Web-compatible electronic device, web page processing method, and program

• US 20050289121A1
• Filed: 05/21/2004
• Published: 12/29/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 05/27/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Nakamura, Masayuki, Yamanaka, Shintaro, Yutani, Tetsuo, Nagatome, Kazutoshi
• Granted Patent: US 7,272,787 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/986 Document structures and storage, e.g. HTML extensions

Abstract

A Web page including as its display elements a headline and a body of its story, subheads and links to articles belonging to the subheads is obtained and is rendered internally so as to obtain a position of each display element on the basis of draw data. Each display element is classified into several clusters in accordance with the obtained position of the display element and layout features of the individual clusters are detected so as to discriminate clusters of the headline and the body of story in accordance with a result of the feature detection. Next, clusters having same character attribute are collected to be a group, and a group having a high average of the number of characters within each cluster included in each group is determined as the body of story and a group having a low average as the headline. Then, individual pages of the body-of-story/article are created and a top page including the headline and subheads provided with links to these body-of-story/article pages is created. Therefore, the Web page acquired through a network is reconstructed to a Web page suitable for browsing in low-resolution display environments and is displayed.

Claims

1. A Web-enabled electronics apparatus characterized by including:

a Web page acquiring means for acquiring a first Web page including at least a headline and a body of story related to the headline; and

a Web page reconstructing means for extracting said body of story from said first Web page acquired by said Web page acquiring means to create a second Web page including this body of story, and extracting said headline from said first Web page to create a third Web page including this headline and provided with a link to said second Web page.

2. The Web-enabled electronics apparatus as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that said Web page reconstructing means includes:

display element position judging means for internally depicting said first Web page and judging positions of individual display elements on said first Web page on the basis of this depicted data;

cluster classifying means for connecting closely related ones of said individual display elements in terms of layout together on the basis of said judged positions of said display elements for classification into several clusters;

specific cluster discriminating means for detecting layout features of said individual clusters and discriminating clusters of said headline and of said body of story on said first Web page from the other clusters on the basis of a result of this feature detection; and

means for forming groups each including clusters having a same character attribute which is a display element, calculating an average of numbers of characters within the respective clusters included in each of the groups, and determining a group having a high average as said body of story and a group having a low average as said headline, as to said discriminated clusters of said headline and of said body of story.

3. The Web-enabled electronics apparatus as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that:

said specific cluster discriminating means determines a vertical line on a page which crosses a largest number of said display elements as a center-of-gravity line, judges layout features of the individual clusters from at least any of leftward, rightward, middle, using this determined center-of-gravity line as a reference, and discriminates clusters with a feature thereof judged as being middle from the other clusters as the clusters of said headline and of said body of story.

4. The Web-enabled electronics apparatus as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that said body of story includes a list of links to articles belonging to said headline.

5. A Web page processing method for a Web-enabled electronics apparatus having a processing/computation section and a display section for displaying Web pages, said Web page processing method includes:

a step of acquiring a first Web page including at least a headline and a body of story related to this headline through a network;

a step of extracting said body of story from the acquired first Web page by processing/computing by said processing/computation section to create a second Web page including this body of story; and

a step of extracting said headline from said first Web page by processing/computing by said processing/computation section to create a third Web page including this headline and provided with a link to said second Web page.

6. The Web page processing method of a Web-enabled electronics apparatus as claimed in claim 5, characterized in that said processing/computation section internally depicts said first Web page, judges positions of individual display elements on said first Web page on the basis of this depicted data, connects closely related ones of said individual display elements in terms of layout together on the basis of the judged positions of said display elements for classification into several clusters, detects layout features of said individual clusters and discriminate clusters of said headline and of said body of story on said first Web page from the other clusters on the basis of a result of this feature detection, forms groups each including clusters having a same character attribute which is a display element, calculates an average of numbers of characters within said respective clusters included in each of the groups, and determines a group having a high average as the body of story and a group having a low average as said headline, as to the discriminated clusters of said headline and of said body of story.

7. The Web page processing method of a Web-enabled electronics apparatus as claimed in claim 5, characterized in that said processing/computation section determines a vertical line on a page which crosses a largest number of the display elements as a center-of-gravity line, judges layout features of the individual clusters from at least any of leftward, rightward, middle, using this determined center-of-gravity line as a reference, and discriminates clusters with a feature thereof judged as being middle from the other clusters as the clusters of the headline and of the body of story.

8. The Web page processing method of a Web-enabled electronics apparatus as claimed in claim 5, characterized in that said body of story includes a list of links to articles belonging to said headline.

9. A program characterized by causing a computer to function as:

Web page acquiring means for acquiring a first Web page including at least a headline and a body of story related to this headline, and

Web page reconstructing means for extracting said body of story from said first Web page acquired by said Web page acquiring means to create a second Web page including this body of story, and extracting said headline from said first Web page to create a third Web page including this headline and provided with a link to said second Web page.

10. The program as claimed in claim 9, characterized in that said Web page reconstructing means causes the computer to function as:

display element position judging means for internally depicting said first Web page and judging positions of individual display elements on said first Web page on the basis of this depicted data,

cluster classifying means for connecting closely related ones of said display elements in terms of layout together on the basis of the judged positions of said display elements for classification into several clusters,

specific cluster discriminating means for detecting layout features of said individual clusters and discriminating clusters of said headline and of said body of story on said first Web page from the other clusters on the basis of a result of this feature detection, and

means for forming groups each including clusters having a same character attribute which is a display element, calculating an average of numbers of characters within said respective clusters included in each of the groups, and determining a group having a high average as the body of story and a group having a low average as said headline, as to the discriminated clusters of said headline and of said body of story.

11. The program as claimed in claim 10, characterized in that said specific cluster discriminating means causes the computer to function as means for determining a vertical line on a page which crosses a largest number of said display elements as a center-of-gravity line, judging layout features of said individual clusters from at least any of leftward, rightward, middle, using this determined center-of-gravity line as a reference, and discriminating clusters with a feature thereof judged as being middle from the other clusters as the clusters of said headline and of said body of story.

12. The program as claimed in claim 9, characterized in that said body of story includes a list of links to articles belonging to said headline.