TEXT-CONTENT FEATURES

• US 20080282153A1
• Filed: 05/09/2007
• Published: 11/13/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 05/09/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications USA Incorporated (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications USA Incorporated (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Ekstrand, Simon Daniel, Kindeberg, Susanne Charlotte, Veige, Bodil Bennheden
• Application Number:
  US11/746,194
• Publication Number:
  US 20080282153A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/256
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/253 Grammatical analysis; Style critique

Abstract

A device that may include logic to determine whether each word in a text is important to convey a content of the text, logic to emphasize each word determined to be important, and logic to reduce spacing between lines of text.

Claims

1. A device, comprising:

logic to determine whether each word in a text is important to convey a content of the text;

logic to emphasize each word determined to be important;

logic to de-emphasize each word determined to be unimportant; and

logic to reduce spacing between lines of text.

2. The device of claim 1, wherein the logic to determine determines based on at least one of grammar and syntax information, or user history information.

3. The device of claim 1, wherein the logic to emphasize comprises:

logic to modify each character of each important word so that each important word is more visually conspicuous than each unimportant word.

4. The device of claim 1, wherein the logic to de-emphasize comprises:

logic to modify each character of each unimportant word so that each unimportant word is less visually conspicuous than each important word.

5. The device of claim 1, wherein the logic to determine comprises:

logic to extract text from a document having both text and non-text.

6. A device, comprising:

logic to identify words in a text that provide a comprehensive overview of the text;

logic to visually emphasize each identified word;

logic to reduce a size of non-text; and

a display to display the text, wherein the text includes the identified words and non-identified words.

7. The device of claim 6, wherein the logic to determine comprises:

logic to convert one file format to another file format.

8. The device of claim 6, wherein the logic to determine comprises:

logic to parse the text into smaller textual units, the smaller textual units being at least one of a paragraph, a sentence, a phrase, or a word.

9. A device of claim 6, wherein the logic to determine comprises:

logic to assign a corresponding weight to each parameter used to determine if each word is an identified word; and

logic to compare a total weight of each word to a threshold value.

10. The device of claim 6, wherein the logic to emphasize emphasizes based on user preference information.

11. The device of claim 6, wherein the logic to reduce reduces based on device profile information that includes the number of lines of text displayable on the display.

12. The device of claim 6, further comprising:

logic to arrange non-text at an end of a page or a document.

13. The device of claim 6, further comprising:

logic to reduce spacing between lines of text.

14. A method, comprising:

determining whether each word of a text is important so as to convey a comprehensive overview of the text;

emphasizing each word determined to be important;

de-emphasizing each word determined to be unimportant;

reducing spacing between lines of text; and

displaying the emphasized and the de-emphasized words of the text, wherein the emphasized words are visually more conspicuous than the de-emphasized words.

15. A method, comprising:

identifying whether a word of a text is important;

emphasizing the words if the word is determined to be important;

reducing spacing between lines of text; and

storing the text having important words emphasized.

16. The method of claim 15, further comprising:

reducing a size of non-text.

17. The method of claim 15, further comprising:

arranging non-text to a bottom of a page or a document.

18. The method of claim 15, wherein emphasizing comprises at least one of:

highlighting a background of each important word;

or animating each important word.

19. The method of claim 15, further comprising:

omitting non-text.

20. The method of claim 15, wherein emphasizing comprises:

vocalizing with an automated voice each important word comparatively louder than each unimportant word.

21. The method of claim 20, wherein vocalizing comprises:

vocalizing each important word comparatively slower than each unimportant word.

22. A computer-readable medium having stored thereon sequences of instructions which, when executed by at least one processor causes the at least one processor to:

determine whether each word in a text is important to convey a comprehensive overview of the text;

emphasize each word determined to be important;

reduce spacing between lines of text; and

display each important word and each unimportant word.

23. A device, comprising:

means for determining whether each word in a text is important to convey a content of the text;

means for emphasizing each word determined to be important;

means for reducing spacing between lines of text;

means for reducing a size of non-text; and

means for displaying the important words and the unimportant words, wherein each word of the text is displayed.