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20080215959 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING A MEDIA STREAM IN A MEDIA SPREADSHEET - Methods and systems are described for generating a media stream in a media spreadsheet. The method includes presenting, via a user interface, an electronic spreadsheet having a plurality of cells. The method also includes receiving an association of a source media stream object with a first cell of the plurality of cells. The method further includes receiving an association of a media stream transformation operation with one of the first cell and a second cell of the plurality of cells, wherein the media stream transformation operation references, respectively, one of the source media stream object and the first cell. The method also includes automatically applying the media stream transformation operation to the source media stream object to generate a resultant media stream object, based on the reference. The method further includes associating the resultant media stream object with at least one of the plurality of cells of the electronic spreadsheet. | 09-04-2008 |
20080222503 | RENDERING OF TWO-DIMENSIONAL MARKUP MESSAGES - Embodiments of the present invention provide methods, systems, and apparatuses configured to receive or retrieve markup data associated with a message formatted for two-dimensional (2D) rendering, virtually render, by a first rendering module, the message in a non-displayed image in accordance with the markup data, and render, by a second rendering module, a three-dimensional (3D) object in a 2D display environment including texturing the non-displayed image on a surface of the 3D object in order to render the message. Other embodiments are also described. | 09-11-2008 |
20080222504 | SCRIPT-BASED SYSTEM TO PERFORM DYNAMIC UPDATES TO RICH MEDIA CONTENT AND SERVICES - A system and method is provided for delivering content to a client device including at least one script without at least one of embedding the at least one script within a web page and referencing the at least one script from the web page. A signal is transmitted to a client device, the signal carrying within a packet stream, a multimedia presentation specified using a markup language and comprised of at least a single data unit. The single data unit includes at least one of a scene content and a scene update, the scene update including at least one of a scene command and a script fragment. | 09-11-2008 |
20080276157 | UNIVERSAL MULTIMEDIA ENGINE AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME - A method, system and apparatus for adapting the multimedia content for presentation by an application that uses, processes or otherwise services the multimedia content (“multimedia application”) is provided. The method includes receiving the multimedia content formatted in accordance with at least one of a plurality of multimedia protocols; using a function abstracted from the plurality of multimedia protocols to adapt the multimedia content in accordance with one or more capabilities of the multimedia application; and sending the multimedia content so adapted to the multimedia application for presentation. | 11-06-2008 |
20080276158 | System for Downloading Digital Content Published in a Media Channel - There is provided a system for downloading digital content to a portable media player, the digital content being published in a media channel by a content creator. The system may reside on a server accessible via the Internet. The system may comprise: a data receiver module to receive the digital content from the media channel via a communication medium; a conversion module to convert the received digital content to at least one format for consumption by the player; and a download module to copy the at least one file to the portable media player. The system may further comprise a player detection module to detect file formats compatible with the portable media player. A corresponding method is also disclosed. | 11-06-2008 |
20080282138 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MULTIMEDIA OBJECT ASSOCIATION TO DIGITAL PAPER SPATIAL DIAGRAMS - Methods and systems for multimedia object association to digital paper spatial diagrams are disclosed herein. A method for multimedia object association to digital paper spatial diagrams includes the steps of (1) capturing a media object to be imported into a spatial information system; (2) linking the captured media object to a digital paper document containing a spatial diagram, using a input device configured to select a linking action area located in a first area of the digital paper document and configured to select a location for the captured multimedia data object on a second area of the digital paper document; (3) transferring the media object and the data from the input device to a spatial information system; and (4) combining the media object and the data of the input device to create an updated digital paper document containing the media object. | 11-13-2008 |
20080294972 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ADDING A LAYER OF MARKS ON TOP OF WEB-PAGES - A system and method to put graphical marks such as post-it style notes, stickers and bookmarks on top of web pages is disclosed. | 11-27-2008 |
20080301539 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHOD AND A COMPUTER SYSTEM AND A COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM FOR CREATING VIDEOS, PODCASTS OR SLIDE PRESENTATIONS FROM A BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE APPLICATION - A computer-implemented method of preparing a presentation of a data set retrieved from a database, comprising the steps of: providing in a memory entities, of first metadata items, that respectively define which data to include in data sets retrievable from a data superset stored in the database. Further providing in the memory second metadata items which define properties of a presentation of the at least one data set by means of a graphical object specified by the properties. A graphical image of the data set is prepared by retrieving the data set defined by the first metadata items and by rendering of the data set in accordance with the second metadata items. The step of preparing a graphical image for multiple entities, of first metadata items, so as to provide a consecutive sequence of graphical images is repeated and the sequence is distributed for subsequent playback at a player station, disconnected from the database, so as to convey a collective presentation of the data sets in a progressive manner. | 12-04-2008 |
20090077459 | Method And System For Presenting A Hotspot In A Hypervideo Stream - Methods and systems are described for presenting a hotspot in a hypervideo stream comprising a plurality of video frames that are associated with at least one selectable hotspot. One method includes receiving, for presentation in a video presentation space, a first video frame including a first hotspot that is user selectable for initiating a first action, generating a second hotspot that is user selectable for initiating the first action, and generating a visual indication associating the first hotspot with the second hotspot. The method also includes presenting the second hotspot and the visual indication associating the first hotspot with the second hotspot with the received first video frame including the first hotspot. | 03-19-2009 |
20090094508 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SUPPORTING CREATION OF AN ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT - Time spent for the editing operation by a user when a template part in which content is embedded is changed to a new template part is reduced. In a page editing unit, a parts information storage unit stores information on template parts, a part inserting unit retrieves a first template part from the parts information storage unit, and a display unit displays the first template part. An operation reception unit accepts an operation to change the first template part to a second template part, and, in response to the operation, a candidate generating unit displays candidates for the second template part obtained by filtering based on a change rule on the display unit. Moreover, a change processing unit embeds, in an appropriate area in the second template part, content embedded in the first template part in response to an operation to select the second template part from the candidates. | 04-09-2009 |
20090113278 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR GENERATING AUTOMATIC AND USER-CONTROLLABLE MOVIES OF PRESENTATIONS ON SMALL DEVICES - Presentations, tutorials and screencasts are difficult to watch on a small device such as a cell phone because the screen is too small to properly render content that typically contains text, like a presentation slide or a screenshot. The described system facilitates generating a user-controllable video movie from an existing media stream that 1) automatically identifies regions of interest from the original stream using visual, auditory and meta streams, 2) synchronizes these regions of interest with the original media stream, and 3) uses panning and scanning to zoom in and out or move the focus. The generated time-based media stream can be seamlessly interrupted by users, letting them temporarily focus on specific regions of interest. Meanwhile, the original media stream can continue playing or instead jump around the timeline as users jump between regions of interest. | 04-30-2009 |
20090132900 | Method for producing and outputting web pages via a computer network, and web page produced thereby - A method for producing and outputting web pages via a computer network, in particular the Internet, may include: recording a moving object by a video camera against a background screen; outputting a first video signal that has a plurality of pixels in chronologically successive frames in each case; modifying transparency values of the image pixels of the frames that are assigned to the background screen; outputting a second video signal; storing the second video signal as a video data file on a first memory device; and offering at least one web page for call-up from a web server in the computer network, such that the stored video data file is superimposed onto the called-up web page as video signal upon call-up of the web page from the web server by a computer via the computer network. | 05-21-2009 |
20090164875 | System and method for providing a web event channel player - Embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for providing access to an channel via an embedded web event channel player. In exemplary embodiments, an embeddable code associated with the channel is provided to a channel owner. Once embedded, the code will provide an instance of the channel player on a user's device that can access the channel. A list of events is aggregated and provided for the channel associated with the channel player. Upon a request by a user, an event from the list of events may be streamed to the channel player. | 06-25-2009 |
20090164876 | Systems and methods for integrating live audio communication in a live web event - A system, method, and computer program for integrating live audio communication in a web event is provided. In exemplary embodiments, live audio data is received from one or more presenters. The live audio data is then encoded to create a formatted audio stream. The formatted audio stream may be synchronized with presentation events to generate the live web event by injecting control data for the presentation events. A combined formatted stream may be distributed to one or more users. | 06-25-2009 |
20090172508 | PORTABLE MEDIA DEVICE THAT AUTOMATICALLY CONFIGURES ITSELF AND/OR AN EXTERNAL MEDIA PRESENTATION DEVICE USING PREVIOUSLY-CAPTURED PRESENTATION DATA - The present invention discloses a system that enables a portable media device to automatically capture presentation data for the automatic configuration of a media presentation device. Such a system can include a portable media device, and a presentation configuration manager. The portable media device can be configured to store media files and interface with media presentation devices. The presentation configuration manager can be configured to automatically capture user-modifications to the presentation settings of a media presentation device during the presentation of a media file. The user-modifications can be stored as media presentation data associated with the media file and the media presentation device. The media presentation data can be used to automatically configure the media presentation device for subsequent presentations of the media file. | 07-02-2009 |
20090199077 | Creating first class objects from web resources - The present inventions are directed to apparatus and method for creating first class object representations from web pages that are not normally considered first class objects. | 08-06-2009 |
20090210778 | VIDEO LINKING TO ELECTRONIC TEXT MESSAGING - Certain embodiments of the invention include methods and apparatuses for linking video information to electronic messages such as electronic mail (email), online chat, web logs (“blogs”), bulletin boards, web page text, Simple Mobile Services (SMS), Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) and other electronic message formats. One embodiment provides for embedding links from a video annotation session at a cursor position in an email application. A method for transferring from email to chat and vice versa is disclosed whereby association with video content is maintained. | 08-20-2009 |
20090265603 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR COMPOSING SCENES USING RICH MEDIA CONTENTS - A user interface method and apparatus for a Rich Media service in a terminal. A decoder decodes a received stream to check a header of the received stream. A renderer adaptively composes a scene using scene composition elements of the received stream, according to adaptation information in the header checked by the decoder, and a display displays the adaptively composed scene. | 10-22-2009 |
20090271691 | LINKING DIGITAL AND PAPER DOCUMENTS - Various embodiments facilitate linking physical documents to digital documents. Links link physical documents to digital documents. Using a sensor, the physical documents are automatically detected and identified on a digital workspace. A computer is capable of displaying graphics, and user interaction with displayed graphics can be detected. The digital workspace displays a GUI component having one or more controls, and the GUI component is displayed at a location relative to a physical document on the digital workspace. User interaction with the control is detected and either a link between the physical document and one of the digital documents is edited, or an existing link between the physical document and a digital document is used to perform an operation on the digital document. Alternatively or additionally, links may be automatically generated digital documents determined to be implicitly related to the physical document. | 10-29-2009 |
