Method and an apparatus for visual summarization of documents
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A system and a method for visually summarizing a document comprising a display, a processor coupled to the display, and a memory coupled to the processor. Stored in the memory is a routine, which when executed by the processor, causes the processor to generate display data. The routine causes the processor to generate data through extracting at least one visual feature from a document having a plurality of pages, ranking the pages in a document, selecting a page for representing a document according to the visual feature, and displaying the selected page as display data.
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50 Claims
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35. A method, comprising:
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determining one or more constraints of a display area;
determining, based on the one or more constraints of the display area, whether one or more of the plurality of page icons are to be displayed in full and whether portions of one or more page icons are to be displayed partially obstructed by another page icon; and
displaying a plurality of page icons representing pages of a document within the display area, the displayed plurality of page icons satisfying the one or more constraints of the display area. - View Dependent Claims (36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41)
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42. A machine-readable medium having executable code to cause a machine to perform a method, the method comprising:
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determining one or more constraints of a display area; and
determining, based on the one or more constraints of the display area, whether one or more of the plurality of page icons are to be displayed in full and whether portions of one or more page icons are to be displayed partially obstructed by another page icon;
displaying a plurality of page icons representing pages of a document within the display area, the displayed plurality of page icons satisfying the one or more constraints of the display area. - View Dependent Claims (43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48)
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49. A data processing system, comprising:
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a processor; and
a memory coupled to the processor to store instructions, when executed from the memory, cause the processor to determine one or more constraints of a display area, determine, based on the one or more constraints of the display area, whether one or more of the plurality of page icons are to be displayed in full and whether portions of one or more page icons are to be displayed partially obstructed by another page icon, and display a plurality of page icons representing pages of a document within the display area, the displayed plurality of page icons satisfying the one or more constraints of the display area.
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50. An apparatus, comprising:
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means for determining one or more constraints of a display area;
means for determining, based on the one or more constraints of the display area, whether one or more of the plurality of page icons are to be displayed in full and whether portions of one or more page icons are to be displayed partially obstructed by another page icon; and
means for displaying a plurality of page icons representing pages of a document within the display area, the displayed plurality of page icons satisfying the one or more constraints of the display area.
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