifying use of the sub-template. To generate the section of the digital magazine, various page templates are scored and a page template is selected based on the scoring. One or more diversity policies may be enforced when selecting the page template to improve user interaction with the digital magazine. | 01-15-2015 |
20150019958 | PAGE TEMPLATE SELECTION FOR CONTENT PRESENTATION IN A DIGITAL MAGAZINE - A digital magazine server creates a section of a digital magazine including content items based on a page template describing the relative positioning and sizing of content items. A page template may include display regions specifying the size of content items as a percentage of a display area. Additionally, a display region in a page template may specify use of a sub-template for presenting content items. The sub-template includes display regions specifying the relative positioning of content items presented in the display region specifying use of the sub-template. To generate the section of the digital magazine, various page templates are scored and a page template is selected based on the scoring. One or more diversity policies may be enforced when selecting the page template to improve user interaction with the digital magazine. | 01-15-2015 |
20150019959 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BIDIRECTIONAL TYPESETTING - The application provides method and apparatus for bidirectional typesetting. The method for bidirectional typesetting of the present application comprises: retrieving a small sample used for a document to be bi-directionally typeset; defining at least one reverse region, wherein the reverse region consists of successive characters required to be reversed in the retrieved small sample; and determining locations where the reversed characters will be located in the documents and recording the locations into a big sample. | 01-15-2015 |
20150033117 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Provided is an information processing device including an obtaining section configured to obtain a content item to be displayed in a first display area of a display screen, and an image generating section configured to generate a display image by laying out the content item based on an arrangement of the first display area. | 01-29-2015 |
20150040001 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CAPTURING AND EXTRACTING CONTENT FROM DOCUMENTS ON A MOBILE DEVICE - A mobile device captures information from a document. The mobile device selects a template stored in a memory of the mobile device. The selected template describes data content of at least one document. The mobile device then captures an image of a document, determines that the image corresponds to one document described by the selected template by verifying that at least one first region in the image corresponds to a region of the document described by the selected template, identifies at least one region in the image that corresponds with a region in the document described by the selected template, and processes information in the identified region in the image. The mobile device then aggregates application specific information from the processed information and presents the aggregated application specific information to a user program operating on the mobile device. | 02-05-2015 |
20150046795 | METHODS, APPARATUS AND SYSTEMS FOR DATA VISUALISATION AND RELATED APPLICATIONS - A method of arranging a data set for graphical analysis in a graphical analysis computing system, is described, the method comprising the steps of a data retrieval engine retrieving data elements from a data store that forms part of or which is in communication with the graphical analysis computing system; a processing module carrying out a preliminary analysis of the retrieved data, forming an initial appropriate output style as a visual document framework, carrying out analysis of the retrieved data for periodic or repeating patterns and adjusting the visual document framework to emphasise desired visual attributes, and mapping the data on to the visual document framework; and a rendering engine creating a visual document output display. | 02-12-2015 |
20150074520 | DOCUMENT DIVIDING AND MERGING - Embodiments of the present invention relate to dividing and merging documents on a touch panel. A method includes dividing a document displayed on a touch panel having a display function using an information processing device connected to the touch panel. Positions of two different points on the touch panel are identified in response to a user indicating the two different points in the document. The document is divided, by a computer processor, based on a line segment extending from a starting point to an end point of a traced line traced by the user. The line segment is used as a dividing line in response to the user tracing the traced line on the touch panel so as to traverse the two different points. | 03-12-2015 |
20150095769 | Layout Analysis Method And System - Embodiments of the present invention provide a layout analysis method, comprising: extraction, collection of basic elements with respect to static area objects, analysis sequence determination and logical paragraph analysis, wherein the logical paragraph analysis comprises character analyzing, logical connection edge generating, line forming analyzing, paragraph forming analyzing, paragraph result filtering, basic elements collecting with respect to the dynamic area objects and basic element removing. According to the embodiments of the present invention, logical reference information and basic element data information are combined, and the logical reference information is fully used during layout analysis, such that a more accurate layout analysis result with respect to a fixed-layout document is acquired, and the layout analysis result is effectively improved. | 04-02-2015 |
20150106697 | METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR PROCESSING E-BOOK DOCUMENT - A method for processing an e-book document, includes: obtaining an e-book document; dividing content of the e-book document into a plurality of segments in accordance with a preset segmentation manner; composing the plurality of segments into an ordered segment group; selecting one segment from the segment group as a current segment; parsing the content of the current segment to generate layout data; and generating a page image in accordance with the layout data. | 04-16-2015 |