20090300472 | METHOD OF AUTHORING, DEPLOYING AND USING INTERACTIVE, DATA-DRIVEN TWO OR MORE DIMENSIONAL CONTENT - A method whereby dynamic, interactive, two or more dimensional media can be assembled and delivered where the need for pre-packaged binary content files and pre-compiled content is eliminated by using a markup language, a standard URI to identify local and/or remote media resources within a markup text, a standard protocol to retrieve the resource, a parser to load resources from the native format and a markup language to define behavior and where dynamic, interactive, n-dimensional media is achieved by using a markup language, connecting or embedding content into a local or remote data source, dragging-and-dropping markup text into a content provider application, updating content using a form, establishing a two-way connection between content and one or more data sources such that changing to the data source(s) and seeing the results propagate to the scene changing the content and seeing the results propagate to the data source(s) and using a markup language to issue commands, configure interaction, and create behavior. | 12-03-2009 |
20090327848 | METHOD, SYSTEM, APPARATUS AND CONTENT MODEL FOR THE CREATION, MANAGEMENT, STORAGE, AND PRESENTATION OF DYNAMIC OBJECTS - The invention includes structures and schema for organizing and inter-relating objects, data, or files, including relational, network, hierarchical, and entity-relationship models, among others, that are dynamic, that is changing with time. This includes manipulating structures by conversion, compression, compaction, and compilation, for various purposes. Also included is generating structures for storing, organizing, and managing dynamic objects for retrieval and presentation. A discussion group for collaborative participants is also provided. A time-based dynamic object within a plurality of stored dynamic objects is stored. Each dynamic objects comprises a plurality of predefined attribute fields. Requested dynamic objects are assembled in real time so that the requested dynamic objects are displayed on the basis of the start-time attribute field of each requested dynamic object. A different threaded discussion associated with the each displayed requested dynamic object is provided with each displayed requested dynamic object based on the displayed requested dynamic object's start time. | 12-31-2009 |
20100005377 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CUSTOMIZING MULTIMEDIA ENHANCED ITEMS - The present invention describes a multimedia enhanced gift item, an external customization unit and a computer implemented method for enabling a user to customize multimedia enhanced gift items. Such an item can facilitate combining personal greetings to a greeting card, to a stuffed animal, and to other toys or objects alike. A user buying multimedia enhanced gift item may use the method to provide and generate multimedia contents to be embedded in that item, and wherein the multimedia contents can be played on demand at any time later. | 01-07-2010 |
20100017693 | Visual Macro Showing How Some Icon or Object or Text was Constructed - A Visual Macro Program records and replays desired actions performed by a user in creating or editing a document. The recorded actions are appended to the document as an attachment that can be replayed by a user at a later time by enabling a tag associated with the recorded actions. | 01-21-2010 |
20100017694 | APPARATUS, AND ASSOCIATED METHOD, FOR CREATING AND ANNOTATING CONTENT - An apparatus, and an associated method, for facilitating creation and review of content. An accessor accesses content that is to be reviewed. If the review is to be made using media of a type different than the stored content, a converter converts the content into a desired media. And, reviewing of the content is carried out by way of a user interface. When a reviewer elects to add an annotation to the content, the annotation is made by way of the user interface. If the content is reviewed in textual form, the annotation is made by adding text to the reviewed content and, if the content is reviewed in audio form, the annotation is made as an audio annotation. Once annotation is made and review is completed, the content, together with the annotation made thereto, is stored, available for subsequent viewing or further review. | 01-21-2010 |
20100070840 | GENERAL PURPOSE DATA CONTAINER METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR IMPLEMENTING AV/C DESCRIPTORS - Disclosed herein is a data management system for AV/C descriptor data. The system includes a data container hierarchical structure. The system also includes a methodology for compiling data from the containers into a read buffer upon receipt of a request from a requestor. The data presented to the requestor will preferably be in a format that may be understood by other device requestors that mayor may not be utilizing this same container system. | 03-18-2010 |
20100070841 | DYNAMIC SELECTION OF IMAGES FOR WEB PAGES - A gallery widget is invoked when a tag in a markup language document, such as a web page, is processed. The gallery widget selects a number of images specified in the tag and places the images in the markup language document as defined by the tag. The images are selected from a gallery containing all images available for display or from a pool of images chosen from the gallery using a gallery administration tool. | 03-18-2010 |
20100077285 | METHOD OF ASSEMBLING AN ENHANCED MEDIA CONTENT NARRATIVE - In a method of assembling an enhanced media content narrative, a navigation grid is initially defined by program name, chapter name and sub-chapter names. The grid is populated with program element file names, and the content is associated with the element file names in each chapter/sub-chapter. An automated toolbar is created for the grid matrix and combined with introductory content to provide an enhanced media content narrative for playback by a viewer. | 03-25-2010 |
20100088582 | TALKING PAPER AUTHORING TOOLS - A range of unified software authoring tools for creating a talking paper application for integration in an end user platform are described herein. The authoring tools are easy to use and are interoperable to provide an easy and cost-effective method of creating a talking paper application. The authoring tools provide a framework for creating audio content and image content and interactively linking the audio content and the image content. The authoring tools also provide for verifying the interactively linked audio and image content, reviewing the audio content, the image content and the interactive linking on a display device. Finally, the authoring tools provide for saving the audio content, the video content and the interactive linking for publication to a manufacturer for integration in an end user platform or talking paper platform. | 04-08-2010 |
20100107044 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DEFINING LAYOUT OF AN ELECTRONIC BUSINESS CARD - A system and method for defining layout of an electronic business card reads a multimedia message to which the electronic business card is attached from a storage, analyzes the multimedia message to retrieve image information and audio information of the multimedia message, and parses the electronic business card to retrieve text information of the electronic business card. The system and method further sets associations between the text information in each paragraph of the electronic business card and the image information and the audio information of the multimedia message, sets display layout and display duration of the associated text information and image information, and displays the text information of the electronic business card accompanied by the image and audio information of the multimedia messages according to the associations, the display layout and display duration. | 04-29-2010 |
20100131833 | Automated Creation of Media Asset Illustrations - The invention pertains to techniques for creating media asset illustrations for media assets are disclosed. The created media asset illustrations are useful for media assets that lack associated media asset illustrations. The techniques can analyze media asset data or media asset metadata when creating the create media asset illustrations. The created media asset illustrations can, for example, be used while playing, browsing or displaying associated media assets. | 05-27-2010 |
20100146375 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING SOUND OR VIDEO STREAMS, AND APPARATUS CONFIGURED THEREFOR - A method of producing a sound or video stream is based on a so-called tweaky file and an original file. The tweaky file includes actions and time stamp(s) associated with each action. The original file includes sound or video content. An action is selected in the tweaky file. The time stamp(s) associated with the selected action is obtained from the tweaky file. The point or segment of the original file corresponding to the obtained time stamp(s) is identified. The selected action is executed on the identified point or segment. Then, the steps of selecting, obtaining, identifying and executing are repeated, for the next actions in the tweaky file, to produce the sound or video stream. The invention also relates to an apparatus, computer-readable medium, computer-readable file, signal and computer program. | 06-10-2010 |
20100153831 | System and method for overlay advertising and purchasing utilizing on-line video or streaming media - A system and method for overlay advertising and purchasing utilizing on-line and streaming media. In at least one embodiment, a viewer user receiving on-line video or streaming media is able to pause content and be directed, on the same media player, to a product panel to select product(s) to be purchased, customized, or to receive additional static or dynamic information. The method and system also provides for network connectivity to other web-based and physical services and tracking systems to determine traffic to and from the on-line video or streaming media content. | 06-17-2010 |
20100162091 | Methods and Apparatus for Internet Browsing and Searching Employing Geographic Location Information - Systems and techniques for managing Internet navigation and browsing results and other information using a visual geographic interface. A user interface including a map display is presented, along with interface elements for searching, browsing, and otherwise retrieving information. Results lists are compiled based on user inputs and geographic information is associated with each item in the results list. The items in the results list are presented to the user in a map display, with facilities for changing the organization and presentation of results according to user inputs including graphical inputs defining geographic areas of interest. | 06-24-2010 |
20100169753 | MEDIA PORTABILITY AND COMPATIBILITY FOR DIFFERENT DESTINATION PLATFORMS - Tools and techniques for media portability and compatibility for different destination platforms are provided. These tools may receive commands to launch a media portability capability, and may receive source media as input for transformation. These tools may also receive indications of profile settings for specifying how to transform the source media for enhanced portability on destination systems for playback. The source media may be transformed in response to the profile setting, with the transformed media inserted into a document. The tools may then distribute the document to the destination system for playback | 07-01-2010 |
20100169754 | Attaching Audio Generated Scripts to Graphical Representations of Applications - A computer implemented method, a computer program product, and a data processing system attach audio generated scripts to graphical representations of applications. A mobile device records an audio instruction. The mobile device then converts the audio instruction into a command script and associates the command script with a document identifier. The mobile device then forwards the document identifier and the associated command script to a target location. The command script can then be utilized at the target location to make changes to a document identified by the document identifier. | 07-01-2010 |
20100218076 | DOCUMENT ANALYZING METHOD, DOCUMENT ANALYZING SYSTEM AND DOCUMENT ANALYZING PROGRAM - To obtain a document group in which an assertion standpoint with respect to a proposition and a ground for the assertion are the same between documents constituting the document group without using an expression concerning opinions or grounds, etc., in a document. A document analyzing method comprising: determining whether a ground for the assertion with respect to a proposition is the same or not based on whether citation source documents in the form of an electronic document cited in electronic documents are common or not; and combining, based on the determination result, electronic documents including an assertion with respect to a given proposition, between which the assertion standpoint on whether to affirm or deny the proposition or whether to be in a neutral standpoint with respect to the proposition and a ground for the assertion standpoint are the same, into one group. | 08-26-2010 |
20100293446 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COUPLING A VISUAL BROWSER TO A VOICE BROWSER - A method and apparatus for concurrently accessing network-based electronic content in a Voice Browser and a Visual Browser can include the steps of retrieving a network-based document formatted for display in the Visual Browser; identifying in the retrieved document a reference to the Voice Browser, the reference specifying electronic content formatted for audible presentation in the Voice Browser; and, transmitting the reference to the Voice Browser. The Voice Browser can retrieve the specified electronic content and audibly present the electronic content. Concurrently, the Visual Browser can visually present the network-based document formatted for visual presentation in the Visual Browser. Likewise, the method of the invention can include the steps of retrieving a network-based document formatted for audible presentation in the Voice Browser; identifying in the retrieved document a reference to the Visual Browser, the reference specifying electronic content formatted for visual presentation in the Visual Browser; and, transmitting the reference to the Visual Browser. The Visual Browser can retrieve the specified electronic content and visually present the specified electronic content. Concurrently, the Voice Browser can audibly present the network-based document formatted for audible presentation in the Voice Browser. | 11-18-2010 |
