USER INTERFACE FOR DYNAMIC PRESENTATION OF TEXT

• US 20130239068A1
• Filed: 04/24/2013
• Published: 09/12/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 01/29/1998
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Resource Consortium Limited, LLC
• Original Assignee: Resource Consortium Limited
• Inventors: KRAUSE, Philip R.
• Application Number:
  US13/869,753
• Publication Number:
  US 20130239068A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/862
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04803 Split screen, i.e. subdividing the display area or the window area into separate subareas
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/012 Head tracking input arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/013 Eye tracking input arrangements G06F3/015 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0219 Special purpose keyboards
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04812 Interaction techniques based on cursor appearance or behaviour, e.g. being affected by the presence of displayed objects
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04847 Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/106 Display of layout of documents; Previewing
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 17/04 for increasing the rate of reading; Reading rate control

Abstract

An apparatus, method and article of manufacture of the present invention provide improved rate of text presentation to a reader. The invention provides a method for defining a region of the display at which text is preferably read, and further provides a user interface for adjusting the speed of text display according to a screen location corresponding to that at which text is being read at any time.

Claims

1. A method of using a computer to set a rate of text presentation on a display, the method comprising:

(a) determining, by the computer, a location of a cursor;

(b) defining, by the computer, a first region of the display as a neutral zone based at least in part on the location of the cursor;

(c) defining, by the computer, a second region of the display as an acceleration zone, wherein the rate of the text presentation increases when the cursor is located in the acceleration zone; and

(d) defining, by the computer, a third region of the display as a deceleration zone, wherein the rate of the text presentation decreases when the cursor is located in the deceleration zone.