CONTEXTUAL-BASED REAL-TIME TEXT LAYOUT CONVERSION CONTROL AND MANAGEMENT ON A MOBILE ELECTRONIC DEVICE

• US 20170344207A1
• Filed: 05/26/2016
• Published: 11/30/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 05/26/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: HWANG, Inseok, LIU, Su, ROZNER, Eric J., SZE, Chin Ngai
• Granted Patent: US 9,971,483 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1694 the I/O peripheral being a single or a set of motion sensors for pointer control or gesture input obtained by sensing movements of the portable computer
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/017 Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0484 for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04845 for image manipulation, e.g. dragging, rotation, expansion or change of colour
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/106 Display of layout of documents; Previewing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/53 Processing of non-Latin text kana-to-kanji conversion G06F40/129; vowelisation G06F40/232

Abstract

Various embodiments for real-time text layout conversion control on a mobile electronic device, by a processor device, are provided. On a mobile electronic device having a touch-screen display, a set of text layout conversion control signals are defined and associated with at least one of a plurality of contextual attributes, for text layout conversion management. Upon recognition of the at least one of the plurality of contextual attributes, a text layout is dynamically converted and re-rendered for presentation on the touch-screen display.

Claims

1. A method for real-time text layout conversion control on a mobile electronic device, by a processor device, the method comprising:

on a mobile electronic device having a touch-screen display, defining a set of text layout conversion control signals associated with at least one of a plurality of contextual attributes, for text layout conversion management; and

upon recognition of the at least one of the plurality of contextual attributes and with no initiation from a user, dynamically converting and re-rendering, in real-time commensurate with the recognized at least one of the plurality of contextual attributes, a text layout within only a specific application executing on the mobile electronic device for presentation on the touch-screen display.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein dynamically converting and re-rendering the text layout comprises re-rendering text from a horizontal text layout to a vertical text layout.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one of the plurality of contextual attributes comprise at least one of a geo-location and a text content.

4. The method of claim 1, further including detecting the at least one of the plurality of contextual attributes by a conversion control recognition daemon, the conversion control recognition daemon passing the at least one of the plurality of contextual attributes to a conversion agent.

5. The method of claim 4, further including receiving, by the conversion agent, the at least one of the plurality of contextual attributes and searching the set of text layout conversion control signals to match a corresponding contextual attribute with a given defined text layout conversion control signal.

6. The method of claim 5, further including using the matched corresponding contextual attribute with the given defined text layout conversion control signal to send, by the conversion agent, a specific text layout change command to a text layout re-renderer.

7. The method of claim 6, further including converting and re-rendering the text layout for presentation on the touch-screen display by redrawing the text layout based upon the specific text layout change command.

8. A system for real-time text layout conversion control on a mobile electronic device, the system comprising:

a mobile electronic device having a touch-screen display and at least one processor device, wherein the at least one processor device;

defines a set of text layout conversion control signals associated with at least one of a plurality of contextual attributes, for text layout conversion management; and

upon recognition of the at least one of the plurality of contextual attributes and with no initiation from a user, dynamically converts and re-renders, in real-time commensurate with the recognized at least one of the plurality of contextual attributes, a text layout within only a specific application executing on the mobile electronic device for presentation on the touch-screen display.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein dynamically converting and re-rendering the text layout comprises re-rendering text from a horizontal text layout to a vertical text layout.

10. The system of claim 8, wherein the at least one of the plurality of contextual attributes comprise at least one of a geo-location and a text content.

11. The system of claim 8, wherein the at least one processor device detects the at least one of the plurality of contextual attributes by a conversion control recognition daemon, the conversion control recognition daemon passing the at least one of the plurality of contextual attributes to a conversion agent.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the at least one processor device receives, by the conversion agent, the at least one of the plurality of contextual attributes and searches the set of text layout conversion control signals to match a corresponding contextual attribute with a given defined text layout conversion control signal.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the at least one processor device uses the matched corresponding contextual attribute with the given defined text layout conversion control signal to send, by the conversion agent, a specific text layout change command to a text layout re-renderer.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the at least one processor device converts and re-renders the text layout for presentation on the touch-screen display by redrawing the text layout based upon the specific text layout change command.

15. A computer program product for real-time text layout conversion control on a mobile electronic device, by a processor device, the computer program product embodied on a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having computer-readable program code portions stored therein, the computer-readable program code portions comprising:

an executable portion that, on a mobile electronic device having a touch-screen display, defines a set of text layout conversion control patterns associated with at least one text layout input control signal, for text layout conversion management; and

an executable portion that, upon detection of the at least one text layout input control signal and with no initiation from a user, dynamically converts and re-renders, in real-time commensurate with the recognized at least one of the plurality of contextual attributes, a text layout within only a specific application executing on the mobile electronic device for presentation on the touch-screen display.

16. The computer program product of claim 15, wherein dynamically converting and re-rendering the text layout comprises re-rendering text from a horizontal text layout to a vertical text layout.

17. The computer program product of claim 15, wherein the at least one of the plurality of contextual attributes comprise at least one of a geo-location and a text content.

18. The computer program product of claim 15, further including an executable portion that detects the at least one of the plurality of contextual attributes by a conversion control recognition daemon, the conversion control recognition daemon passing the at least one of the plurality of contextual attributes to a conversion agent.

19. The computer program product of claim 18, further including an executable portion that receives, by the conversion agent, the at least one of the plurality of contextual attributes and searches the set of text layout conversion control signals to match a corresponding contextual attribute with a given defined text layout conversion control signal.

20. The computer program product of claim 19, further including an executable portion that uses the matched corresponding contextual attribute with the given defined text layout conversion control signal to send, by the conversion agent, a specific text layout change command to a text layout re-renderer.

21. The computer program product of claim 20, further including an executable portion that converts and re-renders the text layout for presentation on the touch-screen display by redrawing the text layout based upon the specific text layout change command.