MANIPULATION OF TEXTUAL CONTENT DATA FOR LAYERED PRESENTATION

• US 20140225928A1
• Filed: 02/13/2013
• Published: 08/14/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 02/13/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Documill Oy
• Original Assignee: Documill Oy
• Inventors: KONNOLA, Mika, HANNINEN, Rami, Laakso, Terho
• Granted Patent: US 9,484,006 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/636
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/957 Browsing optimisation, e.g. caching or content distillation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/109 Font handling; Temporal or kinetic typography
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/60 Editing figures and text; Combining figures or text
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/40 characterised by the way in which both a pattern determined by character code and another pattern are displayed simultaneously, or either pattern is displayed selectively, e.g. with character code memory and APA, i.e. all-points-addressable, memory

Abstract

A method for creating visual content to be output in a layered manner, wherein content items are received, and are categorized into at least two categories. At least one of the categories includes at least one image content item and at least one other category includes at least one textual content item. The content items in each of the categories are manipulated, wherein the textual content data is manipulated with at least one operation applicable for textual content and the manipulation produces at least one data file including textual content data for the text layer to be prepared for outputting in a client device. Finally, data files including manipulated image content data and the manipulated textual content data are stored. A system, a computer program product, a method in the client device and the client device are also described.

Claims

1. A computer implemented method for creating visual content to be output in a layered manner, the method comprising:

a) receiving at least one image content item and at least one textual content item,

b) categorizing the received at least one image content item into at least one first category and the received at least one textual content item into a second category,

c) manipulating the at least one image content data in the at least one first category with at least one operation applicable for image content, the image content data manipulation producing at least one data file comprising image content data for at least one image layer to be outputted in a client device,

d) manipulating the textual content data in the second category with at least one operation applicable for textual content, the textual content data manipulation producing at least one data file comprising textual content data for the text layer to be prepared for outputting in the client device,

e) storing the data files comprising manipulated image content data and the manipulated textual content data.

2. The computer implemented method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the manipulation of the textual content data comprises a reconstruction of the textual content data to enable a further manipulation of the textual content data.

3. The computer implemented method as claimed in claim 2, wherein the reconstruction comprises a step of combining at least two separate text objects into a single logical text entity.

4. The computer implemented method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the manipulation of the textual content data comprises a step of selecting a font to be used in the text layer.

5. The computer implemented method as claimed in claim 4, wherein a font is selected, which is received as a font data within the received textual content item.

6. The computer implemented method as claimed in claim 4, wherein a font from a font pool available to the system is selected, which is the same as the font used in the received textual content item.

7. The computer implemented method as claimed in claim 4, wherein a most similar font to the font used in the received textual content item is selected from a font pool available to the system.

8. The computer implemented method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the manipulation of the textual content data comprises a step of creating multiple web font files for different application software outputting the textual content data.

9. The computer implemented method as claimed in claim 1, wherein text content item with additional effects are categorized into the first category and manipulated along the image content data.

19. A computer-readable storage medium storing portions of computer program code, wherein the portions of computer program code are computer-executable to implement the method steps as represented in the method of claim 1.

10. A system for creating visual content to be output in a layered manner, the system comprising:

one or more processors

a memory including computer program code

the memory and the computer program code configured to, with the processor, cause the system at least to perform;

a) receive at least one image content item and at least one textual content item,

b) categorize the received at least one image content item into at least one first category and the received at least one textual content item into a second category,

c) manipulate the at least one image content data in the at least one first category with at least one operation applicable for image content, the image con-tent data manipulation producing at least one data file comprising image con-tent data for at least one image layer to be outputted in a client device,

d) manipulate the textual content data in the second category with at least one operation applicable for textual content, the textual content data manipulation producing at least one data file comprising textual content data for the text layer to be prepared for outputting in the client device,

e) store the data files comprising manipulated image content data and the manipulated textual content data in the memory.

11. The system as claimed in claim 10, wherein the system is configured to reconstruct the textual content data to enable a further manipulation of the textual content data.

12. The system as claimed in claim 11, wherein the reconstruction comprises a step of combining at least two separate text objects into a single logical entity.

13. The system as claimed in claim 10, wherein the system is configured to select a font to be used in the text layer in the manipulation of the textual content data.

14. The system as claimed in claim 13, wherein the system is configured to select a font, which is received as a font data within the received textual content item.

15. The system as claimed in claim 13, wherein the system is configured to select a font from a font pool available to the system, which is the same as the font used in the received textual content item.

16. The system as claimed in claim 13, wherein the system is configured to select a most similar font to the font used in the received textual content item from a font pool available to the system.

17. The system as claimed in claim 10, wherein the system is configured to create multiple web font files for different application software outputting the textual content data in the manipulation of the textual content data.

18. The system as claimed in claim 10, wherein the system is configured to categorize a text content item with additional effects into the first category and manipulated along the image content data.

20. A method for creating visual content to be output in a layered manner in a client device, the method comprising:

a) receiving image content data prepared in a system,

b) receiving textual content data files prepared in the system,

c) rendering the received textual content data files at least partly based on hardware characteristics of the client device,

d) outputting the received image content data and the rendered textual content data in layered manner on a display of the client device, wherein the text content data is topmost.

21. The method as claimed in claim 20, wherein the textual content data is re-rendered in response to a detection of a change in display orientation of the client device.

22. A client device for creating visual content to be output in a layered manner in the client device, the client device comprising

one or more processors

a memory including computer program code

the memory and the computer program code configured to, with the processor, cause the client device at least to perform:

a) receive image content data prepared in a system,

b) receive textual content data files prepared in the system,

c) render the received textual content data files at least partly on a basis of hardware characteristics of the client device,

d) output the received image content data and the rendered textual content data in layered manner on a display of the client device, wherein the text content data is topmost.