20100293447 | ASSISTING DOCUMENT CREATION - Assistance for document creation in a computer system which allows at least one agent to be registered therein is provided. The computer system causes the at least one agent to monitor input by a user during the document creation, acquire information on the input obtained by the monitoring, retrieve at least one content from multiple contents accumulated in a storage unit based on the acquired information, and transmit the retrieved at least one content to a display unit to display the retrieved content on a screen. | 11-18-2010 |
20100332958 | Context Aware Image Representation - Methods and system for rendering context aware multimedia content include identifying a plurality of multimedia content that is uploaded for rendering. The uploaded multimedia content is examined to determine metadata associated with each of the plurality of multimedia contents. Contextual information associated with the metadata is identified and a grouping of the multimedia content into a plurality of groups is performed based on the contextual information. Each of the plurality of groups is then integrated into one or more photo stories. The photo stories are defined and rendered as content rich documents. | 12-30-2010 |
20110035649 | MULTIMEDIA DATA PROCESSING DEVICE WHICH CAN EASILY PREPARE MULTIMEDIA CONTENTS - A multimedia processing device implements a script having a data structure that is formed of a drawing information describing portion where media data is chronologically described, and a user navigation information describing portion where correspondence between events and actions and implementation conditions are chronologically described. The multimedia processing device implements this script, and thereby, media data is chronologically reproduced, and at the same time, a user interface showing operations that can be chronologically carried out is outputted. Then, a predetermined process, such as an insertion of media data, can be implemented by carrying out the operations following the user interface according to predetermined timing. | 02-10-2011 |
20110055676 | Interactive user interface by embedding a document into a standardized object container - A user interface is provided for a computer application program having a document and one or more interactive tools associated with the document. The document and associated tools are embedded into a standardized object container. The standardized object container is embedded into a computer display program capable of displaying instances of the standardized object container. Interactions between the tools and the document are processed by the computer application program. The application program and display program collaborate to handle user interface events according to a protocol determined by the standardized object container. A first advantage of this approach is that the tools do not need to have separate versions developed for each display file type of interest. A second advantage of this approach is that interactions between the tools and the document are handled by the computer application program, which provides enhanced flexibility and capability. | 03-03-2011 |
20110055677 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ASSOCIATING AND ORGANIZING DIGITAL FILES - Systems and methods for associating digital files into a data project are described. The systems and methods may create a template for a data project. A user may provide inputs for the template. The inputs may define a user-structured data hierarchy, where the user-structured data hierarchy includes a plurality of levels and sub-levels of information. The user may then provide links to one or more digital files associated with each level of the user-structured data hierarchy. The one or more digital files are then associated with corresponding levels of the user-structured data hierarchy. The user-structured data hierarchy and the one or more digital files may be compiled into a data project before being accessed by a user. | 03-03-2011 |
20110060977 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EMBEDDING AND SHARING INFORMATION - A method for embedding information in a file includes generating a thumbnail of the multimedia file. The method also includes embedding information associated with the thumbnail, wherein the embedding includes identifying one or more markers to fill in the information on a visual media sheet and associating the thumbnail with the information. The method further includes arranging the generated thumbnails based on spatial details and saving the arranged thumbnails with the associated information in the file. The method can be implemented on an electronic device that includes a visual media sheet generator for generating the visual media sheet based on one or more markers, and a thumbnail organization unit for arranging the thumbnails in a pre-defined pattern. | 03-10-2011 |
20110167327 | Method for preparation of a digital document for the display of said document and the navigation within said - The present invention relates to a method for preparation of a digital document for the display of said document and the navigation within said document in a mobile device, said display and navigation operations being realized by a computer program, said document comprising a plurality of elements and at least one page characterized in that it comprises the following steps: upon the reception of the document: pre-interpretation of the digital document and encoding of a part at least of the elements of said digital document into objects directly exploitable by said computer program; upon reception of a display command of a page of the digital document: identification of the tasks associated with this page and creation of a reference table pointing directly to the objects describing the tasks of said page, and displaying of said page comprising a possible highlighting of objects that can be activated and/or a possible scrolling of the page, then execution of the tasks upon request of a user. | 07-07-2011 |
20110179343 | INFORMATION DISPLAY APPARATUS AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An information display apparatus that includes a judgment unit that, in the even of receiving the input of the position coordinate through the operation unit while one page of the image data is being displayed on the display screen, judges which area is selected from areas in the page being displayed on the display screen on the basis of the received position coordinate; and a display controller that displays an image of a first area which is determined to be selected by the judgment unit with remaining the position when the area is indicated through the operation unit, hides an image of the area other than the first area, and display an image of next page of the page being displayed in an area where then image of the area other than the first area is hidden. | 07-21-2011 |
20110191661 | EDITING TIME-BASED MEDIA WITH ENHANCED CONTENT - Creation of a program with interactive content and time-based media would be improved by having several people working simultaneously on both the interactive content and the time-based media. The range of types of data that can be associated with the time-based media also can include a variety of types of content that enhance the time-based media, including data that is opaque to the editing system. To support editing of such programs, enhanced content may be edited into a program as either a clip or a locator, according to a user's selection. The components that represent enhanced content also may be edited in the same way as components that represent time-based media. Enhanced content may be represented by enhancement files that include data defining enhancements. An enhancement includes an identifier of the enhancement within the enhancement file, and a reference to a file defining enhanced content associated with the enhancement. Such enhancement files may be imported into a bin of an editing system to create components that describe the enhanced content referenced by the enhancements. The enhanced content may be modified using native applications for the enhanced content during editing of the program. The components describing the enhanced content in the editing system can be updated using identifiers of the enhanced content that are stored by the components. Enhanced content also may be automatically synchronized with time-based media. | 08-04-2011 |
20110202821 | BIDDED MARKETPLACE FOR APPLICATIONS - Methods and systems for presenting application modules on a graphical display page are provided. In accordance with one embodiment, content to be displayed on a graphical display page is determined. Then, content features which describe the content that is to be displayed on the graphical display page, and user features which describe characteristics of users are determined. For each application in the plurality of application modules, the probability that specific users will select the application module when displayed on the graphical display page with the determined content is determined based on the content features and the user features. For each application module in the plurality of application modules, an overall score is determined based on the determined probability that the user will select the application module and a commercial value to be paid by a publisher of the application module when it is selected. The recommended application modules are determined to be those application modules in the plurality of application modules which have the highest overall score and which satisfy a set of constraints. Representations of the recommended application modules are displayed on the graphical display page. | 08-18-2011 |
20110214044 | Methods and Arrangements Relating to Signal Rich Art - Art is infused with network identifiers at the time of its creation, rather than as a post-process. The identifiers may be encoded as overt elements of the art, and enable the artist to reprogram—over time—an augmentation of the artwork experience via network-delivered components. These network components can include stimuli present when the artist created the work (e.g., music), commentary by the artist, video and augmented reality features, audience-crowdsourced content (e.g., imagery of, or feedback provided by, other viewers encountering the artwork), etc. The artwork augmentation can vary with the user's context (e.g., location, demographics, interests, history). Physical brushes can be equipped to insert such identifiers in graphic arts; other authoring tools are disclosed as well. The network experience can be delivered via smartphones, projectors, and other devices. A great number of other features and arrangements are also detailed. | 09-01-2011 |
20110252296 | SYSTEM AND TECHNIQUE FOR EDITING AND CLASSIFYING DOCUMENTS - Embodiments of a computer system which determines information associated with documents are described. During operation, this computer system receives documents (such as images). Then, the computer system determines a first set of editing instructions and classification information associated with the documents using data-processing software. Next, the computer system receives a second set of editing instructions and classification information associated with the documents. Note that the second set of editing instructions and classification information are generated by a group of individuals and include modifications and additions to the first set of editing instructions and classification information. | 10-13-2011 |
20110258523 | ELECTRONIC READING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR FLIPPING THROUGH DISPLAYED FILES - An electronic reading apparatus includes a display unit, and a processing unit. The processing unit is configured to selectively control the electronic reading apparatus to enter a single page mode in which a single page interface is displayed on the display unit. Also enter a multipage mode in which a multipage interface is displayed on the display unit according to user inputs, and to display a page corresponding to a marked page icon in the single page mode when a confirm signal is received from an input unit, the single page interface displaying a set of page icons, each of the page icons corresponding to a page of a file. The multipage interface displaying a set of folder icons, each of the folder icons corresponding to a particular number of continuous pages of the file. A method for flipping through displayed files is also provided. | 10-20-2011 |
20110276863 | Providing Text Content Embedded with Multimedia Content - Text content embedded with multimedia content is provided from a content provider to a client device. The multimedia content may be provided to the client device separate from the text content. In particular, multimedia content metadata indicating a storage location of the multimedia content may be provided to the client device after the text content. The client device may request the multimedia content from the content provider based on the multimedia content metadata. The content provider may send the requested multimedia content to the client device after receiving an authenticated version of the multimedia content metadata. | 11-10-2011 |
20110302482 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPROVED INFORMATION TRANSACTIONS - Methods and systems for analyzing an image, such as a newspaper or magazine pager or the like including text by mapping the image to determine regions of text and analyzing portions of the image in accordance with characteristics of selected regions of the text to develop a desired ordering of at least the selected regions in accordance with a textual relationship between the selected regions. The desired order may be related to the order in which the selected regions, and or words therein, are to be presented in a different format appropriate for a specific use, such by a human reader, for transferring the text over a network, for use in a database or by a search function, word processor or printer. Normalizing, columnizing, regionalizing, frameset building and article tracing functions may be used to develop the desired order in related regions in an article within the image. | 12-08-2011 |
