Real-time text layout conversion control and management on a mobile electronic device

• US 10,127,198 B2
• Filed: 05/26/2016
• Issued: 11/13/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 05/26/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Hwang, Inseok, Liu, Su, Rozner, Eric J., Sze, Chin Ngai
• Primary Examiner(s): Baderman, Scott
• Assistant Examiner(s): Velez-Lopez, Mario M
• Application Number:
  US15/165,561
• Publication Number:
  US 20170344516A1
• Time in Patent Office: 901 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1694 the I/O peripheral being a single or a set of motion sensors for pointer control or gesture input obtained by sensing movements of the portable computer
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2200/1614 Image rotation following screen orientation, e.g. switching from landscape to portrait mode
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/017 Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/106 Display of layout of documents; Previewing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/129 Handling non-Latin characters, e.g. kana-to-kanji conversion
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/151 Transformation

Abstract

Various embodiments for real-time text layout conversion control on a mobile electronic device, by a processor device, are provided. On a mobile electronic device having a touch-screen display, a set of text layout conversion control patterns are defined and associated with at least one text layout input control signal, for text layout conversion management. Upon detection of the at least one text layout input control signal, a text layout is dynamically converted and re-rendered for presentation on the touch-screen display.

Claims

1. A method for real-time text layout conversion control on a mobile electronic device, by a processor device, the method comprising:

on a mobile electronic device having a touch-screen display, defining a set of text layout conversion control patterns associated with at least one text layout input control signal, for text layout conversion management;

upon detection of the at least one text layout input control signal, dynamically converting and re-rendering, in real-time commensurate with the detected at least one text layout input control signal, a text layout of received text through a social application executing on the mobile electronic device for presentation on the touch-screen display by a text layout re-renderer;

wherein the text layout re-renderer comprises an application including a switch layout engine to convert a related matrix of content data in a layout buffer, change and update a bidirectional text index of text data, and switch fonts associated with the text layout; and

in response to a recognition of at least one of a plurality of contextual attributes and upon receiving a message and prior to the message being displayed within the social application, performing the converting and re-rendering in real-time commensurate with the recognized at least one of the plurality of contextual attributes without requiring the at least one text layout input control signal;

wherein the at least one of the plurality of contextual attributes comprise each of a geo-location and a text content of the message received through the social application.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein dynamically converting and re-rendering the text layout comprises re-rendering text from a horizontal text layout to a vertical text layout.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one text layout input control signal comprises at least one predefined input control gesture by a user associated with the mobile electronic device.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the at least one predefined input control gesture further includes at least one of a directional gesture by an input source in contact with the touch-screen display and a directional shake gesture of the mobile electronic device.

5. The method of claim 1, further including detecting the at least one text layout input control signal by a conversion control recognition daemon, the conversion control recognition daemon passing the at least one text layout input control signal to a conversion agent.

6. The method of claim 5, further including receiving, by the conversion agent, the at least one text layout input control signal and searching the set of text layout conversion control patterns to match a corresponding text layout input control signal with a given defined text layout conversion control pattern.

7. The method of claim 6, further including using the matched corresponding text layout input control signal with the given defined text layout conversion control pattern to send, by the conversion agent, a specific text layout change command to the text layout re-renderer.

8. The method of claim 7, further including converting and re-rendering the text layout for presentation on the touch-screen display by redrawing the text layout based upon the specific text layout change command.

9. A system for real-time text layout conversion control on a mobile electronic device, the system comprising:

a mobile electronic device having a touch-screen display and at least one processor device, wherein the at least one processor device;

defines a set of text layout conversion control patterns associated with at least one text layout input control signal, for text layout conversion management,

upon detection of the at least one text layout input control signal, dynamically converts and re-renders, in real-time commensurate with the detected at least one text layout input control signal, a text layout of received text through a social application executing on the mobile electronic device for presentation on the touch-screen display by a text layout re-renderer;

wherein the text layout re-renderer comprises an application including a switch layout engine to convert a related matrix of content data in a layout buffer, change and update a bidirectional text index of text data, and switch fonts associated with the text layout, and

in response to a recognition of at least one of a plurality of contextual attributes and upon receiving a message and prior to the message being displayed within the social application, performs the converting and re-rendering in real-time commensurate with the recognized at least one of the plurality of contextual attributes without requiring the at least one text layout input control signal;

wherein the at least one of the plurality of contextual attributes comprise each of a geo-location and a text content of the message received through the social application.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein dynamically converting and re-rendering the text layout comprises re-rendering text from a horizontal text layout to a vertical text layout.

