FONT RECOMMENDATION ENGINE

• US 20110289407A1
• Filed: 05/18/2010
• Published: 11/24/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 05/18/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Original Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Inventors: Lofting, Peter G., Naik, Devang K.
• Application Number:
  US12/782,646
• Publication Number:
  US 20110289407A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/269
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/109 Font handling; Temporal or kinetic typography

Abstract

At least certain embodiments of the present disclosure include a method to identify top hits in search result based on learned user preferences. In one embodiment, an editor receives a user selection of a font to be used in a document when the user is composing the document using the editor. The editor invokes a font recommendation engine. Based on the font selected, the font recommendation engine automatically recommends a set of one or more fonts to the user according to a statistical model of font usage.

Claims

1. A machine-readable storage medium that provides instructions that, if executed by a processor, will cause the processor to generate an application programming interface (API) that allows an API-implementing component to perform operations, the operations comprising:

receiving a user selection of at least one of;

(1) a font to be used in a document when the user is composing the document or (2) a type of document; and

automatically recommending a set of one or more fonts to the user based on the font selected or the type of document selected according to a statistical model of font usage.

2. The machine-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the operations further comprise:

recommending a font size for each of the set of one or more fonts according to the statistical model of font usage.

3. The machine-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the operations further comprise:

recommending a font color for each of the set of one or more fonts according to the statistical model of font usage.

4. The machine-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the operations further comprise:

recommending spacing between lines of text according to the statistical model of font usage.

5. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

analyzing font usage in a plurality of training documents;

computing likelihoods of co-occurrences of multiple fonts in the plurality of training documents; and

generating a statistical model of font usage using the likelihoods of co-occurrences, the statistical model being usable in real-time font recommendation.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein computing likelihoods of co-occurrences of multiple fonts in the plurality of training documents comprises:

applying latent semantic indexing to the plurality of training documents.

7. The method of claim 5, further comprising:

performing text analysis on the plurality of training documents; and

associating a particular combination of fonts used in the plurality of training documents with a particular type of content.

8. The method of claim 5, wherein computing likelihoods of co-occurrences of multiple fonts in the plurality of training documents comprises:

selecting a plurality of N-grams, each of said plurality of N-grams representing a combination of N fonts used in at least one of the plurality of training documents, where N is an integer; and

generating the statistical model of font usage based on frequencies of occurrence of the plurality of N-grams in the plurality of training documents.

9. The method of claim 5, further comprising:

periodically updating the statistical model of font usage to track font usage trends.

10. The method of claim 5, further comprising:

searching online periodically for documents containing new fonts not available in the plurality of training documents;

expanding the plurality of training documents by adding the documents containing the new fonts into the plurality of training documents; and

periodically updating the statistical model of font usage to incorporate the new fonts.

11. The method of claim 5, further comprising:

selecting the plurality of training documents based on culture of a geographical area in which the statistical model is used, wherein the statistical model generated is specific to the culture.

12. An apparatus comprising:

an input device to receive a user selected font while a user is editing a document; and

a font recommendation engine to recommend a set of one or more fonts to the user based on the user selected font, wherein a frequency of the user selected font co-existing with the set of one or more fonts in a plurality of training documents is above a predetermined threshold.

13. The apparatus of claim 12, wherein the font recommendation engine is operable to offer a font of the set of one or more fonts for sale to the user if the user has not yet purchased the font.

14. The apparatus of claim 13, further comprising:

a network interface to communicably couple to a network to access a remote server over the network for purchasing the font from the remote server.

15. The apparatus of claim 12, further comprising:

a display device to display the set of one or more fonts; and

a second input device to allow the user to select at least one of the set of one or more fonts displayed to use in the document.

16. A machine-readable storage medium storing executable program instructions which when executed by a data processing system cause the data processing system to perform a method comprising:

detecting a first font used in composing a document;

automatically displaying a set of one or more fonts statistically likely to co-occur with the font used in a plurality of training documents; and

allowing a user to select a second font from the set of one or more fonts to use with the first font in the document.

17. The machine-readable storage medium of claim 16, wherein the method further comprises:

determining a genre of the document; and

selecting the set of one or more fonts to display based on the genre of the document.

18. The machine-readable storage medium of claim 16, wherein the method further comprises:

determining a language in which the document is composed; and

selecting the set of one or more fonts to display based on the language.

19. The machine-readable storage medium of claim 16, wherein the method further comprises:

detecting a location within the document at which the font is used; and

selecting the set of one or more fonts to display based on the location.

20. The machine-readable storage medium of claim 16, wherein automatically displaying a set of one or more fonts statistically likely to co-occur with the font used in a plurality of training documents comprises:

displaying the set of one or more fonts in an order based on popularities of the set of one or more fonts.

21. The machine-readable storage medium of claim 16, wherein automatically displaying a set of one or more fonts statistically likely to co-occur with the font used in a plurality of training documents comprises:

displaying the set of one or more fonts in an order based on user preference.

22. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

receiving a font selected by a user while composing a document;

automatically recommending a set of one or more fonts to be used in the document based on popularity of combinations of the user selected font and the set of one or more fonts.

23. The method of claim 22, wherein the popularity of the combinations of the user selected font and the set of one or more fonts is based on probabilities of co-occurrences of the combinations of the user selected font and the set of one or more fonts.