20120060078 | APPLICATION-SPECIFIC PERSONALIZATION FOR DATA DISPLAY - A method of optimizing a set of elements on a device display. The method includes positioning the set of elements on the device display, where the set of elements includes a first set of spatial indicia, and the device display further includes a first set of device characteristics. The method also includes generating a first set of workspace configuration indicia based, in part, on the first set of spatial indicia and the first set of device characteristics; and, if desired, re-positioning the set of elements on the device display, where the set of elements includes a second set of spatial indicia, and wherein the device display further includes a second set of device characteristics. The method further includes generating a second set of workspace configuration indicia based in part, on the second set of spatial indicia and the second set of device characteristics; wherein if the device display comprises the first set of device characteristics, positioning the set of elements according to the first set of workspace configuration indicia; else if, the display comprises the second set of device characteristics, positioning the set of elements according to the second set of workspace configuration indicia; else, positioning the set of elements according to a set of default workspace configuration indicia. | 03-08-2012 |
20120072814 | POINT OF NEED ACCESS TO AN ELECTRONIC MAINTENANCE MANUAL UTILIZING CURRENT MACHINE STATUS - A method and system for providing point of need diagnostic information in an electronic service manual. A rendering device can be configured to transmit machine diagnostics related reports to a computer. The diagnostics are then integrated into an electronic service manual. In this way a reference can be created which includes point of need diagnostic information related to the machine, thereby increasing the productivity of user time spent on maintenance activities associated with the machine. | 03-22-2012 |
20120117449 | Creating and Modifying an Image Wiki Page - An ImageWiki architecture is used to generate an image-based web page for an image on the Web. An ImageWiki page may be created automatically or individually, by a user of the Web. Additionally, a user may revise existing ImageWiki pages to update a particular page or correct an incorrect or misleading previous entry. The ImageWiki application indexes images located on the Web. Once the images are indexed, the information related to the images is mined and extracted from various sources of web data. Finally, an ImageWiki page or web page is generated for each image. The resulting ImageWiki page contains the image as well as the aggregated information relating to the image. | 05-10-2012 |
20120131427 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR READING MULTIFUNCTIONAL ELECTRONIC BOOKS ON PORTABLE READERS - A platform agnostic digital publication format that supports rendered and resizable text, illustrations and graphics, “read to me” features and interactive functionality. The format takes advantage of the alternate renditions feature of the OCF of the EPUB® specification and includes both a ShockWave Flash (SWF) based rendition and a HyperText Markup Language (HTML), Java Script (JS), Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) based implementation. In order to avoid duplicating large components (graphics, audio, etc.), files containing those components are not embedded in the SWF files, but are rather externally referenced by both the SWF and the HTML files. A strict and consistent folder structure and file-naming convention improves efficiency and reduces the potential for error. | 05-24-2012 |
20120151308 | PRE-RENDERING WEB CONTENT - A method and computer program product for pre-rendering web content is described. A method may comprise receiving, via a computing device, an implicit indication of a request for web content associated with a web element. The method may further comprise pre-rendering the web content associated with the web element based upon, at least in part, the implicit indication of the request for the web content. | 06-14-2012 |
20120204086 | E-READER WITH DYNAMIC CONTENT AND READER TRACKING CAPABILITY - A system and method for enhancing the reading experience of an e-book is disclosed. The system comprises an application program configured for installation to an electronic device, a plurality of markup tags to indicate triggering events stored in the e-book, and a processing engine adaptable to read the plurality of markup tags. The system is adaptable to create at least one page of the e-book dynamically and to compile the at least one page at run-time. The processing engine records the progress of the user through the e-book and collects statistical information used to calculate the user's reading rate. The triggering events are timed to occur based on the reading rate such that the triggering events execute approximately at the moment the user reads tagged content. The system and method enable a publisher to quickly, easily, and inexpensively enhance a user's experience of an e-book. The process of adding markup tags to an existing e-book allows a publisher to add additional content to an e-book without expensive and time-consuming processes, and without reformatting the entire e-book. | 08-09-2012 |
20120266056 | INTERACTIVE ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT - A method for providing an electronic document to a user in which the electronic document has one or more pages and one or more content placeholders associated with the pages. The method includes the steps of: providing content for insertion into the electronic document, inserting content into one or more content placeholders in response to a request by the user, and displaying the one or more pages of the electronic document with the content inserted in the one or more content placeholders. | 10-18-2012 |
20120284591 | SYSTEMS AND METHOD FOR ELECTRONIC SIGNATURE DOCUMENT IDENTIFICATION AND CERTIFICATION - Systems and methods for electronic document electronic document identification and signing are provided. Certain embodiments of the present invention provide for a virtual signature tool to create a unique, verifiable, electronic signature (SigCode) for signing documents using a mobile device of an individual. In some embodiments, document identifiers (e.g., QR codes) can be used to identify and retrieve documents for digital signing. For example, upon scanning other document identifier, an electronic version of the document (e.g., a waiver) can be retrieved from a server. The electronic document can be displayed on the user's mobile device (e.g., through a webpage). Then, the user can review the electronic document, fill in any required information, and sign the document with an electronic signature generated by the electronic signature tool. | 11-08-2012 |
20120284592 | Recognition System - According to various embodiments, a user may pursue defined achievements through reading books. As the user accomplishes the achievements, the user may receive mementos that can serve as a tangible indicator of what the user has accomplished. The mementos may be visible to others on a website, such as a social networking website. | 11-08-2012 |
20120284593 | Smartphone-Based Methods and Systems - Arrangements involving portable devices (e.g., smartphones and tablet computers) are disclosed. One arrangement enables a content creator to select software with which that creator's content should be rendered—assuring continuity between artistic intention and delivery. Another utilizes a device camera to identify nearby subjects, and take actions based thereon. Others rely on near field chip (RFID) identification of objects, or on identification of audio streams (e.g., music, voice). Some technologies concern improvements to the user interfaces associated with such devices. Others involve use of these devices in connection with shopping, text entry, sign language interpretation, and vision-based discovery. Still other improvements are architectural in nature, e.g., relating to evidence-based state machines, and blackboard systems. Yet other technologies concern use of linked data in portable devices—some of which exploit GPU capabilities. Still other technologies concern computational photography. A great variety of other features and arrangements are also detailed. | 11-08-2012 |
20120297277 | Document Enhancement System and Method - A system, apparatus and method for enhancing documents, including using a graphical capture device, are described herein. | 11-22-2012 |
20120304042 | PARALLEL AUTOMATED DOCUMENT COMPOSITION - Systems and methods of parallel automated document composition are disclosed. In an example, a method comprises determining composition scores Φ | 11-29-2012 |
20120324323 | ENHANCED CAPTURE, MANAGEMENT AND DISTRIBUTION OF LIVE PRESENTATIONS - Techniques are provided for converting live presentations into electronic media and managing captured media assets for distribution. An exemplary system includes capture devices that capture media assets of live presentations comprising a session, including image data of sequentially presented visual aids accompanying the live presentations and audio data. Each capture device has an interface for real-time image data marking of the image data for identification of individual images and session marking of the image data for demarcation of individual presentations of the session. A centralized device processes the captured media assets and automatically divides the captured media assets into discrete files associated with the individual presentations based on the session markings. An administrative tool manages the processed media assets to produce modified presentations and enables modification of the visual aid images identified by the image data markings. A production device formats the modified presentations for distribution on distribution media. | 12-20-2012 |
20120331371 | System and Method for Yearbook Creation - A yearbook system may include a server having computer-implemented instructions stored thereon and the instructions may include a user component through which a yearbook staff user may design and create a yearbook and may also include an image share component in communication with the user component and accessible by yearbook staff users and non-yearbook staff users, where the image share component may be configured for receiving and displaying photo data. | 12-27-2012 |
20130013986 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING SERVICES CAPABLE OF PASTING DOCUMENT STORED ON A CLOUD-BASED CROSS-CLIPBOARD - Provided is a cloud-based document link system and a method that uses a processor to provide a method for providing a service configured to paste a document stored on a cross-clipboard. The cloud-based document link system includes a storage unit configured to store, on a cross-clipboard, at least one first document associated with a first service provided through a first device, an identification unit configured to identify at least one second service linkable with each first document based on whether the at least one second service is configured to paste the at least one first document stored on the cross-clipboard, and a providing unit configured to provide a list of each second service if the cross-clipboard is accessed through a second device. | 01-10-2013 |
20130013987 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LINKING WEB DOCUMENTS - Provided is a cloud-based document link system and a method that uses a processor to provide a method for connecting a document between services. The cloud-based document link system includes a storage unit configured to store, on a cross-clipboard, at least one first document associated with a first service provided through a first device, an identification unit configured to identify at least one second service linkable with each first document, and a providing unit configured to provide a list of each second service in response to an access of the cross-clipboard through a second device, and to provide the second device with a second document associated with the at least one second service in response to a selection of the at least one second service. | 01-10-2013 |
20130013988 | DOCUMENT RETRIEVING APPARATUS, DOCUMENT RETRIEVING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A document retrieving apparatus includes a document retrieving unit adapted to retrieve document data which include images that match an input retrieval condition, a retrieval result list display unit adapted to display, on a display unit, a list display of document data that match the retrieval condition based on the retrieval results of the document retrieving unit, and a thumbnail display unit adapted to display, in the list display by the retrieval result list display unit, a first thumbnail image associated with a page or an image element which matches the retrieval condition, and a second thumbnail image associated with another page or another image element which forms the document data that includes the page or the image element which match the retrieval condition. | 01-10-2013 |
20130019146 | VIDEO ON A SEARCH ENGINE HOMEPAGEAANM CHAND; RAJEEV KUMARAACI RedmondAAST WAAACO USAAGP CHAND; RAJEEV KUMAR Redmond WA USAANM HORSTMANSHOF; STEPHANIE S.AACI ShorelineAAST WAAACO USAAGP HORSTMANSHOF; STEPHANIE S. Shoreline WA USAANM PEREIRA; MARCELA SOBRINHOAACI BellevueAAST WAAACO USAAGP PEREIRA; MARCELA SOBRINHO Bellevue WA USAANM BARBER; ROBERT JAMESAACI BellevueAAST WAAACO USAAGP BARBER; ROBERT JAMES Bellevue WA USAANM BERRIER; SARAH K.AACI ShorelineAAST WAAACO USAAGP BERRIER; SARAH K. Shoreline WA USAANM MILLER; CRAIG J.AACI Mill CreekAAST WAAACO USAAGP MILLER; CRAIG J. Mill Creek WA USAANM REGIER; KEITH ALANAACI KirklandAAST WAAACO USAAGP REGIER; KEITH ALAN Kirkland WA USAANM FLYNN; JAVIER GARCIAAACI SeattleAAST WAAACO USAAGP FLYNN; JAVIER GARCIA Seattle WA US - Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for presenting video as at least a portion of the background of search engine home pages are provided. Upon receiving a request for presentation of a search engine home page, a static image is transmitted for presentation as at least a portion of the background for the search engine home page. Also transmitted is a video file. The static image may or may not be associated with the video file. After a predetermined amount of time, play of the video file is initiated without user action, the video file replacing the static image as at least a portion of the background of the search engine home page. In this way, the user receives a seamless transition from a static image to a video presentation and is provided a rich, immersive experience at the search engine home page. | 01-17-2013 |
