PUBLICATION FILE CONVERSION AND DISPLAY
First Claim
1. A computerized method of generating an information display from an input of publication files containing text, graphics, and other data viewable as page images of a publication having stories (text passages) and graphics images appearing therein, comprising the steps of:
- extracting text data from the publication files corresponding to stories appearing in the page images of the publication, and maintaining them as text data files;
processing page images from the publication files and maintaining them as page image files;
mapping story areas for respective stories appearing in the page images and indexing each story area to a text data file corresponding to the text passage in the story area, and maintaining the mapped story areas as image map files; and
generating a display on a computer system of page images using the page image files, and linking the stories in the story areas of the displayed page images to the corresponding text data using the text data files and image map files.
3 Assignments
0 Petitions
Accused Products
Abstract
A computerized information display system extracts text data, lists of keywords, story rankings in order of story importance, and image maps identifying the location of stories from an input of publication files from a publisher. The system can generate a simultaneous display of a page image in which a story appears side-by-side with the text for the story when a particular story is selected, in order to allow a viewer can read the text while referring to the page image for visual cues about the text passage. The viewer can select a story from a displayed list of stories ranked in order of importance relative to other stories appearing on a page. The story rankings are derived based upon comparing one or more story importance indicators: location of the story on the page; size of type font of a headline associated with the story; size of type font associated with the story text; and size of text content for the story. The viewer can navigate to the text for a story on a displayed page by clicking in the story area on the page which is linked by image maps to the corresponding text passage. The viewer can also navigate to a text passage and page image by clicking on a keyword from a list of keywords extracted from the text input from the publisher. These computerized contextual display and image navigation tools allow the viewer a highly interactive experience with the publication. They allow a publication to be converted to electronically viewable form frequently, e.g., several times per day, and in a more user friendly form than the original printed copy.
-
Citations
41 Claims
-
1. A computerized method of generating an information display from an input of publication files containing text, graphics, and other data viewable as page images of a publication having stories (text passages) and graphics images appearing therein, comprising the steps of:
-
extracting text data from the publication files corresponding to stories appearing in the page images of the publication, and maintaining them as text data files;
processing page images from the publication files and maintaining them as page image files;
mapping story areas for respective stories appearing in the page images and indexing each story area to a text data file corresponding to the text passage in the story area, and maintaining the mapped story areas as image map files; and
generating a display on a computer system of page images using the page image files, and linking the stories in the story areas of the displayed page images to the corresponding text data using the text data files and image map files. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
-
-
13. A computerized method of generating an information display from an input of publication files containing text, graphics, and other data viewable as page images of a publication having stories (text passages) and graphics images appearing therein, comprising the steps of:
-
extracting text data from the publication files corresponding to stories appearing in the page images of the publication, and maintaining them as text data files;
parsing the text data to find predetermined keywords appearing therein, indexing each keyword to a page number and a story number for the story corresponding to the text passage in which the keyword is found, and maintaining the indexed keywords on a keyword list;
processing page images from the publication files and maintaining them as page image files;
generating a display on a computer system of the keyword list, and displaying the page image containing the story in which a selected keyword appears when the keyword is selected from the keyword list. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15)
-
-
16. A computerized method of generating an information display from an input of publication files containing text, graphics, and other data viewable as page images of a publication having stories (text passages) and graphics images appearing therein, comprising the steps of:
-
extracting text data from the publication files corresponding to stories appearing in the page images of the publication, and maintaining them as text data files;
processing page images from the publication files and maintaining them as page image files;
assigning to each story appearing on a page of the publication a page number on which the story appears, and a story number ranking corresponding to the relative importance of the story to other stories on the page;
indexing the text data files to the page numbers and story number rankings for the corresponding stories appearing in the page images of the publication;
generating a display on a computer system of a page image using the page image files, and a side-by-side display of a list of story titles for the stories appearing on the displayed page ranked in order of their assigned story number rankings. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20)
-
-
21. A method of converting digital publication files containing text, graphics, and other data corresponding to pages of a publication having stories (text passages) and graphics images appearing therein to digital data for generating and controlling a display on a computer system, comprising the steps of:
-
extracting text data from the publication files corresponding to stories appearing in the pages of the publication, and maintaining them as digital text data files;
producing page images corresponding to pages of the publication and maintaining them as digital page image files;