20150113386 | GENERATION OF INTRODUCTORY INFORMATION PAGE - A system and method for automatically generating a commodity introductory document that encompasses personalized subject matter as well as related information acquired from external information sources. A predetermined template comprising user-authored sections and automated sections is used to select and organize the information. The GUIs corresponding to the user-authored sections allow an introductory document author to provide personalized input. The automated sections are linked to information sources through embedded hyperlinks, from which relevant information can be identified and derived to populate the automated sections. The introductory document author may be provided with a few options regarding the layout and the presentation of the indicatory document as well as individual sections thereof. | 04-23-2015 |
20150121200 | TEXT PROCESSING APPARATUS, TEXT PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - According to an embodiment, a text processing apparatus includes a generator and a list display unit. The generator is configured to generate topic structure information by analyzing input text. The topic structure information includes information that represents a subordinate relation between a plurality of topics included in the text and information that represents a relative positional relation between the topics included in the text. The list display unit is configured to display, on a display, a topic structure list in which a plurality of nodes each corresponding to a topic included in the text and each including a label that represents a subordinate relation between a topic corresponding to each node and another topic are arranged based on the topic structure information in accordance with a relative positional relation between topics corresponding to the respective nodes. | 04-30-2015 |
20150301987 | MULTIPLE MONITOR DATA ENTRY - A data entry document is obtained. Information related to the data entry document is displayed on one display device, and a data entry portion of the data entry document is displayed on one or more other display devices. The related information can be from the data entry document, itself, of other information. | 10-22-2015 |
20150363364 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DOCUMENT PLANNING - Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products are described herein that are configured to be embodied as and/or performed by a document planner. In some example embodiments, a method is provided that comprises selecting a schema based on one or more messages available in a message store and using the selected schema and one or more messages available in the message store to generate a document plan. The schema of this embodiment may be defined by a specification containing one or more queries for selecting one or more messages, one or more messages, and/or one or more predefined phrases to instantiate a document plan. The method of this embodiment may also include applying an optimization specification to the document plan to generate an optimized document plan. | 12-17-2015 |
20150363375 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR REDACTING CONTENT IN A DOCUMENT - A system redacts content in a multi-layered document by executing a content modifier process that redacts a first portion of content in a source layer and then automatically redacts related content in at least one target layer. The content modifier process overlays the source redaction region on corresponding areas of other layers in the document to identify target redaction regions in those other layers that contain target content. In turn, the content modifier process automatically identifies and redacts the target content within target redaction regions. | 12-17-2015 |
20160004669 | ARRANGING ELEMENTS IN A LAYOUT - Arranging elements in a layout includes obtaining multiple elements to be arranged in a layout where the layout has at least one container to display multiple elements, determining a range of shapes for at least one of the multiple elements, determining merit values corresponding to the range of shapes, storing a description of the range of the shapes and at least some of the merit value, and arranging the multiple elements based on the merit value to be displayed in a display. | 01-07-2016 |
20160041968 | STYLE EXTENSIBILITY APPLIED TO A GROUP OF SHAPES BY EDITING TEXT FILES - Style extensibility is provided to shapes in a diagram by editing text files. A structured data model is used to render the diagram representing items provided by the user in a text-based format such as a bulleted list. A style engine determines style properties for style labels assigned to key shapes of the diagram. Style properties include features associated with the shapes and their content that preserve an overall look-and-feel of the diagram. Color scheme(s) are also provided through the style labels. A layout engine uses layout definitions based on user input and default parameters along with style label assignments to render a presentation model. Style properties may be modified and new styles added after the diagram is rendered. | 02-11-2016 |
20160048479 | METHOD OF PROVIDING DISPLAY INFORMATION, DISPLAY INFORMATION PROVISION PROGRAM, AND SERVER - Content displayed in an area displayed by a native application can be changed without being updated by a user. A first image is generated on a communication terminal ( | 02-18-2016 |
20160055131 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROCESSING INPUT STREAMS OF CALENDAR APPLICATIONS - Systems and methods for processing input streams of calendar applications. An example method, performed by a computer system, may comprise receiving an input stream; processing the input stream to produce a sequence of characters; responsive to determining that the sequence of characters comprises a time reference, storing, in a memory, a calendar entry in a first data structure of a first type, the calendar entry comprising an identifier of a time referenced by the time reference; responsive to determining that the sequence of characters does not comprise a time reference, storing, in the memory, a memorandum in a second data structure of a second type, the memorandum comprising at least part of the sequence of characters. | 02-25-2016 |