20130019147 | VIDEO USER INTERFACE ELEMENTS ON SEARCH ENGINE HOMEPAGES - Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media exposing video user interface elements associated with search engine homepages are provided. Upon receiving a request for presentation of a search engine homepage, a video file is transmitted for presentation as the background for the search engine homepage. The video file includes a plurality of sequentially-arranged frames, a portion of which contain the same content, making such portion appear as a static image upon play of the video file, and a portion of which contain content which differs, such that such portion has visually discernable movement upon play of the video file. After a predetermined amount of time, play of the video file is initiated. As only portions of the background content include visually discernable movement, a user's attention is attracted to such portions of the background. Upon user interaction with such portions, additional information about the background content may be presented. | 01-17-2013 |
20130024754 | Rich Web Page Generation - A system and method for generating a rich web page based at least in part on target data for third party content file is disclosed. The system comprises a targeting module and a graphic user interface module (“GUI module”). The targeting module determines the third party content file for the user generated content file based at least in part on social data describing a user activity. The targeting module retrieves the target data for the third party content file. The GUI module is communicatively coupled to the targeting module for receiving the retrieved target data from the targeting module. The GUI module generates a rich web page for the third party content file based at least in part on the retrieved target data. | 01-24-2013 |
20130024755 | NON-INTRUSIVE MEDIA LINKED AND EMBEDDED INFORMATION DELIVERY - A method for information delivery is disclosed. The method includes directing the display of a multimedia presentation in a first screen segment. The multimedia presentation is associated with a reference tag descriptive of an aspect thereof. An information link corresponding to the reference tag in a second screen segment is generated. The information link is contextually related to the multimedia presentation in accordance with the reference tag. Thereafter, a selection input of the information link is received from one of the viewers while mitigating obstruction of the displaying of the multimedia presentation. The selected information link and the identity of the viewer are associated as a marker. | 01-24-2013 |
20130055055 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR LAYOUT OF GRAPHIC OBJECTS FOR ELECTRONIC DISPLAY, PRINT OR OTHER OUTPUT - Systems and methods for layout of graphic objects such as photographic images and graphical elements, for electronic display, print or other output. In accordance with an embodiment, a graphic layout logic automatically arranges the graphic objects within a target area, including determining a best combination of rows and/or columns of objects. Optional controls can also be provided to allow manual or user control of, e.g., overlapping, cropping, offsetting, or rotation of the graphic objects or images, for aesthetic design or other reasons. Examples of the types of graphic objects that can be arranged or laid out in this manner include digital photographs, text, clipart, graphical images, illustrations, software user interfaces, graphic elements such as icons, buttons, menus and whitespace, user interface windows, digital video or media streams, and other image media. | 02-28-2013 |
20130067301 | ELECTRONIC FILE DISPLAY SYSTEM - A display device notifies a server device of identification information for specifying an electronic file to be displayed. The server device specifies the electronic file and page information based on the notified identification information to transmit the electronic file and the page information to the display device. The display device displays, as an initial screen, a specified page of the received electronic file based on the received electronic file and page information. | 03-14-2013 |
20130073932 | Interactive Content for Digital Books - This disclosure describes systems, methods, and computer program products for presenting interactive content for digital books. In some implementations, a graphical user interface (GUI) is presented that allows a user to view and interact with content embedded in a digital book. The interactive content can include, but is not limited to, text, image galleries, multimedia presentations, video, HTML, animated and static diagrams, charts, tables, visual dictionaries, review questions, three-dimensional (3D) animation and any other known media content. For example, various touch gestures can be used by the user to move through images and multimedia presentations, play video, answer review questions, manipulate three-dimensional objects, and interact with HTML. | 03-21-2013 |
20130097476 | CONTENT VIEWING APPARATUS, CONTENT DISTRIBUTION SERVER, OPERATION METHOD AND PROGRAM FOR CONTENT VIEWING APPARATUS - In the conventional technologies, although the placed comment is displayed according to time or position of the comment placement, the display cannot be executed by varying display form. For example, an entire comment placed for an entire scene of image content or for an entire page of electronic book content, and a partial comment placed for an object in the scene of the image content or a specific character string in the page of the electronic book content are similarly displayed without varying the display form. In order to solve the problems, we provide a content viewing apparatus, where it is determined that a comment placed for content is the entire comment or the partial comment, and if it is the entire comment, the comment is displayed by moving display, and if it is the partial comment, the comment is fixedly displayed in a predetermined area within the display. | 04-18-2013 |
20130104014 | VIEWER UNIT, SERVER UNIT, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, DIGITAL COMIC EDITING METHOD AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - A viewer unit, comprising a shift sequence determination device configured to determine a shift sequence in which display ranges corresponding to the screen size of the display device are shifted sequentially within the page image of the digital comic data, the shift sequence determination device determining the shift sequence to sequentially display the display ranges including the key region on the display device based on the collateral information of the digital comic data; and a display control device configured to sequentially extract the images of each display range from the page image in accordance with the shift sequence of the display ranges determined by the shift sequence determination device and displays the images on the display device. | 04-25-2013 |
20130111311 | METHOD FOR IMPLEMENTING P2P VIDEO COMMUNICATION ON WEBPAGE | 05-02-2013 |
20130111312 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF JAMMING SPECIFIED MEDIA CONTENT BY AGE CATEGORY | 05-02-2013 |
20130124951 | Content Aware Slideshows - A method, system, and computer-readable storage medium for performing content based transitions between images. Image content within each image of a set of images are analyzed to determine at least one respective characteristic metric for each image. A respective transition score for each pair of at least a subset of the images is determined with respect to each transition effect of a plurality of transition effects based on the at least one respective characteristic metric for each image. Transition effects implementing transitions between successive images for a sequence of the images are determined based on the transition scores. An indication of the determined transition effects is stored. The determined transition effects are useable to present the images in a slideshow or other image sequence presentation. | 05-16-2013 |
20130145240 | Customizable System for Storytelling - A system for creating customizable books or other applications is described, along with techniques and methods for implementing customizable features in the books or applications. | 06-06-2013 |
20130151934 | VIDEO DISPLAY METHOD - A method for video playback uses only resources universally supported by a browser (“inline playback”) operating in virtually all handheld media devices. In one case, the method first prepares a video sequence for display by a browser by (a) dividing the video sequence into a silent video stream and an audio stream; (b) extracting from the silent video stream a number of still images, the number of still images corresponding to at least one of a desired output frame rate and a desired output resolution; and (c) combining the still images into a composite image. In one embodiment, the composite image having a number of rows, with each row being formed by the still images created from a fixed duration of the silent video stream. Another method plays the still images of the composite image as a video sequence by (a) loading the composite image to be displayed through a viewport defined the size of one of the still images; (b) selecting one of the still images of the composite image; (c) setting the viewport to display the selected still image; and (d) setting a timer for a specified time period based on a frame rate, such that, upon expiration of the specified time period: (i) selecting a next one of the still images to be displayed in the viewport, unless all still images of the composite image have been selected; and (ii) return to step (c) if not all still images have been selected. | 06-13-2013 |
20130159822 | WEB-BASED SYSTEM FOR CAPTURING AND SHARING INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIAL FOR A SOFTWARE APPLICATION - A system and technique for capturing a workflow history and video of an electronic document are disclosed. Events generated by an application while modifying an electronic document are stored on a web server as metadata. In addition, a captured digital image or frames of captured digital video that reflect the state of the document at the time the event was generated are also stored on the web server. The metadata is associated with one or more portions of the document and with the captured digital image or frames of captured digital video. | 06-20-2013 |
20130185618 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MOBILE IMAGE CAPTURE AND PROCESSING - In various embodiments, methods, systems, and computer program products for processing digital images captured by a mobile device are disclosed. Myriad features enable and/or facilitate processing of such digital images using a mobile device that would otherwise be technically impossible or impractical, and furthermore address unique challenges presented by images captured using a camera rather than a traditional flat-bed scanner, paper-feed scanner or multifunction peripheral. | 07-18-2013 |
20130227382 | Method and system for extracting requirements from narratives - The invention provides for methods, devices and systems for extracting requirements from narratives, in particular to methods of using stories told individually to extract technical requirements. One method for extracting requirements from a narrative comprises gathering a plurality of sub-stories from stakeholders, combining the plurality of sub-stories into a narrative, extracting information components from the narrative, mapping the extracted information components to story elements, mapping the identified story elements to requirement artifacts, and building at least requirements document from the mapped requirement artifacts. | 08-29-2013 |
20130227383 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SEARCHING FOR RESOURCES OF E-BOOK - An apparatus and a method for searching for resources in an e-book are provided. The apparatus includes a memory having a resource-to-location mapping table in which information about resources of the e-book is mapped to location information that matches the resources of the e-book, and a controller for creating the resource-to-location mapping table and for controlling a search for a resource of the e-book that matches a location in the resource-to-location mapping table and a display of the detected resource of the e-book. | 08-29-2013 |
20130290818 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SWITCHING BETWEEN PRESENTATIONS OF TWO MEDIA ITEMS - An approach is provided for switching between presentations of two media items. A media platform determines a request to cause, at least in part, a switching of a presentation of a first media item to a second media item. The media platform processes and/or facilitates a processing of metadata associated with the first media item, the second media item, or a combination thereof to cause, at least in part, a synthesis of one or more transitions. The media platform causes, at least in part, a presentation of the one or more transitions during the switching. | 10-31-2013 |
20130290819 | LITERARY GENRE MAP AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF - A method of displaying an electronic book includes techniques for allowing a person to self-publish an electronic book by employing tones of the electronic book and displaying the book on a two-dimensional graphical book map in which the location of the book on the map is based on the identified tones and degrees of those tones. A genre map including various book genres and subgenres also are employed. A person desiring to find a book having desired tones/characteristics uses the genre map and then the displayed graphical book map. | 10-31-2013 |