11. The system of claim 9, wherein the at least one text layout input control signal comprises at least one predefined input control gesture by a user associated with the mobile electronic device.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the at least one predefined input control gesture further includes at least one of a directional gesture by an input source in contact with the touch-screen display and a directional shake gesture of the mobile electronic device.

13. The system of claim 9, wherein the at least one processor device detects the at least one text layout input control signal by a conversion control recognition daemon, the conversion control recognition daemon passing the at least one text layout input control signal to a conversion agent.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the at least one processor device receives, by the conversion agent, the at least one text layout input control signal and searches the set of text layout conversion control patterns to match a corresponding text layout input control signal with a given defined text layout conversion control pattern.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the at least one processor device uses the matched corresponding text layout input control signal with the given defined text layout conversion control pattern to send, by the conversion agent, a specific text layout change command to the text layout re-renderer.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein the at least one processor device converts and re-renders the text layout for presentation on the touch-screen display by redrawing the text layout based upon the specific text layout change command.

17. A computer program product for real-time text layout conversion control on a mobile electronic device, by a processor device, the computer program product embodied on a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having computer-readable program code portions stored therein, the computer-readable program code portions comprising:

an executable portion that, on a mobile electronic device having a touch-screen display, defines a set of text layout conversion control patterns associated with at least one text layout input control signal, for text layout conversion management;

an executable portion that, upon detection of the at least one text layout input control signal, dynamically converts and re-renders, in real-time commensurate with the detected at least one text layout input control signal, a text layout of received text through a social application executing on the mobile device for presentation on the touch-screen display by a text layout re-renderer;

wherein the text layout re-renderer comprises an application including a switch layout engine to convert a related matrix of content data in a layout buffer, change and update a bidirectional text index of text data, and switch fonts associated with the text layout; and

an executable portion that, in response to a recognition of at least one of a plurality of contextual attributes and upon receiving a message and prior to the message being displayed within the social application, performs the converting and re-rendering in real-time commensurate with the recognized at least one of the plurality of contextual attributes without requiring the at least one text layout input control signal;

wherein the at least one of the plurality of contextual attributes comprise each of a geo-location and a text content of the message received through the social application.

18. The computer program product of claim 17, wherein dynamically converting and re-rendering the text layout comprises re-rendering text from a horizontal text layout to a vertical text layout.

19. The computer program product of claim 17, wherein the at least one text layout input control signal comprises at least one predefined input control gesture by a user associated with the mobile electronic device.

20. The computer program product of claim 19, wherein the at least one predefined input control gesture further includes at least one of a directional gesture by an input source in contact with the touch-screen display and a directional shake gesture of the mobile electronic device.

21. The computer program product of claim 17, further including an executable portion that detects the at least one text layout input control signal by a conversion control recognition daemon, the conversion control recognition daemon passing the at least one text layout input control signal to a conversion agent.

22. The computer program product of claim 21, further including an executable portion that receives, by the conversion agent, the at least one text layout input control signal and searches the set of text layout conversion control patterns to match a corresponding text layout input control signal with a given defined text layout conversion control pattern.

23. The computer program product of claim 22, further including an executable portion that uses the matched corresponding text layout input control signal with the given defined text layout conversion control pattern to send, by the conversion agent, a specific text layout change command to the text layout re-renderer.

24. The computer program product of claim 23, further including an executable portion that converts and re-renders the text layout for presentation on the touch-screen display by redrawing the text layout based upon the specific text layout change command.