DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS FOR CONTENT ANALYSIS

• US 20130071020A1
• Filed: 09/20/2012
• Published: 03/21/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 09/21/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Patnotate LLC
• Original Assignee: Barry Greenbaum, Roman Tsibulevskiy
• Inventors: Tsibulevskiy, Roman, Greenbaum, Barry
• Granted Patent: US 9,223,769 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 382/165
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24553 of query operations
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/248 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/3344 using natural language analysis
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/94 Hypermedia Hyperlinking G06F40/134
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/169 Annotation, e.g. comment data or footnotes
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/58 Use of machine translation, e.g. for multi-lingual retrieval, for server-side translation for client devices or for real-time translation
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/001 Texturing; Colouring; Generation of texture or colour inpainting G06T5/77
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/60 Editing figures and text; Combining figures or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 30/1423 the instrument generating sequences of position coordinates corresponding to handwriting preprocessing or recognising digital ink G06V30/32
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 30/224 of printed characters having additional code marks or containing code marks
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 30/244 using graphical properties, e.g. alphabet type or font
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 30/414 Extracting the geometrical structure, e.g. layout tree; Block segmentation, e.g. bounding boxes for graphics or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 30/416 Extracting the logical structure, e.g. chapters, sections or page numbers; Identifying elements of the document, e.g. authors

Abstract

Systems, devices and methods operative for identifying a reference within a figure and an identifier in a text associated with the figure, the reference referring to an element depicted in the figure, the reference corresponding to the identifier, the identifier identifying the element in the text, placing the identifier on the figure at a distance from the reference, the identifier visually associated with the reference upon the placing, the placing of the identifier on the figure is irrespective of the distance between the identifier and the reference.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:

identifying a reference within a figure and an identifier in a text associated with the figure, the reference referring to an element depicted in the figure, the reference corresponding to the identifier, the identifier identifying the element in the text; and

placing the identifier on the figure at a distance from the reference, the identifier visually associated with the reference upon the placing, the placing of the identifier on the figure is irrespective of the distance between the identifier and the reference.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the identifier is visually associated with the reference via at least one line displayed on the figure irrespective of the distance between the identifier and the reference.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 2, wherein the at least one line is colored for visual distinction.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the identifier is visually associated with the reference via a geometric shape displayed on the figure, the shape enclosing the reference and the identifier on the figure.

5. The computer-implemented method claim 4, wherein the shape is colored for visual distinction.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the identifier is colored on the figure for visual distinction.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising:

printing the figure after the placing of the identifier on the figure, the printed figure including both the identifier and the reference.

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the placing of the identifier on the figure is user-customizable.

9. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the figure and the text are stored in different locations.

10. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising:

if the text associates an another identifier with the reference, placing the another identifier on the figure adjacent to the identifier without overlapping the identifier.

11. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving the figure from an image capture device before the identifying of the reference within the figure.

12. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising:

performing a frequency analysis before the placing of the identifier on the figure when the identifier conflicts with an another identifier in the text.

13. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising:

performing optical character recognition on the text to aid in identifying the identifier.

14. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising:

creating a bidirectional hyperlink relationship between the reference in the figure and the identifier in the text.

15. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the identifier is placed on the figure on an axis of orientation such that a viewer avoids rotating the figure to read the identifier.

16. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising:

translating the identifier into a language different from the text, the figure including the translated identifier.

17. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the identifier and the reference are placed apart from each other in the figure so as to make readability easier while having a proper scale and being compliant with at least one of preselected and customized margins.

18. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising:

avoiding the placing of the identifier on the FIG. 1f the identifier is associated with at least one of length, width, depth, volume, diameter, radius, density and direction.

19. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising:

repeating the process for a plurality of references within the figure.

20. A computer-implemented method comprising:

identifying a reference within a figure and an identifier in a text associated with the figure, the reference referring to an element depicted in the figure, the reference corresponding to the identifier, the identifier identifying the element in the text; and

replacing the reference with the identifier on the figure.

21. The computer-implemented method of claim 20, further comprising:

printing the figure after the replacing of the reference with the identifier, the printed figure including the identifier but not the reference.

22. The computer-implemented method of claim 20, further comprising:

if the text associates an another identifier with the reference, placing the another identifier on the figure adjacent to the identifier without overlapping the identifier.

23. A computer-implemented method comprising:

identifying a reference within a figure and an identifier in a text associated with the figure, the reference referring to an element depicted in the figure, the reference corresponding to the identifier, the identifier identifying the element in the text; and

placing the identifier within the element on the figure.