20130332804 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR DATA ENTRY - Methods and devices for data entry are disclosed. An example method includes detecting contextual information for a mobile device, automatically selecting a data entry form template from a plurality of data entry form templates based on the contextual information, generating a data entry form instance of the selected data entry form template, entering data received via an input device of the mobile device into the instance of the data entry form, storing the instance of the data entry form including the data, and presenting a representation of the instance of the data entry form in an interface with a representation of at least one additional instance of a data entry form generated based on the data entry form template. | 12-12-2013 |
20130332805 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FACILITATING RENDERING OF ELECTRONIC BOOKS - The present application facilitates creation of electronic book files by defining and utilizing application programming interfaces to facilitate execution of scripts to facilitate display, execution, graphic icons, audio, and graphics, and any insertion of content into an electronic book format. | 12-12-2013 |
20140033003 | PROVISION OF ALTERNATIVE TEXT FOR USE IN ASSOCIATION WITH IMAGE DATA - A method, system and computer program product are provided for providing alternative text for use in association with image data specified by a uniform resource identifier (URI). The method includes identifying a URI specifying image data, processing the URI to identify data representing alternative text encoded within the URI, and extracting any identified alternative text data for use in association with the image data. | 01-30-2014 |
20140040710 | System for setting fees for iterative parsing, matching, and correlation of sets of text strings drawn from real time crowd-sourced streamed data and using said matches to initiate APIs or trigger alerts to participants in a crowd sourced pervasive computing environment. - A system for a user to use electronic devices to accept text input parameters to iteratively parse and process streams of data collected or converted from multiple data formats into text strings; correlating or matching said text strings against lists, tables, spreadsheets or datasets of text strings; posting and recording said text strings responsive to one or a plurality of correlations or matches with one or a plurality of items in said lists, tables, spreadsheets or datasets; posting and recording the number of parsing operations responsive to correlations or matches or user instructions upon discovery of matches or correlations of said strings of text against said one or a plurality of lists, tables, spreadsheets or datasets; and calculating a price or fee for matches or correlations discovered through said parsing process, or for other server events initiated by electronic devices responsive to said matches or correlations. | 02-06-2014 |
20140047308 | PROVIDING NOTE BASED ANNOTATION OF CONTENT IN E-READER - An e-reader application provides a note based annotation of content in an e-reader. A user action to annotate the content initiates a note pane to capture a note. The note includes variety of types including text, ink, snippet, audio recording, and photo. The note is captured in the note pane which is configured according to the note type. The note is stored in a platform-agnostic in a cloud storage. A local cache also maintains the note for offline usage. The note is anchored to the content using an anchor marker placed within proximity to a selection associated with the note in the content. | 02-13-2014 |
20140059411 | NOVEL COMPUTING SYSTEM - A computing system including a processor, display, pointing device and memory; wherein the memory includes a text file, a graphics file corresponding to said text file and executable instructions to perform at least these actions (i) identify a selection of an alphanumeric identifier within a displayed text file, and then (ii) identify the appearance of the identifier in a corresponding graphics file, and then (iii) display a page of the graphics file comprising the appearance of the identifier. | 02-27-2014 |
20140068399 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An information processing device includes an article acquisition unit that acquires articles indicated as data, a theme setting unit that sets a theme and an extraction condition of an article included in the theme, a selection unit that receives selection of the set theme by a user, an article extraction unit that extracts an article included in the set theme from the articles acquired by the article acquisition unit based on the extraction condition corresponding to the theme, a posting reception unit that receives posting of a comment corresponding to the article extracted by the article extraction unit from the user, a transmission unit that transmits the posted comment to the user selecting the theme including the article, and a condition update unit that updates the extraction condition of the article corresponding to the theme according to an amount of comment posted for each of the articles. | 03-06-2014 |
20140075273 | AUTOMATED COMPOSITION EVALUATOR - Systems and methods are provided for evaluating composition of a first file representing a document to be evaluated. An evaluation method transforms the first file to a second file. The second file includes a plurality of objects corresponding to the composition of the first file. The evaluation method also determines parameters based on the plurality of objects; evaluates the parameters based on a plurality of composition rules provided by a rule engine; generates evaluation findings and stores the evaluation findings; and generates an evaluation conclusion based on the evaluation findings. The evaluation conclusion indicates compliance of the document according to the composition rules. | 03-13-2014 |
20140075274 | Method for Publishing Composite Media Content and Publishing System to Perform the Method - A publishing system generates and provides webpage data to a client device via a network in response to a request from the client device for experiencing primary media content. The webpage data includes a primary media presentation interface to reproduce the primary media content, and a secondary media presentation interface to present secondary media content having a predefined correspondence with the primary media content. The secondary media presentation interface presents the secondary media content when a predefined time point is reached during reproduction of the primary media content. | 03-13-2014 |
20140095964 | MESSAGE LINKS - A system is described that includes a web link evaluation process for identifying a web link included in a message and selecting content from a website associated with the web link. The selected content may be presented to a user in a format that permits the user to consider whether the link may be safely clicked on. | 04-03-2014 |
20140101523 | DISPLAY SYSTEM WITH CONTENT PRESENTATION MECHANISM AND METHOD OF OPERATION THEREOF - A method of operation of a display system includes: providing a format; displaying content with the format configured to display on a display interface; receiving input based on the content displayed with the format on the display interface; and receiving input based on the content displayed with the format on the display interface. | 04-10-2014 |
20140108897 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DOCUMENT CONVERSION - Method and apparatus for converting a document from a fixed-layout format (e.g., Microsoft Office, Adobe PDF) into a non-fixed layout format (e.g., HTML) portable to different platforms (e.g., desktop computers, tablet computer, smart phones) operating different operating systems (e.g., Microsoft Windows, Apple OS X) and different web browsers (e.g., Microsoft Internet Explorer, Apple Safari, Mozilla FireFox). In one stream, fonts are identified, extracted, and processed to enhance compatibility with the portable format. In another stream, textual content is extracted and processed to enhance compatibility and images are taken of non-textual content. These images are used as backgrounds in the output document, over which the textual content is rendered in the appropriate fonts, with sizing, spacing, positioning and/or other characteristics matching or closely approximating that of the original document. Error detection is applied by comparing images of the original document to corresponding images of the output document, to ensure high fidelity. | 04-17-2014 |
20140143642 | SOUNDTRACK FOR ELECTRONIC TEXT - A soundtrack creation method and user playback system for soundtracks synchronized to electronic text. Synchronization is achieved by maintaining a reading speed variable indicative of the user's reading speed. The system provides for multiple channels of audio to enable concurrent playback of two or more partially or entirely overlapping audio regions so as to create an audio output having, for example, sound effects, ambience, music or other audio features that are triggered to playback at specific portions in the electronic text to enhance the reading experience. | 05-22-2014 |
20140164886 | MODIFICATION OF FILE GRAPHIC APPEARANCE WITHIN A COLLECTION CANVAS - A collection environment comprises a collection canvas. The collection canvas may have included therein written text and a file graphic associated with a media file. Responsive to an invocation of the media file, media controls with which to control a media mode associated with the media file are presented. Responsive to a modification to the media mode initiated through the media controls, an appearance of the file graphic is modified to reflect the modification to the media mode. | 06-12-2014 |
20140164887 | EMBEDDED CONTENT PRESENTATION - Among other things, one or more techniques and/or systems are provided for presenting embedded content portraying an entity and/or for maintaining a user profile based upon user exposure to one or more entities. That is, content, such as an image or video, may portray one or more entities (e.g., a product, location, business, etc.). To aid a user in identifying an entity and/or remembering the entity, entity information may be embedded into the content. The entity information may describe the entity and/or provide one or more actions that the user may take with regard to the entity (e.g., open a shopping application to view a hand bag entity). Personalized recommendations may be provided to a user based upon a user profile derived from exposure of the user to various entities (e.g., a vacation recommendation may be provided based upon vacation entities exposed to the user in a positive light). | 06-12-2014 |
20140164888 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATED DESTINATION MULTIMETRIC RATING AND SCORECARD - Systems and methods for destination rating and ranking for a multiplicity of business entities in a related geographic area using a virtual scorecard. | 06-12-2014 |
20140164889 | MOBILE DATA AND HANDWRITING SCREEN CAPTURE AND FORWARDING - The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates communicating data utilizing a portable device. An interface component can receive annotation data related to a display associated with a portable device. An annotation component can append a screen shot corresponding to the display with the annotated data to create an annotated screen shot. | 06-12-2014 |
20140173393 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR WEB PAGE MARKUP INCLUDING NOTES, SKETCHES, AND STAMPS - A method for marking web content. The method includes rendering first content on a web browser of a client device, and capturing a snapshot of the first content as rendered according to settings of the web browser. The method also includes receiving markup in association with the snapshot, and generating marked up content comprising the snapshot and the markup. The method also includes storing the marked up content for later access. | 06-19-2014 |
20140173394 | DISPLAY APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - When a reduction instruction is given to characters contained in a character region displayed in a wrapped-display mode, the display apparatus of the present invention determines whether or not the width of the reduction-instructed character region to which the reduction instruction has been made is equal to or less than the width of the screen. When the display apparatus determines that the width of the reduction-instructed character region is equal to or less than the width of the screen, the display apparatus controls to switch the wrapped-display mode to the partial region display mode. | 06-19-2014 |
20140195884 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY DETECTING AND INTERACTIVELY DISPLAYING INFORMATION ABOUT ENTITIES, ACTIVITIES, AND EVENTS FROM MULTIPLE-MODALITY NATURAL LANGUAGE SOURCES - A method for automatically extracting and organizing information by a processing device from a plurality of data sources is provided. A natural language processing information extraction pipeline that includes an automatic detection of entities is applied to the data sources. Information about detected entities is identified by analyzing products of the natural language processing pipeline. Identified information is grouped into equivalence classes containing equivalent information. At least one displayable representation of the equivalence classes is created. An order in which the at least one displayable representation is displayed is computed. A combined representation of the equivalence classes that respects the order in which the displayable representation is displayed is produced. | 07-10-2014 |
20140208191 | Grouping Fixed Format Document Elements to Preserve Graphical Data Semantics After Reflow - Determining relationships between graphical elements in a fixed format document is provided. Graphical element sizes and their relative positions may be analyzed to determine whether two or more graphical elements should be aggregated together or whether the graphical elements should belong to different graphical groups. Graphs and figures comprising objects that are absolutely positioned may be detected, as well as objects where inter-element positions need to be preserved from regular document flow. Additionally, background objects may be differentiated from regular text flow when the objects overlap with text. | 07-24-2014 |