20160062956 | IMAGE VISUALIZATION - A system and/or method that facilitates sharing image viewing context between vendor visualization applications without integration of different software application from different vendors packages is describe herein. In one instance, a visualization computing system ( | 03-03-2016 |
20160070677 | ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED - Disclosed are methods and apparatus for generating accessible documents. In one embodiment, an initial document in a print format is obtained. The print format of the initial document is identified as one of a plurality of print formats. A parser corresponding to the one of the plurality of print formats is applied such that the initial document is parsed according to the print format of the initial document. An intermediate document that conforms to an intermediate format is generated based upon results obtained from applying the parser. A template for converting the intermediate document into an accessible document is obtained. The template is then such that an accessible document corresponding to the initial document is generated, wherein the accessible document includes a plurality of tags that designate an order of a plurality of regions of the accessible document. | 03-10-2016 |
20160092408 | SEMANTIC DISTANCE-BASED ASSIGNMENT OF DATA ELEMENTS TO VISUALIZATION EDGES - Embodiments provide a visual analyzer system that can update an existing visualization upon receiving a user request to modify a dimension of data being presented by the visualization. Embodiments may provide an updated visualization, possibly of a different visualization type and/or with pre-existing dimensions mapped to different edges, without requiring any user specification of which dimensions to be mapped to which edges of the visualization. The system can determine configurations for the various visualization types and compute, for each configuration, a visualization score. Based on the scores, the system can select a configuration and render the updated visualization on a graphical user interface (GUI) to the user. Further, in response to user specification to change a representation of data from one visualization type to another, embodiments may determine an effective and intuitive manner in which to present the same set of data in the visualization of the other type. | 03-31-2016 |
20160098380 | MAPPING OF CONTENT ON A WEB SITE TO PRODUCT FUNCTIONALITY - A method for generating a content map. The method may include, by a content processor, receiving a selection of a first URL for a first content segment. The method may include receiving a selection of a second URL for a second content segment. The method may include grouping the first and second content segment into a first dimension group. The method may include receiving a selection of a third URL for a third content segment. The method may include receiving a selection a fourth URL for a fourth content segment. The method may include grouping the third and fourth content segment into a second dimension group. The method may include relating the first and second URL in the first dimension group and the third and fourth URL in the second dimension group to generate a content map. The method may include causing the content map to be displayed. | 04-07-2016 |
20160105479 | INTEGRATING FEEDS INTO A PACKAGE OF CARDS - A variety of data structures, components, runtime viewers and methods are described for integrating external content into wrapped packages of cards. Each card may selectively include media content, and a palette of application functionality and/or supporting e-commerce related services. In some aspects a feed may be integrated into one or more of the cards. The feed provides a mechanism for seamlessly integrating external content into the wrap package. Feeds can be used to provide the wrap with a wide variety of different content, functionality and/or services. | 04-14-2016 |
20160110066 | CUSTOMIZABLE VEHICLE FLEET REPORTING SYSTEM - Customization features for providing users with the ability to customize various aspects of a vehicle management system are described. These customization features can include functionality for generating custom reports based on vehicle parameters, including diagnostic codes. The customization features can also include features for customizing alerts based on vehicle parameters and features for customizing nomenclature in the vehicle management system. | 04-21-2016 |
20160162443 | METHOD, A SYSTEM AND A COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR GENERATING VIEWABLE PRESENTATIONS - The invention relates to a method for generating a presentation from a metadata only, or from a metadata and a document file. A content management system stores electronic data as electronic objects, wherein an electronic object is associated with metadata having one or more properties and corresponding values. The method in such a system comprises determining a presentation template for an electronic object; modifying at least one section of the presentation template with a property value obtained by utilizing metadata of the object; and generating a metadata presentation of the modified presentation template. | 06-09-2016 |
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20160188168 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR APPORTIONED CONTENT REDACTING INTERFACE AND OPERATION THEREOF - A method executed in a processor of a computing device for redacting content is provided. The method includes receiving a request for content redaction at a current page being displayed, the current page having a first text portion and a second text portion, reconstructing the current page by redacting at least a part of the first text portion while displaying the second text and in response to user input indicating a request to show redacted content, displaying at least a part of the redacted first text portion. | 06-30-2016 |
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