mapping story areas for respective stories appearing in the pages of the publication and indexing each story area to a text data file corresponding to the text passage in the story area, and maintaining the mapped story areas as digital control data; and
producing from the digital text data files, the digital page image files and the digital control data, digital data for generating a display on a computer system of page images in dependence on the page image files, and linking the stories in the mapped story areas of the displayed page images to the corresponding text data in dependence on the text data files and digital control data. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27)
-
-
28. A method of converting digital publication files containing text, graphics, and other data corresponding to pages of a publication having stories (text passages) and graphics images appearing therein to digital data for generating and controlling a display on a computer screen, comprising the steps of:
-
extracting text data from the publication files corresponding to stories appearing in the page images of the publication, and maintaining them as digital text data files;
parsing the text data to find predetermined keywords appearing therein, indexing each keyword to a page number and a story number for the story corresponding to the text passage in which the keyword is found, and maintaining the indexed keywords as digital control data;
producing page images corresponding to the pages of the publication and maintaining them as digital page image files;
producing from the digital text data files, the digital page image files and the digital control data, digital data for generating a display on a computer system listing the keywords and linking each keyword to its corresponding story in dependence on said digital control data wherein on selection of a keyword from the list, the page image containing the story in which a selected keyword appears is displayed. - View Dependent Claims (29, 30, 31)
-
-
32. A method of converting digital publication files containing text, graphics, and other data corresponding to pages of a publication having stories (text passages) and graphics images appearing therein to digital data for generating and controlling a display on a computer screen, comprising the steps of:
-
extracting text data from the publication files corresponding to stories appearing in the page images of the publication, and maintaining them as text data files;
producing page images corresponding to the pages of the publication and maintaining them as text data files;
assigning to each story appearing on a page of the publication a page number on which the story appears, and a story number ranking corresponding to the relative importance of the story to other stories on the page;
indexing the text data files to the page numbers and story number rankings for the corresponding stories appearing in the page images of the publication;
producing from the digital text data files and the page image files, digital data for generating a display on a computer system of a page image in dependence on the page image files, and, in dependence on said text data files and indexing, a side-by-side display of a list of story titles for the stories appearing on the displayed page ranked in order of their assigned story number rankings. - View Dependent Claims (33, 34, 35, 36, 37)
-
-
38. A digital data structure for remote reproduction of a publication on a visual display unit of a computer system, comprising:
-
extracted text data for reproducing textual content of stories appearing in pages of the publication;
text indexed data indexing each story on each page of the publication to the extracted text data for reproducing the textual content of that story;
page image data for reproducing a visual image of pages of the publication;
image indexed data indexing each page of the publication to the page image data for reproducing that page;
control data including mapping data indexing mapped areas of the visual image of the publication, as defined by the page image data, to text portions defined by the extracted text data; and
an interfacing instruction sequence for execution by a computer system to generate a display of visual images of pages of the publication in dependence on the page image data and image index data, a display of the text of stories in the publication in dependence on the extracted text data and text index data, and providing for the linking of the mapped story areas on the visual images of pages of the publication to text portions in dependence on the control data and extracted text data, wherein selection of a first mapped story area effects the display of the text publication;
display means for displaying a graphical image of a page of the publication simultaneously with display of text data corresponding to a text passage appearing in the graphical image of the displayed page; and
section means operable by a user for selecting a text passage appearing in the graphical image of the page displayed by said display means;
said display means being responsive to said selection means and said data access means to simultaneously display the graphical image of the page of the publication accessed from said page image data alongside the selected passage of text accessed from said text data such that the user can view the text passage in detail as text data while being apprised of its relative importance in relation to the other text passages through viewing the simultaneous display of the graphical image of the pages and wherein said display means is adapted to visually identify said selected portion of the displayed page of said images including said predefined passage of text and any associated non-text matter. - View Dependent Claims (39, 40)
-
-
41. An information display system comprising:
-
data access means for accessing page image data comprising graphical images of pages of a publication and text data, said page image data comprising graphical images of both text and non-text matter, said text matter including a plurality of predefined passages of text which are arranged on the page in an ordering indicating their relative importance in relation to other text passages on the page, and said text data comprising a plurality of predefined passages;
of text corresponding to text passages appearing in the graphical images of the pages of the the text passage in which the keyword is found, and maintaining the indexed keywords on a keyword list;
generating a display on a computer system of the keyword list, and simultaneously displaying the page image containing the story in which a selected keyword appears side-by-side with the text passage in which selected keyword appears, when the keyword is selected from the keyword list.
-
Specification