20140223271 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF CREATING AN ANIMATED CONTENT ITEM - Systems and methods of creating animated content items via a computer network are provided. A data processing system can provide a content generation application to a computing device via the computer network. The content generation application can have at least one interface configured to prompt for a first frame and a second frame. The content generation application, executed by at least one of the data processing system or the computing device, can determine a characteristic of an object in the first frame and the characteristic of the object in the second frame. A difference between the characteristic of the object in the first frame and the characteristic of the object in the second frame can be further determined. Based on the difference, an animation instruction can be generated. An animated content item, using the animation instruction, can then be generated. | 08-07-2014 |
20140250354 | TERMINAL, FUNCTION STARTING-UP METHOD AND PROGRAM FOR TERMINAL - A terminal includes a display unit and a character conversion unit that recognizes a function related to entered characters in a character acceptable state, converts the entered characters to a symbol to be displayed on the display unit for starting the recognized function, and outputs the symbol. The terminal further includes a control unit that starts the function corresponding to the symbol displayed on the display unit. | 09-04-2014 |
20140258816 | METHODOLOGY TO DYNAMICALLY REARRANGE WEB CONTENT FOR CONSUMER DEVICES - Systems and methods are provided that convert or transform web-based content and pages and dynamically rearrange such content in pages in such a way that the presentation is native or highly convenient to customers already familiar and conditioned to use embedded, network-enabled devices such as IPTVs, media players such as Blu-ray® players, game consoles such as the PS3® game console, network boxes, and the like. Users can employ various user input devices to navigate webpages just as they would other content on the network-enabled device. The user input device may vary, but may include remote controls, second displays, mobile phones, laptop computers, devices for the disabled, and so on. | 09-11-2014 |
20140289593 | Apparatus & Method for Reviewing a Written Work Using an Electronic Display - An apparatus and method for displaying a written work on an electronic display including using the electronic display to select a written work from a database; presenting the written work on a first screen of the electronic display in a three dimensional view; and using the electronic display to turn at least one page of the written work. | 09-25-2014 |
20140304576 | Prioritizing Asset Loading In Multimedia Application - Exemplary embodiments involve an application receiving an instruction to load assets, determining a priority of each of the assets, and loading at least some of the assets based on the priority. In one embodiment, the application prioritizes the loading of assets based on the accessibility of the views in which the assets are used and the resource requirements for loading the assets. In another embodiment, the application prioritizes the loading of assets based on determining a location at which each asset is stored. In another embodiment, the application prioritizes the loading of assets based on an attribute associated with rendering each of the assets for display. In another embodiment, the application prioritizes the loading of assets on which of the assets are used in one or more related views associated with the currently displayed view. | 10-09-2014 |
20140304577 | Packaging, Distributing, Presenting, and Using Multi-Asset Electronic Content - One exemplary embodiment involves receiving, at a computer device, packaged content, wherein the packaged content comprises a manifest and assets. The exemplary method further comprises presenting, via a processor of the computer device, the packaged content in a content consumption environment based at least in part upon the manifest, wherein the manifest identifies stacks, each stack comprising one or more of the assets that are logically related to one another, wherein navigation amongst and within the stacks is specified by the manifest. | 10-09-2014 |
20140325323 | ONLINE VIDEO PLAYING METHOD AND APPARATUS AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - The disclosure relates to mobile terminal technology field, and in particular, to an online video playing method, apparatus and computer-readable medium, the method comprising in response to detecting an access instruction to a video link on a webpage, scanning codes of the webpage; determining whether the codes of the webpage include a browser playing function, which is configured to generate a playing window with a predefined size in a browser to play the video; in response to the codes of the webpage include the browser playing function, acquiring a video content corresponding to the video link from a server indicated by the video link; invoking the browser playing function, generating the playing window with the predefined size in the browser, and playing the video content in the playing window with the predefined size. | 10-30-2014 |
20140372841 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRESENTING A SERIES OF VIDEOS IN RESPONSE TO A SELECTION OF A PICTURE - Methods and apparatuses for displaying a sequence including an image and a video in a web browser are provided. More particularly, systems and methods to present a series of videos in response to a selection of a picture made by a user are provided. A user may select view a first image and select a thumbnail of a second image. One or more videos corresponding to a path existing between a node associated with the first image and a node associated with the second image may then be presented to the user. Following the last video, the second image may then be displayed to the user. | 12-18-2014 |
20150019940 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR THE CREATION OF LANGUAGE-LED, COLLABORATIVE MULTIMEDIA DOCUMENTS - A system and related method are disclosed for the creation of language-led collaborative multimedia documents. The method includes receiving a first user's identification of at least one term, receiving an instruction from the first user or a second user linking that at least one term to an exhibit, and displaying the term to other users with a representation of the exhibit that, when selected, causes the exhibit to display. The first user can control who is invited to link an exhibit to a given term, and who can see which portions of a completed document, or exhibits attendant thereto. | 01-15-2015 |
20150067456 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - Provided is an image display apparatus that displays a page image including a plurality of objects on a screen, determines an amount of movement of the end of the object to be displayed from the end of the screen by detecting a user operation on a touch panel, and sets the end position of the object based on the determined amount of movement when the object to be displayed is larger than the screen. | 03-05-2015 |
20150067457 | CREATING ACCESSIBLE, TRANSLATABLE MULTIMEDIA PRESENTATIONS - The present invention provides a computer implemented method for generating translatable and accessible multimedia presentations. The method can include transforming a presentation master file defining a multimedia presentation into each of a text file and a variables file, generating a plurality of slides for a slide show with text strings from the text file and imagery and audiovisual elements from the variables file, and launching the slide show. Transforming a presentation master file into each of a text file and a variables file can include additionally transforming the presentation master file into a visual markup language document emulating the multimedia presentation. As such, in an aspect of the embodiment, the method further can include detecting an assistive technology, and rendering the visual markup language document in lieu of the slide show. | 03-05-2015 |
20150067458 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND APPARATUS FOR DOCUMENTING THE CONDITION OF TANGIBLE PROPERTY - The embodiments disclosed herein include systems, methods, and apparatuses for documenting the condition of tangible property. In preferred embodiments, a method for documenting conditions of tangible property with a client device include capturing, by the client device, image data, wherein the image data includes image data of the property, generating annotation data based on a determined feature of the image, and associating the annotation data with a region of the image data, wherein the region of the image data includes the determined feature of the property. The method may also include capturing, by the client device, additional image data, wherein at least a portion of the annotation data is displayed by the client device when capturing the additional image data and generating documenting data based on the image data, the annotation data, and the additional image data, wherein the documenting data documents a first condition of the property. | 03-05-2015 |
20150074502 | MULTI-DIRECTIONAL AND VARIABLE SPEED NAVIGATION OF COLLAGE MULTI-MEDIA - In accordance with one or more embodiments of the present disclosure, methods and apparatus are provided for flexible and user-friendly navigation of loaded media in a multi-media presentation, such that a user may be able to view and/or edit the presentation. In one embodiment, a method for navigating loaded media comprises loading a page of a collage document to a client device, the page having a plurality of layers with each layer being associated with a media object. The method further includes creating a list of layers of the loaded page, each layer indexed by at least a position in the collage document; navigating the collage document in at least one direction and at at least one speed based on user input; and filtering the list of layers based on at least the position in the collage document and a visual window of a user interface to display visible layers of the page within the visual window. A client device for navigating loaded media is also disclosed. | 03-12-2015 |
20150095749 | Visual Representation of a Character Identity and a Location Identity - A method comprising determining that, at least a part of, content of a section of a document is being displayed, determining at least one character identity, determining at least one location identity indicated by the section, and determining at least one visual representation of the location identity such that the visual representation of the location identity comprises a visual representation of the character identity that indicates a relationship between the character identity and the location identity is disclosed. | 04-02-2015 |
20150100866 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus includes a memory, a display, a transmission unit, a reception unit, and a display operation unit. The memory stores data including an identifier of another apparatus or an identifier of a user of the other apparatus. The display displays an image based on the data. The transmission unit transmits, in a case where the data is specified as a display target, information related to a display operation to be performed on the data to the other apparatus identified by the identifier of the other apparatus or by the identifier of the user of the other apparatus. The reception unit receives, from the other apparatus, an operation command corresponding to a display operation to be performed on the data. The display operation unit operates the displayed image based on the data, in accordance with the received operation command. | 04-09-2015 |
20150121177 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE, METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - According to one embodiment, an electronic device includes a receiver configured to receive data of an electronic book, and a display controller configured to display a slider, and to display a designated page in response to a designation by the slider. The display controller is configured to display a first thumbnail in accordance with a first position corresponding to the first page, the first thumbnail including at least one of a part of first information, relating to the first page, included in a page of a table of contents and second information of an illustration of the first page or a page close to the first page. | 04-30-2015 |
20150121178 | AUDIO CONTENT EDITOR FOR JAMMING RESTRICTED CONTENT - In one exemplary embodiment, a Computer-implemented method includes receiving a web page with a web browser in a computing device. A jamming trigger term is received from a database stored in the computing device. A targeted age group is also received. The jamming trigger term is located in the web page. An instruction is provided to an audio system of the Computing device to play a sound wave at a frequency. The frequency is audible by the targeted age group but not an older age group according to a frequency audibility table. A web scrapping operation can be performed on the web page after the web page is downloaded by the web browser. The targeted age group can be persons eighteen years of age and younger and wherein the frequency comprises a twenty kilo-hertz value (20 kHz). | 04-30-2015 |
20150302108 | COMPILATION OF ENCAPSULATED CONTENT FROM DISPARATE SOURCES OF CONTENT - Embodiments relate generally to electrical and electronic hardware, computer software, wired and wireless network communications, and media devices or wearable/mobile computing devices configured to facilitate presentation of content in a summarized form. More specifically, disclosed are systems, devices and methods to encapsulate or summarize a pool of content, such as music or audio tracks, in digest form. In some embodiments, a method may include identifying a pool of content as a function of a subset of parameters, selecting a subset of content from the pool based on one or more of the parameters to compile data representing encapsulated content, and forming data representing a digest of the pool of content including the compiled encapsulated content. Further, the method may include presenting the data representing the digest of the pool of content. | 10-22-2015 |
20150309680 | ELECTRONIC-BOOK DISPLAY PROCESSING PROGRAM AND ELECTRONIC-BOOK SYSTEM - To provide an electronic-book display processing program for displaying a passage of an electronic book which has the same content as a paper book on a display portion of a terminal device based on electronic book data including reflowable document data, which allows a computer to execute a passage specifying function which extracts part of the electronic book data including data corresponding to a passage written in a page of the paper book corresponding to a page number based on the page number of the paper book designated by the user through an operating portion of the terminal device, a page-number specifying function which specifies a page number of a page of the paper book in which at least part of display information is written from the electronic book data based on the display information of the electronic book displayed on the display portion. | 10-29-2015 |
