SPEED READING SYSTEM AND METHOD

• US 20170358238A1
• Filed: 07/19/2016
• Published: 12/14/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 06/10/2016
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Renato Casutt
• Original Assignee: Renato Casutt
• Inventors: CASUTT, Renato
• Application Number:
  US15/213,418
• Publication Number:
  US 20170358238A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/016 Input arrangements with force or tactile feedback as computer generated output to the user
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/048 Interaction techniques based on graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/103 Formatting, i.e. changing of presentation of documents automatic justification G06F40/189; automatic line break hyphenation G06F40/191
• 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: G09B 17/003 electrically operated apparatus or devices
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 17/04 for increasing the rate of reading; Reading rate control
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 21/003 using tactile presentation of the information, e.g. Braille displays

Abstract

A method for handling texts when reproduced on a display is provided. In a first step, a digitized text that is to be reproduced is selected. In a second step, a software program is executed, which includes at least one rule for the setting of at least one distinction that is perceptible when reproduced on the display and is incorporated into the digitized text. The software program is used on the digitized text in order, in accordance with the rule, to make the at least one distinction in the text.

Claims

1. A method for handling texts when they are reproduced on a display, in which

a digitized text that is to be processed is selected;

a software program is loaded, which includes at least one rule for the setting of at least one distinction that is perceptible when reproduced on the display, such distinction being incorporated into the digitized text; and

the software program is executed so as to process the digitized text in order, to male the at least one distinction in the text in accordance with the rule, the distinction improving the perceptibility of the text.

2. The method according to claim 1, in which the software program includes a plurality of different rules that can be selected.

3. The method according to claim 1, in which the distinctions are visually or tactilely perceptible.

4. The method according to claim 1, in which the display is a screen.

5. The method according to claim 1, in which the software program includes a plurality of different rules that correspond to the different distinctions and that can be selected by the user of the method.

6. The method according to claim 1, in which the distinctions correspond to the emphasis of individual text components.

7. The method according to claim 6, in which the emphasis is carried out in a bold typeface.

8. The method according to claim 6, in which the emphasis is carried out by means of a raising of letters in a tactile display.

9. The method according to claim 1, in which the text includes words and the distinctions in the reproduction of individual letters or sequences of letters are composed of a typographically different form.

10. The method according to claim 1, in which active distinctions are used, in particular extra bold or bold letters.

11. The method according to claim 1, in which distinctions are added to the beginnings of words, in particular the beginning letters.

12. The method according to claim 1, in which the at least one rule includes the repetition frequency with which the distinction is set.

13. The method according to claim 12, in which the repetition frequency is based on the number of non-distinguished text components between two distinguished text components.

14. The method according to claim 12, in which the repetition frequency is based on the number of non-distinguished sets of text components between two distinguished sets of text components.

15. The method according to claim 1, in which the text includes at least one sentence that includes a plurality of words, in which at least two words are distinguished.

16. The method according to claim 1, in which the text includes a plurality of sentences that include a plurality of words, and in which at least two sentences are distinguished.

17. A device for carrying out the method according to claim 1, having an input module for recording data that correspond to a digitized text;

a speech module for a processing program that includes at least one rule for the setting of at least one distinction in a digitized text;

a processing module that uses the at least one rule on the data in the input module in order to provide the digitized text with the at least one distinction, and a display module in order to show the distinguished text on a display, and a software program according to claim 16 implemented in the device.

18. The device according to claim 17, which is implemented as part of a mobile phone, a tablet, a PC, or a digital reading device.

19. The device according to claim 17, which includes an input module for defining and/or selecting a rule for the setting of distinctions.

20. The device according to claim 17, in which the user, in particular the author or reader of a text, can select or define a software rule, which corresponds to the particular meaning of text passages and in response thereto, the device provides the text with distinctions in accordance with the rule, which distinctions essentially permit a speed-reader to skip or jump over less important portions of text.