20150355795 | CONTINUOUS READING OF ARTICLES - A content list panel displays a list of article representations. In response to a selection of an article representation from the content list panel, the content application loads an article associated with the selected article representation in addition to one or more second articles. By preloading the second articles, the user can continuously read through different articles in the main window of the content application without having to select an article representation from the content list panel. | 12-10-2015 |
20150370756 | PORTABLE DATAPORT DEVICE AND METHOD FOR RETRIEVING, INTERRELATING, ANNOTATING AND MANAGING ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTS AT A POINT OF NEED - Method and device for using a portable dataport for electronic document retrieving, annotating, inter-relating, and managing, comprising a view manager having an at least one-dimensional grid. The view manager and grid provide document inter-relation and management in a user friendly fashion. The view manager is electronically linked to an electronic document storage device to retrieve, inter-relate, annotate and manage the documents. | 12-24-2015 |
20160004781 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO IDENTIFY SPONSORED MEDIA IN A DOCUMENT OBJECT MODEL - Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to identify sponsored media in a Document Object Model. An example method includes in response to determining that a first node is not a candidate node, determining, via a processor, whether a child node of the first node is the candidate node based on determining that the child node has a characteristic common to sponsored media nodes, identifying, via the processor, the candidate node as sponsored media when dimensions of the candidate node match dimensions of replacement media, and modifying the document to cause the replacement media to be presented in place of the sponsored media during presentation of the document. | 01-07-2016 |
20160019186 | ENERGY AND EFFORT EFFICIENT READING SESSIONS - Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method, computer program product, and system for presenting text and figures on a display screen. Formatting, by a computer, text in a document into a single display line, scrolling the single display line on a first portion of the display screen, wherein the display screen remains active, and displaying, on a second portion of the display screen, figures in the document referenced by the scrolled text in the single display line on the display screen. | 01-21-2016 |
20160042088 | SERVER INFRASTRUCTURE FOR DIGITAL PLAQUE DISPLAYING CERTIFICATES, UPDATES AND STATUS - A digital plaque displays one of several stored certificates and can also retrieve updates to a displayed certificate when needed. The digital plaque is used to display a certificate and associated information. Typically the certificate displayed is one of an award, a recognition, a score card, a picture, a transcript, a document, a sales deed, a ticket, a poster, a document cover, a book cover, a patent application, a granted patent and a graduation record. A collection of such certificates is stored in memory and displayed when selected by a user. Status information and supporting documents associated with the selected certificate is automatically retrieved from a remote server and portions of the retrieved information is also displayed. | 02-11-2016 |
20160055251 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMPENDING BLOGS - The present disclosure provides a system and method for preparing compended blogs, In at least one embodiment, a method of posting blog content to a compended blog comprises establishing a compended blog having a selected keyword, obtaining a blog content, processing the blog content to identify at least one blog content keyword contained within the blog content, comparing the identified blog content keyword to the selected keyword to determine whether a match exists based upon at least one predetermined criterion, and posting the blog content the compended blog if the comparison reveals a match based upon meeting or exceeding the predetermined criterion | 02-25-2016 |
20160055258 | COMMON DECLARATION REPRESENTATION OF APPLICATION CONTENT AND USER INTERACTION CONTENT PROCESSED BY A USER EXPERIENCE PLAYER - A method for providing application content including obtaining, by a declarative content engine executing on a computer processor, an initial application content from a content repository and expressing the initial application content in a declarative programming language to obtain declarative content and transmitting the declarative content to a user experience player (UXP). The UXP processes the declarative content to obtain the initial application content, binds the initial application content to first platform-specific templates and first platform-specific navigation patterns, and renders the initial application content in a first platform-specific user display format. Additionally, the method includes receiving a user action from the UXP in response to the transmission of the declarative content, storing the user action associated with the declarative content in a user data instance repository, determining, using an interaction module and the received user action, a next application content, and obtaining the next application content from the content repository. | 02-25-2016 |
20160063004 | EMOTIONALLY RELEVANT CONTENT - Users may engage with content that may invoke various emotions. For example, a user may find an image as inspirational, a social network post as funny, etc. Accordingly, content may be labeled with user emotion labels, specified by users that engaged with the content, to create labeled content (e.g., the image may be labeled as inspirational). Emotional transition triggers may be defined for users (e.g., 30 minutes of a user writing a school report using a word processing application). Responsive to a triggering of an emotional transition trigger, labeled content may be provided to a user (e.g., the image may be provided to the user as an inspirational break from writing the school report). In this way, content may be labeled based upon emotions that the content invokes in users, and such labeled content may be provided to users in a contextually relevant manner (e.g., a study break). | 03-03-2016 |
20160078010 | Device And Method For Presenting Pictures - Disclosed are a device and method for presenting pictures in a page. The device comprising :a block divider configured to divide a page into a plurality of blocks; a block registrar configured to register each block and to register pictures required to be presented with a delay in each block; a picture renderer configured to download unregistered pictures in said page by a browser; a block presenting determiner configured to determine whether or not to present said registered blocks, if yes, to download the registered pictures required to be presented with a delay in said registered blocks by the browser by said picture renderer; and a picture presenter configured to present pictures which are downloaded and are located in a current window of the browser. Since the browser might allocate network resources to download pictures required to be presented, the network resources can be used reasonably, and a loading speed of the page can be improved. | 03-17-2016 |
20160085878 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - A mobile terminal and a method for controlling the same are disclosed. The mobile terminal according to the present invention includes a touchscreen configured to display an execution screen of an application, and a controller configured to respectively display, on the execution screen, a mark corresponding to a page displayed on the execution screen and a mark corresponding to a page changed from the page and, upon reception of input for selecting one of the displayed marks, to display a page corresponding to a selected mark on the execution screen. According to the present invention, a mark corresponding to a page displayed on an application execution screen is displayed to allow a specific page to be easily accessed. | 03-24-2016 |
20160092051 | MULTI-PAGE VIEWING WITH CHAPTER AND PAGE SCROLLING - A processor selectively operates in one of multiple operational modes, including a page mode to singularly display pages of the e-book in a content region of the display screen, and a multi-page mode to display at least portions of a set of multiple pages of the e-book at one time. When the processor operates in the multi-page mode, the processor responds to (i) receiving a page transition input by determining the current page based on the page transition input, and (ii) receiving a chapter transition input by determining the current page to be a page of a chapter that is determined based on the chapter transition input. In response to determining the current page, the processor displays at least portions of the set of multiple pages, including the current page and portions of one or more of a previous page or next page. | 03-31-2016 |
20160092403 | Chart Labeling System - A method and apparatus for graphically displaying data is presented. A computer system selects a section from a group of sections in a circular chart for the data that is to be graphically displayed on a display system. The computer system identifies a largest size for a polygon that will fit in the section of the circular chart. The computer system also identifies text for the section. Further, the computer system displays the circular chart with the text in the section on a display system when the text fits within the polygon in the section. Graphically displaying the data with the text in the circular chart enables a desired level of comprehension of the data. | 03-31-2016 |
20160103926 | CARD BASED PACKAGE FOR DISTRIBUTING ELECTRONIC MEDIA AND SERVICES - A variety of data structures, components, runtime viewers and methods are described for defining, delivering and rendering wrapped packages of cards in a manner that is particularly well suited, but not limited to, display on mobile devices. Each card may selectively include media content, and a palette of application functionality and/or supporting e-commerce related services. The cards of the wrap packages are ideally threaded together into one or more linear sequences, and authored to convey a book-like narrative that unfolds as the cards are sequentially browsed. In addition, the wrap packages are portable objects that are readily distributed, similar to other electronic messages, through e-mail, messaging, social-media, or via a variety of other electronic communication platforms. As a result, wrap packages are consumable, sharable and savable objects. | 04-14-2016 |
20160140145 | Extracting information from PDF Documents using Black-Box Image Processing - An approach is provided in which identifying a plurality of sections included in a Portable Document Format (PDF) file with each section being at a unique set of coordinate positions. At least one of the sections is identified as being a graphic image. The graphic image section is converted to a meaningful textual representations using a conversion process. An output document is then generated that includes the meaningful textual representation. | 05-19-2016 |
20160147395 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SERIES-BASED DIGITAL READING CONTENT QUEUE AND INTERFACE - A method and system for implementing a series-based digital reading content queue and interface is provided. The method searches books in an e-library for series information; sorts books with related series information into a predefined order; develops a series overview icon to represent the books with related series information, for presentation on a series page; and automatically providing access to all available books with related series information when the series overview icon is selected. | 05-26-2016 |
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20160378730 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR APPLYING A RESIDUAL ERROR IMAGE - Systems and methods described herein enable a residual error image to be added and rendered in an existing HTML canvas using native primitives. A current image and a residual error image containing pixel value differences between the current image and an updated image are received. A positive residual error image and a negative error image are generated from the residual error image. The positive residual error image is added to the current image to generate a partially updated image, and the partially updated image is xored to generate an inverse image. The negative residual error image is added to the inverse image to generate an updated inverse image, and xoring the inverse image to revert the inverse image to generate the updated image. | 12-29-2016 |
20160378735 | METAMORPHIC DOCUMENTS - A facility for presenting document contents is described. The facility receives input denoting selection of one of a plurality of visualization forms. The facility renders the document contents in accordance with the visualization form whose selection is denoted by the received input, and causes the rendered document contents to be displayed. | 12-29-2016 |
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20220138157 | DISTRIBUTED MEASUREMENT SYSTEM FOR SCANNING PROJECTS - A system and method for providing a distributed measurement system. The system performs operations that include receiving, via a user interface of a user device, a request from a requestor to access a data file of a project. The project includes a plurality of data files including the data file, and at least one of the one or more data files is generated based at least in part on measurement data output from a measurement device. Based on determining that the requestor has permission to access the data file, one or more editing options are provided for editing the data file. The one or more editing options vary based at least in part on one or both of a characteristic of the user device and a characteristic of the data file. The data file is edited in response to receiving an editing request. | 05-05-2022 |